Have we actually had a proper, old skool English collapse so far this tournament?

[Burney]

Speaking of superbatsmen - are you going to get the chance to see AB at all?

Allan Border? Bit late for that imo.

[Luis Anaconda]

Allan Border? Bit late for that imo.

Never did see him bat - probably didn't miss much. I was thinking the other day of the best XI I had actually seen live. Think I came up with something like this. Bit batting top heavy but didn't want to leave out Crowe. Not sure you need a fifth bowler anyway

Greenidge
Cook
Richards
Tendulkar (though never saw him bat only field)
Ponting
Crowe M
Gilchrist
Marshall
Warne
Hadlee
McGrath

[Burney]

Never did see him bat - probably didn't miss much. I was thinking the other day of the best XI I had actually seen live. Think I came up with something like this. Bit batting top heavy but didn't want to leave out Crowe. Not sure you need a fifth bowler anyway

Greenidge
Cook
Richards
Tendulkar (though never saw him bat only field)
Ponting
Crowe M
Gilchrist
Marshall
Warne
Hadlee
McGrath

I’ve got all those, but I’d be able to put Gavaskar in ahead of Cook.
Actually, don’t know if this counts, but I saw Sobers play (albeit in an old fúcker’s game at The Oval when he was about 50) and he’d have to get a spot ahead of Ponting -which also sorts your bowling issue out.

[Luis Anaconda]

I’ve got all those, but I’d be able to put Gavaskar in ahead of Cook.
Actually, don’t know if this counts, but I saw Sobers play (albeit in an old fúcker’s game at The Oval when he was about 50) and he’d have to get a spot ahead of Ponting -which also sorts your bowling issue out.

Actually I could have put Gavaskar in - saw him in this match
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...f-england-1987

Actually forgotten I'd seen Khan and Dev play too Think Imran might even squeeze McGrath out of my team

[Burney]

Actually I could have put Gavaskar in - saw him in this match
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...f-england-1987

Actually forgotten I'd seen Khan and Dev play too Think Imran might even squeeze McGrath out of my team

LOL! That's where I saw him, too. I remember thinking 'How come this little Indian chap is playing the fearsome Marshall as if he's all the time in the world, when our players are being ripped apart by him?

The answer, of course, was that he was much, much better than them.

I remember Imran's knock in that game, too. Who would have thought he'd end up being Prime Minister of Pakistan, eh?

[Luis Anaconda]

LOL! That's where I saw him, too. I remember thinking 'How come this little Indian chap is playing the fearsome Marshall as if he's all the time in the world, when our players are being ripped apart by him?

The answer, of course, was that he was much, much better than them.

I remember Imran's knock in that game, too. Who would have thought he'd end up being Prime Minister of Pakistan, eh?

He was definitely more interested in blondes back then I seem to recall

[Burney]

He was definitely more interested in blondes back then I seem to recall

Famously so, as I recall. He cut a romantic swathe through the upper echelons of London society by all accounts.

This was where I saw Sobers play, btw. I would have been somewhere behind them in the Members' stand with my dad.

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail...hoto/835105958

[Rich]

Never did see him bat - probably didn't miss much. I was thinking the other day of the best XI I had actually seen live. Think I came up with something like this. Bit batting top heavy but didn't want to leave out Crowe. Not sure you need a fifth bowler anyway

Greenidge
Cook
Richards
Tendulkar (though never saw him bat only field)
Ponting
Crowe M
Gilchrist
Marshall
Warne
Hadlee
McGrath

Surely Jacques Kallis gets in ahead of Crowe?

[Luis Anaconda]

Surely Jacques Kallis gets in ahead of Crowe?

Martin Crowe is an absolute hero of mine though - have to have him in. Probably before your time but a wonderful man to watch

[Burney]

Martin Crowe is an absolute hero of mine though - have to have him in. Probably before your time but a wonderful man to watch

His on-drive was a thing of beauty. He, on the other hand, was not.