cheers mate will look into one yes the stealth  sorry been away for a while

Oblivion Shockwave?

Prior is the one for me who I look back on and appreciate how difficult it has been to find a replacement.  Stewart averaged 34 with the bat as a keeper which is good, but Prior along with Les Ames  are the only two who managed returns of over 40 whilst keeping wicket.

Perhaps relevant to the current debate is that both Stewart and Prior were both functional  keepers not outstanding  ones. 

They were def  functional rather than natural. You can see how far back we have to go for England to play the best keeper if you exclude Foakes in SL or WI.

Prior was an excellent lower order bat, I don't think myself having seen both he was close to Stewart keeping wise, but better than Bairstow or Butler.

It's subjective I suppose but both made themselves into 'good' keepers. Prior has hampered for his last year with a nasty injury he never recovered from.

Kumar Sangakkarra.

I think Sangakara had given up keeping by the time he started batting at 3.

Stewart was excellent for us and made himself into a decent keeper after a couple of years doing it.

Root has backed Anderson and Archer you would think they want to look at Robinson maybe for the last test with Jimmy rested.
Whether Anderson tours if we go is another matter I suppose.

I hope England pick Curran instead of Archer, there may be some swing around for him and we seem to do well when he plays.
It does make our batting stronger too.

BCCI has supposedly signed a multiple year agreement with the venues in the Middle East and they say we will play the 5 tests there instead