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.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.
They also did it over a reasonable period of time. perhaps apart from Bresnan, who I don't think played that many 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.
Not quite an era though. One innings wasn't it?Australia - Bradman, McCabe, Darling, Sievers, Oldfield
Yeah the one in Melbourne, I thinkNot quite an era though. One innings wasn't it?
That line up has played one game to be fair (where the tail did wag fairly well).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.
Yeah but they typically batted them from 5The 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.
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.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.
Think they had that, plus Richardson at number 11, who averaged just shy of 25, for a couple of tests in '98.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