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Old 31-10-2007, 08:01 AM in reply to Aurelius's post starting "I think Bland was a Rhodesian too. ..."
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Pacehitta, in choosing your "all-time best XI" for South Africa, you have left out some really great players, notably Dudley Nourse who not only averaged over 50 in Tests and First Class, but was considered one of the best captains. My own all time best would be:

1. Barry Richards
2. Eddie Barlow
3. Bruce Mitchell
4. Graeme Pollock
5. Jaques Kallis
6. Dudley Nourse (c)
7. Denis Lindsay (wk)
8. Shaun Pollock
9. Mike Procter
10.Hugh Tayfield
11.Allan Donald

Tayfield is certainly the best spinner that SA have produced so far; I would choose Donald ahead of Adcock & N'tini while Lindsay was a very good keeper-batsman.
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