Rate Saha the keeper

[Gollum]

In my mind he is the best keeper since 1998-99 i.e. after I started following the game. Seen Boucher, Gilly, Flower, Moin, Mongia, Latif, Prior etc. In my mind he trumps them all as far as pure wicketkeeping skills are concerned. Obviously there have been better batsmen among keepers but boy are we lucky to have him. Keeping against spinners is the toughest job in the world, even tougher than against quicks. That too when you have bowlers of the quality of Ash and Sir, can't be easy at all. He has taken some blinders of the quicks too. Even Sunny was talking about it in the show today, said that he is a world class keeper and the undisputed best in the world atm.

 

What do fellow ICFers have to say about this? GOAT keeper or GOAT Indian keeper or do we wait and see? 

 

 

[express bowling]

Very good and agile keeper.

 

One of the best in the world now.

 

Was always good keeping to the quicks.... improved a lot keeping to the spinners on turning tracks.

 

Doing a good job with the bat too.... would be interested in seeing how he bats in SA, England, Australia and NZ.

Edited August 6, 2017 by express bowling

[CG]

Best keeper world has seen in the last decade.

[sscomp32]

I would say 8/10 

Since the modern game has DRS, keeper becomes the most important guy and saha looks absolutely clueless and lost. 

Like vivek razdan said in commentary "review ke samay team saha ko dekhti aur saha team ko". He needs to improve this. 

Also he has improved massively against spin but i would like him to improve more in stumping skills. 

[SK_IH]

lol at exaggeration by some,very good keeper but captain needs to show more faith in his batting and play him ahead of ashwin ,he has good batting potential which has not been made use of 

very good player of spin and one of few ind players who play sweep shot well

[Soorma Bhopali]

Ian Healy and Rashid Latif's glove work was the best I saw in last 25 years of cricket watching .

 In early eighties,Syed Kirmani and Jeff Dujon were the best.

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[Lannister]

The best for Indian I've ever seen. What puts him apart is his athletic ability when it comes to keeping to fast bowlers and this series has shown, he is equally good to spinners too. Until and unless, we don't give chance to new players we will never going to know their full potential. Dhoni said that we don't have ready-made players in order-to keep his arse safe, and here we have some 30+ old player outperforming him in such a short duration. 

[jf1gp_1]

his glove work atleast in this test was exceptional, those who think pant can replace him in test should watch todays highlights again                   

[kira]

The best Indian keeper I have seen, thank god we don't have to see the mediocrity of dhoni anymore 

[Khota]

better than the Dhoni guy. I still think Parthiv is ahead of him.

[velu]

he is good but not as good as the OP claims .. even rayudu is a better kepper than this saha fellow 

[Gollum]

3 minutes ago, velu said:

he is good but not as good as the OP claims .. even rayudu is a better kepper than this saha fellow 

Rayudu is only good at serving Biryani to be in the good books of Cool. One of the cruelest jokes played on Indian cricket.

[Gollum]

16 minutes ago, Khota said:

better than the Dhoni guy. I still think Parthiv is ahead of him.

Seriously? The worst keeper in the history of the game, the one who drops 10 catches per match is better than Saha? 

Edited August 6, 2017 by Gollum

[Laaloo]

8 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Seriously? The worst keeper in the history of the game, the one who drops 10 catches per match is better than Saha? 

Maybe he meant parthiv being better than dhoni lol

[Pollack]

Best in the business. 

[sourab10forever]

9.0/10 for keeping skills(esp keeping to spinner on pitches with variable bounce)

5/10 for DRS advise.

 

 

[sourab10forever]

4 hours ago, sscomp32 said:

I would say 8/10 

Since the modern game has DRS, keeper becomes the most important guy and saha looks absolutely clueless and lost. 

Like vivek razdan said in commentary "review ke samay team saha ko dekhti aur saha team ko". He needs to improve this. 

Also he has improved massively against spin but i would like him to improve more in stumping skills. 

He is clueless sometimes.

But has given a few good advice very now and then.

The thing is we only notice his bad DRS advise when India refers stupidly. He sometimes has given valuable input after which Kohli hasn't reviewed.

Overall 5 or 6 out of 10 for DRS brains.

 

 

[sscomp32]

Lol ADF. Never change.

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[Mosher]

Top class wicket keeping. He was always good in keeping for the pacers but now has been equally good in keeping to the spinners. His batting has been pretty solid too.  

[Khota]

3 hours ago, Gollum said:

Seriously? The worst keeper in the history of the game, the one who drops 0 c1atches per match is better than Saha? 

You have a habit of exagerating.