Who should be India's backup test keeper?

[Lord]

8 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Rahul has kept in a test match before...  He kept wickets in 2015 SL tour in 2nd test when Saha got injured.  Shockingly his glove work was amazing.  So contrary to popular belief he can keep well in tests as well. 

 

Saha played that match and kept in the first innings.

 

I'm talking about doing it for whole Test. 

[Lord]

7 minutes ago, kepler37b said:

Is he a thrasher like pant and kishan? Hope we get test match grade wk batsmen like Sanga.

 

Sanga didn't keep in majority of his Tests

[kepler37b]

26 minutes ago, Lord said:

 

Sanga didn't keep in majority of his Tests

Thats fine. i want that grace and technique in a wk batsman. pant and ishan look a bit agricultural. 

[Lord]

2 minutes ago, kepler37b said:

Thats fine. i want that grace and technique in a wk batsman. pant and ishan look a bit agricultural. 

 

my point is that Sanga was specialist batsman and should be compared to those. 

 

Pant and Kishan can be compared to Dhoni,Boucher etc with Gilchrist being the highest standard.

[Lone Wolf]

32 minutes ago, Lord said:

 

Saha played that match and kept in the first innings.

 

I'm talking about doing it for whole Test. 

See the whole point is if a guy has done in a test match inns when he wasn't even doing it in ODIs for India makes this a pretty great deal.  He must have even improved on it six years later.   KLR will be fine as a back up test match keeper. 

[Lord]

Just now, Lone Wolf said:

See the whole point is if a guy has done in a test match inns when he wasn't even doing it in ODIs for India makes this a pretty great deal.  He must have even improved on it six years later.   KLR will be fine as a back up test match keeper. 

 

doing it for whole Test requires different fitness and mindset than doing it for LOI or one innings

 

He might be prepared for it but his batting may suffer which is very important.

[Vickydev]

1 hour ago, kepler37b said:

Is he a thrasher like pant and kishan? Hope we get test match grade wk batsmen like Sanga.

A very classical batter he is, looks technically compact of what Ive seen. An obvious upgrade on Bharat but no Sanga ofcourse, atleast not now

 

Found a complition video of him batting . Faces Saini, Siraj, Natarjan at times.

 

 

 

[kepler37b]

49 minutes ago, Vickydev said:

A very classical batter he is, looks technically compact of what Ive seen. An obvious upgrade on Bharat but no Sanga ofcourse, atleast not now

 

Found a complition video of him batting . Faces Saini, Siraj, Natarjan at times.

 

 

 

Seems to have shots round the wicket. Good prospect.

[ShoonyaSifar]

2 hours ago, Vickydev said:

A very classical batter he is, looks technically compact of what Ive seen. An obvious upgrade on Bharat but no Sanga ofcourse, atleast not now

 

Found a complition video of him batting . Faces Saini, Siraj, Natarjan at times.

 

 

 

Upendra and Akshay Wadkar of Vidarbha are the next two classical FC keepers other than Bharat.

 

Jagdeeshan (TN) is another one with decent record across formats.

 

Among the younger lot, Anuj Rawat (Delhi) and Prabhsimran Singh (Punjab) can become contenders if they have a good season.