Keeper's Average
There is plenty of discussion in the media at the moment concerning Prior's performance in the recently concluded series. When it comes to team selections we can look at batting averages and bowling averages to push the case for a particular player, but unfortunately there is no such thing a wicketkeeping average. The only readily available stat we currently have for keepers is byes, and this is largely useless. A keepers real value to the team lies in the number of difficult, or non-regulation chances he takes, versus the number of regulation chances he misses. Unfortunately, these things are not recorded in the score book. Perhaps if they were, Matt Prior would never have played a test and Chris Read would be a 100 test veteran.
2 comments:
Couldn't agree more. I remember Tony Grieg making a comment like that when Jones dropped another one during the Ashes...he argued that stats on how many catches a keeper has taken are largely irrelevant, where as how many they have dropped is very relevant, and goes untracked. An opportunity for us to monitor it on Cricket Burble?
A great opportunity indeed, but probably more difficult to judge correctly than wrong decisions. Read may well get a glove to one that Prior can only dream of getting anywhere near knocking out of the way of the slips. Good luck getting this one up and running!
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