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My last one today, the England P team Palairet Parfitt Pietersen Paynter JH Parks Prior Pringle Pope JSE Price Pocock Panesar

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Yeah, I thought of Lamb about 20 minutes after posting it Not had J yet K James Jardine (c) A Jones Jameson FS Jackson Jessop Jupp G Jones (wk) Jordan S Jones Jenkins

He's just got into my team of Smiths Chris Smith David Smith Robin Smith Don Smith Mike (JK) Smith Alan Smith Charles Aubrey Smith (Big) Jim Smith Tiger Smith Mike Smith Peter Smith And here's my team of Gs (you can see what I was thinking about while having a shower) WG Grace Gooch Gower...

Duckworth was no batsman though. Another missed Sussex player: how about Hubert Doggart (who I think is England's oldest living test cricketer, not 100% sure though)? Bit light on spinners that team

How about an H team - this has a terrifying batting line-up, might struggle to bowl a decent team out though Hobbs J Holmes P Hutton L Hammond Hendren Hardstaff J Jnr Hirst G Hegg Hendrick Hoggard Hollies

Or put in a Sussex player, Tich Cornford, a genuine keeper (BTW, I think you mean Compton D not C)

Good team that Luckhurst Lloyd D Larkins Lewis Leyland Lohmann Lilley Larwood Lock Laker Lever Bit light on batting but that's a fearsome bowling attack

I thought that could be done by using the 15 England players mentioned in the player of the century list, but it's a bit shy of left-handers - there's only one there Hobbs Hutton Ranji Compton Woolley Hammond Botham Rhodes Tate Evans Larwood But there are few who could be added: Gower, Cook...

Well done ... you sure you didn't?:smile: For the record, the next two in the list were Botham and Larwood

It's not Fry or Rhodes but that's getting close to the right era

Dazzer has three right but has forgotten 1999 You need to be thinking closer to 1900 for one of the missing two

Prince M is close: he has three right EDIT: Sorry, two right. BL has two right also

In 2000, Wisden asked 100 journalists/former cricketers, worldwide, to pick up their best five players of the 20th century. For a completely trivial reason, I was looking this up this morning and saw which England players had been mentioned. So, your starter for 10 (and without looking it...