England XI 1. JB Hobbs 2. L Hutton * 3. WR Hammond 4. KF Barrington 5. DCS Compton 6. IT Botham 7. APE Knott + 8. H Larwood 9. JC Laker 10. FS Trueman 11. SF Barnes | England A XI 1. H Sutcliffe 2. G Boycott 3. KS Ranjitsinhji 4. PBH May 5. JE Root 6. WG Grace * 7. LEG Ames + 8. H Verity 9. AV Bedser 10. JA Snow 11. FH Tyson | England B XI 1. GA Gooch 2. AN Cook 3. ER Dexter * 4. KP Pietersen 5. DI Gower 6. FE Woolley 7. MW Tate 8. TG Evans + 9. RGD Willis 10. DL Underwood 11. JM Anderson | England C XI 1. JH Edrich 2. ME Trescothick 3. MC Cowdrey * 4. EH Hendren 5. GP Thorpe 6. A Flintoff 7. RC Russell + 8. W Rhodes 9. D Gough 10. GA Lohmann 11. JB Statham | England D XI 1. AJ Stewart 2. DL Amiss 3. TW Graveney 4. FS Jackson 5. M Leyland 6. AW Greig * 7. FR Foster 8. RW Taylor + 9. JH Wardle 10. SCJ Broad 11. T Richardson | England E XI 1. AC MacLaren * 2. A Shrewsbury 3. IJL Trott 4. CP Mead 5. E Paynter 6. JM Bairstow + 7. TE Bailey 8. GP Swann 9. W Voce 10. ARC Fraser 11. WE Bowes |
England F XI 1. C Washbrook 2. MP Vaughan 3. WJ Edrich 4. KS Duleepsinhji 5. RA Smith 6. DR Jardine * 7. JM Parks + 8. GOB Allen 9. WH Lockwood 10. R Peel 11. K Farnes | England G XI 1. AJ Strauss * 2. MA Atherton 3. GE Tyldesley 4. TW Hayward 5. J Hardstaff Jr 6. BL D'Oliveira 7. MJ Prior + 8. GH Hirst 9. J Briggs 10. K Higgs 11. DJ Brown | England H XI 1. PE Richardson 2. B Abel 3. JT Tyldesley 4. IR Bell 5. AJ Lamb * 6. AG Steel 7. W Barnes 8. MJ Hoggard 9. AR Caddick 10. C Blythe 11. H Strudwick + | England I XI 1. R Subba Row 2. BC Broad 3. N Hussain 4. G Gunn 5. PH Parfitt 6. BA Stokes 7. JT Murray + 8. R Illingworth * 9. CM Old 10. SJ Harmison 11. M Hendrick | England J XI 1. AE Stoddart 2. G Pullar 3. CB Fry * 4. MW Gatting 5. KWR Fletcher 6. PD Collingwood 7. AFA Lilley + 8. W Bates 9. GAR Lock 10. GR Dilley 11. PJ Loader | England K XI 1. C Milburn 2. CAG Russell 3. DS Sheppard 4. MH Denness * 5. DW Randall 6. G Ulyett 7. BR Knight 8. DG Cork 9. G Duckworth + 10. GG Arnold 11. AP Freeman |
England L XI 1. CF Walters 2. RW Barber 3. MA Butcher 4. RH Spooner 5. GA Hick 6. JWHT Douglas * 7. RWV Robins 8. PR Downton + 9. RJ Sidebottom 10. JK Lever 11. JT Hearne | England M XI 1. JDB Robertson 2. CJ Barnett 3. RT Simpson 4. MJK Smith 5. RES Wyatt 6. FR Brown * 7. GO Jones + 8. FJ Titmus 9. SP Jones 10. NAT Foster 11. CT Tremlett | England N XI 1. G Fowler 2. A Sandham 3. CT Radley 4. RE Foster 5. RA Woolmer 6. WW Read * 7. RT Spooner + 8. DA Allen 9. PAJ DeFreitas 10. G Geary 11. DW Headley | England O XI 1. RT Robinson 2. BW Luckhurst 3. PJ Sharpe 4. W Gunn 5. AJ Watkins 6. GL Jessop 7. NWD Yardley * 8. G MacGregor + 9. ST Finn 10. R Appleyard 11. IAR Peebles |
Not sure how unlucky some are, White and Hollies certainly but Pocock and Giles averaged over 40, which ain't very good. Also not sure about Malcolm and Mullally.Yardley
there does seem to be a real reluctance to pick spinners:
Hollies, Tattersall, Panesar, Jack White, Moeen Ali, Geoff Miller, Edmonds, Tufnell, Emburey, Cook, Giles, Croft, Pocock
all had reasonable careers (not world beaters obviously), but unpicked.
my Eng P XI
Tavare, Watson, Ballance, Ramprakash, Crawley, Buttler, Ali, Bresnan, Malcolm, Mullally, Hollies
Better average than Harmison, Hoggard, Finn, DeFreitas etc. Better bowler too.Yet Dean Headley made it comfortably. Is there something I missed with him? As Nufan would say, I never got the memo that he was any good.
No-one else was going to get enough votes so I decided to call it early.Starfighter has already added the captaincy above
Would be an easier question to answer if I knew or remembered anything about batsmen.Were there any teams that you feel are actually better than the teams ahead of them?
I'd rank F above E.Were there any teams that you feel are actually better than the teams ahead of them?