Pick your toughest XI ever!

[paulted]

Be afraid be very afraid.........
Matthew Hayden
Douglas Jardine (Captain)
Viv Richards
Allan Border
Peter Willey
Brian Close
Rod Marsh
Bill O'Reilly
Fred Trueman
Colin Croft
Dennis Lillee

 

[Shri]

Matthew Hayden

Tough and mean are different words.
Graeme Smith coming out to bat with a broken hand = Tough.
Kumble coming back to bowl with a broken jaw held together by a cloth = Tough.

I am a massive fan of Matt Hayden but I haven't seen any toughness from him. I mean he almost drowned himself and had to be saved by Symonds.

 

[smash84]

haha....awta

I think Justin Langer was much more of a tough nut than Hayden.

Also Steve waugh needs to be in that side

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Marshall with his broken arm.

 

[fredfertang]

Squadron Leader WJ Edrich, DFC

 

[Hurricane]

Daniel Flynn had his teeth knocked out by Anderson and turned up to play the next match no wuckin furries.

 

[wpdavid]

Agreed about Hayden.

There would be some stronger contenders from 1990's SA - MacMillan was a hard bugger, as was Klusener.
More recently, Andrew hall was a tough 'un as well. Can't remember the exact details, but something about him dealing with being held up at gun point.

 

[watson]

01. Roy Fredericks
02. Bert Sutcliffe
03. Viv Richards
04. Allan Border
05. Steve Waugh
06. Trevor Bailey
07. HB Cameron
08. Hedley Verity
09. Malcolm Marshall
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Neil Adcock

 

[Dan]

Hall actually was shot, I'm pretty sure.

1. Justin Langer +
2. Graeme Smith
3. Bill Edrich
4. Douglas Jardine*
5. Allan Border
6. Steve Waugh
7. Brian Close (4)
8. Andrew Hall + (5)
9. Andy Bichel (2)
10. Harold Larwood (1)
11. Bob Appleyard (3)

Most of them have been covered already, but apparently Appleyard played a full season while suffering from TB.
Hall and Langer to share the gloves as necessary, since no proper 'keeper can claim to actually be tough

 

[watson]

BTW Colin Croft doesn't deserve to be in the 'toughest' team because while he could dish it out, he couldn't take it. During the 1978 Barbados Test he refused to go in as nightwatchman because Jeff Thomson was bowling. As Croft said, "It was the fastest I've ever seen anybody bowl in a bowling spell in a Test match."

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g7dQ3UABXJk

 

[Shri]

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi played all his tests with one eye after losing his right eye 6 months before his test debut.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Miller deserves to be here.

 

[paulted]

Thought of Miller and Waugh myself. Mind you any of the guys like Miller, Compton, or any of the other players who went to war I'm sure were very brave guys. Verity sadly did not make it back. Special mention to George Lohmann too for the fine career he had despite long illness.

 

[NUFAN]

Phil 'Tuffers' Tufnell unlucky to miss out.

 

[fredfertang]

Phil 'Tuffers' Tufnell unlucky to miss out.

True, knew how to treat his woman did Tuffers, he brooked no nonsense

 

[OverratedSanity]

M Clarke

 

[Shri]

Nope. Atherton before a lot of the players mentioned for his duel with Donald.

 

[Red]

Tough Australians

Justin Langer
David Boon
Stan McCabe
Allan Border
Steve Waugh
Charlie McCartney
Jack Blackham
Hugh Trumble
Ray Lindwall
Dennis Lillee
Fred Spofforth

 

[Flem274*]

Justin Langer
Graeme Smith
Douglas Jardine (c)
Allan Border
The Sri Lankan who got shot (Samaraweera?)
Bert Sutcliffe
Keith Miller
Andrew Hall (wk)
Malcolm Marshall
Anil Kumble
Bob Blair

 

[Agent Nationaux]

It was Samaraweera.