Beard / 'tache XI

Has this been done before?

1. David Boon
2. Saeed Anwar
3. Hashim Amla
4. Mohammad Yousuf
5. Inzamam Ul Haq
6. WG Grace *
7. Jack Blackham +
8. Harry Boyle
9. Merv Hughes
10. Mike Hendrick
11. Bishen Bedi

Subs:
Greg Chappell
George Bonnor

AB had a bearded period, but hard to dislodge Yousuf, Inzi or WG

Arguably GC at 3, but Amla has the length ... and persistence of whiskers.

This one, surely:

All bar 2 of these would qualify, it appears (although all of them would if side whiskers count as well):



[England XI that played at the MCG, March 1877]

Andrew Flintoff tends to have a go at growing some facial hair, as does Zak.

ian chappell, rod marsh and dkl were all useful tache wearers

and DKL had that chest hair thing going as well . . .

Which is more important here, the quality of the beard or the quality of the cricketer?

the beard, I think, tya

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tac wrote:the beard, I think, tya

Moeen Ali qualifies then

I think you need a Beard XI v a 'Tache XI.

Qualification being whether said beard or tache was with the player for the majority of their career.

Tache XI:

Gooch (I think on balance he qualifies)
Greenidge
Ranji
Javed
Border
Sobers
Marsh (wk)
Hadlee
Trumble
Lillee
Barnes

I've excluded Lara even though he sometimes had a mo.

BOOOOOOOOO-NEYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!

Great tache and gutsy player but not quite good enough for my team.

Ditto Merv.

Boonyist!

Boony would of course walk into my Nuggety Legend team along with AB, Rod Marsh and a certain Wozzie.