Where Are the Legends?

[Victor Ian]

Boonie.

 

[Red]

Boonie.

Boon, Rod Marsh, Dougie Walters, Keith Miller, Lillee, Thommo

Australians in excelsis

 

[Victor Ian]

Boon, Rod Marsh, Dougie Walters, Keith Miller, Lillee, Thommo

Australians in excelsis

Thankyou. Im only ever good for one name but i knew there would be six.

 

[Victor Ian]

Curiously, if the 'role model' culture never happened, who would have been likely candidates to have given Boonies record a try out?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Yeah nothing wrong with Australia's bowling attacks over the last decade. Perhaps they could have used different tactics but the talent has been good enough. Collapsing every time the ball moves off the straight has been the problem.

It's not like Aus have even been that bad in England since 2005. They've been very competitive for the most part and generally won at least a few games every series. Much better than England touring Australia which has yielded a solitary series win surrounded by two 5-0's and 4-0.

 

[bagapath]

in the last 36 years of my cricket watching experience...

Border
S Waugh
Warne
Gilchrist
McGrath
S Smith

all pretty good shouts for an all-time World XI


If you were to extend it to the history of australian test cricket history, keeping Bradman as the first pick, the next five should be...

Trumper
Miller
Benaud
Border/ Lillee
Warne

 

[stephen]

I'd love to see Benaud honoured. Gun cricketer in his day and the greatest ambassador for the game in the days after his cricket career.

 

[Line and Length]

Keep the nominations coming - remember Bradman already has been honoured. I'll tally the results in a week or so and fire off a letter to Australia Post as a member of our local stamp club.

 

[TNT]

Got to have Ponting in there, or even an Australian captains lot.

 

[Engle]

S. Warne
R. Benaud
A. Border
D. Lillee
A. Gilchrist
G. McGrath

 

[ataraxia]

Warne
Gilchrist
Miller
Lillee (not for his playing but his enormous effect on the game)
Benaud (commentator + captain + all-rounder)
McGrath