Greatest English teams

[The King]

Which English team do you believe was the greatest of all time?

[archie mac]

The 1902 English side.

[FaaipDeOiad]

Probably one of the English teams from the 50s, when they had the likes of Bedser, Trueman, Statham, Tyson, Laker, Lock and Wardle with the ball, and Hutton, Edrich, May, Compton and Graveney with the bat. Obviously not all these players played together in the same team, but there were some great England teams in that period.

[C_C]

I think the best english side has been the ones from the late 50s to the late 60s.

[a massive zebra]

The strongest side England could have ever put out was probably one of these four teams...

1902

R Abel
CB Fry
JT Tyldesley
KS Ranjitsinhji
T Hayward
FS Jackson*
GH Hirst
GL Jessop
W Rhodes
AA Lilley+
SF Barnes

12th Man: RE Foster

1928-29

JB Hobbs
H Sutcliffe
WR Hammond
EH Hendren
CP Mead
DR Jardine*
LEG Ames+
MW Tate
H Larwood
CWL Parker
AP Freeman

12th Man: M Leyland

1954-55

L Hutton*
WJ Edrich
PBH May
MC Cowdrey
DCS Compton
TW Graveney
TG Evans+
JH Wardle
JC Laker
JB Statham
FH Tyson

12th Man: TE Bailey

2005

ME Trescothick
AJ Strauss
MP Vaughan*
KP Pietersen
GP Thorpe
IR Bell
A Flintoff
GO Jones+
MJ Hoggard
SJ Harmison
SP Jones

12th Man: AF Giles

[FaaipDeOiad]

Extremely premature to put the current England side there. There's nothing even remotely proven about that batting lineup, and while the bowling is good it's certainly not significantly better than an attack with say Hendrick, a young Botham, Willis, Snow and Underwood, for example.

[luckyeddie]

Extremely premature to put the current England side there. There's nothing even remotely proven about that batting lineup, and while the bowling is good it's certainly not significantly better than an attack with say Hendrick, a young Botham, Willis, Snow and Underwood, for example.

Throw in John Lever and Chris Old from that era - superb strength in the bowling department.