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Originally Posted by Rachael The 5-live crew of Arlo White, Simon Mann and Johnny Saunders have never really convinced me that they have great appreciation of the subtleties of great batting, bowling, fielding or glovework: their summarisers are damn good... but the lead acts seem to be involved principally for their (over-valued) capacity to waffle.
Their effort to master an all time England XI and RoW XI suggests as much: the only places that should have been guaranteed in the top order would presumably be Knight (the guy to judge the pitch), Hick (the innings-builder), Gower (the class for the crucial no 4 role) and Fairbrother (the finisher) - all were ommitted. |
To be honest, Rachael, the 5 live picks were a load of rubbish! As you say there is no way i would have left out Knight, Fairbrother, Hick and possibly Thorpe. What about someone like Mark Ealham a great ODI bowler - with a decent record. And I could easily have also put in Fraser for Willis. They havent put any thought into the structure of the team.
I propose, we discuss and nominate our own teams. Hopefully it will spark a nice debate
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My ENG XI
Knight
Stewart +
Hick
Gower
Fairbrother
Pieterson
Flintoff
Botham
Ealham
Gough
Underwood
Although I cant help feeling i should squeeze Tres, Gooch, Smith, Thorpe, Fraser and Defreitas in there and i dont know who would captain
. I suppose of the batters Gower would be the first to make way but i would never back against him scoring runs quickly against any attack and in his youth he was a fantastic fielder.
I never thought picking XI would be quite as difficult maybe an alltime XIII
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And no, i havent thought of a world XI yet i'm still wondering if my ENG XI is right.