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    Posted: 27 May 2009 at 2:25pm
Yep, to stir up some debate, he's the best Wicket keeper/batsman around.  Dhoni or Haddin will take best batsman/wicket keeper.
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Haddin can bat quite well, he gets a lot of starts, but doesn't always get on with it. He can also bat anywhere in ODIs. I think though Dhoni is more of a matchwinner, however he hasn't got a test ton in a long while which is surprising to me. I think he only has 1 from memory. With the gloves, Haddin has disappointed me at times, but he has also done some good things. Dhoni isn't too flash, but I think at the moment he's showing better skills than Haddin.
Boucher at his best would probably be the best of the lot, but he hasn't done a lot of late with the bat and he has been disappointing.
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Dhoni keeps on impressing me as time goes by.  Started as a dangerous hitter but is playing more and more sensible as time goes by.  Comes in at all positions and does the job.  Some people react differently to captaincy but it really changed Dhoni for the best!
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Originally posted by milkman

Oh no, I don't think he's bad and I did not say that. I basically made the point that Jayawardene is better and that if Kumar was THAT great a keeper he would have stuck to it.


i think jayawardena picked in test team because sri lanka want to sangakkara to be specialist batsman.....since he left the job as a keeper he improve his batting...Big%20smile
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Dead right Lalinda. Sanga is one of the best batsman in the world as a result. It was a good move.
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Sanga is wonderful as captain, batsmen or keeper. Hes not keeping now? great for cricket I think. And dont those sri lankan batsmen score huge centuries? I like Haddin as a batsmen/keeper though. Not the greatest glovemen but his batting is worth watching.
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Awards of Gilchrist
Gilchrist was one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 2002,and Australia's One-day International Player of the Year in 2003 and 2004. He was awarded the Allan Border Medal in 2003,and was the only Australian cricketer currently playing to have been named in "Richie Benaud's Greatest XI" in 2004. He was selected in the ICC World XI for the charity series against the ACC Asian XI, 2004–05, was voted as "World's Scariest Batsman" in a poll of international bowlers,and was named as wicket-keeper and opening batsman in Australia's "greatest ever ODI team." In a poll of over ten thousand people hosted in 2007 by Cricinfo, he was voted the ninth greatest all-rounder of the last one hundred years. A panel of prominent cricket writers selected him in Australia’s all-time best XI for Cricinfo. Gilchrist has not only left his mark on Australian cricket but the whole cricketing world.
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