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Mark Verdon Boucher (born 3 December 1976) is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer who played all three formats of the game. Boucher is regarded as one of the best wicket-keeper batsmen of all time, and holds the record for the most Test dismissals by a wicket-keeper, with 532 catches and 555 total dismissals.
Sri Lanka cricketers Marvan Atapattu and Mahela Jayawardene are the only Test players to be dismissed retired out, when playing against Bangladesh in 2001. Sri Lanka's captain, Sanath Jayasuriya, received strong criticism for the team's act. [7] [8] Russell Endean, the South African wicketkeeper, was involved in both of the first two unusual ...
Quinton de Kock, current South Africa Test wicket-keeper Mark Boucher, holds the record for most dismissals by a wicket-keeper in Test cricket and is South Africa's most capped wicket-keeper. This is a chronological list of South Africa Test wicket-keepers.
Dismissal Opposition Tournament Most dismissals (wicketkeeper) [59] Adam Gilchrist: 4 Zimbabwe: 2007: Matt Prior South Africa: Kamran Akmal Netherlands: 2009: Niall O'Brien Sri Lanka: MS Dhoni Afghanistan: 2010: AB de Villiers Zimbabwe: 2012: MS Dhoni Pakistan: Denesh Ramdin: 2014: Richmond Mutumbami Scotland: 2016: Quinton de Kock Afghanistan ...
At Old Trafford in August 2005, he passed Alec Stewart's world record of 4,540 runs as a Test wicketkeeper, [183] and at his retirement in 2008, he was the most successful ODI wicket-keeper with 472 dismissals (417 catches and 55 stumpings), more than 80 dismissals ahead of his closest rival, Mark Boucher. [184]
The most common dismissal effected by the keeper is for him to catch a ball that has nicked the batsman's bat, called an edge, before it bounces. Sometimes the keeper is also in the best position to catch a ball that has been hit high in the air. More catches are taken by wicket-keepers than by any other fielding position.
The record for most dismissals by a wicket-keeper is held by Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka while the record for most catches by a fielder is held by Sri Lankan Mahela Jayawardene. Listing criteria In general the top five are listed in each category (except when there is a tie for the last place among the five, in which case all the tied record ...
Stumping is the fifth-most-common form of dismissal after caught, bowled, leg before wicket, and run out, [3] though it is seen more commonly in shorter forms of the game such as Twenty20 cricket, because attacking batting leads both to batters more frequently losing their balance, and to deliberately leaving the crease to better strike the ball.