Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Within a couple of years, these players all appeared in Surrey's teams:Early 2000's surrey side would have included
Butcher
Stewart
Thorpe
Batty
Tudor
Bicknell
Saqlain
Salisbury
Mark Butcher, Darren Bicknell, Ian Ward, Nadeem Shahid, Alec Stewart, Graham Thorpe, Mark Ramprakash, Alistair Brown, Adam Hollioake, Jason Radcliffe, Gary Butcher, Ben Hollioake, Alex Tudor, Martin Bicknell, Ian Salisbury, Saqlain Mushtaq, Gareth Batty, Jonathan Batty. There are a couple of "useful backup" players in there but the rest range from genuinely excellent county players to genuinely excellent international players. Almost all of them were home-grown and came up through the county's schools and academy.