Super Essexshire AT XI

I'm going to limit mine to those i've seen actually play for my county - included 2 overseas players as we're not a test playing county and before 1979 were a wee bit 'Direby'

GA Gooch
AN Cook
N Hussain
KWR Fletcher
ME Waugh
AR Border
JS Foster
DR Pringle
NA Foster
JK Lever
PM Such

Though honourable mention to

JWHT Douglas
TE Bailey
DJ Insole
RH Hobbs
RE East
JH Childs

Nominating yourself I see ....

And Nas pointing to his back at 3.


But Such before Ray East and his bike, BOGOF?

Pringle. Hmmm. At county level, okay.

I'd take the Barnacle over Onceyoupop..

Ken Farnes & the original Jack Russell could do with an honourable mention as well.

WideWally wrote:Ken Farnes & the original Jack Russell could do with an honourable mention as well.

Not to mention Ronnie Irani!

WideWally wrote:Ken Farnes & the original Jack Russell could do with an honourable mention as well.

Aye, both excellent FC figures & not bad test stats either.

PeterCS wrote:

Pringle. Hmmm. At county level, okay.

Very good county bowler infact!

But my Lanky XII were selected to take on THE WORLD. ...

Mark Ilott's county figures are very good.

Henry wrote:Mark Ilott's county figures are very good.

Yup, Ramble was worth a mention too.

No place for Adam Seymour then.

Peasants.

Basil wrote:No place for Adam Seymour then.

Or the next 'big thing' Stevie Peters

JKLever wrote:

Basil wrote:No place for Adam Seymour then.

Or the next 'big thing' Stevie Peters

Or Mike McEvoy

Yes, we've had a habit of sending you our dross.

We let Nick Knight go to Warks, because some muppet thought Seymour would turn out to be the better player!

Bruce Francis may just have made the Essex 42nd XI

Steady on. It's not Christmas, you know.

Every chav wins a prize

Every one a Wayne Kerr, baby?

that's fo' sho'

Right then - best Pears team since 1968 - when I first watched a game:

Turner
Headley
Hick
Graveney
D'Oliveira
Moody
Botham
Imran
Rhodes
Radford
Gifford

12th man: Leatherdale
Boot cleaner: Gareth Batty

The first eight should drive a few bowling attacks to drink!

And the boot cleaner would get them drinking wood alcohol.


This deserves its own thread Baz.

lardbucket wrote:Bruce Francis may just have made the Essex 42nd XI

Didn't Bruce Francis get the 72 gig because he had a decent season for Essex a year or so before?

My only viewing of Bruce Francis was on the Ashes 72' VHS.... and he did look a bit village. Although everyone playing was in their mid 20's early 30's and looked 50.

Basil wrote:Right then - best Pears team since 1968 - when I first watched a game:

Turner
Headley
Hick
Graveney
D'Oliveira
Moody
Botham
Imran
Rhodes
Radford
Gifford

12th man: Leatherdale
Boot cleaner: Gareth Batty

The first eight should drive a few bowling attacks to drink!

Radford wouldn't make my AT Transvaal team.

Percy Perrin played in 525 fc games for Essex over 4 calendar decades and holds the club record for the HS of 343* against Derbyshire. It is also the HS for a player on the losing side. Despite making 291 short of 30,000 fc runs in his career he never appeared in a Test, allegedly because of his poor fielding ability.

Nevertheless this did not prevent him from succeeding Sir Pelham Warner as Chairman of selectors on the latter's retirement. Even here, Perrin's luck was out as the year was 1939. He selected the tour party for the winter tour of India under the leadership of the Sussex captain, Jack Holmes but the tour was aborted owing to the super-imposition of a European competition that was to last almost 6 years. Perrin died in November 1945 before Test cricket resumed the following summer.

Derbyshire v. Essex, Queen's Park, Chesterfield, 18-20 July 1904