Countries First Test to present - can you name a side?

[NUFAN]

In 11 moves can you name a team to cover a countries entire Test playing days?

The catch being the player that you select must have played in the cricketer listed aheads final test.

You don't have to select players in batting order so it could be:

Australia: Charles Bannermann Test #1 1877 > Fred Spofforth Test #25 1887 etc.

Anyone who decides to do South Africa can chose someone who played in the last game before apartheid and the player after in the first game back. Apartheid effectively being the 12th man.

 

[pskov]

Len Hutton*
Greame Gooch
WG Grace
KS Ranjitsinhji
Graham Thorpe
Colin Cowdrey
Les Ames+
Andrew Flintoff
Wilfred Rhodes
George Ulyett
Derek Underwood

Probably a seamer light but possibly compensated by some very deep batting, so overall decent team if I do say so myself. Chronologically the order is:

Ulyett
Grace
Ranji
Rhodes
Ames
Hutton
Cowdrey
Underwood
Gooch
Thorpe
Flintoff

 

[pskov]

Chris Gayle
Everton Weekes
George Headley
Brian Lara
Clyde Walcott
Garry Sobers*
Deryck Murray+
Learie Constantine
Malcolm Marshall
Wes Hall
Curtly Ambrose

The West Indies is obviously easier as they have a shorter time-span to navigate, or alternately more difficult as because it is shorter there are many more possible routes to take making it more taxing trying to get exactly the right combination of players you want!

 

[Days of Grace]

Dempter
Turner
Fleming
Crowe
Sutcliffe
McCullum
Cairns
Hadlee
Taylor
Cowie
Bond

Not sure if Cowie played with Dempter, but there you have it.

The chronological order being:

Dempster
Cowie
Sutcliffe
Taylor
Turner
Hadlee
Crowe
Cairns
Fleming
Bond
McCullum

 

[SJS]

India

[B]Order of debut		Batting Order[/B]

Mohd Nissar		Vijay Merchant
Vijay Merchant		Sunil Gavaskar
Vinoo Mankad		Rahul Dravid
Subhash Gupte		Sachin Tendulkar
FM Engineer		Nawab Pataudi Jr (captain)
EAS Prasanna		Vinoo Mankad
Nawab Pataudi 		Kapil Dev
Sunil Gavaskar		Farroukh Engineer (keeper)
Kapil Dev		Mohd Nissar
S Tendulkar		Erapali Prasanna
Rahul Dravid		Subhash Gupte

 

[SJS]

Windies

[B]Order	Of debut	Batting [/B]

1	Constantine	Gayle
2	Headley		Worrell
3	Walcott		Headley
4	Worrell		Richards
5	Sobers		Lara
6	Roberts		Sobers
7	Richards	Walcott
8	Holding		Constantine
9	Marshall	Marshall
10	Lara		Roberts
11	Gayle		Holding

 

[SJS]

Australia

[B]Order	Of debut	Batting[/B] 

1	Blackham	Trumper
2	Trumble		Simpson
3	Trumper		Bradman (captain)
4	Macartney	Ponting
5	Grimmett	Macartney
6	Bradman		Border
7	Miller		Miller
8	Simpson		Lillee
9	Lillee		Blackham (keeper)
10	Border		Trumble
11	Ponting		Grimmett

 

[Goughy]

Did Ponting play a Test with Border?

Amazing if he did. I hadnt realized there was an overlap. My mind sees them as being from two seperate generations.

 

[NUFAN]

Did Ponting play a Test with Border?

Amazing if he did. I hadnt realized there was an overlap. My mind sees them as being from two seperate generations.

No Goughy you are correct.

Borders last test match. 3rd Test: South Africa v Australia at Durban, Mar 25-29, 1994 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

Ponting's first was Dec 8-11, 1995.

Maybe 11 is a little difficult for Australia.

 

[SJS]

Did Ponting play a Test with Border?

Amazing if he did. I hadnt realized there was an overlap. My mind sees them as being from two seperate generations.

No Goughy you are correct.

Borders last test match. 3rd Test: South Africa v Australia at Durban, Mar 25-29, 1994 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

Ponting's first was Dec 8-11, 1995.

Maybe 11 is a little difficult for Australia.

Its possible but I made a silly mistake.

Here is another which satisfies everything but for Ryder. Though a fine vatsman with a Test average in the fifties in 20 Tests, he opened only twice and not with great success. Maybe I can do better

[B]Order	Of debut	Batting[/B] 

1	Blackham	Simpson
2	Trumble		Ryder
3	Armstrong	Bradman
4	Ryder		Ponting
5	Bradman		Border
6	Lindwall	Armstrong
7	Simpson		Trumble
8	Lillee		Lindwall
9	Border		Blackham
10	McGrath		Lillee
11	Ponting		McGrath

 

[SJS]

Of course the sides with shorter histories are so simple you could almost put their greatest ever sides and still get them to cover the short period of time - like Pakistan here.

[B]Order	Of debut	Batting[/B] 
			
1	Hanif		Hanif
2	Mushtaq		Anwar
3	Zaheer		Zaheer
4	Imran		Miandad
5	Miandad		M Yousuf
6	Wasim		Mushtaq
7	Waqar		Imran
8	Anwar		Moin
9	Moin		Wasim
10	Saqlain		Saqlain
11	M Yousuf	Waqar