Who are the best Test wicket-keepers in history? | Crickpicks EP 15

[@yashsingh1631]

This series all about behram and astelle picking someone and Jarrod reacting how it was some of most dumb shit he ever heard.

[@Si_fighter]

An unorthodox shout but Adam Parore was probably the best gloveman I think NZ has produced at international level. Incredible economy of movement and hand speed. To be fair, he was never really keeping to spinners all that often except those long early Vettori spells. The less said about his batting or general attitude the better.

[@sportbilly2008]

Parore was picked as a batsman for a few tests. He looked a better batsman than his average suggests. But he was a silky glove man.

[@jessica.bell.000]

0:30 hello and welcome 1:14 Behram picks Adam Gilchrist 4:10 Estelle picks Sarah Taylor 6:05 Jarrod picks Les Ames.

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9:30 Jarrod picks Bob Taylor 12:40 Estelle picks Prasanna Jayawardene 15:29 Behram picks MS Dhoni

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17:31 Behram picks Mark Boucher 20:55 Estelle picks Ian Healy 25:25 Jarrod picks BJ Watling

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27:14 Jarrod picks Andy Flower 29:02 Estelle picks Quinton de Kock 31:30 Behram picks Alan Knott

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34:25 Behram picks Alec Stewart, but also mentions Kumar Sangakkara 38:48 Estelle picks Wriddhiman Saha, but Matt Prior gets mentioned 41:50 Jarrod talks about some honourable mentions, Wasim Bari, Wally Grout, Donald Tallon, Farokh Engineer, Syed Kirimani, Godfrey Evans, Rishabh Pant, Jack Blackham, Mushfiqur Rahim

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44:57 Jarrod picks Rishabh Pant. 46:59 Honourable mentions, Brendon McCullum, Jack Russell, Tatenda Taibu, Clyde Walcott, Jim Parks, Jos Butler, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Rashid Latif, Jeffrey Dujon, Rod Marsh, Kamran Akmal, AB de Villiers, Deryck Murray, Tom Blundell. 53:04 recap the list 53:25 closing remarks

[@varunakavoor]

Les Ames averaging in 40's as a WK in pre WW2 era is amazing.

[@embersassembling939]

I knew Seymour Clark would come up! I love Presanna Jayawardene and that nearly swung it to Estelle. But really Jarrod wins this one comfortably.

[@duhduh666]

Syed Kirmani, Ian Healy, Kiran More come to mind for their keeping skills. Rodney Marsh and Jeffrey Dujon were superb keepers to pace. And Mr. Kimber, Gilchrist 2005 Ashes, critical drops.

[@knagarjun]

Farokh Engineer kept to the great spinners. Must've been handy.

[@duhduh666]

@@knagarjun True. But he wasn’t the best keeper even then but better batsman that pulled him into favour. Not a run a minute Gilchrist but batted well especially abroad

[@knagarjun]

@@duhduh666 Niche pick: Budhi Kunderan.

[@neilgovender7450]

Here are AB de Villiers' batting averages as a wicketkeeper across different formats: Test Matches Matches as Wicketkeeper: 24 Runs Scored: 2,036 Batting Average: 57.16 One Day Internationals (ODIs) Matches as Wicketkeeper: 101 Runs Scored: 3,328 Batting Average: 70.54 T20 Internationals Matches as Wicketkeeper: 1 Runs Scored: 48 Batting Average: 48.00 Overall Average as Wicketkeeper AB de Villiers had a highly impressive batting average as a wicketkeeper across all formats, demonstrating his prowess both behind the stumps and with the bat. kumar sangakkara as wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara, the legendary Sri Lankan cricketer, was one of the most successful wicketkeeper-batsmen in the history of the game. Here are his statistics as a wicketkeeper: Test Matches Matches as Wicketkeeper: 48 Runs Scored: 3,611 Batting Average: 40.48 One Day Internationals (ODIs) Matches as Wicketkeeper: 360 Runs Scored: 13,341 Batting Average: 43.74 T20 Internationals Matches as Wicketkeeper: 51 Runs Scored: 1,311 Batting Average: 27.93 Overall Average as Wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara was a prolific run-scorer and maintained a high batting average across all formats while performing wicketkeeping duties. His contributions were vital to Sri Lanka's success during his career, making him one of the all-time greats in cricket.

[@123animit]

No mention of Rahul dravid? I am disappointed 😂

[@RegionalVariation]

Respect to Behram for picking Alec Stewart over his hero Kumar Sangakkara, after due deliberation. It should be noted Stewart played 26 of his 82 Tests as keeper against dominant Australia, and averaged on a par with or better than the likes of Sangakkara, Prior, and BJ Watling against them. Then there was Donald and Pollock and Ambrose and Walsh to contend with! Tough. Super player - not least because of his pride in professionalism which enabled him to still be performing the demanding keeper-bat role aged 40!

[@SarveshCK]

Estelle had some really good picks on this one!

[@bibhutimeher8117]

I think estelle won except the decock pick

[@faisalrattani9154]

This podcast should be called Wicket Keeper Batsman and not just a wicket keeper. I have watched cricket since the seventies. Besides Knotts, Kirmani, Bari, Marsh, Kalicharan, Russell, Bob Taylor, and Ian Smith should have made the list and not just mentions.

[@sabyasachighosh6252]

Honourable mention to Ben Foakes for his catching skills when keeping to spinners...

[@geoffreyking4515]

The best STUMPER I've seen is bob taylor FACT

[@roheetgrahacharya8385]

Next 2 separate cricpick episode should be made on best middle order batsman and best no 3 batsman

[@SundeepKamath]

Love Behram in Chelsea jersey ❤

[@ram5798]

Likes of foakes, saha, de kock, pant, watling over Sangakkara is very unfair.

[@ram5798]

Might as well throw in DK and parthiv at this rate

[@Soumik_Mondal_fullstack_dev]

they are picking wk skills over batting

[@RC-ym5cm]

Whats wrong with Saha and Foakes? Saha is the best keeper India ever had and Foakes is probably England's best for the past 10 years....Watling was also really good.......

[@joewise9464]

2 Kent legend

[@harikrishnan4420]

was dinesh ramdin good or average?

[@sportbilly2008]

Ian Smith