Greatest fielders by country

[Majestic]

I will go First, one for each country. Can be from any era.

 

Australia - Ricky Ponting

South Africa - Jonty Rhodes

England - Ben Stokes

New Zealand - Kane Williamson

India - Ravindra Jadeja

Pakistan - Younis Khan 

Windies - Garfield Sobers

Sri Lanka - Tilekaratne Dilshan

 

 

 

[sandeep]

Just now, Majestic said:

I will go First, one for each country. Can be from any era.

 

Australia - Ricky Ponting

South Africa - Jonty Rhodes

England - Ben Stokes

New Zealand - Kane Williamson

India - Ravindra Jadeja

Pakistan - Younis Khan 

Windies - Garfield Sobers

Sri Lanka - Tilekaratne Dilshan

 

 

 

Williamson and Younis Khan do not belong on this list.  

[Majestic]

10 minutes ago, sandeep said:

Williamson and Younis Khan do not belong on this list.  

Can't really think of anyone beyond Younis for Pakistan. But Younis was terrific with his slip catching. 

 

For NZ, Williamson was pretty good too. Otherwise Trent Boult. But they have many good fielders so hard to single out any.

 

[cricketfan28]

not sure if younis bhai qualifies.

[sandeep]

7 minutes ago, Majestic said:

Can't really think of anyone beyond Younis for Pakistan. But Younis was terrific with his slip catching. 

 

For NZ, Williamson was pretty good too. Otherwise Trent Boult. But they have many good fielders so hard to single out any.

 

For Greenbros, Shadab Khan is a very, very good fielder - all over the field.  Gun arm too.  Younis was a great slip catcher but beyond that his fielding wasn't extraordinary - reliable but not great. 

[nevada]

1 hour ago, Majestic said:

Can't really think of anyone beyond Younis for Pakistan. But Younis was terrific with his slip catching. 

 

For NZ, Williamson was pretty good too. Otherwise Trent Boult. But they have many good fielders so hard to single out any.

 

Shoaib Mohammad was an excellent fielder. Paxtan used to bring him on as a substitute quite a lot. 

[Tattieboy]

Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards were both better when young as cover point fielders and then as close fielders  than Sobers .

I would say Derek Randall was a better fielder than Stokes is .

Solkar was basically picked as a fielder for India for  their spin attack , best close in fielder I have seen 

[rkt.india]

2 hours ago, Majestic said:

Can't really think of anyone beyond Younis for Pakistan. But Younis was terrific with his slip catching. 

 

For NZ, Williamson was pretty good too. Otherwise Trent Boult. But they have many good fielders so hard to single out any.

 

Martin guptil is their best

[AKane]

4 hours ago, Tattieboy said:

Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards were both better when young as cover point fielders and then as close fielders  than Sobers

 

Tests

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Clive Lloyd  -    110 matches   90 catches

Viv Richards -   121 matches  122 catches

Gary Sobers -     93 matches   109 catches

 

First Class

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Clive Lloyd    -   490 matches  377 catches

Viv Richards  -   507 matches  464 catches

Gary Sobers  -   383  matches  407 catches

 

 

Sobers bowled a lot and was not in catching position for himself except caught and bowled.

 

Still think they were better?

 

Edited December 16, 2022 by AKane

[Tattieboy]

21 minutes ago, AKane said:

 

Tests

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Clive Lloyd  -    110 matches   90 catches

Viv Richards -   121 matches  122 catches

Gary Sobers -     93 matches   109 catches

 

First Class

=========

Clive Lloyd    -   490 matches  377 catches

Viv Richards  -   507 matches  464 catches

Gary Sobers  -   383  matches  407 catches

 

 

Sobers bowled a lot and was not in catching position for himself except caught and bowled.

 

Still think they were better?

 

Yes because it asked greatest  fielder not most catches . 

[AKane]

2 hours ago, Tattieboy said:

Yes because it asked greatest  fielder not most catches

catches are part of fielding (only thing measured in fielding) but he was a sensational  fielder anywhere. Slips, deep, around corner.

 

First video from 3.50 onwards is about his fielding....slip catching and about searing returns from deep.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49QC1ZAFgCs

 

Second video is a legside catch off of Gibbs on leg side round corner.

 

[nevada]

10 hours ago, Tattieboy said:

Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards were both better when young as cover point fielders and then as close fielders  than Sobers .

I would say Derek Randall was a better fielder than Stokes is .

Solkar was basically picked as a fielder for India for  their spin attack , best close in fielder I have seen 

Paul Collingwood was another excellent English fielder. Took some stunning catches.

[Vickydev]

Surely Collingwood for England

[GeeGaw]

13 hours ago, Majestic said:

For NZ, Williamson was pretty good too. Otherwise Trent Boult. But they have many good fielders so hard to single out any.

 

Boult is disqualified for this moment alone

 

[GeeGaw]

For Australia I’m going with Andrew Symonds.  Even Ponting called him one of the five best fielders he played with or against.  He could cover a ton of ground, great hands and a gun arm. Total package.

Edited December 17, 2022 by GeeGaw

[jf1gp_1]

12 hours ago, rkt.india said:

Martin guptil is their best

I agree. NZ has always been a good fielding side, fleming was good in slips, correy anderson was excellent, remember the guy who ultimatly turned out to be a fixer lou vincent he was a great fielder but Guptill is there best. Boult is also exceptional. 

 

Pakistan Afridi was very good but best i can think off is Imran Nazir. Him and Shadab along with afridi are their top 3 in my opinion. 

[Majestic]

2 hours ago, GeeGaw said:

Boult is disqualified for this moment alone

 

By the same logic, Guptill gets disqualified for the throw towards Stokes end then that ended up giving England 4 extra runs.

[Majestic]

2 hours ago, GeeGaw said:

For Australia I’m going with Andrew Symonds.  Even Ponting called him one of the five best fielders he played with or against.  He could cover a ton of ground, great hands and a gun arm. Total package.

Yup..

 

Symonds, Waugh Jnr, Ponting, S Smith, Clarke, Warner..some amazing fielders.

[Vijy]

Aus, SA, NZ, Zim have too many outstanding fielders

 

special shout-out to Colin Bland who had a batting avg of nearly 50 and saved 20+ runs in the field.

[rkt.india]

2 minutes ago, Vijy said:

Aus, SA, NZ, Zim have too many outstanding fielders

 

special shout-out to Colin Bland who had a batting avg of nearly 50 and saved 20+ runs in the field.

India too starting from Azhar, jadeja, Robin Singh, Kaif, Yuvraj, Raina, Jadeja 2, Rahane, Pandey, Pandya, Samson.