Best Batting-Wicketkeeper

Gilchrist no doubt then Dhoni or akmal.

i rate gilchrist has best keeper but the best batsmen out of the keepers is dhoni in odis and maybe gilchrist,akmal or sangakkara in tests

Sangakkara by a long way

MS Dhoni will be next few years or so.

In my opinion the top four would be

1. Gilchrist
2. Sangakkara
3. Dhoni
4. Boucher

It must be Dhoni in ODIs because he made it to no1 in the world in the batting rankings within a year which is pretty unprecedented seeing as rankings only get that high after loads of games. He has finished everyhting off in rpessure situations and no other w/k batsman at present could hit 184* off 147 chasing a daunting 307. In tests it's probably either Gily or Sanga but Akmal and Dhoni have their best to come for sure.

To an extent yes i have got to agree with you we forgot Andy Flower he was really great but now its Sangakkara .

Originally posted by dhoniisbest If you're talking about one of the greatest batting-wicket keeper, also include Rahul Dravid.

Excuse me. We are taling of wicket keeper - batsman. Their first job is to wicket keep and they must be ranked within top 5 in the country. Dravid is clearly not a wicketkeeper-batsman, but batsman made in to a wicket keeper by circumstances. Sri Lanka's TM Dilshan, Zimbabawe's Tatenda Taibu, West Indies Denesh Ramdin will be a better choice they are even better keepers than Sangakkara (i am not sure whether it is the same for Gilchrist, but definietly not for Akmal)

Edited by Wal Bada

Originally posted by dhoniisbest I said IF YOU"R TALKING ABOUT ONE OF THE GREATEST. It doesn't matter if he's made into or he was. It just depends on how good he is and how well he bats.

One should try to be spot on mate. It's very easy to beat about the bush, but doing or saying something meaningfull and purposeful really takes some efforts, which most of the people are not prepared to put in. Specific, objective, focused, value adding...........are the key words. Wal Bada is right here, because wicket keeper's primary job is to be a wall behind the stumps, then comes his batting. You can never reverse the order, if you have a cricketing brain.

I would say Mahendra Dhoni definitely in ODI's. In a few matches I have seen of him on TV, he has absolutely belted the ball into the stands. In Tests he can also be good but Against England in that Test Match in Mumbai he showed that he can get too greedy to score runs too quickly (Monty Panesar caught him second time round!) In Tests the best keeper is most definitely Adam Gilchrist. I mostly say this as he averages around 50 with the bat and can destroy a bowling attack but also I feel that all the other keepers in the world are yet to prove themselves on the Test stage like Adam Gilchrist has. In the Ashes England did very well tactically against Adam Gilchrist and we got him out rather early. If he had stayed in longer the Ashes result could have been different...

Originally posted by dhoniisbest MS Dhoni has to prove himself little bit more, he came as one of the destructive batsmen, but now he's form is little down. After few years he will be one of the greatest and best wicketkeeper batsmen in Indian history(not in the world).

Yes Mahendra Dhoni needs to calm down a bit with his batting in test cricket. He's got to stop trying to hit too many sixes (even though he is good to watch!) He will definitely be an incredible wicket-keeper in a few years to come...

That was brilliant in the west indies by Dhoni. A six off his first ball. He really rattled the bowler.

Haha. but to be fair India did need about 6 an over to win the game so they needed to hurry a bit.

The best keeper/batsman at the moment has to be Kumar Sangakkara or Kamran Akmal,i'd put gilly there but australian havent played cricket for a couple of months now.

Geraint Jones ?

nah sangarkarra.