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The Letter T Revisited

A reblog of my all time Ts XI with some extra comments.

I am going to be out for much of today – WNAG have a stall at ‘Pride in the Park’, in The Walks, and I will be there.

On this day last year I published my all time XI of players with surnames beginning with T. I am still happy with it, and I draw especial attention to the selection of Tarrant at number three, required with three of the fastest of fast bowlers inked in at 9,10 and 11, and positions 1 and 2 heavily contested, and 4,5,6 not up for debate since those slots were filled by three greats of the game. Since I first posted this Josh Tongue has played for England and bowled well enough to justify my giving him a mention but still has a long way to go to dislodge any of my chosen specialist quicks.

All Time XIs – The Letter T

All Time XIs – Surrey

In view of the news of John Edrich’s death, and his role in this, the first of the All-Time XIs that I created a few months back, I am repubishing this…

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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

  1. Jack Hobbs – more first class runs and more first class hundreds than anyone else, also still has the England record for Ashes runs – 3,636 of them, including another record, 12 centuries in those matches. He was also a more than handy bowler of medium pace and a brilliant fielder at cover point. His claim to an opening slot is unanswerable.
  2. John Edrich – the left hander was one of three strong contenders for this slot, and both of the other two, Andrew Sandhamand Tom Hayward, actually did open the innings with Hobbs, but although I see the value of…

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