Ultimate Ashes challenge

[chickenfeet]

Just for fun, an ultimate Ashes line up. My best England and Australia teams. Qualification is that each player must have played at least one test post WW2. See if you can do better.

England

Hutton
Boycott
Hammond
Compton *
Barrington
Botham
Flintoff
Knott +
Laker
Statham
Tyson

Australia

Hayden
Gilchrist +
Bradman
Ponting
Chappell (GS)*
Waugh
Miller
Warne
Davidson
O'Reilly
Lindwall


Unluckiest not to be selected: Trueman, Higgs, Dexter, McGrath, Walters, Marsh

Comments

[kaet.livejournal.com]

I've always had a soft spot for Ales Stewart. Probably not borne out by the numbers. I saw him a couple of times, and it was excellent to see him hook shot after shot to deep square leg. That might have been because I was sitting there at the time (at Trent Bridge) (them being the cheap seats), and it being about the only delivery you can make sense of when you're sitting square to the wicket.

Jardine would liven things up, ;).

[atpotch.livejournal.com]

Would that be Steve Waugh? I'm assumin'. I'm pretty much with you- I don't know enough about your older Australian seamers to know if they merit inclusion above Lillee and Thomson, and I'm happy to see a few current players represented- particularly Flintoff and Warne who seem to be the figureheads of this series on each side.

That Hayden could really do with some form though.

TCH