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Message: [QUOTE="1910, post: 2993120, member: 8272"] It was an era too of batsmen keeping, not keepers batting. De Villiers filled in for Boucher when he suffered that horrific eye injury but didn't keep until his 74th Test match and Sangkkara didn't keep in Tests after 2006 and played 86 Tests as a batsmen. He averaged 65 just batting from 06-15 and 44 as a keeper batsman. The 44 is pretty standard for keeping, I'd always want the keeper 40ish in average. McCullum kept in 52/81 Tests. Even Dravid kept for India for years before Dohni, just so they could have seven batsmen and didn't want to worry about a keeper. One of the first times I watched Gilchrist was the '93 SS final- batting at three and not keeping. Strange time but that was the idea at the time, just put the most likely in the role because we need his runs. [/QUOTE]

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