For my home ground, I'm going to say Headingley, because most of my team seem to have done well there.
Bill Woodfull (c)
RHB
Test average: 46.00
Headingley average: 63.66
"The Rock": averaged 64.99 in FC cricket, let himself down with a notorious wisecrack in 32/33 to Plum Warner but otherwise known as a fine leader and general good egg.
Reggie Spooner
RHB
Tests: 32.06
Headingley: 51.50
Legendary stylist of the Golden Age. At his best against fast bowling on difficult pitches, and a master of googly bowling. England rugby international.
Archie Jackson
RHB
Tests: 47.40
Headingley: 1.00 (one point nought)
Prodigious Scottish batsman whose artistry led him to be acclaimed as the next Trumper (or the next Kippax). A contemporary of Bradman, and rated by some as the better prospect, but died tragically young. Could have opened for my team but I wanted him in the middle order next to Kippax.
Alan Kippax
RHB
Tests: 36.12
Headingley: 77.00
Brilliant strokemaker known for his silky late cut and hook shot. FC average of 57.22.
Frank Woolley
LHB, SLA
Tests: bat 36.07, bowl 33.91
Headingley: bat 40.37, bowl 29.00
"When you wrote about him, there weren't enough words. In describing a great innings by Woolley, and few of them were not great in artistry, you had to be careful with your adjectives and stack them in little rows, like pats of butter or razor-blades. In the first over of his innings, perhaps, there had been an exquisite off-drive, followed by a perfect cut, then an effortless leg-glide. In the second over the same sort of thing happened; and your superlatives had already gone. The best thing to do was to presume that your readers knew how Frank Woolley batted and use no adjectives at all.....there was all summer in a stroke by Woolley, and he batted as it is sometimes shown in dreams."
...And in his day maybe the best SLA bowler in the world
Gilbert Jessop
RHB, RF/RFM
Tests: bat 21.88, bowl 35.40
Headingley: bat 6.75
Fast bowler; great fielder; and maybe the fastest-scoring batsman the game has known
Dick Lilley (w)
RHB, WK
Tests: 20.52
Headingley: 15.00
Alec Stewart to Bert Strudwick's Jack Russell. A good batsman and highly reliable keeper.
Maurice Tate
RHB, RFM
Tests: bat 25.48, bowl 26.16 (Bradman)
Headingley: bat 20.75, bowl 19.95
Hero
Sir Gubby Allen
RHB, RF
Tests: bat 24.19, bowl 29.37 (Bradman)
Headingley: N/A
Misguidedly refused to bowl fast leg theory but otherwise unblemished record as a fast-bowling all-rounder. Vice-captain
Bert Vogler
LBG
Tests: bat 17.00, bowl 22.73
Headingley: bat 10.00, bowl 16.00
Leg break / googly pioneer. Could hold a bat
SF Barnes
RM / RFM
Tests: bat 8.06, bowl 16.43
Headingley: bat 5.66, bowl 12.64
Military-medium trundler, enjoyed some modest success
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