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Random England players of the 90s


Ghfd said:
Definitely and they had a lot of chances, I think their inner belief was lacking at the really top level but being fair to them, it coincided with some of the best Fast bowlers and Spin bowlers that there has been.
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We never really had what you'd call a world class bowler either. Gough and Gus were as good as it got....
 
I’m not 100% about this but there was a test , I think in the 90s, where Bob Taylor took the gloves, having been working in a sponsors room earlier in the day. Someone got injured and he was asked to stand in

must have been in his 50s
 
Ghfd said:
I’m not 100% about this but there was a test , I think in the 90s, where Bob Taylor took the gloves, having been working in a sponsors room earlier in the day. Someone got injured and he was asked to stand in

must have been in his 50s
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Sure it was 86. Bruce French was injured I think.

England’s main problem in the 90’s was that arseclown Illingworth.
 
Captain Slackbladder said:
We never really had what you'd call a world class bowler either. Gough and Gus were as good as it got....
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Talking about hick and ramps facing. Ambrose, Walsh, McGrath, Warne, Pollock, Donald , Waqar and Wasim. That was a tasty era for bowlers
The Breen Machine said:
Sure it was 86. Bruce French was injured I think.

England’s main problem in the 90’s was that arseclown Illingworth.
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Cheers. Was a weird thing to see that happen.
 
Not random but

Wisden’s England Test team of the 1990s
  1. Michael Atherton (c)
  2. Graham Gooch
  3. Alec Stewart
  4. Nasser Hussain
  5. Graham Thorpe
  6. Robin Smith
  7. Jack Russell (wk)
  8. Andy Caddick
  9. Darren Gough
  10. Angus Fraser
  11. Phil Tufnell
 
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there is a full list of the recent decades and there are a few we have not got in the 90s
 
Ghfd said:
Not random but

Wisden’s England Test team of the 1990s
  1. Michael Atherton (c)
  2. Graham Gooch
  3. Alec Stewart
  4. Nasser Hussain
  5. Graham Thorpe
  6. Robin Smith
  7. Jack Russell (wk)
  8. Andy Caddick
  9. Darren Gough
  10. Angus Fraser
  11. Phil Tufnell
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Some top players in there, but if you compared that to other countries best XI of that era, it’s not winning many games.
 
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