Thinking about cricket again

[chickenfeet]

Reflecting on the good and the not so good of the current Lord's test got me to thinking about which players of the one's I've never seen play I would really like to have seen. I come up with the following as a best team of players that I have never seen:

1. WH Ponsford
2. L Hutton
3. DG Bradman
4. KS Ranjitsinjhi
5. GA Headley
6. WR Hammond
7. TG Evans
8. KR Miller
9. H Verity
10. WJ O'Reilly
11. H Larwood

It's heavily biased to England and Australia but thats only to be expected as my cricket memory extends back to the late 1960s so I've seen most of the best Indian, Pakistani and West Indian players and when one looks at it New Zealand and even South Africa didn't produce too many stars prior to the 1960s. I've also seen some of the possible candidates play unusually late in their careers. Conrad Hunte playing in the Hertfordshire League and Trevor Bailey playing for Old Felstedians for example.

Comments

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

Now I'm wishing I'd paid a bit more attention when I was at a business function where Max Walker was the speaker. At one point he was asked both what his dream-team of current players would be, and of all time.

People who knew a lot more about cricket than I do seemed pretty excited. 8-)