Best Ever First Class Attack

[Second Spitter]

Stephenson and Moseley were serious good and Tony gray. Stephenson imo could've been in the mix of 80s all rounders but for...

Pretty sure Tony Gray was from T&T.

Stephenson would have gotten a run in the ODI team for sure. He was miles better than Eldine Baptiste.

 

[S.Kennedy]

Durham

Wood
Onions
Rushworth
Stokes

(Plus Borthwck's part time leg-spin and Collingwood's medium-right).

Usually Woody was knackered or Rushy or Bunny was rested for someone like Callum Thorpe but this attack did actually play together,

Durham v Warwickshire, July 2013, Durham won by 11 runs

Durham's earlier attack was good also,

S. Harmison
Onions
Killeen
M. Davies/Liam Plunkett

 

[fredfertang]

Being a very sad man, and having finally grudgingly shelled out for a cricketarchive sub last weekend, I thought I'd check out whether the Sylvers/Garner/Marshall/Daniel combo ever did turn out for Barbados

The filters on CA are ****e, so I had to check every game, but seems it happened just twice - they won one by an innings so no surprise there, but the other was drawn, Trinidad piling up 541 against that attack with only Larry Gomes with Test experience

 

[Spikey]

weird that no-one has actually nominated the attack that inspired the thread: Hazlewood, Cummins, Starc and Lyon w Henriques as all-rounder

Did McGrath, Clark, Lee and MacGill ever turn out together for NSW?

They might have pre-2000, but post 2000 I can only be bothered to find:

Pura Cup at Sydney, Oct 25-28 2005 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo

which also includes Bracken. The previous season, 2004/05, NSW had an attack of Clark, MacGill, Bracken & Nicholson which played just about every game. They all took 40+ wickets at under 25. It's somewhat soured by Jason Krejza being the 5th bowler (he spent all season at 7 - they were trying to give him the chance to become an all-rounder)

 

[Second Spitter]

Being a very sad man, and having finally grudgingly shelled out for a cricketarchive sub last weekend, I thought I'd check out whether the Sylvers/Garner/Marshall/Daniel combo ever did turn out for Barbados

The filters on CA are ****e, so I had to check every game, but seems it happened just twice - they won one by an innings so no surprise there, but the other was drawn, Trinidad piling up 541 against that attack with only Larry Gomes with Test experience

T&T traditionally is the slowest wicket in the WI and had a couple of decent-ish spinners in the 70's -- Imtiaz Ali, Raphick Jumadeen and another who escapes me, so I'm guessing that match was played on dust bowl.

 

[Second Spitter]

Jamaica also had an bowling attacking consisting of Holding /Walsh/Patterson/ Aaron Daley in 85/86.

 

[S.Kennedy]

Tykes of '50s: Johnny Wardle, Brian Close,Fred Trueman and Bob Appleyard - Illingworth later.

 

[Slifer]

Pretty sure Tony Gray was from T&T.

Stephenson would have gotten a run in the ODI team for sure. He was miles better than Eldine Baptiste.

I know where Tony gray is from. I just mentioned him as another fast bowler from that era that had loads of potential.

 

[AndrewB]

Sussex had Imran and Garth Le Roux in the early 80s, but the rest of the attack, though successful in county cricket, doesn't look that impressive (Ian Greig, John Barclay, Tony Pigott and/or Geoff Arnold in his late-30s). The same is true of Hadlee and Rice at Notts, supported by Eddie Hemmings, Kevin Cooper etc.

I think Middlesex had Daniel, Thomson/Van der Bijl, Selvey, Emburey, Edmonds for a few games in the early 80s (Van der Bijl in 1980, Thomson in 1981).

 

[Dendarii]

In the mid 90s Natal would have had Shaun Pollock, Malcolm Marshall, and Lance Klusener, although I don't think they had anyone else of note.

 

[54321]

Don't know much about County Cricket but I've read abit about the county circuit back in the day and I'm sure Tom Richardson, George Lohmann and Bill Lockwood played a few matches at the same time for Surrey.

And I agree S.Kennedy, CricketArchive being paywalled is an absolute bitch

 

[AndrewB]

Not all that many: Richardson first played regularly in 1893, by which year Lohmann had contracted TB, and when Lohmann made a brief comeback in 1895-6, Lockwood's career was in something of a trough.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Is this a sarcastic post

Not at all, I was fortunate to see these guys all played together in the first class competition for my home team, Guyana.

Add Carl Hooper and Chanderpaul with his leggies, and this teak is unbeatable.

Circa 1998-99

 

[Tom Flint]

Lots of international experience at yorkshire from
Bresnan
Rashid
Willey
Plunkett
Sidebottom

 

[NZTailender]

weird that no-one has actually nominated the attack that inspired the thread: Hazlewood, Cummins, Starc and Lyon w Henriques as all-rounder



They might have pre-2000, but post 2000 I can only be bothered to find:

Pura Cup at Sydney, Oct 25-28 2005 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo

which also includes Bracken. The previous season, 2004/05, NSW had an attack of Clark, MacGill, Bracken & Nicholson which played just about every game. They all took 40+ wickets at under 25. It's somewhat soured by Jason Krejza being the 5th bowler (he spent all season at 7 - they were trying to give him the chance to become an all-rounder)

I thought I had an aha! moment when i found a scorecard featuring McGrath, Lee, the Waughs, Slater and co. but it was an ING Cup scorecard. An insane line up regardless.

 

[vitalogy83]

Had a quick dig through the 50's

Would Trueman, Close, Wardle have played together much for Yorks in the 50's?

Bedser, Loader, Surridge, Jim Laker, Lock at Surrey?

 

[S.Kennedy]

Yes. Less test nations then and no one-dayers. 1957,

Bowling O M R W
AV Bedser 3 0 6 0
Loader 4 0 11 0
Laker 14.1 7 23 6
Lock 13 1 43 4

Bowling O M R W
Trueman 18 5 46 2
Appleyard 11.4 1 27 1
Wardle 22 10 44 1
Illingworth 16 3 53 2
Close 2 0 19 0

Yorkshire v Surrey at Bradford, 13-16 Jul 1957

 

[stephen]

weird that no-one has actually nominated the attack that inspired the thread: Hazlewood, Cummins, Starc and Lyon w Henriques as all-rounder



They might have pre-2000, but post 2000 I can only be bothered to find:

Pura Cup at Sydney, Oct 25-28 2005 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo

which also includes Bracken. The previous season, 2004/05, NSW had an attack of Clark, MacGill, Bracken & Nicholson which played just about every game. They all took 40+ wickets at under 25. It's somewhat soured by Jason Krejza being the 5th bowler (he spent all season at 7 - they were trying to give him the chance to become an all-rounder)

I think in years to come if Starc/Haze/Cummins are all eventually recognised as ATG bowlers then it's entirely possible that this could be the greatest domestic attack in history. But I think we need to see their careers pan out first.

 

[S.Kennedy]

I think in years to come if Starc/Haze/Cummins are all eventually recognised as ATG bowlers then it's entirely possible that this could be the greatest domestic attack in history. But I think we need to see their careers pan out first.

We will indeed considering they're always knackered. Cummins breaks down more often than Mark Wood.

 

[jimmy101]

Yes. Less test nations then and no one-dayers. 1957,

Bowling O M R W
AV Bedser 3 0 6 0
Loader 4 0 11 0
Laker 14.1 7 23 6
Lock 13 1 43 4

Bowling O M R W
Trueman 18 5 46 2
Appleyard 11.4 1 27 1
Wardle 22 10 44 1
Illingworth 16 3 53 2
Close 2 0 19 0

Yorkshire v Surrey at Bradford, 13-16 Jul 1957

Ding ding, we have a winner!

Hard to see any FC attack being better than that of Surrey's.