MCC or Rest of the World?

[Brook's side]

MCC at home

MCC
Gordon Greenidge
Chris Broad
Graham Gooch
Viv Richards (c)
David Gower
Clive Rice
Ian Botham
Richard Hadlee
John Emburey
Malcolm Marshall
Bruce French (wk)

REST OF THE WORLD
Sunil Gavaskar
Desmond Haynes
Dilip Vengsarkar
Javed Miandad
Allan Border (c)
Jeff Dujon (wk)
Imran Khan
Kapil Dev
Roger Harper
Courtney Walsh
Abdul Qadir

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

They won the toss; what are they doing?

 

[Brook's side]

They won the toss; what are they doing?

I actually changed it. Stuck Richards and Botham in the MCC side, so left the toss as unknown.

 

[Brook's side]

These are the sides from the MCC Bicentenary match, except I've swapped in Botham and Richards (who were unavailable) for Shastri and Gatting.

The actual match was a draw after day 5 was rained off, and ridiculously they didn't have a spare day.

 

[Brook's side]

Marylebone Cricket Club 1st Innings
BATTING
Gordon Greenidge c Harper b Abdul Qadir 52
Chris Broad lbw b Imran Khan 10
Graham Gooch run out (Harper) 117
David Gower c †Dujon b Harper 8
Mike Gatting (c) b Walsh 179
Clive Rice not out 59
Extras (b 11, lb 15, nb 3, w 1) 30
TOTAL 133.1 Ov (RR: 3.41, 513 Mins) 455/5d

BOWLING O M R W
Imran Khan 25 6 97 1
Courtney Walsh 28.1 6 102 1
Kapil Dev 24 8 54 0
Abdul Qadir 16.2 7 30 1
Roger Harper 34 5 125 1
Javed Miandad 5.4 0 21 0

Rest Of The World XI 1st Innings
BATTING R
Sunil Gavaskar c & b Shastri 188
Desmond Haynes c Rice b Marshall 23
Dilip Vengsarkar c Gooch b Marshall 22
Allan Border (c) c Rice b Shastri 26
Jeff Dujon † c Gooch b Marshall 9
Imran Khan b Shastri 82
Kapil Dev c Marshall b Emburey 13
Roger Harper not out 17
Courtney Walsh not out 21
Extras (b 3, lb 8, nb 5, w 4) 20
TOTAL 124 Ov (RR: 3.39, 423 Mins) 421/7d

BOWLING O M R W
Malcolm Marshall 20 3 53 3
Richard Hadlee 21 2 71 0
Clive Rice 12 1 63 0
Ravi Shastri 42 4 130 3
John Emburey 29 7 93 1

Marylebone Cricket Club 2nd Innings
BATTING
Gordon Greenidge
b Abdul Qadir 122
Chris Broad c †Dujon b Kapil Dev 2
Graham Gooch b Harper 70
David Gower c Border b Imran Khan 40
Richard Hadlee c Imran Khan b Walsh 36
Ravi Shastri not out 10
John Emburey c Haynes b Abdul Qadir 7
Clive Rice not out 4
Extras (b 15, lb 11, nb 1) 27
TOTAL 88 Ov (RR: 3.61, 349 Mins) 318/6d

BOWLING O M R W
Imran Khan 13 4 33 1
Courtney Walsh 12 3 54 1
Kapil Dev 7 0 21 1
Abdul Qadir 36 9 112 2
Roger Harper 20 2 72 1

Rest Of The World XI 2nd Innings (T: 353 runs)
BATTING
Sunil Gavaskar b Marshall 0
Desmond Haynes not out 3
Roger Harper not out 9

 

[Yeoman]

When I booked to go to the 2014 Lord’s bicentenary match I hoped that it would be an equivalent line up, rather than the ‘golden semi-oldies’ that it was.

 

[Brook's side]

When I booked to go to the 2014 Lord’s bicentenary match I hoped that it would be an equivalent line up, rather than the ‘golden semi-oldies’ that it was.

I remember they brought out a book for the 1987 event with a beautiful cover of an artist's impression of a cricket match at Lords as a continuous picture over the whole of the cover. I think it was edited by Tony Lewis.
God knows what I did with mine.

 

[shortpitched713]

MCC at home

MCC
Gordon Greenidge
Chris Broad
Graham Gooch
Viv Richards (c)
David Gower
Clive Rice
Ian Botham
Richard Hadlee
John Emburey
Malcolm Marshall
Bruce French (wk)

REST OF THE WORLD
Sunil Gavaskar
Desmond Haynes
Dilip Vengsarkar
Javed Miandad
Allan Border (c)
Jeff Dujon (wk)
Imran Khan
Kapil Dev
Roger Harper
Courtney Walsh
Abdul Qadir

Emburey and Harper I guess were the pretty toothless finger spinners in fashion of the time, but wtf is Bruce French doing in this side, and batting 11 as a Wicketkeeper?!

 

[Brook's side]

Emburey and Harper I guess were the pretty toothless finger spinners in fashion of the time, but wtf is Bruce French doing in this side, and batting 11 as a Wicketkeeper?!

Harper was never really regarded as a 'proper' spinner in the way Emburey was.

Harper's actually the forgotten one in the conversation of greatest fielders.
He was also a forerunner of the bits and pieces cricketer (as I remember it anyway).

French was one of 4 or 5 wicket keepers in and around the England side. Not much of a bat though. Why he was selected, no idea.

 

[shortpitched713]

Yeah, Harper seemed to get selections as a specialist fielder. An interesting selection philosophy, for mine.

In a way, it supports @kyear's thinking of the importance of fielding, but in another way it doesn't as it seems that his most prominent position was not slip, but rather the gully to point region in the infield in a Johnty Rhodesesque fashion (or should we rather say Rhodes was Harperesque as he came later to much more fanfare for whatever reason).

 

[Yeoman]

Harper was never really regarded as a 'proper' spinner in the way Emburey was.

Harper's actually the forgotten one in the conversation of greatest fielders.
He was also a forerunner of the bits and pieces cricketer (as I remember it anyway).

French was one of 4 or 5 wicket keepers in and around the England side. Not much of a bat though. Why he was selected, no idea.

It was in this match that Harper, when bowling, pulled off a lightening fast runout of Gooch as he had just stepped out of his crease.

On French, he was the England wicketkeeper that summer and the MCC team was picked from those active in county cricket so he was a reasonable choice. With that lineup they could afford the luxury of a wicket keeper at no 11