Indian slip catching hall of shame

[mancalledsting]

I've had enough of this. Ever since Sachin, VVS and Dravid retired, our slip catching has been amongst the poorest in test cricket. Whilst our ground fielding is now exceptional our slip catching is abysmal. Can't win test series overseas if you don't gobble up slip catches. Do the Indian management even prioritise slips catching training? Doesn't look like it! From now on, every time I'm watching a game and I see a dropped slip catch, I'm gonna register it on this thread. It's got to the point where I want to name and shame the culprits.

Edited December 3, 2017 by mancalledsting

[mancalledsting]

India vs Sri Lanka 1st test 2017 

 

shikhar Dhawan

[mancalledsting]

India vs Sri Lanka 3rd test 2017 

 

Shikhar Dhawan

[mancalledsting]

India va Sri Lanka 3rd test 2017 

 

Virat Kohli 

[Austin 3:!6]

Very poor stuff....SL would hv been 4 down by now

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[Rasgulla]

9.3 cricbuzz says dropped by kohli  I had enough of this guy in slips

[jalebi_bhai]

Beyond pathetic for the number one Test team.

[King Tendulkar]

1 minute ago, Rasgulla said:

9.3 cricbuzz says dropped by kohli  I had enough of this guy in slips

Poor slip catcher he is 

[G_B_]

poor

 

will be slaughtered in SA

[mancalledsting]

5 minutes ago, Rasgulla said:

9.3 cricbuzz says dropped by kohli  I had enough of this guy in slips

Agree, Kohli is one of the biggest culprits in the slips. I have to also concede, Dhoni never, ever dropped a slip catch in his entire career :)

[Gollum]

This is beyond horrid, we drop 3x, 4x the number of catches other teams drop, even Pakistan and Bangladesh are better catching units. I have a bad feeling about the upcoming tours, especially to SA and England. How many chances should our bowlers create to get 20 wickets? 25?30?35?

Mark this post, we are getting slaughtered in SA and England only because we don't know how to catch. In 2003-04 Aus we couldn't win the series because of 1 Parthiv Patel, remaining were solid catchers, in fact we won the Adelaide test match due to Dravid the slip catcher. This team has 5-6 Parthiv Patel's spread all across the field, disaster awaits. 

[insideedge]

True.

[Jimmy Cliff]

Catching and diabolical selection. With Dhawan and Rohit certain to play the 1st Test in SA, we're effectively 1-0 down already.

[jalebi_bhai]

Without a doubt. 

[Rasgulla]

Who has set of balls to tell kohli kindly gtfo of slips.. 

 

Anushka ?  Kumble ? 

[ThePhenomenal1]

Need to sort this out quickly, but 2 dropped catches and the commentators highlighting the issue makes me think changes will be made.

[King Tendulkar]

Rahane not in slips . Insane ?

[gakgupta]

Well..

Mr Ravi Shastri ...instead of making mumbai cricket team an Indian team, concentrate on these extremely important aspects....no way India can win a single match overseas...

Last time around India lost most of the overseas matches not because of batting or bowling but because of slip catching....

Its been 3 years and nothing has changed

Shame on the coaching and support staff not to work on this aspect..

For me, this should be the slip cordon

Pujara

Rahane

Rahul

Ashwin

Vijay

 

Really can't understand why Vijay is not in slip cordon

 

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[Trichromatic]

3 minutes ago, King Tendulkar said:

Rahane not in slips . Insane ?

Captain needs to spend quality time with his farmhouse party buddy Dhawan in slips.

[Trichromatic]

Ravi Shastri won't risk his job by talking about fielding after what happened to Kumble. 

 

These guys are motivated, work hard in gym and are extremely fit and naturally better fielders than all their predecessors. Oldies shouldn't tell them about fielding.