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

[atpotch.livejournal.com]

Certainly the 50's was the last time England could claim to have been the best side in the world, (hopefully the next time will be in the next decade at some point), whereas Australia's achievements in the last ten years are, when they're not thoroughly irritating, fantastically inspiring, so yeah, it does make good sense.

Gotta love people who have some perspective on sport.

TCH