karthik, dhoni played together in lot of tests
now saha and dhoni are playing in same test
sangakkara, prasanna played in lots tests
lou vincent was a specailist keeper, but played as batsman
ABD is a specialist keeper, but is playing as batsman
alec stewart played as batsman for several games
andy flower played as specialist batsman in several games

Chandu Pandit and Kiran More quite a few Tests in the same XI..

Flower and Taibu did a few, but you got that already...

why is that dhoni never gives up his keeping gloves whenever there is another keeper in the team ? ravi shashtry mentioned a good point, dhoni should allow saha to don the keeping gloves and that gives dhoni a different perspective as a captain. only 4 wkts in 150 overs and dhoni is not doing any thing. he can also bowl a few overs...

and he made saha field at deep mid wicket, the poor guy cant throw the ball upto the keeper.

Well Dhoni has indeed given the gloves to DK several times.. that hos he got to bowl atleast...

but yes he could have done it here but thats just a quiblle to try out our luck... no benefit if Dhoni thinks its his responsibility to do the keeping in such a crucial game...

I've always thought wicket keeper is the best place to see exactly how much movement the pitch is giving the bowlers. So, if you're captain and you're a wicket keeper why give the gloves to anyone else?

but you dont need to be behind stumps all the day. may be one session will give you that information

this test has exposed several weeknesses

1. we dont have a good allrounder who can bat at 7 and bowl few good overs

2. selectors cant pick the teams properly, even at home. where is the need for 2 keepers at home ? what happened to all the reserve batsmen ? we should have gone with atleast 3 reserve batsmen when we clearly know VVS is doubtful and dravid, yuvraj are already down. selectors missed a pont here.

3. we dont have a 5th bolwer to chose !!! what a pity !!! when rohit was down, we should have picked a 5th bowler. he could have scored as many runs as saha and may be picked up few wickets. but the fact of the matter is we dont have 3rd, 4th bolwer. bajjy is a shadow of his past if that ever was glorious. mishra is poor mans kaneria. sreesant is injured. they should have picked the in-form mithun as 3rd fast bowler

4. we are depending too much on the toss.

5. after we won the 1st test in bangladesh, we should have rested some seniors

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why is that dhoni never gives up his keeping gloves whenever there is another keeper in the team ? ravi shashtry mentioned a good point, dhoni should allow saha to don the keeping gloves and that gives dhoni a different perspective as a captain..

We undertsand WHY now.
Because Saha has shown hismelf to be a better batsman and Shastri etal are saying on air Saha is reputed to be the best gloveman in India.

If Dhoni lets all how good Saha is with the gloves....he may be making hismelf redundant

Agenda Aunty has added another contradictory agenda to her portfolio...

soon we should have a IPO from her and she can hide the proceeds in swiss banks...

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Agenda Aunty has added another contradictory agenda to her portfolio...
soon we should have a IPO from her and she can hide the proceeds in swiss banks...

Tch Tch...bad joke, doesn;t mask the shameful day in the history of Indian cricket