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    Pick one former player to add to your current Test team

    If you could pick one player from your country's past to bolster the current side, who would it be?

    Me, I'm working on a shortlist of Hammond, Botham, Trueman and Larwood. Maybe Botham (pre-mullet).
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    Strauss
    Cook
    Hammond
    Trott
    KP
    Bell
    Prior
    Broad
    Swann
    Anderson
    Tremlett
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    I'd love to have Trueman but Hammond makes by far the most sense to step in given the balance of the side.

    If Strauss doesn't turn it around soon, I'll have Hutton to open and captain.
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    Quote Originally Posted by weeman27bob View Post
    Strauss
    Cook
    Trott
    Hammond
    KP
    Bell
    Prior
    Broad
    Swann
    Anderson
    Tremlett
    Bats at #3.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Howe_zat View Post
    Bats at #3.
    Meant to put him there, but forgot.

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    Yes I'd go for Hammond, although as it's England presumably we could have Graeme Pollock?

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    Quote Originally Posted by fredfertang View Post
    Yes I'd go for Hammond, although as it's England presumably we could have Graeme Pollock?
    Barry Richards, maybe?
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    Quote Originally Posted by HeathDavisSpeed View Post
    Barry Richards, maybe?
    ... or even Mike Procter

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    Of all the Test nations, I think only Australia has actually tried to do this.

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    Botham for Morgan.

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    Kapil Dev would slot in very nicely. Question is whether you drop a batsman or a bowler. I'd drop a bowler and bat Dev at 8.

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    Given that Kapil would walk into the current side as a specialist bowler but probably wouldn't make it as a batsman, why is it even a question?

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    Not that I'm a fan of him in particular, but Tony Grieg in for Morgan would be quite neat.

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    Sir Dick Hadlee by the length of the Cook Strait

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