365notout wrote:FTS, what provoked the fall from grace of Tim Paine. See he did a decent job for Melbourne today. Was always quite a decent wicket keeper and I would put him in the mix in amongst Nevill and Wade.
Basically, he looked rubbish behind the stumps in England in 2010, but made no costly mistakes. Let some byes through on balls that swung past the bat, and was diving all over the place like a goalkeeper trying to parry balls rather than cleanly catch them. He didnt look competent at all.
He then went to India, where he missed a comical stumping of Suresh Raina at Mohali. Raina rushed out the crease and wasnt even in the frame, but Paine fumbled the catch, dropped the ball, and missed the easiest stumping you would ever see. Australia lost the game by one wicket, and Raina's 90 odd was a large reason for that.
In the second test in Bangalore, Paine also dropped Murali Vijay..... who went on to have a 300 run partnership with Tendulkar, a partnership that sealed the series and test win, making the drop look all that more costly.
Haddin got the gloves back, and scored a timely 150 in Brisbane the next test along with taking a stunning catch by memory (although it might have been in the test after). He also scored a 50 in every game of that Ashes series, in a series where the Aussie bats really got a pounding, and Haddin therefore became undroppable.