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All Time England XI game

a massive zebra

a massive zebra

International Captain
To those of you voting for Patsy Hendren: He was clearly a great first class player and on face value his Test record looks very impressive. However, if we look a little deeper we can see he battered the minnows of his time (including 693 runs @ 115.50 on the 1929/30 tour of the West Indies) and averaged less than 40 against the one great team of his time, Australia. England have had a number of more consistent batsmen with more complete records, even though their overall averages may be lower.
 
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harsh.ag

harsh.ag

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a massive zebra said:
To those of you voting for Patsy Hendren: He was clearly a great first class player and on face value his Test record looks very impressive. However, if we look a little deeper we can see he battered the minnows of his time (including 693 runs @ 115.50 on the 1929/30 tour of the West Indies) and averaged less than 40 against the one great team of his time, Australia. England have had a number of more consistent batsmen with more complete records, even though their overall averages may be lower.
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Well, Graveney and Jardine average 31 against Australia. Mead and Duleepsinghji have a much better average but played just 17 and 12 tests respectively so it's hard to pick them imo.

Thorpe is a good pick, agreed.
 
a massive zebra

a massive zebra

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harsh.ag said:
Well, Graveney and Jardine average 31 against Australia. Mead and Duleepsinghji have a much better average but played just 17 and 12 tests respectively so it's hard to pick them imo.

Thorpe is a good pick, agreed.
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Yes but Australia were arguably not the strongest opponents for much of Graveney's career and virtually no one has voted for Jardine.
 
watson

watson

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harsh.ag said:
Well, Graveney and Jardine average 31 against Australia. Mead and Duleepsinghji have a much better average but played just 17 and 12 tests respectively so it's hard to pick them imo.

Thorpe is a good pick, agreed.
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England don’t seem to have a long list of quality No 3s for some reason. Graveney averaged a tad under 50 at No.3, had a good record against Hall and Griffith and was all class - so he’ll do.

Also love the quirky fact that Graveney’s only century against Australia came at the SCG while facing none other than Lindwall, Miller and Davidson with the new ball. His fellow opener Hutton made only 6

http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...d-5th-test-england-tour-of-australia-1954-55/

Toss-up between Cowdrey and Thorpe at No.4
 
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NUFAN

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
England B XI
1 G Gooch
2 A Cook
3 T Dexter*
4 K Pietersen
5 D Gower
6 F Woolley
7 M Tate
8 G Evans+
9 B Willis
10 D Underwood
11 J Anderson


England C XI
1
2
3 C Cowdrey
4 P Hendren
5
6
7
8 W Rhodes
9
10 G Lohmann
11 B Statham

Hendren and Rhodes were narrow winners. not sure where to bat Rhodes exactly.
 
NUFAN

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
- Name the Eng C keeper
- Name the third seamer/second spinner
- Select the C teams openers
 
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