The Greatest Cricketer.....

[Rebecca]

Please nominate three of the greatest cricketers ever to have played in your domestic cricket team.

My county team is Somerset and I nominate;
Ian Botham
Viv Richards
Marcus Trescothick

 

[PhoenixFire]

Yorkshire

Geoffery Boycott
Wilfred Rhodes
Sachin Tendulkar

 

[Neil Pickup]

Oxfordshire
Jon Batty
Andrew Strauss
Simon Cook

 

[zaremba]

Sussex

Post-war:

Mushy
Imran Khan
Ted Dexter

Pre-war:

Maurice Tate
Ranji
CB Fry

Near-misses

John Snow
Ian Thomson
Garth le Roux

 

[zaremba]

Please nominate three of the greatest cricketers ever to have played in your domestic cricket team.

My county team is Somerset and I nominate;
Ian Botham
Viv Richards
Marcus Trescothick

No Joel Garner?

 

[stumpski]

For Surrey I'll nominate:

Jack Hobbs
Alec Bedser
Jim Laker


Near-misses:

Alec Stewart
Tom Richardson

 

[Rebecca]

No Joel Garner?

I did consider him.
I also wondered about Graeme Smith.
I'm spoilt for choice!

 

[fredfertang]

Lancashire

Syd Barnes
Archie Mac
Reg Spooner

(too much Cardus as a child)

Reading!!!!

Alec Bedser
Ken Barrington
Peter May

 

[Rebecca]

Who would you say was the greatest England cricketer to play in an overseas domestic team?

 

[Richard]

Graeme Hick.

 

[fredfertang]

Who would you say was the greatest England cricketer to play in an overseas domestic team?

Ollie Milburn

 

[Richard]

Yorkshire

Geoffery Boycott
Wilfred Rhodes
Sachin Tendulkar

Sutcliffe or maybe Hutton over Boycott for mine but otherwise yeah, I'd agree.

 

[pskov]

Essex CCC

Graham Gooch
Trevor Bailey
Keith Fletcher

Near misses:

Andy Flower
Nasser Hussain
Jack Russell (the pre-war batsman)

I included only players who made a significant contribution to Essex CCC for a number of seasons, not just the most talented ever to have played for the county, which is one of the reasons for Fletcher edging out Flower.

 

[Richard]

Hussain > Fletcher for mine. Though whether he'd agree (as Fletcher was one of his heroes) I'm not sure.

Though the edited-in qualification makes some impact I suppose, but I'm not sure the original question was aimed at that. If so, Tendulkar certainly shouldn't be in the Yorkshire list as he played 1 season and did no more than decently by his standards.

 

[stumpski]

Who would you say was the greatest England cricketer to play in an overseas domestic team?

There haven't been that many, but Botham played briefly for Queensland, and Denis Compton appeared in the Duleep Trophy during WW2.

 

[Rebecca]

So I'm wondering if any of the overseas posters will choose an Englnd player......

Can anyone please direct me to the thread that used to be here about the domestic set ups in all the different cricketing countries. I can't find it.

 

[Richard]

Denis Compton appeared in the Duleep Trophy during WW2.

Haha, so he did. I knew there was someone from the very top bracket, just couldn't quite remember who it was.

Compton hands-down winner.

 

[Rebecca]

Hussain > Fletcher for mine. Though whether he'd agree (as Fletcher was one of his heroes) I'm not sure.

Though the edited-in qualification makes some impact I suppose, but I'm not sure the original question was aimed at that. If so, Tendulkar certainly shouldn't be in the Yorkshire list as he played 1 season and did no more than decently by his standards.

No, even if they only played one FC game as Allan Border did for Gloucestershire for example, you can still nominate them if you think they were the greatest cricketer to have ever played for your domestic team!

 

[stumpski]

Keith Miller appeared in one match for Nottinghamshire, and Ian Chappell one for Lancashire. I only learned of the latter when we had a 'Best players who never played county cricket' thread a year or two back.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Cambridge University is my local FC entity. I'd go for:

Duleepsinhji
Peter May
Ted Dexter

The Hon Stanley Jackson just misses out