Cricket Special Report: Top 10 Wicket-keepers in the limited over game (Part 3)
(Continuation of Part 2’s discussion about the top 10 wicket-keepers, and whether keepers are better skippers or not)
Another international cricket team, which has had an exceptional run in the recent passed are the Lankan Tigers. The Sri Lankan team is led by wicket-keeper/batsman Kumar Sangakkara, under whose leadership the national side has been able to successfully
dominate several cricketing nations, at present the Asian tigers are dominating the Aussies in a Australian hosted home series.
Top 10 Wicket-keepers- ODI
One of the hardest things for a sport journalist is to categorise or make a list of the top ten cricketers list, irrespective of the cricketing department. So, to make the situation at hand, easier and reasonable, Bettor.com’s cricket team has listed the
top ten wicket-keepers of the limited over game, on the basis of the keepers who have the most dismissals to their name.
One will surely feel the inclusion of wicket-keeper/batsmen in the top ten keepers in the 50 over game is pretty evident. Reason being that most of the wicket-keepers included in the top 10 ODI keepers are cricketers, who have played international cricket
at least in the last 20 years, as previously, the global game commenced of more Test encounters. Ironically, the modern era or the last two decades of international is more focused on playing the limited over version of the game, rather than the highest format
of the sport.
The chronicle or specific order of these all time behind the wickets great is based on other cricketing attributes, such as, the number of dismissals in their ODI careers, the number of matches played by them, their all-round performances, contribution in
the team with the bat or ball, and the standards they have set for the upcoming modern aged cricketers.
The top ten wicket keepers witnessed in the limited version of the game, who have dominated world cricket throughout their respective careers conclude of Australia’s Adam Gilchrist, South Africa’s Mark Boucher, Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara, Pakistan’s Moin
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 Jeff Dujon, and New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum respectively.
Adam Gilchrist
Starting from Sir Don Bradman, Mark Waugh, Steve Waugh, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Ian Healy, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist and many more cricketing greats have come from the Australian soil. The strong well planned out domestic structures allows them produce
one of the finest world class cricketers of all time.
By far, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Gilchrist-c918 is among the best wicket-keeper/batsman produced by the international arena. One can easily say that his batting power play in the limited version of the game has changed the playing role of a wicket-keeper/batsman from a middle or
lower order striker to an opening batsman.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Craig-Gilchrist-c41892 was born on 14th of November, 1971, in New South Wales, Australia. The former Australian ODI vice-skipper and the occasional skipper has played for several teams other than his national team of Australia, such as, Deccan Chargers,
ICC World XI, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Western-Australia-c865 cricket team respectively.
The Aussie veteran’s nickname is “Gilly” or “Churchy”. He is a dream cricketer for any captain, as the veteran can stand behind the stumps with utmost perfection, and the left hand dasher is among the best destructive blaster batsmen known to the modern
era of international cricket. Not to forget, that the 1.86m tall cricketer can bowl off-break with his right arm as well.
Gilchrist holds an exceptional record behind the stumps in the 50-over format of the game, as he has played 287 matches, and he has kept the wickets in 281 innings, which allowed the veteran to make a collection of 472 dismissals to his name.
(To be continued...Part 4)
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