Bow-cher!
OnThisDay 3rd December was born Mark Boucher, the most prolific wicketkeeper of all time. He was struck in the eye during a match between Somerset and Taunton, the eye injury forced early retirement else he would have became the first keeper to scalp 1000 international dismissal. The first keeper to play 150 tests , but he missed England series and ended with 147 tests. 55 runs short of Gilchrist record 5570 test runs as keeper .
Most International Dismissal by Keeper
Do You Know he has one solitary dismissal as non-wicketkeeper also. He dives at covers to pluck it like an apple to dismiss Windies Cricket Darren Bravo in 5th ODI at Port of Spain 2010. AB de Villiers was keeping in that match.
Boucher also has one dismissal as bowler Darren half brother DJ Bravo in the 2005 St John’s test. SA used all eleven players to bowl in West Indies first innings.
South Africa’s former wicket-keeper has 999 catches and stumpings , which, when coupled with his 1 Test wicket, means he has been involved in 1,000 dismissals in international cricket.
Overall Record of six or more dismissal (catches+ stumping)
MV Boucher (SA) 4
CMW Read (ENG) 3
BJ Watling (NZ) 2
RC Russell (ENG) 2
MJ Prior (ENG) 2
Most Keeper Bowler dismissal test cricket
Only player to feature twice in top five
| Keeper | Bowler | Team | Matches | Catches |
| RW Marsh | DK Lillee | Australia | 69 | 95 |
| AC Gilchrist | GD McGrath | Australia | 71 | 90 |
| MV Boucher | M Ntini | South Africa | 96 | 84 |
| AC Gilchrist | B Lee | Australia | 65 | 81 |
| MV Boucher | SM Pollock | South Africa | 88 | 79 |
Most Keeper Bowler dismissal ODI cricket
Similar to test he featured thrice in top five keeper – bowler combinations.
| Keeper | Bowler | Team | Matches | Total | Catches | Stumpings |
| MV Boucher | M Ntini | South Africa | 164 | 75 | 75 | 0 |
| AC Gilchrist | GD McGrath | Australia | 167 | 73 | 72 | 1 |
| MV Boucher | SM Pollock | South Africa/Africa | 243 | 62 | 61 | 1 |
| AC Gilchrist | B Lee | Australia | 151 | 58 | 58 | 0 |
| MV Boucher | JH Kallis | South Africa/Africa | 256 | 47 | 47 | 0 |
| KC Sangakkara | M Muralitharan | Sri Lanka/Asia/ICC | 205 | 47 | 22 | 25 |
| Moin Khan | Saqlain Mushtaq | Pakistan | 119 | 47 | 16 | 31 |