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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.
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 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 ...
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.
A batter can be dismissed in a number of ways, the most common being bowled, caught, leg before wicket (LBW), run out and stumped. An analysis of Test match dismissals between 1877 and 2012 found that 98.2% of the 63,584 Test match dismissals in this period were one of these five types. [6]
Former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara has assisted in the highest number of dismissals as wicketkeeper. A wicketkeeper can assist in the dismissal of a batsman by taking a catch or stumping. [153] A catch taken by the wicketkeeper means the batsman will be ruled out caught, although it may be referred to as "caught behind".
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 ...