[Zeeshan]

7.1
Abdur Razzak to Prior, 1 wide, OUT, gone! What a bizzare dismissal, Prior has had a brain fade. It drifted down the leg side, Prior missed it and drags his back foot. Rahim takes off the bails and Prior is just safe, but then he stays out of his crease and Rahim shows brilliant awareness to pull the stump out of the ground to complete the stumping a second time. Brainless from Prior, superb from Rahim

MJ Prior st †Mushfiqur Rahim b Abdur Razzak 15 (35m 20b 2x4 0x6) SR: 75.00

The sleight of hand and quick thinking on feet was sure one of the highlights of last year in Tiger's history and one cannot not argue that the witticism did not play a subtle role in the England win in World Cup with Shafiul's batting being the catalyst later on the night.

The table below highlights the most number of stumpings made by a team in the past 12 months. It is of curiosity that underdogs like Bangladesh and Zimbabwe is leading- perhaps hints that in this dynamic genre of modern cricket players are resorting to unconventional wisdom and subterfuge.

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And what about in the last 10 years? Picture still looks rosy with Bangladesh in the 3rd place in terms of most stumpings made.

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While, people's opinion vary about Mushfiqur's butterfingers 'n slips and not being on par with Pilot, looking at individual performances it looks relatively a bright prospect that both the keepers are occupying the 5th and 6th spot in the last 10 years.

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Comparison of stats between Pilot and Mushfiqur

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	Dis	Ct	St	Ct Wk	Ct Fi	MD	D/I

Khaled Mashud (Ban)

1995-2006

126

126

126

91

35

91

0

5 (3ct 2st)

1.000

Mushfiqur Rahim (Ban)

2006-2011

93

93

85

59

26

59

0

4 (4ct 0st)

0.913

Overall

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And when one considers all the stumpings ever made it appears Bangladesh is a shade above New Zealand and South Africa. This by no means reflect the real fielding nature of sides as stumping is sole focus, but, however, verdict could very well be that along with Zimbabwe it may behoove the minnows and teams with underdog titles to explore other areas of dismissals and specialize in fields overlooked or not anticipated by stronger opponents.