Neat little tribute gallery to Keeping & Keepers.

by PeterCS Tue 29 Mar 2016, 16:50

By Cricket Monthly.

Eight photos with captions celebrating the often too-little-sung feats of keepers.

http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/gallery/974737/celebrating-keeping

Could almost form the basis of a picture quiz.

But definitely a keeper, in any case.

by furriner Tue 29 Mar 2016, 19:24

From the article:

Keepers are often judged on their work standing up

No f*cking kidding. I kept wickets for my high school and college teams by the dubious, and possibly debatable, virtue of being the best fielder.

Then I saw a Delhi university keeper standing up helmet- less to what I thought was medium pace. My gawd!

by horace Tue 29 Mar 2016, 22:32

the Taibu effort was a cracker.

Nice to see Len Maddox, a great Vix keeper, even if it was for a supposed eccentricity.

by lardbucket Tue 14 Mar 2017, 07:20

As good a place as any to stick this article on keeping:

(a good read, thanks Jarrod Kimber)

http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1083622/the-death-of-the-specialist-gloveman

by tricycle Tue 14 Mar 2017, 09:49

^Really nice piece, that.

by skully Wed 15 Mar 2017, 02:58

Aye, good read.

by Basil Wed 15 Mar 2017, 07:56

furriner wrote:From the article:

Keepers are often judged on their work standing up

No f*cking kidding. I kept wickets for my high school and college teams by the dubious, and possibly debatable, virtue of being the best fielder.

Then I saw a Delhi university keeper standing up helmet- less to what I thought was medium pace. My gawd!

Bob Taylor used to say that a decent slip-fielder could do the job standing back. I reckon the two best standing up I've laid eyes on are Knott and Healy