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Name a country, then name the best ever batting tail they produced

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Like, name a country and name the era where their tail was peaking.


I remember in the late 90s and early 00s for SA, Boucher-Klusener-Pollock would rotate between 7-8-9 and when Boje was in their @ 10 they batted bloody deep.
 
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91Jmay

International Coach
England had
Bairstow Ali Woakes Broad Finn in the first test of this series

at 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Which is first class double centurions at 7/8, a bloke with 8 first class hundreds at 9, a bloke with a test match 150 at ten and even the 11 has a half century in tests.
 

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
you can still have a **** number 11 and an awesome tail. See - the SA example I gave (with Donald @ 11 lol) or when Warne-Lee-Dizzy @ 8-9-10 meant it didn't matter that McGrath sucked
 
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wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
England's lower order bating was a significant factor is he side reaching number 1 in 2011.
Prior, Bresnan, Swann, Broad and Anderson iirc.
 

Howe_zat

Audio File
SA's strongest tail was after Donald retired and they didn't have specialist bowlers to replace him with. They'd turn up with an attack of Pollock, Klusener, McMillan and Symcox
 

Spark

Global Moderator
England had
Bairstow Ali Woakes Broad Finn in the first test of this series

at 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Which is first class double centurions at 7/8, a bloke with 8 first class hundreds at 9, a bloke with a test match 150 at ten and even the 11 has a half century in tests.
This has been stronger on paper than in practice IMO. Certainly Prior/Bresnan/Broad/Swann/Anderson from 2011-12 was stupidly overpowered in terms of what they actually did.
 

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
This has been stronger on paper than in practice IMO. Certainly Prior/Bresnan/Broad/Swann/Anderson from 2011-12 was stupidly overpowered in terms of what they actually did.
They also did it over a reasonable period of time. perhaps apart from Bresnan, who I don't think played that many tests.

Over the current lower order, Bairstow is only playing his 3rd game at number 7, Woakes only played that one game and we're still not sure whether Broad is back to how he was before being marmalised in 2013-14 and hit on the head against India.
 

91Jmay

International Coach
This has been stronger on paper than in practice IMO. Certainly Prior/Bresnan/Broad/Swann/Anderson from 2011-12 was stupidly overpowered in terms of what they actually did.
That line up has played one game to be fair (where the tail did wag fairly well).
 

kiwiviktor81

International Debutant
The Aussie tail is pretty strong at the moment. Guys like Hazlewood and Lyon would bat at 8 for some other Test teams.
 

AndrewB

International Vice-Captain
England's "strongest ever batting side" of 1902 had 11 batsmen who'd scored first-class hundreds: the tail was Hirst, Jessop, Braund, Lockwood, Rhodes.
 

Noble One

International Vice-Captain
The Australian team of the 1950´s had some excellent lower orders.

Australia fielded several sides that included a mix of Benaud, Davidson, Grout, Lindwall, Archer, Langley and Johnson.
 

grecian

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
This has been stronger on paper than in practice IMO. Certainly Prior/Bresnan/Broad/Swann/Anderson from 2011-12 was stupidly overpowered in terms of what they actually did.
Yep agree with this, we had Richard Illingworth and a team full of centurions once* in the 90s and it was a bit ****, this lot seemed to perform consistently, even Jimmeh formed a fair few partnerships with the others, even if he only deadbatted to about 5.

* mind you looking at the scorecard in the second innings it may have been the batsmen that let us down more.
 
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Tromperie

Cricket Spectator
SA's strongest tail was after Donald retired and they didn't have specialist bowlers to replace him with. They'd turn up with an attack of Pollock, Klusener, McMillan and Symcox
Think they had that, plus Richardson at number 11, who averaged just shy of 25, for a couple of tests in '98.
 

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