geoffrey boycott became the first wicket keeper with hundred odi stumpings.
geoffrey boycott became the first wicket keeper with hundred odi stumpings.
who became the first wicket keeper with hundred odi stumpings?
geoffrey boycott
sangakkara is a left-handed top order batsman who likes to hit the ball square of the wicket on the off-side. while the cut and the pull are natural strokes for him, he tends to play off the front foot. the cover drive is one of his regular scoring shots. sangakkara averaged 57.40 in test cricket. in odi cricket, he retired with an average of 42. sangakkara handed his wicket-keeping duties in test cricket to prasanna jayawardene in 2006. he played as a specialist batsman in tests, and retired as a wicket keeper-batsman in other formats of the game. he is the first on the list of wicket keepers who contributed to the most dismissals in odi cricket, with 499. he is also the wicket keeper with the second highest number of stumpings—99—in odi cricket after mahendra singh dhoni surpassed him.
kumar sangakkara
there are very few cases of a fielder or wicket keeper taking a hat-trick of dismissals off consecutive deliveries in first-class cricket, and none in international cricket. the first such instance is the only known hat-trick of stumpings by a wicket keeper: wh brain for gloucestershire against somerset in 1893, all off the bowling of cl townend. there has never been a first-class wicket-keeping hat-trick that mixes catches and stumpings, but four other wicket-keepers have taken a hat-trick of catches: kr meherhomji for railways vs freelooters at secunderabad (the only instance outside england) in 1931, go dawkes for derbyshire vs worcestershire at kidderminster in 1958, rc russell for gloucestershire against surrey at the oval in 1986, and t frost for warwickshire against surrey at edgbaston in 2003. (in russell and frost's cases, no bowler took a hat-trick since their catches were taken off different bowlers in successive overs: meherhomji's and dawkes's feats were hat-tricks for the bowlers as well, l ramji and hl jackson.) there are only two recorded cases of a hat-trick of catches being recorded by a non-wicket-keeper, both of which were also hat-tricks for the bowler as well: gj thompson, for northants against warwickshire at edgbaston in 2014 (all off sg smith), and marcus trescothick for somerset against notts in 2018 at trent bridge (all off craig overton). interestingly, trescothick - though more famous as a batsman and only an occasional bowler - has also taken a hat-trick as a bowler, in 1995 against the young australians.
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