If it was 1974, then interesting you went with Boycott and Snow, who were pretty much in exile then weren't they? Amiss was probably the better opener at that particular point in time.
This was prior to the summer Test Matches. Boycott had just made 99 and 112 in the West Indies and not yet in exile. Snow hadn’t toured but had been a regular in the home Tests up to 1973, and was one of my earliest favourite players. Underwood and Bedi was of course slightly bonkers. But this was pre-teen dabbling with no information highway. I think I chose Bedi as a second spinner because the Indian squad for the forthcoming series was in the paper. Had it been a bit later I might have chosen Sarfraz instead. I hadn’t heard of Max Walker at that point.
Big calling putting a bloke averaging below 50 in one of the highest scoring eras in the side. Unless he's there as the main spinner.
Yeah the early part of the decade didn't have all these excellent pace attacks we have now. The last 3-4 years, especially 2018, have had loads of difficult pitches too.
