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]

Though, damn, didn't play post WWII. ;)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Yes. That rules out a lot of good players.