mr_mister
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I've been digging around in a few scorecards to find England's objective best ever line up, and I couldn't find one that featured all of Hobbs-Sutcliffe-Hamond-Ames-Larwood-Tate-Rhodes in the 20s, though it would have been theoretically possible to play all those guys in an XI.
But I found this gem:
England played a virtual who's who of classical English batting in the 1st test of the 1928 tour of Aus, with a top 6 of
Hobbs
Sutcliffe
Mead
Hammond
Jardine
Hendren
5 of those blokes feature in the top 6 for all time FC centuries and top 7 for all time FC runs. Not too shabby. In this XI Larwood and Tate both featured but there was no Rhodes(or even Freeman, though he was in the touring squad) to really make it England's clear cut best ever XI to take the field.
So then I looked in the late 40's early 50's scorecards to hopefully find a crazy good lineup and found this gem from the 5th test of Aus's 53 tour of England
Hutton
Edrich
May
Compton
Graveney
Bailey
Evans+
Laker
Lock
Trueman
Bedser
ATG galore, from top to bottom. I'd say this is the best XI England ever put to out on the park, all things considered.
Now what are some for other countries?
But I found this gem:
England played a virtual who's who of classical English batting in the 1st test of the 1928 tour of Aus, with a top 6 of
Hobbs
Sutcliffe
Mead
Hammond
Jardine
Hendren
5 of those blokes feature in the top 6 for all time FC centuries and top 7 for all time FC runs. Not too shabby. In this XI Larwood and Tate both featured but there was no Rhodes(or even Freeman, though he was in the touring squad) to really make it England's clear cut best ever XI to take the field.
So then I looked in the late 40's early 50's scorecards to hopefully find a crazy good lineup and found this gem from the 5th test of Aus's 53 tour of England
Hutton
Edrich
May
Compton
Graveney
Bailey
Evans+
Laker
Lock
Trueman
Bedser
ATG galore, from top to bottom. I'd say this is the best XI England ever put to out on the park, all things considered.
Now what are some for other countries?
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