[Cricket] Best Cricket Fielders

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Too slow to see the thread - Colin Bland for me too - his throwing accuracy was legendary - it’s an eta thing though - those of us voting for him are almost certainly in the OAP category

 

[um bongo molongo]

I’m an old fart but the list should have more current players given that even ex Pros all all say standards so much higher now. Glenn Phillips is incredible

 

[Weststander]

Where is Derek Randall? Brilliant fielder

This.

Incredible fielder. In the first England XI I loved.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Colin Cowdrey and Walter Hammond at slip.

Jack Hobbs at cover.

W G Grace at point.

Some time ago

 

[The Mole]

Derek Randall was revolutionary in the way he elevated fielding, but you can’t compare him to the modern fielders who are so good. Also from the past, Clive Lloyd was lethal in the covers and a very good slip fielder.
i never saw Colin Bland though.

 

[Chicken Run]

Closer to home i always thought Sussex’s Carl Hopkinson was right up there as a fielder, didn’t he go on and become an England fielding coach?

 

[Berty23]

Somerset are probably the best county fielding side at the moment and the best of them is tom Abell. He is incredible.

 

[vegster]

Sussex's Paul Parker was brilliant. It was said that he had the ability to run convincingly at a slower speed in order to lure batsmen in to a sense of security...they would nudge a single and take a single easily then get complacent ....after a while...Parker would wait his time until they pushed a single then started to jog...then he would move like a rattlesnake and throw down the stumps........oh, and an honourable mention to Jonty Rhodes too.

 

[5Ways Gull]

We've all somehow forgotten the true, obvious greatest fielder of all time.

That clip really needs the bit following where Ponting is chuntering away as he walks off saying something along the lines of "I hate it when teams bend the rules. It's just not cricket "

 

[Questions]

W G Grace once caught a ball in his beard whilst fielding at gulley.

 

[Ethelwulf]

Ian botham and Grahame Hick and Mark rampakash

 

[knocky1]

Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja are up there.

 

[Poyningsgull]

Clive Lloyd has to be in there

 

[Mackenzie]

Jonty Rhodes was electric in the field.

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Where is Derrick Randall? Brilliant fielder

Totally. Incredible fielder and took on Lillee and Thomson without a helmet. What a character to go with it.

 

[Simster]

Bit surprised the big man hasn't had a mention:



What. A. Grab.

 

[Robinjakarta]

Sobers. Easy to overlook as a fielder because of his batting and bowling skills, but was also a fantastic fielder, especially close to the wicket.

 

[jcdenton08]

Inzamam?

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Inzamam?

Good slip fielder.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Closer to home i always thought Sussex’s Carl Hopkinson was right up there as a fielder, didn’t he go on and become an England fielding coach?

Very good fielder.
He helped out with some of the sessions they did at Hove with U-14s, U-16s when I was that sort of age, and I remember the guy leading the session describing him as the best fielder in the country (not entirely seriously but there was more than enough truth in it).