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Originally Posted by Wisden Profile It was one of the most spectacular sights of cricket in the 1980s. A great West Indian fast bowler - any of several suspects - roared on by a partisan Caribbean crowd, a short ball rearing, the batsman fending and edging, and behind the stumps, a lithe athlete leaping and plunging to take another one-handed blinder. Jeff Dujon was the gymnastic hub of those all-conquering Windies sides, a man who never participated in a losing series and whose tally of victims has been exceeded only by Ian Healy and Rod Marsh. If his keeping was never adequately tested against spin bowling (just five of his 270 victims were stumped) then there was scant opportunity. No-one can have been more riveting to watch standing back. He could bat too, elegantly, sufficiently well to make five Test centuries. |
Unless someone can come up with a genuine wicket-keeper... this position is surely not up for negotiation: someone has to be chopped to accomodate him. Perhaps Headley could open instead of Greenidge...
ps. Has there ever been a great WI gloveman at Test level?
pps. Dujon doesn't count himself as one:
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I was primarily a batsman [...] I developed as a Test keeper by virtue of playing at that level for so long [...] It got better as time went on. When I started, I was very basic but I adapted to the bowling that I had to face. I was primarily a batsman - I never kept wicket for my club even when I was playing Test cricket. And I only kept wicket for Jamaica the same year I made the West Indies team. Obviously, I was a batsman who could keep.
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