Greatest First Class sides of all time

[James90]

Just for a laugh, let's do the all-time FC XIs for the major teams.

New South Wales

1. AR Morris
2. S Barnes
3. ME Waugh
4. MG Bevan
5. SR Waugh
6. KR Miller
7. WAS Oldfield+
8. RR Lindwall
9. R Benaud*
10. WJ O'Reilly
11. GD McGrath

(No Bradman - he played for South Australia as well)

Bevan? Puh-lease.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

So why did you claim Keith Miller?

Thieves!

Edited.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Bevan? Puh-lease.

Average of 60 in Sheffield Shield/Pura Cup cricket not enough for you? Technically, he should be picked before the Waughs...

 

[James90]

Well if Bradman isn't allowed to be picked I don't think we can ignore Bevo's season with Tasmania.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Well if Bradman isn't allowed to be picked I don't think we can ignore Bevo's season with Tasmania.

Yeah, maybe. But Bradman spent a good 10 years at SA (from memory), Bevan will spend 3 or 4.

 

[a massive zebra]

Yorkshire 1931-39

Herbert Sutcliffe
Percy Holmes
Len Hutton
Maurice Leyland
Arthur Mitchell
Wilf Barber
Ellis Robinson
Arthur Wood+
Frank Smailes
Hedley Verity
Bill Bowes

 

[SJS]

Here is a great side with the test avgs of the TEN of them that played in tests

BARBADOS 53-54

1. C Smith (24.7)
2. CC Hunte (45.1)
3. Walcott (56.7)
4. WeeKes (58.6)
5. Worrell (49.5) + 69 wkts at 38.7
6. Sobers (57.8) + 235 wkts at 34.0
7. Atkinson (31.8) + 47 wkts at 35.0
8. Goddard (30.7) + 33 wkts at 31.8
9. E Griffith
10. CC Depieza (31.2)
11. Hoad (12.25)

 

[superkingdave]

Lancashire All Time Side (no limit on Foreigners )

G Pullar
C Washbrook
E Tyldesley
CL Lloyd(*)
E Paynter
I Chappell
FM Engineer(wk)
W Akram
JB Statham
MA Holding
SF Barnes

Special Mentions:


K Higgs
A Flintoff
J Briggs
CEH Croft
M Muralitharan
S Ramadhin

If limited to 2 Foreign players as today, Engineer comes out for G Duckworth, Flintoff in for Akram(and to bat above Duckworth). Probably Atherton in for Chappell with Washbrook dropping down the order.

Maybe Murali and Briggs in for Statham and Holding on a turner.

I'm sure someone can come up with a better Lancashire side.

 

[luckyeddie]

I'm sure someone can come up with a better Lancashire side.

Would they want to?

/runs

 

[SJS]

Yorkshire 1931-39

Herbert Sutcliffe
Percy Holmes
Len Hutton
Maurice Leyland
Arthur Mitchell
Wilf Barber
Ellis Robinson
Arthur Wood+
Frank Smailes
Hedley Verity
Bill Bowes

If you take a period like that the Barbados side of the 1950's will read
1. Conrad Hunte
2. Basil Butcher
3. Everton Weekes
4. Clyde Walcott
5. Frank Worrell
6. Garfield Sobers
7. Seymore Nurse
8. Denis Atkinson
9. Charlie Griffith
10. Wes Hall
11. EL Hoad

Thats like an all time greats side.

They all were playing in the 1957-59 period but Worrell had left Barbados.

 

[Autobahn]

Warwickshire from 1994 to 1995 where a pretty good team.

 

[honestbharani]

Karnataka were very strong in the mid 90s in India.

 

[SJS]

Karnataka were very strong in the mid 90s in India.

Yes as were Bombay before them but Barbados in their heyday were considered good enough to defeat a world side . There batting, particularly was astonishingly powerful.

 

[a massive zebra]

Surrey 1952-58

David Fletcher
Bernie Constable
Peter May
Ken Barrington
Tom Clark
Eric Bedser
Arthur McIntyre+
Tony Lock
Jim Laker
Peter Loader
Alec Bedser

 

[Beleg]

*swoons at the names in the Surrey side*