Maybe Flintoff instead of BothamLimiting mine to players I have seen or in my watching life time, as it were...
World X1
Cook
Gavaskar
Tendulkar
Richards
Ponting
Botham
Gilchrist
Warne
Anderson
McGrath
Holding
England X1
Cook
Gooch
Gower
Root
Pietersen
Botham
Stewart
Swann
Broad
Anderson
Willis
Yes Botham it is !I love a cricket debate me
No, no comparison for me. Botham every time. Always able to change a game with bat or ball. Opening bowler rather than a back up. Just as nasty as Flintoff if required.
This doesn't even include catches...
How England’s great all-rounders compare
Batting
Botham: 5,200 runs @ 33.54
Flintoff: 3,845 runs @ 31.77
Bowling
Botham: 383 wickets @ 28.40
Flintoff: 226 wickets @ 32.78
Re: Knotty - better keeper than Stewart yes, but if I was going that way I'd have Bob Taylor every time as he was even better. So if going for a keeper who would bat then that's my rationale for Stewart.
Bob Willis..An excellent cricketerYes I was a big fan of Smithy...and Lamb too. Both SA'n and both nuggety! Chris Smith wasn't too bad either I thought.
I nearly put Boycott in to open in my X1 - not that I especially liked him but he was a miser at giving his wicket away. I saw Dolly play only once and that was after he had retired, in a charity match playing for the Sam Whitbread X1. I met Willis once at Lords and 2 things struck me: firstly, what a polite gentleman he was and secondly: that he was the tallest man in the world or seemed to be. I am 6' 1" and he towered over me.
I never saw Underwood but I did meet his niece once on a train.
My dad died aged 51, my brother 31, both unexpected. It happens. Those close to whoever it is who dies in the world suffer the same heartache.I just heard that he died, aged 52. Suspected heart attack.
After the great Rod Marsh also died too as well.
Both taken too soon.
Warne was a superb cricketer and I also enjoyed his sense of humour when he commentated. He was always laughing.
RIP both