Packs A Punch XI

Inspired by NZ A’s Henry Cooper… cricket’s box-office boxing XI.

1) Henry Cooper
2) Sugar R.T. Robinson
3) Buster (Douglas) Farrer
4) David Hay(e) (a couple of past players of that name…)
5) Freddie Flintoff (well, he has boxed officially… Adam Hollioake and Ben Stokes could be rivals for the all-rounder slot!)
6) Christopher Ewbank (19th-century Sussex ‘keeper!)
7) Frank Tyson
8 ) Angus Frazier
9) Mohammed Ali
10) Suliemann Benn
11) Prince Naseem Shah

A very long tail and some obscure/tenuous ones among them… any better suggestions?

JWHT Douglas won an Olympic Gold Medal in Boxing as well as captaining the England team. 23 tests 962 runs @ 29.15 45 wkts @ 33.02

WideWally wrote:JWHT Douglas won an Olympic Gold Medal in Boxing as well as captaining the England team. 23 tests 962 runs @ 29.15 45 wkts @ 33.02

And shares his surname with a famous boxer (qv no.3 above…)

Kepler Wessels was an amateur boxer.

Ezra Wyeth's nickname was Boxer but that came from fighting in the playground as a schoolboy.

Curiously, both Wessels & Wyeth became prominent lawn bowlers in later life.

We have to get Lennox Lewis FFS in there somewhere

WideWally wrote:Kepler Wessels was an amateur boxer.

Ezra Wyeth's nickname was Boxer but that came from fighting in the playground as a schoolboy.

Curiously, both Wessels & Wyeth became prominent lawn bowlers in later life.

Bowls-boxing, a new twist on chess-boxing?

Surely Laver and McAllister get a gig?

NTM Horrie's mate & Lardy's vice-mate