Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: fatbury on Thursday, November 24, 2005, 12:47:10 whats your fave England side over the years
1 Gooch 2 Trescothick 3 Gower 4 Pietersen 5 Flintoff 6 Botham 7 Stewart (wk) 8 Gough 9 Fraser 10 Harmison 11 Tufnell Bit of a tail but thats offset by batting from 1 to 7 12th man Gatting Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: Johno on Thursday, November 24, 2005, 15:05:16 uh, i don't have much experience of cricket as im a young gun so won't put out an 11! but one must ask...where is hick, the cricketing god!? :soapy tit wank:
Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: Spud on Thursday, November 24, 2005, 15:13:22 Quote from: "Johno" uh, i don't have much experience of cricket as im a young gun so won't put out an 11! but one must ask...where is hick, the cricketing god!? :soapy tit wank: Good point and id also have Thorpe in my XI. Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: CARTMAN on Thursday, November 24, 2005, 15:16:36 i've gone a bit old school
1 michael atherton 2 gooch 3 allan lamb 4 david gower (c) 5 flintoff 6 botham 7 russell (w) 8 embury (sp) 9 gladstone small 10 darren gough 11 hoggard sub robin smith Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: fatbury on Thursday, November 24, 2005, 15:18:07 good shouts on Lamb, Jack Russell and Emburey .. they were all close to my team
Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: Nils on Thursday, November 24, 2005, 16:13:21 Atherton
Trescothic Boycott Thorpe Pieterson Botham Flintoff Stewart wk King of Spain Caddick Gough Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: larwood on Thursday, November 24, 2005, 16:20:44 I don't understand Fats,maybe i'm being a bit dense :-))( ,but can we have anyone from the past? Do they have to be alive or to be players we've seen?Can i for instance choose myself [Harold Larwood :) ],and the hardest captain ever the iron duke himself D.R.Jardine?
I can't do a team till i know :wink: . Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: larwood on Friday, November 25, 2005, 12:27:03 This thread has died but i've been on Cricinfinfo all morning so sod it :wink:
Finished their innings England XI [Reg may have seen some of them play :wink: ] J.B Hobbs H.Sutcliffe W.R Hammond L. Hutton D.R Jardine [captain] W. Rhodes L.E.G Ames [wicket keeper] H.Larwood B.Statham J. Laker S.F Barnes Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: Johno on Friday, November 25, 2005, 16:07:17 my word larwood...
Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: Reg Smeeton on Friday, November 25, 2005, 16:18:31 1. Boycott
2. Edrich 3. Gooch 4. Lamb 5. Pietersen 6. Flintoff 7. Botham 8. Knott 9. Illingworth (C) 10. Trueman 11 Underwood. Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: Johno on Friday, November 25, 2005, 16:25:34 good old ray illingworth, plays for wiltshire!
Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: Reg Smeeton on Friday, November 25, 2005, 16:28:56 Quote from: "Johno" good old ray illingworth, plays for wiltshire! I'm not sure whether you're joking or not here Johno....Richard has ben appointed to the 1st Class Umpires panel though. What was unusual about Richerd's test debut? Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: larwood on Friday, November 25, 2005, 16:32:43 Quote my word larwood... Thank god a bit of praise,my morning spent on cricinfo was not a lost one :wink: I was going to have Beefy,Fred and Trueman in my XI but i decided on a more retro dead side instead. Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: mattboyslim on Friday, November 25, 2005, 16:34:00 Didn't richard illingworth (unrelated to Ray?) play for wilts quite recently though?
Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: Reg Smeeton on Friday, November 25, 2005, 16:37:20 Quote from: "mattboyslim" Didn't richard illingworth (unrelated to Ray?) play for wilts quite recently though? Yes. Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: Johno on Friday, November 25, 2005, 23:01:46 might have got the name wrong then! i don't know an illingworth played for wiltshire, and is the captain, or was.
and larwood, that was a my word as in im shocked at the great historic team you have... Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: reeves4england on Friday, November 25, 2005, 23:05:45 I know very little about cricket pre-1998/9 so cant really do it
However I WOULD have Jack Russell, cos I met him, got his autograph and had my photo taken with him and he is a great bloke! Plus Harmison and Botham. Unbeatable Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: Johno on Friday, November 25, 2005, 23:10:46 me and haysie put together could pull of a mighty team....with Atherton and Andy Caddick 8)
Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: Boeta on Saturday, November 26, 2005, 14:42:39 My favourite England XI (ie. those I have got the most joy from watching)
1. M Atherton 2. A Strauss 3. M Vaughan * 4. I Bell 5. K Pietersen 6. A Flintoff 7. C White 8. J Russell + 9. D Gough 10. S Harmison 11. S Jones Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: Iffy's Onion Bhaji on Saturday, November 26, 2005, 18:42:11 my England 11:
1. Athers 2. Gooch 3. Hussain 4. Thorpe 5. Stewart 6. Flintoff 7. Botham 8. A. Hollioake (ok so that one is a joke) 9. Laker (from way back when) 10. Gough 11. Harmison Title: Fave England Cricket XI Post by: Nomoreheroes on Sunday, November 27, 2005, 03:42:51 Quote from: "Reg Smeeton" What was unusual about Richerd's test debut? He took a wicket with his first ball. NMH |