Poll for the Centenary draft
Pick the three best (Test) teams as of March 1977 (active players' figures at the time are given in brackets).
trundler
Herbert Sutcliffe
Bill Woodfull*
Ken Barrington
Ted Dexter 6
Patsy Hendren
Mushaq Mohammad 5 (46 Tests: 3005 @ 40.06 and 53w @ 29.15)
Imtiaz Ahmed+
Maurice Tate 2
Hugh Tayfield 4
Charlie Griffith 3
Neil Adcock 1
Teuton
Bruce Mitchell
Conrad Hunte
Ian Chappell* (72 Tests: 5187 @ 42.86)
Dudley Nourse
Colin Cowdrey
Gary Sobers
Jack Gregory
Godfrey Evans+
John Snow
Jim Laker
George Lohmann
CricZo XI (kingkallis)
Victor Trumper /
Bill Lawry /
Alvin Kallicharan / ( 37 | 2739 runs @ 48.91 )
Javed Miandad / ( 7 | 655 runs @ 59.41 )
Clive Lloyd / (c) ( 60 | 4343 runs @ 44.31 )
Frank Woolley / o
Richie Benaud o /
Don Tallon + /
Mike Procter o /
Fred Spofforth o
Michael Holding o ( 13 | 57 wickets @ 23.64 )
Bitmap
Hanif Mohammad
Trevor Goddard
George Headley
Greg Chappell (46 Tests: 3726 @ 54.79)
Denis Compton
Douglas Jardine*
Farokh Engineer+
Ray Lindwall
Hugh Trumble
Derek Underwood (69 Tests: 252w @ 24.75)
Bill Johnston
Line and Length
Jack Hobbs
Barry Richards
Charlie Macartney (5)
Peter May
Colin Bland
Warwick Armstrong (6)
Bert Oldfield +
Tony Lock (4)
Wes Hall (1)
Peter Heine (3)
Brian Statham (2)
Patience and Accuracy+Gut
Sunil Gavaskar (32 Tests 2776 Runs @48.80)
Geoff Boycott (63 Tests 4579 Runs @47.69)
Arthur Shrewsbury
Vijay Hazare (5)
Stewie Dempster
Eddie Paynter
John Waite+
Bart King (1)
Clarrie Grimmett (4)
Jack Cowie (2)
Bill O’Reilly (3)
Pothas
Glenn Turner (39 Tests: 2920 @ 45.62)
Roy Fredericks
Viv Richards (23 Tests: 2339 @ 61.55)
Everton Weekes
Maurice Leyland
Tony Greig* (52 Tests: 3314 @ 41.42 and 132w @ 32.41)
Les Ames+
Peter Pollock
Fred Trueman
Erapalli Prasanna (43 Tests: 181w @ 28.79)
Bishan Bedi (215 wickets @27.32)
AndrewB
Len Hutton
Arthur Morris
Clem Hill
Stan McCabe
Martin Donnelly
Jock Cameron+
Monty Noble*
Frank Foster
Johnny Wardle
Frank Tyson
Andy Roberts (22 Tests, 148 runs @5.92, 111 wickets @23.72)
JOJOXI
Jackie McGlew
Sid Barnes
Wally Hammond
Norm O'Neill
Doug Walters (63 Tests, 4737 Runs, 49.86 Bat Average)
Stanley Jackson
Alan Knott (wk) (84 Tests, 3920 runs, 33.50 Batting Average, 221 catches, 19 stumpings)
Trevor Bailey
Harold Larwood
Dennis Lillee (32 Tests, 171 wickets, 23.49 Bowling Average)
BS Chandrasekhar (45 Tests, 194 wickets, 28.69 Bowling Average)
ataraxia
WG Grace / o
Bill Ponsford /
Clyde Walcott /
Neil Harvey /
Lindsay Hassett /
Tom Graveney /
Jim Parks + /
Learie Constantine o /
Hedley Verity o
Sydney Barnes o
Bill Bowes o
Fuller Pilch
Dennis Amiss (48/ 3,569 @ 47.58)
Eddie Barlow
Rohan Kanhai
KS Ranjitsinhji
KS Duleepsinhji
Aubrey Faulkner
Keith Miller
Rod Marsh (wk) (47/ 2,230 @ 34.30; 181 & 8)
Alec Bedser
Manny Martindale
Lance Gibbs
Himannv
Bob Simpson (52 Tests - 4131 runs @ 48.60) /o 7
Vijay Merchant /
Ian Redpath /
Graeme Pollock /
Frank Worrell* /o 6
Denis Lindsay+ /
Wilfred Rhodes /o 5
Alan Davidson o/ 1
Jeff Thompson (17 Tests - 80 wickets @ 25.30) o 2
Fazal Mahmood o 3
Subash Gupte o 4
Pick the three best (Test) teams as of March 1977 (active players' figures at the time are given in brackets).
trundler
Herbert Sutcliffe
Bill Woodfull*
Ken Barrington
Ted Dexter 6
Patsy Hendren
Mushaq Mohammad 5 (46 Tests: 3005 @ 40.06 and 53w @ 29.15)
Imtiaz Ahmed+
Maurice Tate 2
Hugh Tayfield 4
Charlie Griffith 3
Neil Adcock 1
Teuton
Bruce Mitchell
Conrad Hunte
Ian Chappell* (72 Tests: 5187 @ 42.86)
Dudley Nourse
Colin Cowdrey
Gary Sobers
Jack Gregory
Godfrey Evans+
John Snow
Jim Laker
George Lohmann
CricZo XI (kingkallis)
Victor Trumper /
Bill Lawry /
Alvin Kallicharan / ( 37 | 2739 runs @ 48.91 )
Javed Miandad / ( 7 | 655 runs @ 59.41 )
Clive Lloyd / (c) ( 60 | 4343 runs @ 44.31 )
Frank Woolley / o
Richie Benaud o /
Don Tallon + /
Mike Procter o /
Fred Spofforth o
Michael Holding o ( 13 | 57 wickets @ 23.64 )
Bitmap
Hanif Mohammad
Trevor Goddard
George Headley
Greg Chappell (46 Tests: 3726 @ 54.79)
Denis Compton
Douglas Jardine*
Farokh Engineer+
Ray Lindwall
Hugh Trumble
Derek Underwood (69 Tests: 252w @ 24.75)
Bill Johnston
Line and Length
Jack Hobbs
Barry Richards
Charlie Macartney (5)
Peter May
Colin Bland
Warwick Armstrong (6)
Bert Oldfield +
Tony Lock (4)
Wes Hall (1)
Peter Heine (3)
Brian Statham (2)
Patience and Accuracy+Gut
Sunil Gavaskar (32 Tests 2776 Runs @48.80)
Geoff Boycott (63 Tests 4579 Runs @47.69)
Arthur Shrewsbury
Vijay Hazare (5)
Stewie Dempster
Eddie Paynter
John Waite+
Bart King (1)
Clarrie Grimmett (4)
Jack Cowie (2)
Bill O’Reilly (3)
Pothas
Glenn Turner (39 Tests: 2920 @ 45.62)
Roy Fredericks
Viv Richards (23 Tests: 2339 @ 61.55)
Everton Weekes
Maurice Leyland
Tony Greig* (52 Tests: 3314 @ 41.42 and 132w @ 32.41)
Les Ames+
Peter Pollock
Fred Trueman
Erapalli Prasanna (43 Tests: 181w @ 28.79)
Bishan Bedi (215 wickets @27.32)
AndrewB
Len Hutton
Arthur Morris
Clem Hill
Stan McCabe
Martin Donnelly
Jock Cameron+
Monty Noble*
Frank Foster
Johnny Wardle
Frank Tyson
Andy Roberts (22 Tests, 148 runs @5.92, 111 wickets @23.72)
JOJOXI
Jackie McGlew
Sid Barnes
Wally Hammond
Norm O'Neill
Doug Walters (63 Tests, 4737 Runs, 49.86 Bat Average)
Stanley Jackson
Alan Knott (wk) (84 Tests, 3920 runs, 33.50 Batting Average, 221 catches, 19 stumpings)
Trevor Bailey
Harold Larwood
Dennis Lillee (32 Tests, 171 wickets, 23.49 Bowling Average)
BS Chandrasekhar (45 Tests, 194 wickets, 28.69 Bowling Average)
ataraxia
WG Grace / o
Bill Ponsford /
Clyde Walcott /
Neil Harvey /
Lindsay Hassett /
Tom Graveney /
Jim Parks + /
Learie Constantine o /
Hedley Verity o
Sydney Barnes o
Bill Bowes o
Fuller Pilch
Dennis Amiss (48/ 3,569 @ 47.58)
Eddie Barlow
Rohan Kanhai
KS Ranjitsinhji
KS Duleepsinhji
Aubrey Faulkner
Keith Miller
Rod Marsh (wk) (47/ 2,230 @ 34.30; 181 & 8)
Alec Bedser
Manny Martindale
Lance Gibbs
Himannv
Bob Simpson (52 Tests - 4131 runs @ 48.60) /o 7
Vijay Merchant /
Ian Redpath /
Graeme Pollock /
Frank Worrell* /o 6
Denis Lindsay+ /
Wilfred Rhodes /o 5
Alan Davidson o/ 1
Jeff Thompson (17 Tests - 80 wickets @ 25.30) o 2
Fazal Mahmood o 3
Subash Gupte o 4
