Best English team since 1986

[vulture]

Who would get into your best xl from the last 20 years

1)Gooch
2)Atherton
3)Vaughan (capt)
4)KP
5)Gower
6)Stewart (wk)
7)Botham
8)Gough
9)Fraser
10)Panaser
11)Malcom

That team would give the aussies a good game

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

Frightening to think that there's only really a choice of three spinners, and one of them is Ian Salisbury!

I think I'd pick that team, except Harmison in for Fraser.

 

[Buzzer]

I'd have Gooch or Athers over Vaughan as captain.

Might pick Tufnell over Panesar.

 

[the right footed denilson]

no Freddie?

 

[The Large One]

IMight pick Tufnell over Panesar.

 

[Buzzer]

We play better when we have a drinker in the side. Someone to accompany Beefy innit.

Also, might well have thorpe in instead of KP on reflection.

 

[Stat Brother]

Harmi over most of the bowlers.
Gower 3
KP 6

(Quickly realised no wicket keeper) so Fredie can do that & bat 7

 

[mona]

Good team.
Possibly Harmy instead of Malcolm.
Botham would need another drunk in the team so Flintoff and Lamb need to be involved.

 

[Statto]

Er Freddie?

 

[vulture]

Er Freddie?

Botham a far better player in my view

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Dermot Reeve,sure never really test class,but excellent skipper,'reader of the game' man-management skills top draw. AND a winner.

 

[Gritt23]

No Giles?
The tail does look rather exposed without him.

 

[bhafc99]

Arguably Botham's best test days were already behind him by 1986 - in fact wasn't banned for cannabis that year? So technically I'd question whether he's one of our best test match players of the last 20 years. Last 25, yes, no question.

 

[crodonilson]

How about.......

Jason Gallian
Darren Maddy
Aftab Habib
Ian Ward
Anthony McGrath
Mark Lathwell
Warren Hegg
Mike Watkinson
Peter Martin
Alan Mullally
Neil Mallender

 

[crodonilson]

Dermot Reeve,sure never really test class,but excellent skipper,'reader of the game' man-management skills top draw. AND a winner.

Dermot switched on our Christmas lights this year, a nicer guy you couldn't wish to meet and he was also very, very funny.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

As I am old, I cant remember who finished what date but...


Gooch
Boycott
Gower
Lamb
Grieg ( Tony)
Knott ( WK)
Pieterson
Botham
G Miller
Trueman
Willis


What a team that would have made.

 

[Gritt23]

If you are strictly looking at SINCE 1986, then I think Flintoff would make my team ahead of Botham. If you were to go back 25 years and take players in that period then it's different, but Botham post-1986 wasn't as good as Freddie, IMHO.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

How about.......

Jason Gallian
Darren Maddy
Aftab Habib
Ian Ward
Anthony McGrath
Mark Lathwell
Warren Hegg
Mike Watkinson
Peter Martin
Alan Mullally
Neil Mallender

Play Alan Wells in the middle order, Peter Such as a spinner and Stephen Rhodes as wicket keeper (who conceded more byes than he scored runs in one Ashes series down under) and you're bang on....