Degrees of Separation - test teams

[trundler]

Incredible how Rhodes plated with or against Grace, Trumper and Bradman. Someone revive him and make him a CW account.

 

[AndrewB]

My attempt at Australia

Jack Blackham
Syd Gregory
Charlie Kelleway
Don Bradman
Ray Lindwall
Bob Simpson
Allan Border
Shane Warne
Mitchell Johnson
Nathan Lyon

Simpson never played in a Test with either Lindwall or Border.

There are 10-player chains, though:

Blackham
Gregory
Kelleway
Bradman
Harvey
Simpson
Thomson/Hughes/Rixon/Dyson/Wood
Boon/McDermott/Waugh(S)/Healy
Ponting/Katich
Paine/Khawaja/Lyon/Marsh/Cummins

Not all combinations work in the last 4 links (Dyson never played with McDermott, Waugh or Healy; Hughes, Rixon and Thomson didn't play with Waugh or Healy; the only chain through Katich ends Waugh-Katich-Paine).

 

[a massive zebra]

Incredible how Rhodes plated with or against Grace, Trumper and Bradman. Someone revive him and make him a CW account.

Rhodes did pretty damn well to play with Grace and live long to experience decimalisation and VAT, to be fair.

 

[Red]

Simpson never played in a Test with either Lindwall or Border.

There are 10-player chains, though:

Blackham
Gregory
Kelleway
Bradman
Harvey
Simpson
Thomson/Hughes/Rixon/Dyson/Wood
Boon/McDermott/Waugh(S)/Healy
Ponting/Katich
Paine/Khawaja/Lyon/Marsh/Cummins

Not all combinations work in the last 4 links (Dyson never played with McDermott, Waugh or Healy; Hughes, Rixon and Thomson didn't play with Waugh or Healy; the only chain through Katich ends Waugh-Katich-Paine).

I thought AB was already on the scene around WSC and Simmo's return time. Guess not.

 

[Howe_zat]

Incredible how Rhodes plated with or against Grace, Trumper and Bradman. Someone revive him and make him a CW account.

Don't think he played against Bradman. Rhodes played his last proper test in 1926 and for his last tests toured the West Indies with a scratch team in 1930

Turns out he played Bradman once, in a tour game in 1930. 3-95 is alright for a bloke in his 50s. Nothing on Grimmett's first day 10fer though.

 

[Pratters]

Got the wicket of Hornibrook, among others.

 

[AndrewB]

I thought AB was already on the scene around WSC and Simmo's return time. Guess not.

Simpson played in the 1977-8 Tests against India and West Indies; Border's debut was in the 1978-9 Ashes.

 

[AndrewB]

For Pakistan:

Hanif Mohammad
Zaheer Abbas
Wasim Akram
Younis Khan

gets you pretty close to date.

 

[wpdavid]

Incredible how Rhodes plated with or against Grace, Trumper and Bradman.

and didn't rate any of them.

 

[trundler]

and didn't rate any of them.

Such a missed opportunity innit?
Thank god for Benaud though.

 

[wpdavid]

Looking back to the England listing, I think Stewart is interchangeable with Hussain. Both made their debuts under Gooch in 1990 and both played in the 2003 series against SA and Zim, alongside Jimmy.

 

[cnerd123]

Rhodes also is the most capped player for Cricketweb Podcast XIs

Truly a remarkable career.

 

[Pratters]

India:

Dinesh Karthik
Sachin Tendulkar
Kapil Dev
Prasanna
Umrigar
Lala Amarnath
CK Nayudu

Can some one please beat this..

 

[AndrewB]

Looking back to the England listing, I think Stewart is interchangeable with Hussain. Both made their debuts under Gooch in 1990 and both played in the 2003 series against SA and Zim, alongside Jimmy.

Gough, Thrope and Bicknell also played with both Gooch and Anderson.

 

[wpdavid]

Gough, Thrope and Bicknell also played with both Gooch and Anderson.

Good calls. Especially Bicknell, who didn't even play any tests between 1993 and 2003.

 

[Pratters]

As would have Hussain, I imagine..

 

[wpdavid]

As would have Hussain, I imagine..

Indeed, but you've come full circle now.

 

[a massive zebra]

Rhodes did pretty damn well to play with Grace and live long to experience decimalisation and VAT, to be fair.

Furthermore, Rhodes outlived both his daughter and son-in-law, even though they both made it to retirement age fairly comfortably.