Wicket Keepers who have been dropped (1 Viewer)

[Jack]

Just thinking about Brad Haddin's impending demotion and the question of which international keepers have been dropped and then returned to a national side.

I know Steve Rixon got back in during 1984/85 and Rodney Marsh returned after World Series cricket in 1979/80, but which other keepers made it back? It is accepted wisdom that batsmen are better when they come back - Ponting, Hayden, Langer, Martyn are four that spring to mind - but what about keepers? I know the English have dropped Prior and there was the Bruce French, Jack Russell, Alec Stewart years ago but who else in recent years?

 

[4th Hussar]

Crickett, are they not those noisy little grashopper like bugs ? ^&confuseWhy do they need keepers, I just swat them witha rolled up newspaper.{sm4}

 

[Jack]

Crickett, are they not those noisy little grashopper like bugs ? ^&confuseWhy do they need keepers, I just swat them witha rolled up newspaper.{sm4}

Dear Mr "river which comes from canyons" - you make fun of a national institution!{sm4}

 

[Phil]

Didnt Wayne Phillips get dropped and then made it back in?

 

[Jack]

Didnt Wayne Phillips get dropped and then made it back in?

Possibly - the selectors did him over by making him do both when he was such a lovely striker of the ball and certainly not a Test keeper. I think he may have got back for a tour of NZ but it just finished up from there. He scored one of Australian Test Cricket's greatest hundreds - 120 against the Windies in the WI and I think 80 came in boundaries.