rivera213
U19 Vice-Captain
Peeps,
I'm interested to see your all-time XI's.
All of mine (I have 2 for England, the 2nd largely my Grandad's opinion IAH) are players who played in what I call the "Modern Era" (people who were playing test cricket in 1970 onwards) and some exceptions based on footage I've seen which leads me to believe said player(s) would be better than the others in their position. I've tried to keep players to the batting position they played throughout their career though there are some exceptions.
There are no rules. Pick your XI however you want.
ENGLAND (Pre-1970):
Len Hutton
Bill Edrich
Wally Hammond
Denis Compton
Ken Barrington
Ted Dexter (use as AR)
Les Ames
Jim Laker
Fred Trueman
Alec Bedser
Brian Statham
ENGLAND (Post-1970):
Graham Gooch
Geoffrey Boycott
Colin Cowdrey
David Gower
Robin Smith (ahead of Graham Thorpe on aesthetics)
Ian Botham
Alec Stewart
John Snow
Darren Gough
Derek Underwood
Bob Willis
INDIA:
Sunil Gavaskar
Virender Sehwag
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Dilip Vengsarkar
Kapil Dev
Farokh Engineer
Anil Kumble
Javagal Srinath
Bishan Bedi
Bagwath Chandrasekhar
WEST INDIES:
Gordan Greenidge
Desmond Haynes
Viv Richards
Brian Lara
Clive Lloyd
Garry Sobers
Jeff Dujon
Malcolm Marshall
Joel Garner
Michael Holding
Curtly Ambrose
AUSTRALIA:
Allan Border
Justin Langer
Donald Bradman (better technique than Ricky Ponting- larger array of strokes, great footwork etc)
Greg Chappell
Steve Waugh
Keith Miller
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Dennis Lillee
Jeff Thomson (if only not for the collarbone injury...)
Glenn McGrath
SOUTH AFRICA:
Barry Richards
Graeme Smith (just ahead of Eddie Barlow)
Jacques Kallis
Graeme Pollock
Daryll Cullinan
Jonty Rhodes
Mark Boucher
Mike Procter
Shaun Pollock
Makhaya Ntini
Allan Donald
PAKISTAN:
Saeed Anwar
Hanif Mohammad
Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Inzamam-ul-Huq
Imran Khan
Moin Khan
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Abdul Qadir
Shoaib Akhtar
- Steve
I'm interested to see your all-time XI's.
All of mine (I have 2 for England, the 2nd largely my Grandad's opinion IAH) are players who played in what I call the "Modern Era" (people who were playing test cricket in 1970 onwards) and some exceptions based on footage I've seen which leads me to believe said player(s) would be better than the others in their position. I've tried to keep players to the batting position they played throughout their career though there are some exceptions.
There are no rules. Pick your XI however you want.
ENGLAND (Pre-1970):
Len Hutton
Bill Edrich
Wally Hammond
Denis Compton
Ken Barrington
Ted Dexter (use as AR)
Les Ames
Jim Laker
Fred Trueman
Alec Bedser
Brian Statham
ENGLAND (Post-1970):
Graham Gooch
Geoffrey Boycott
Colin Cowdrey
David Gower
Robin Smith (ahead of Graham Thorpe on aesthetics)
Ian Botham
Alec Stewart
John Snow
Darren Gough
Derek Underwood
Bob Willis
INDIA:
Sunil Gavaskar
Virender Sehwag
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
Dilip Vengsarkar
Kapil Dev
Farokh Engineer
Anil Kumble
Javagal Srinath
Bishan Bedi
Bagwath Chandrasekhar
WEST INDIES:
Gordan Greenidge
Desmond Haynes
Viv Richards
Brian Lara
Clive Lloyd
Garry Sobers
Jeff Dujon
Malcolm Marshall
Joel Garner
Michael Holding
Curtly Ambrose
AUSTRALIA:
Allan Border
Justin Langer
Donald Bradman (better technique than Ricky Ponting- larger array of strokes, great footwork etc)
Greg Chappell
Steve Waugh
Keith Miller
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Dennis Lillee
Jeff Thomson (if only not for the collarbone injury...)
Glenn McGrath
SOUTH AFRICA:
Barry Richards
Graeme Smith (just ahead of Eddie Barlow)
Jacques Kallis
Graeme Pollock
Daryll Cullinan
Jonty Rhodes
Mark Boucher
Mike Procter
Shaun Pollock
Makhaya Ntini
Allan Donald
PAKISTAN:
Saeed Anwar
Hanif Mohammad
Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Inzamam-ul-Huq
Imran Khan
Moin Khan
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Abdul Qadir
Shoaib Akhtar
- Steve
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