Slip fielding - it's not as easy as you think

Professional cricketers can make slip fielding look both gloriously easy and incredibly difficult.
Includes drops and catches from the likes of Ian Botham, Shane Warne and the Australian cricket team.
Also includes footage from "that over" by Michael Clarke against India.
Footage from:
Sky Sports
Channel 9 Australia
Channel 4

[@sagarsunar]

As an allround fielder around the bat I would say Silly Point (obviously) then BackWard Point are the hardest!! Slips are the easiest!! Usually the egdes come straight down your throat..if you are good in backwards point or square point!! Slips are easy

[@An_Oni_Moose_]

You can't always say that, as far as I'm concerned Backward Point//Point are the hardest catches - As the ball is being hit EXTREMELY hard at them.

[@Playtechy]

prasanjeetsingh,
I guess the bowlers your facing are 130kph +
OR if its a spinner they bowl 90kph and you stand only a foot behind the keeper (at 1st slip).
Slip fielding against bowlers who bowl in excess of 145kph is difficult, especially due to the fact that once a nick comes sometimes it can get caught in the crowd that is visible past mid on (On the higher catches).

[@waqasingermany]

the most difficult positions to field at are point and slips.
Fielders must be trained for these specific positions.

[@RohitGupta14]

What was the catch where 1st slip anticipated the sweep and ran towards the legside to correctly take the catch?

[@SuperTaco20]

slip is the hardest place to field becoz i usually field at slip(in my cricket team in melbourne) and its reali hard. epscially when the delivery is reali quick and suddenly u just hav to dive and if u drop it it everybody will swear at u lolz

[@islehill]

at 1:43 atherton is bowling

[@Ingens_Scherz]

Chris Lewis. Er. Dropped slip catch and now 13 years in stir for smuggling charlie in his cricket bag.
Unlucky mate.

[@Shazgi]

@akrapley lara croft*

[@javadeveloper1985]

there are other teams than australia and england who do take catches in slip!

[@shek666]

glenn mcgrath could find an edge off a round bat..

[@akrapley]

nah mate its robert croft

[@AnthonyDavid19]

Rahul Dravid is best slip

[@akkiheat]

rahul dravid take most catches in slip!!!!

[@JasonRadley]

Wear kneepads.