Tracking dropped catches by Team India

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1 hour ago, rkt.india said:

Several of them were not catches.  Everything going past Saha isn't a catch.

With Superman Saha everything is a chance. We (those who are not blind) have got so used to Saha taking freakish chances, we have sort of come to expect it. Of course, with average keepers, many would not be a drop, because they would usually be in a different postcode when those "chances" arrive ...

 

Those who do not have a good enough grasp of cricket fail to appreciate such nuances, and then come up with ideas like "<insert random batsman who happens to also have keeping gloves somewhere in his kit bag> is not much worse than Saha as a keeper".

[rkt.india]

9 hours ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

Using same parameters that has been used to criticise performance of other keepers. Can’t have different standards. Each half chance gets highlighted for others, why not for Saha.

Ball going through slips is a half chance?

[beetle]

11 hours ago, rkt.india said:

Several of them were not catches.  Everything going past Saha isn't a catch.

We have new standards since Pant.

Everything going past the keeper is now a missed catch...

What is good for the goose....

 

 

[Suhaan]

Keeping against spin is not easy,Although Im not watching this , its tough keeping against spinners but then they say pitch is flat and slow

[ShoonyaSifar]

5 hours ago, rkt.india said:

Ball going through slips is a half chance?

Apparently it is so for other keepers. 

[ThaneFast]

India's fielding has always been bad, expect for small patches here and there.

[Gollum]

118 catches dropped by Saha this innings, can't list all but here are some:

 

1.3

U Yadav to de Bruyn, FOUR, dropped. Second drop for Virat in this Test. Remember, he put down one in the first innings as well. Curved away at the last instant just outside off, induces Bruyn into a poke and he took the bait. Carried to Virat at third slip who went low and got both hands but couldn't pouch it. To rub salt into the wounds, it runs away to the boundary as well

It was Saha's regulation catch but Kohli dropped in 3rd slip

2.6

Ishant to Elgar, no run, dishes out fuller outside off at 130.7kph, Elgar's gets his weight forward and pokes it to mid-off

Mid off, up in the air, where was Saha?

4.5

Ishant to Elgar, FOUR, he's living on a knife's edge, isn't he? Cries of "Catch" as Elgar chases at this, slicing it up in the air and it just eludes the point fielder before scurrying away to the third man boundary

Point fielder no gloves, Saha has gloves, kiska catch? Another drop.

10.5

Shami to Elgar, FOUR, flurry of boundaries off Elgar's bat. Shami doesn't change his line and floats it outside off, Elgar slaps it firmly through the vacant cover region 

What ra? Cover in Saha zone, no?

36.4

Jadeja to Bavuma, FOUR, lovely shot, half-volley outside off, Bavuma presses forward, plays with an open face and drives it into the gap wide of cover-point

37.5

Ashwin to Senuran Muthusamy, FOUR, lovely, nicely tossed up outside off and spinning away, Muthusamy leans across, then brings his hands into play and caresses the drive wide of cover for a boundary

38.6

Jadeja to Bavuma, SIX, cracking shot, tad too short from RJ, Bavuma was quick to read the length, rocked back and pulled it over mid-wicket - went all the way, bounced just over the ropes for a maximum

Up in the air, elevation, Saha?

45.2

Jadeja to Philander, SIX, overpitches, does Jadeja, Philander steps forward and lofts this cleanly over the straight boundary for six! Where did that come from?

Saha?

45.3

Jadeja to Philander, SIX, Whoof! What's happening here? Given a bit of flight, Philander steps across and slog-sweeps that against the turn over the wide long-on boundary and into the crowd for six! Consecutive sixes!

Saha?

42.1

Shami to Bavuma, FOUR, nicely played, pitched up and just outside off, Bavuma leans across, plays with an angled bat and then runs it in the gap behind gully, long chase for the fielder but in vain

61.3

Kohli to Philander, FOUR, "Catch" was the shout and it evades extra cover. Philander throws his bat on the drive and creams it a bit airly, however it's out of Ashwin's grasp and zooms away to the boundary

 

Many more, another 213 drops in 1st innings . Bad bad Saha, bring back Dhoni, Pappu and DK .

Edited October 13, 2019 by Gollum

[Vijy]

6 hours ago, Gollum said:

118 catches dropped by Saha this innings, can't list all but here are some:

 

1.3

U Yadav to de Bruyn, FOUR, dropped. Second drop for Virat in this Test. Remember, he put down one in the first innings as well. Curved away at the last instant just outside off, induces Bruyn into a poke and he took the bait. Carried to Virat at third slip who went low and got both hands but couldn't pouch it. To rub salt into the wounds, it runs away to the boundary as well

It was Saha's regulation catch but Kohli dropped in 3rd slip

2.6

Ishant to Elgar, no run, dishes out fuller outside off at 130.7kph, Elgar's gets his weight forward and pokes it to mid-off

Mid off, up in the air, where was Saha?

4.5

Ishant to Elgar, FOUR, he's living on a knife's edge, isn't he? Cries of "Catch" as Elgar chases at this, slicing it up in the air and it just eludes the point fielder before scurrying away to the third man boundary

Point fielder no gloves, Saha has gloves, kiska catch? Another drop.

10.5

Shami to Elgar, FOUR, flurry of boundaries off Elgar's bat. Shami doesn't change his line and floats it outside off, Elgar slaps it firmly through the vacant cover region 

What ra? Cover in Saha zone, no?

36.4

Jadeja to Bavuma, FOUR, lovely shot, half-volley outside off, Bavuma presses forward, plays with an open face and drives it into the gap wide of cover-point

37.5

Ashwin to Senuran Muthusamy, FOUR, lovely, nicely tossed up outside off and spinning away, Muthusamy leans across, then brings his hands into play and caresses the drive wide of cover for a boundary

38.6

Jadeja to Bavuma, SIX, cracking shot, tad too short from RJ, Bavuma was quick to read the length, rocked back and pulled it over mid-wicket - went all the way, bounced just over the ropes for a maximum

Up in the air, elevation, Saha?

45.2

Jadeja to Philander, SIX, overpitches, does Jadeja, Philander steps forward and lofts this cleanly over the straight boundary for six! Where did that come from?

Saha?

45.3

Jadeja to Philander, SIX, Whoof! What's happening here? Given a bit of flight, Philander steps across and slog-sweeps that against the turn over the wide long-on boundary and into the crowd for six! Consecutive sixes!

Saha?

42.1

Shami to Bavuma, FOUR, nicely played, pitched up and just outside off, Bavuma leans across, plays with an angled bat and then runs it in the gap behind gully, long chase for the fielder but in vain

61.3

Kohli to Philander, FOUR, "Catch" was the shout and it evades extra cover. Philander throws his bat on the drive and creams it a bit airly, however it's out of Ashwin's grasp and zooms away to the boundary

 

Many more, another 213 drops in 1st innings . Bad bad Saha, bring back Dhoni, Pappu and DK .

bring back... deep dasgupta. IMO, he was even worse as a keeper than pappy boy and DK.

[singhprakash72]

21 hours ago, Vijy said:

bring back... deep dasgupta. IMO, he was even worse as a keeper than pappy boy and DK.

Oh Deep Dasgupta ...yes he was probably worst than PP. To imagine the list of mediocre keepers we used after Mongia retired is unbelievable ! 

[Vijy]

2 hours ago, singhprakash72 said:

Oh Deep Dasgupta ...yes he was probably worst than PP. To imagine the list of mediocre keepers we used after Mongia retired is unbelievable ! 

Yes, big dip in keeping since Mongia retired. Dasgupta was the worst that I saw - more shoddy than Pappu, DK, Dighe, Karim, Dahiya, MSK Prasad (who was quite competent as keeper, but horrible batsman), etc.

[Magneto]

15 hours ago, Vijy said:

Yes, big dip in keeping since Mongia retired. Dasgupta was the worst that I saw - more shoddy than Pappu, DK, Dighe, Karim, Dahiya, MSK Prasad (who was quite competent as keeper, but horrible batsman), etc.

Dasgupta was a better bat than most of these though. Batted like a proper Top 5 batsman and not a bits-and-pieces guy.

[gattaca]

On 10/14/2019 at 1:07 PM, Vijy said:

Yes, big dip in keeping since Mongia retired. Dasgupta was the worst that I saw - more shoddy than Pappu, DK, Dighe, Karim, Dahiya, MSK Prasad (who was quite competent as keeper, but horrible batsman), etc.

Vijay Dahiya was a good batsman. He along with sehwag won a ODI against a strong Australian team. Dahiya scored 50. He disappeared from scene for that useless Mumbai quota sameer dighe. 

Edited October 15, 2019 by gattaca

[Vijy]

On 10/15/2019 at 4:08 AM, Magneto said:

Dasgupta was a better bat than most of these though. Batted like a proper Top 5 batsman and not a bits-and-pieces guy.

I was referring to his keeping, not his batting. agree his batting was mostly up to the mark.

[vvvslaxman]

Given that how we bungled last 2 tests in NZ with dropped catches we have to revisit this thread ahead of this tour.   Let us see what we do this time around.

[Gollum]

4 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Given that how we bungled last 2 tests in NZ with dropped catches we have to revisit this thread ahead of this tour.   Let us see what we do this time around.

Let us do so in a new thread. OP gave false info to malign Saha and I find that unacceptable. 

[ShoonyaSifar]

1 hour ago, Gollum said:

Let us do so in a new thread. OP gave false info to malign Saha and I find that unacceptable. 

I only used the standards by which Pant was being judged. If half chances were drops for Pant, so it should for Saha. But then the Kohli-Dhoni PR bandwagon suddenly turned pro-Saha (obviously to derail Pant’s LOI career and secure Thalia’s place in T20 WC)
 

Keeping that aside, regularity with which Captain Doofus’ team kept dropping catches, there was no point in updating the thread any further. 

[chewy]

Plenty of updates today, with the sh!tshow put up by some of these so called athletes

Bunch of amateurs