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Loading ...Well, batting and bowling averages are pretty indisputable, particularly over a full career, but wicket-keeping is far harder to assess, it’s so much more of a team effort - let me plug (again) “byes per 1000 balls” as a possible comparator of stumpers’ ability.
Geraint Jones…again
By Will 3 years ago, at the end of August Leave a comment on this post
He’s had a tough series has Geraint. But did you know his tally of 36 catches is the most for a ‘keeper this year? One of those odd facts that no one can explain! (well, I can try: it’s England’s continued excellent bowling attack which has given him so many to catch)
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41 Responses to “Geraint Jones…again”
August 23rd, 2005 at 7.34 pm
August 24th, 2005 at 4.53 am
and has england not played mre tests than other teams as well?
August 24th, 2005 at 3.29 pm
Jones (G) is a pretty poor excuse for a wicketkeeper. England’s bowlers have been good enough to keep him in the side. Chris Read (?) should (and probably is) spitting chips.
August 24th, 2005 at 5.13 pm
Jones has made some horrible errors in the last Test, but we soon forget.
He clung onto everything in the One-dayers. It’s the curse of wicketkeeping: Make a mistake and you are awful, stay tidy/catch everything and nobody notices. It’s the only position where anything less than perfection is derided.
August 29th, 2005 at 10.45 am
As a wicket-keeper myself i can only say that the 4th Test proved beyond doubt in my mind that Jones has to go, the disasterous consequences of not only his apalling display behind the sticks but that rush of blood in our nerve racking chase at the end is surely the end for this guy. His wicket keeping is borne from a dreadful technique and the errors are a product of this, basic changes to this poor style could help, but his hands don’t comfort the ball hence so many spillages. Bring Read in, he’s class an not so big a mug with the bat either.
August 30th, 2005 at 1.28 pm
I feel sorry for Jones. He’s an okay (at best) ‘keeper, but he’s put down some howlers and is generally shoddy in his glove work. He also has an annoying habit of catching the ball with his fingers facing upwards, rather than downwards, which is a real no no for quality keepers. As David says, keep it clean and tidy and no-one notices you, spill a few and…
Yes he is a competent batsman, but he blows hot and cold in that department too. I don’t blame him too much for holing out at TB as he was trying to impose himself, and he can certainly hit 6s, but he is no more to blame than the 6 wickets that had already fallen.
I suspect he’ll remain as England’s first choice keeper but be replaced by Read during the winter tour to the Asian subcontinent.
Cheers all
Gareth
August 30th, 2005 at 2.39 pm
how can you sday that about greaint jones he’s so good the carches during the ashes have been amazing and id like to see you do it!!
September 4th, 2005 at 5.57 am
I feel real sorry for Jones. I believe his mistakes are most probably caused by the pressure he is under. And people like you guys who are saying really quite disrespectful things, does not help his confidence at all. Don’t you think with encouragement and self belief he can lead England to the victory they deserve.
September 4th, 2005 at 5.57 am
HE ROX!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 5th, 2005 at 10.34 am
Yes he has taken some good catches, no one is denying that. It’s the simple dropped catches and missed stumpings that are of concern…
September 5th, 2005 at 7.28 pm
Keeping wicket is probably the best position in any cricket team. Trouble is that people only ever seem to remember the mistakes you make and not the cathes , stumpings or good tidy takes to pretty average returns…and look at some of the other England players who have made some dreadful howlers…Peiterson for one has dropped 6 cathes !
I have kept at club level which can be pressurised so imagine what GJ goes through ! All he can do is be positive and not dwell on what has gone before. I think he has done well in a very tough series and contributed with the bat. Read had his chance but can’t have been that good can he !
Go for it GJ !
September 6th, 2005 at 12.28 am
Maybe it’s time Matt Prior got a chance this winter? I’ve wanted to give Jones the benefit of the doubt but he keeps making mistakes. However, I do rate him as a batsman, and he’s out-performed Gilchrist (famous last words perhaps?).
September 7th, 2005 at 6.53 pm
I think that Geraint ‘the howler’ Jones got into the team undeservedly in the 1st place. Read was kicked out the team unfairly in WI 2003. so Jones got his chance and apart from the 1st test debut he has not shined since. Got batting potential but too eratic. And he ain’t the best keeper on god’s earth either.
Bring Read Back!!!
September 7th, 2005 at 8.11 pm
i think he iz a sick keeper i realli lie him and a gd batter he and flintoff did do dat beatiful patner ship so wht if he misses a bit of stumpings and catches i do dat sumtimes but ppl still say im a gd keeper so giv him sum credit
September 7th, 2005 at 8.12 pm
i mean like
September 10th, 2005 at 12.50 pm
HES WICKED
September 11th, 2005 at 9.33 pm
He amazing… can’t call him shit, hes in the england cricket team, he wouldn’t have got there if he was shit!
People concentrate on the ones hes missed not what hes been sucessful on.
I mean come on Pieterson has lost us a fair few this time!!
September 12th, 2005 at 12.51 am
I agree Charlie, the one he dropped yesterday (Sunday) was a hardish chance going like a rocket but he dived in front of first slip and if he committs himself to take those chances then he must catch them.He didn’t move his feet quickly enough and then mistimed his dive.
Still I think he’s done a fairly good job when you look at some of the chances England’s other players have spilled…poor old Peiterson has had a mare in the field….the crowd seem to cheer him when he manages to stop the ball never mind catch it !
September 12th, 2005 at 2.17 pm
I fink e is doin really well even though the press have given him a hard time!he should keep up the good work!
Also he is really fit!lol
September 13th, 2005 at 9.50 am
gee…… i can tell that all of u guys are poms. jones is cute but he cant keep for shit. soz bout the language. in case u havent realized, i am an AUSSIE. go the aussies!!!!
September 13th, 2005 at 4.06 pm
oh well…ENGLAND WON!!!
September 13th, 2005 at 4.23 pm
Jones rokz!!
he is part of the criket team n he shud not go!!!
hes fab!!!
And yeah we did WIN!!!
September 13th, 2005 at 4.24 pm
HE IS FIT
September 14th, 2005 at 9.38 pm
ennit so wht if he doez shit hes part ov the team he wuldent b dere if they neva chose him 2 keep and hes cute ans aniway hes onli a miget he cnt alwayz get the balls and he iz a wicket batter england iz a sick team and u no it ITS D BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 16th, 2005 at 9.25 pm
dat is fare point e is part of the team who cares wat ne1 else finks it is up to da captain if e goes and i fink he should go! Also England won!!!
September 18th, 2005 at 8.20 pm
hi you played exellent so forget or the hate mail there just chatting out of there arse we couldn’t of got a better wicketkeeper
all the best mate
will
September 26th, 2005 at 4.33 pm
To Geraint Jones
You are my biggest fan
From Robert Clarke
December 11th, 2005 at 7.22 pm
geraint jones has gotten alot better i think cause did ya see how many catchez an stumpingz he made in the 1 dy match againts pakistan and hiz battins really gd an he doez get the team goin wen they are tired and even if he doez make some mistakes he can just try agen and do betta
May 16th, 2006 at 10.26 pm
Just to say tht jone woz gud during the test of austraila and he is improving all the time so get off his back will u
u lot should be proud to be english we beat austrila for gods sake
GO ENGLAND
From Amanda Johnson from Manchester uk
June 22nd, 2006 at 4.08 pm
I am Geraint Jones no.1 fan. He is the best player out there, and anyone would be mad not to think that!!!!
June 23rd, 2006 at 3.53 pm
geraint jones has gtten better an better e is jus the best an im glad e is in tha cricket team because e tkes exelent catches an e is jus the greatest i hope e never goeas out of tha team i realli like him luve ya soooo much jones and never giv up i am 1 of ur number 1 fans luv ya xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
July 18th, 2006 at 10.17 pm
im wiv niesha geraint jones is a legend!! he is a top class player and no1 relises just how cud he is
frm joint no.1 fan
geo
July 18th, 2006 at 10.23 pm
geraint fucking rules
August 1st, 2006 at 10.20 pm
I CANT BELIVE GERAINT JONES HAS CAME OUT THE SIDE!!!! I NO HES HAD A HARD TYME BUT ITS BECAUSE EVERYONES PUT PRESSURE ON IM IT REALLI ISNT FAIR PEOPLE NEED TO GIVE HIM SOME CREDIT I MEEN IJN PAKISTAN THE 2ND TEST LOOK HOW MACI CATCHES E TOOK !!!WITH A BROKEN FINGER!!!! I MEEN THT MUST HERT HIS FINGER ND PLUS E has HIT SOME SIXES WHICH IS GOOD so plz hav im bk in the side either b4 the 4th test or b4 tha one dy or in the ashes plzz!!!! nd geraint jones plzzzzz wrk hrd i wnt u bk in tha side plzzzz
August 1st, 2006 at 11.07 pm
o yes nd he is the onli person i no whos never ad a duk in hiz test carrer nd ez 1 of the fastest keepers 2 get 1hudred catches]
August 9th, 2006 at 12.18 pm
geraint is so good i cant beleav he has been droped he works so hard a now he has to work 2x as hard please g.j work hard because all your suporters love u so do i u are an insperrasion to all the yong wicketkeepers out there . every 1 of your suporters say iam your no.1 fan there not we all love u the same in the same way geraint u rock oh yes every 1 wach kent vs lanks geraint will will do well i bet go geraint we love u and everything u do
tom
August 9th, 2006 at 12.57 pm
Read is by far the better keepr, he is a ‘natural’ keeper in the way Jones and Stewart aren’t- more of a manufactured keeper.
Read looks worryingly suspect with a bat, but then again so does Jones.
I’d rather have Read in my test team, purely for his fluency with the gloves, and any runs over 30 are a bonus.
December 15th, 2006 at 1.43 pm
Geraint Jones - What more needs to be said for this sad excuse of a cricketer ? Out for the third time in a row playing that airy-fairy drive with the angled bat which always goes straight to gully. He reminds me of a 14 year old learning how to bat and a piss poor one at that. He now has the impressive statistic of a test average of just over 20 and a series average of 12. I suspect most of his test runs have have been scored against Zimbabwe and Bangledesh. Send this useless twat back on the next plane with Gilo !! Read gets dropped following last summer with a series average against Pakistan of 42 and almost flawless wicketkeeping. Go figure. Jones must be taking it up the arse from Fletcher.
January 2nd, 2007 at 4.57 pm
I don’t have a clue what everyone is on about, Read is by far the better wicketkeeper and has improved on his batting average, whereas jones’s has dropped. I suppose i am biased being a huge Notts fan, but surely if people want the best team England can produce we need Read. Also, well said Big Ern and Jackdawbob.
October 27th, 2007 at 12.55 am
He should be recalled and his team mate Key given the nod.
Hopefully the obnoxious Reid has gone forever.
The only reason Prior [poor baby hurt his fingerums] is in the side is because of the Sussex[nice place] Mafia-don’t get on me the Romford one please.
Anyway that’s life-’It’s not what you know but whom.-virtue chastised!
[it was Jones,of course-who else?]
October 30th, 2007 at 10.40 am
You must be having a laugh.
Jones would struggle to get in our club second eleven.
I predict that once his present contract runs out it wont be renewed, and no other county will touch him with a barge pole!!!
