# 5 for 1920-39 World Test XI

[aussie tragic]

Please select the # 5 for the 1920-39 World Test XI:

Joe Hardstaff Jr (Eng): 16 tests, 1070 runs @ 46.52, (3/6), HS 169*, 7 catches
George Headley (WI): 19 tests, 2135 runs @ 66.71, (10/5), HS 270*, 13 catches
Douglas Jardine (Eng): 22 tests, 1296 runs @ 48.00 (1/10), HS 127, 26 catches
Maurice Leyland (Eng): 41 tests, 2764 runs @ 46.06 (9/10), HS 187, 13 catches
Charles Macartney (Aus): 14 tests, 1252 runs @ 69.55 (6/3), HS 170, 4 catches --- 11 wkts @ 32.36
Stan McCabe (Aus): 39 tests, 2748 runs @ 48.21 (6/13), HS 232, 41 catches --- 36 wkts @ 42.86
Eddie Paynter (Eng): 20 tests, 1540 runs @ 59.23, (4/7), HS 243, 7 catches
Jack Ryder (Aus): 20 tests, 1394 runs @ 51.62 (3/9), HS 201*, 17 catches --- 17 wkts @ 43.70

The 1920-39 World Test XI so far:

1. Jack Hobbs
2. Herb Sutcliffe
3. Don Bradman
4. Wally Hammond
5. ----------------------
6. ----------------------
7. Les Ames (or # 6 depending on allrounder batting average)

 

[silentstriker]

Gotta be Headley.

Jesus, what a batting lineup.

 

[Fusion]

Gotta be Headley.

Jesus, what a batting lineup.

Do you want to point out the pace bowling deficiences of the other team or should I?

 

[silentstriker]

Do you want to point out the pace bowling deficiences of the other team or should I?

Against a lineup like this, we would need all the pace bowling firepower we can get and not picking a bowling all rounder in addition to Sobers (who won't bowl much pace against this lineup) was a big mistake.

 

[Fusion]

Against a lineup like this, we would need all the pace bowling firepower we can get and not picking a bowling all rounder in addition to Sobers (who won't bowl much pace against this lineup) was a big mistake.

Haha, we're both about to get a lot of groans, but couldn't agree more!

 

[The Sean]

The Black Bradman. And yep, what a top 5.

Again harsh on the Governor General - should I point out that he did quite a lot of bowling pre-WWI so we can get him in at 6?

 

[archie mac]

I was tempted to pick a lefty as we don't have one, but in the end went for the GG

 

[oz_fan]

Headley

 

[Goughy]

Gotta be Headley.

 

[Perm]

George Headley

 

[JBH001]

And to continue to press the dagger of despair into the hearts of SS and fusion.

Headley

 

[luffy]

Jardine

 

[bagapath]

mccabe, mccartney and leyland were awesome cricketers. it is painful to leave them behind but george headley was better than all of them. and yes, what a batting line up! it looks even more formidable when you select them one by one like this than writing the entire team at one go which i have done in the past.

 

[adharcric]

Obviously Headley. Take a look at that, Hobbs-Sutcliffe-Bradman-Hammond-Headley. Don't worry though, we have Warne and Murali to take care of 'em.

 

[archie mac]

Obviously Headley. Take a look at that, Hobbs-Sutcliffe-Bradman-Hammond-Headley. Don't worry though, we have Warne and Murali to take care of 'em.

Score 4/710 dec with 30 mins left on day two

 

[adharcric]

Score 4/710 dec with 30 mins left on day two

Just imagine them having to bowl first. 100 all out on Day 5.

 

[archie mac]

Just imagine them having to bowl first. 100 all out on Day 5.

Well I have not seen the bowling line up, will the new boys be allowed to wear helmets? If not and if the oldies operate under the back foot rule (with drag) pity help the moderns

 

[adharcric]

Well I have not seen the bowling line up, will the new boys be allowed to wear helmets? If not and if the oldies operate under the back foot rule (with drag) pity help the moderns

Excuse me, the old boys will be the ones needing helmets against the genuine pace of Marshall (wish I could say Imran but some people messed up royally with that vote ).

 

[Matt79]

Against a lineup like this, we would need all the pace bowling firepower we can get and not picking a bowling all rounder in addition to Sobers (who won't bowl much pace against this lineup) was a big mistake.

Haha, we're both about to get a lot of groans, but couldn't agree more!

GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get over it - as if Marshall, McGrath, Warne and Murali aren't going to take 20 wickets a match between them. And as if Sobers isn't going to be a solid, albeit not spectacular support. Yes, even against players of the class we're looking at here. People are always carrying on about how Larwood and Gregory, Spoffoth and Barnes, can't have been a patch on modern pace bowlers - in Marshall and McGrath we've got two of the greatest modern quicks, and we've got the two greatest spinners the game has seen to follow up on the breakthroughs they make. I'd back that line up to contain even this batting line up to a score that the post-war team has a realistic shot of achieving. Bradman would likely prove the difference, but I don't think having Lillee or Ambrose instead of Warne would actually alter that equation at all...

 

[Poker Boy]

George Headley - the Black Bradman