Yorkshire All-time XI

Come on, eowyn and GT . . . show us what you've got . . .

Jeez Jilly you missed out again.

Excluding non-England players - something like:


Sutcliffe
Boycott
Hutton
Leyland
Jackson
Hirst
Bairstow (can't think of any other keepers)
Rhodes
Trueman
Verity
Gough


I've left off SRT.

No Boof?

Obviously he didn't eat enough of Yorkshire to overcome the 'excluding non-England players' criteria.

Would be interesting to see the best foreign Yorks side. Something like:

Elliot
Katich
Richie Richardson
SRT
Inzi
Lehmann
Steven Fleming (wk)
Ian Harvey (as a 4th bowler)
Dizzy
Morne Morkel
Rana Naved


No room for Martyn, Bevan, Younis Khan and obviously Jacques Rudolph and Yuvraj.

I think JGK has it pretty right with his Yorkshire Origin side.

Maybe, however, Bowes could play in place of Gough. Probably a better bowler, at least in England, but a poor batsman and fielder.

Also I'd prefer Wood or probably Binks to Bairstow.

JGK wrote:Excluding non-England players - something like:


Sutcliffe
Boycott
Hutton
Leyland
Jackson
Hirst
Bairstow (can't think of any other keepers)
Rhodes
Trueman
Verity
Gough
.

Not much wrong with this. The keeper and the 2nd new ball bowler are the tricky ones.

David Hunter is probably Yorkshire's best keeper, from an era when the quality of the pitches would have made keeping very difficult. Crap batsman though. If born in Yorkshire is all that is required then Sammy Carter would get the job.

The bowlers most likely to replace Gough would be Schofield Haigh and George Macaulay though Bowes would be in there too. Of the three Haigh was probably the more dangerous as a strike bowler so i would go with him.

Verity and Rhodes is a pretty formidable spin attack, certainly in the class of Benaud and O'Reilly and better than any other provincial side would be able to produce (unless Grimmett is allowed for Victoria).

Yorkshire's 2nd XI spinners would be Wardle and Peel, the 3rd XI Bates and Major Booth. Shame the production line was turned off around 1950.

tac wrote:Come on, eowyn and GT . . . show us what you've got . . .

We've got class, obviously.

JGK wrote:
Bairstow (can't think of any other keepers)

Jimmy Binks was supposedly the best gloveman in England.

Rob I wrote:

JGK wrote:
Bairstow (can't think of any other keepers)

Jimmy Binks was supposedly the best gloveman in England.

So he was the Peter Anderson of England?