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Team of the 1970's

Lillian Thomson

Hall of Fame Member
I know I know. Old fogy time. It's more interesting than a 2010's team. :wheelchair

Richards B
Gavaskar
Richards V
Chappell G
Miandad
Botham
Knott
Roberts
Lillee
Underwood
Bedi

Some might have peaked in the 80's but who cares? :alucard:
 

Howe_zat

Audio File
I looked up some figures

Going on test matches alone you probably get

(batting/bowling)

1. Sunil Gavaskar (55)
2. Geoff Boycott (55)
3. Viv Richards (58)
4. Greg Chappell (53)
5. Alvin Kallicharan (49)
6. Tony Greig (40/32)
7. Ian Botham (36/19)
8. Alan Knott (34)
9. Dennis Lillee (16/23)
10. Bob Willis (12/24)
11. Derek Underwood (11/27)

But tests were far from the only cricket in the 70s, players who excelled in WSC for example should get a shout

Miandad and Botham have tremendous records in the 70s but only played ~25 tests each. Could include Thomson over Beefy but he didn't actually play that much more in the decade - in fact Willis and Lillee are the only bowlers to play 50+ tests in the 70s. Very different story to the batting.

Tony Greig, despite only playing for 5 years and batting in the top six with a 40+ average, is the 7th highest wicket taker of the decade.
 

Lillian Thomson

Hall of Fame Member
Boycott and Gavaskar opening the batting sounds exciting..
In those pre wham bang thank you mam days watching skilled opening batsman see off the new ball when the pitch was at its most receptive was part of the excitement. That's not to say there's anything wrong with David Warner slogging a century before lunch. It's just different times.
 

SeamUp

International Coach
Thought I would put each country for the players that could qualify that played in the 70s. The tough one is always who was peak in the 60s and who was peak in the 80s. So just going to leave this here to reference. Year of birth followed FC cricket span.

What an era.


Windies

Greenidge 1951 (70-92)
Fredericks 1942 (63-83)
Haynes 1956 (76-97) Mainly 80s
Rowe 1949 (68-82)
IVA Richards 1952 (71-93)
Kallicharan 1949 (66-90)
Gomes 1953 (71-88)
Lloyd 1944 (63-86)

Sobers 1936 (52-74) Mainly before 70s

D.Murray (wk) 1943 (60-81)

Roberts 1951 (69-84)
Garner 1952 (75-88)
Holding 1954 (72-89)
Croft 1953 (71-82)
Marshall 1958 (77-96) Mainly 80s

Lance Gibbs 1934 (53-75) Mainly before 70s

Played deep into 60s : Hunte, Butcher, Nurse, Kanhai, Hall, Griffith
Played from early-mid 80s : Richardson, Dujon, Walsh, Paterson etc


South Africa

B.Richards 1945 (64-83)
J.Cook 1953 (72-95)
Fotheringham 1953 (71-90)
Ackerman 1947 (63-82)
P.Kirsten 1955 (73-97) Mainly 80s
G.Pollock 1944 (60-87)
McEwan 1952 (72-92)
K.McKenzie 1948 (71-88)

Irvine (wk) 1944 (62-77)
Jennings (wk) 1954 (73-93)

Barlow 1940 (59-83)
Rice 1949 (69-94)
M.Procter 1946 (65-89)

van der Bijl 1948 (67-83)
Le Roux 1955 (75-89) Mainly 80s
Hanley 1952 (70-87)

Hobson 1951 (70-85)
Kourie 1951 (70-89)

Into the mid to late 60s : Bland 1938 (56-74) , Lindsay 1939 (58-74), Goddard 1931 (52-70), P.Pollock 1941 (58-72), Bacher 1942 (59-74), Trimborn 1940 (61-76)
70s into 80s : Jefferies 1959 (78-94) , Van Zyl 1961 (81-94)

New Zealand

Edgar 1956 (75-90) Mainly 80s
Turner 1947 (64-83)
Wright 1954 (75-93)
Howarth 1951 (71-86)
Burgess 1944 (63-80)
Congdon 1938 (60-78)
Coney 1952 (71-87)

Wadsworth (wk) 1946 (68-76)

Hadlee 1951 (71-90)
L.Cairns 1949 (71-85)
Chatfield 1950 (73-90)
Collinge 1946 (63-78)

J.Bracewell 1958 (78-90) Mainly 80s

Into mid to late 60s : Sutcliffe, Reid, Motz
Tests from 80s : Crowe, Smith

England


Amiss 1943 (60-87)
Gooch 1953 (73-00)
Gatting 1957 (75-98) Mainly 80s
Boycott 1940 (62-86) Mainly 60/70s
Cowdrey 1932 (50-76) Mainly before 70s
J.Edrich 1937 (56-78) Mainly before 70s
Denness 1940 (59-80) Mainly before 70s
K.Fletcher 1944 (62-88)
Gower 1957 (75-93) Mainly 80s
D'Óliveira 1931 (64-80) Mainly 60s/70s

Greig 1946 (65-78)
Botham 1955 (74-93) Mainly 80s

Knott (wk) 1946 (64-85)

Willis 1949 (69-84)
Snow 1941 (61-77)
Old 1948 (66-86)
Dilley 1959 (77-92) Mainly 80s
Arnold 1944 (63-82)
Lever 1940 (60-76)
Hendrick 1948 (69-84)

Underwood 1945 (63-87)
Titmus 1932 (49-82)
Emburey 1952 (73-97) Mainly 80s
Edmonds 1951 (71-92) Mainly 80s
Illingworth 1932 (51-83)

Into the mid to late 60s : Barrington, Graveney, Dexter, Trueman, Statham, Lock
Played from 80s : Lamb (but if in SA probably debuts in the 70s)


Australia

Redpath 1941 (61-76)
Wood 1956 (76-92) (Mainly 80s)
Border 1955 (76-96) (Mainly 80s)
I. Chappell 1943 (61-80)
G.Chappell 1948 (66-84)
Walters 1945 (62-81)
Simpson 1936 (52-78)
Yallop 1952 (72-85)
Hughes 1954 (75-91)
Stackpole 1940 (59-74)

R.Marsh (wk) 1947 (68-84)

Lillee 1949 (69-88)
Thomson 1950 (72-86)
Walker 1948 (68-82)
Hogg 1951 (75-85)

Ashley Mallett 1945 (67-81)
Bruce Yardley 1947 (66-90)

* Wessels 1957 (73-00) but in SA probably test debuts in 70s
Played late in 60s or early 70s : Lawry, McKenzie, Connolly
Played from the 80s : G.Marsh, Boon, Jones, S.Waugh, Rackermann, Lawson, Alderman, Reid, McDermott, M.Hughes

India

Gavaskar 1949 ( 66-87)
Vengsarkar 1956 (75-92)
Viswanath 1949 (67-88)
M.Amarnath 1950 (66-89)
Nawab of Pataudi 1941 (57-76)

Engineer (wk) 1938 (58-76)
Kirmani (wk) 1949 (67-94)

Kapil Dev 1959 (75-94) (Mainly 80s)

Venkataraghavan 1945 (63-85)
Bedi 1946 (61-81)
Prasanna 1940 (61-79)
Chandrasekhar 1945 (63-80)

Ghavri 1951 (70-85)

80s : Srikkanth, Sidhu, Azharrudin, Shastri, Prabhakar


Pakistan

Mudassar Nazar 1956 (71-93)
Majid Khan 1946 (61-85)
Zaheer Abbas 1947 (65-87)
Javed Miandad 1957 (73-94) (Mainly 80s)
Mushtaq Muhammed 1943 (56-80)
Asif Iqbal 1943 (59-82)

Wasim Raja 1952 (67-88)
Intikhab Alam 1941 (57-82)

Imran Khan 1952 (69-92)

Wasim Bari (wk) 1948 (64-84)

Sarfaraz Nawaz 1948 (67-85)

Pervez Sajjad 1942 (61-74)
Abdul Qadir 1955 (75-96) (Mianly 80s)
Iqbal Qasim 1953 (71-93)

60s : Hanif Mohammed
80s : Malik, Rameez Raja, Wasim Akram
 
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Engle

State Vice-Captain
01. S.Gavaskar
02. B.Richards
03. V.Richards
04. G.Pollock
05. G.Chappell
06. T.Greig
07. Imran K (c)
08. A.Knott (wk)
09. D.Lillee
10. J.Thomson
11. B.Bedi

Openers should complement each other (as should other partnerships). Thus Gavaskar/Boycott would stifle the scoreboard
Lillee/Thomson considered one of the greatest fast bowling duo's should remain intact.
T.Greig could be called upon to bowl spin on a turning wicket
 

Howe_zat

Audio File
In those pre wham bang thank you mam days watching skilled opening batsman see off the new ball when the pitch was at its most receptive was part of the excitement. That's not to say there's anything wrong with David Warner slogging a century before lunch. It's just different times.
It's not like you break the world record for runs scoring without knowing how to hit the thing from time to time anyway. Gavaskar hit 26 test match sixes and hundreds of fours, they can't all have been edged forward defensives.
 

Howe_zat

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01. S.Gavaskar
02. B.Richards
03. V.Richards
04. G.Pollock
05. G.Chappell
06. T.Greig
07. Imran K (c)
08. A.Knott (wk)
09. D.Lillee
10. J.Thomson
11. B.Bedi

Openers should complement each other (as should other partnerships). Thus Gavaskar/Boycott would stifle the scoreboard
Lillee/Thomson considered one of the greatest fast bowling duo's should remain intact.
T.Greig could be called upon to bowl spin on a turning wicket
Can't agree with picking Imran for a 70s team, he played but did almost everything he's known for post 1980.

In 1980 his figures read: 25 tests, batting at 22 with a high score of 59, bowling at 31. An okay player who would go on to become a superstar.
 

Lillian Thomson

Hall of Fame Member
It's not like you break the world record for runs scoring without knowing how to hit the thing from time to time anyway. Gavaskar hit 26 test match sixes and hundreds of fours, they can't all have been edged forward defensives.
Gavaskar was the perfect opening batsman. Seeing off the new ball and accelerating throughout an innings. He could attack or defend depending on the situation. Most of the bad rap he gets is based on a handful of innings. Most notably a slightly curious innings at Lords in the 1975 World Cup.
 

Engle

State Vice-Captain
Can't agree with picking Imran for a 70s team, he played but did almost everything he's known for post 1980.

In 1980 his figures read: 25 tests, batting at 22 with a high score of 59, bowling at 31. An okay player who would go on to become a superstar.
OK, so I replace Imran with Bedi's buddy Chandrasekhar and hand the captaincy to G.Chappell. Still a very potent attack of pace, guile and variety.
 

jimmy101

Cricketer Of The Year
In those pre wham bang thank you mam days watching skilled opening batsman see off the new ball when the pitch was at its most receptive was part of the excitement. That's not to say there's anything wrong with David Warner slogging a century before lunch. It's just different times.
Of course, Victor Trumper had already been there & done that anyway :-)
 

S.Kennedy

International Vice-Captain
Amazing to think you could watch Warwickshire alone in the '70s and see Greeridge open with Barry Richards against so many of those other greats (Viv, Beefy and Garner at Somerset; Hadlee and Rice at Notts; Knott and Underwood at Kent). Even The Shield had a few overseas players in those days.

PS

I meant Hants. Do not know what I was drinking.
 
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Lillian Thomson

Hall of Fame Member
Amazing to think you could watch Warwickshire alone in the '70s and see Greeridge open with Barry Richards against so many of those other greats (Viv, Beefy and Garner at Somerset; Hadlee and Rice at Notts; Knott and Underwood at Kent). Even The Shield had a few overseas players in those days.

PS

I meant Hants. Do not know what I was drinking.
Hampshire also had Andy Roberts. But then for a time Warwickshire had Kanhai, Kallicharran and Gibbs so I think they were quite content.
 

S.Kennedy

International Vice-Captain
Hampshire also had Andy Roberts. But then for a time Warwickshire had Kanhai, Kallicharran and Gibbs so I think they were quite content.
And a little known player called Malcolm Marshall replaced Roberts! Hants managed this as they had Greenridge on his British passport.
 

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