England XI 1. JB Hobbs 2. L Hutton * 3. WR Hammond 4. KF Barrington 5. DCS Compton 6. IT Botham 7. APE Knott + 8. H Larwood 9. JC Laker 10. FS Trueman 11. SF Barnes | England A XI 1. H Sutcliffe 2. G Boycott 3. KS Ranjitsinhji 4. PBH May 5. JE Root 6. WG Grace * 7. LEG Ames + 8. H Verity 9. AV Bedser 10. JA Snow 11. FH Tyson | England B XI 1. GA Gooch 2. AN Cook 3. ER Dexter * 4. KP Pietersen 5. DI Gower 6. FE Woolley 7. MW Tate 8. TG Evans + 9. RGD Willis 10. DL Underwood 11. JM Anderson | England C XI 1. JH Edrich 2. ME Trescothick 3. MC Cowdrey * 4. EH Hendren 5. GP Thorpe 6. A Flintoff 7. RC Russell + 8. W Rhodes 9. D Gough 10. GA Lohmann 11. JB Statham | England D XI 1. AJ Stewart 2. DL Amiss 3. TW Graveney 4. FS Jackson 5. M Leyland 6. AW Greig * 7. FR Foster 8. RW Taylor + 9. JH Wardle 10. SCJ Broad 11. T Richardson | England E XI 1. AC MacLaren * 2. A Shrewsbury 3. IJL Trott 4. CP Mead 5. E Paynter 6. JM Bairstow + 7. TE Bailey 8. GP Swann 9. W Voce 10. ARC Fraser 11. WE Bowes |
England F XI 1. C Washbrook 2. MP Vaughan 3. WJ Edrich 4. KS Duleepsinhji 5. RA Smith 6. DR Jardine 7. JH Parks + 8. GOB Allen 9. WH Lockwood 10. R Peel 11. K Farnes | England G XI 1. AJ Strauss 2. MA Atherton 3. GE Tyldesley 4. TW Hayward 5. J Hardstaff Jr 6. BL D'Oliveira 7. MJ Prior + 8. GH Hirst 9. J Briggs 10. K Higgs 11. DJ Brown |
This shows the problem with this method of picking a team - you end up with an XI with four #10 batsmen in it.England H XI
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3 J Tyldesley
4 I Bell
5 A Lamb
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8 M Hoggard
9 A Caddick
10 C Blythe
11 H Strudwick+
I will argue that this method prevents it from happening more often than not.This shows the problem with this method of picking a team - you end up with an XI with four #10 batsmen in it.
Bobby Abel, Geoff Pullar
Paul Collingwood