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INTRODUCTION Welcome to the latest installment in my “All Time XIs” series. Today we are looking at Somerset. In the course of our journey we will meet heroes of the past, stars of the present, a couple of hopes for the future and the man who when I get round to…
Originally posted on aspiblog:
INTRODUCTION Since there will be no cricket, or any other sport come to that, for a while I am going to fill the void by playing selector for a few all-time squads. Since I grew up in south London I will start with Surrey. MY SURREY XI EXPLAINED Jack Hobbs –…
A variation on the all-time XI, this time requiring every player to come from a different country. Also some photographs.
An addition to my ‘All Time XIs’ series, this time taking double letters as its theme.
Today is international day in my ‘all-time XIs’ cricket series, and it is England in the spotlight. I also have a mini-section offering solidarity to #BlackLivesMatter.
Today being Monday the ‘all time XI’ post focusses on an international outfit, in this case Pakistan.
Today in my all-time XIs series I look at a test playing line up and put myself in the firing line for 1.3 billion of the game’s most avid fans – yes it’s India in the spotlight.
My latest variation on the ‘all time XI’ theme, this time producing an Eccentric XI – and using one of them as a jumping off point for a law change suggestion. Challenge for you: is the XI or its creator more eccentric?
Continuing the all-time XIs theme with a look at Australia, I use this post to make more explicit some of my thinking about team balance.
Reaching the end of the beginning of my “All Time XIs” series with a whistle stop tour of Durham to complete the 18 first class counties.
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