Simon Hughes has just been discussing Prior's record on TMS... and noted that whilst simply taking a respectable proportion of chances might be sufficient when the attack / pitch / batting combination means chances come along pretty regularly... conditions such as those in Sri Lanka - bowlers (no matter how good) basically just labour in the hope (needing batsman error) - do really require a stumper capable of taking 95%+ of chances (as opposed to Prior record, calculated by someone to be 72% at present).

Hughes also pointed out out the error of thinking that stumpers are merely there to take chances: he cited as examples the importance of the wicket-keeper in determining how deep the slip field is set (something that has come in for criticism in this series) and the way in which 'keepers create chances as Jayawardene did by coming up to the stumps to Collingwood and thereby ensuring he was caught in the crease to Vaas.

Anyone care to detail what percentage of the deliveries from Sidebottom, Hoggard, Broad and Anderson were taken with the wicket-keeper stood up?

At some point this morning even the ultra loyal CMJ was asking if his Sussex boy had a future as a top 5 specialist bat with someone else taking the gloves: two balls later he was back in the pavillion