All time Essex XI

[canveyshrimper]

I'm surprised how many people are going for Cook ... a fine talent i'm sure, but he's not achieved much in his career yet, and in fact spends more time with England than Essex. I'm also going to give a belated "heads up" shout to Brian Hardie, his opening partnership with Gooch was awesome in the late 70s / early 80s

I opted for Cook purely on his potential and the way he has taken to Test cricket.

IMO Paul Prichard was better than Brian Hardie.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I'm surprised how many people are going for Cook ... a fine talent i'm sure, but he's not achieved much in his career yet, and in fact spends more time with England than Essex. I'm also going to give a belated "heads up" shout to Brian Hardie, his opening partnership with Gooch was awesome in the late 70s / early 80s

Hardie was finishing his career just as I started watching, otherwise I'm sure he'd have got included it my XI (same can be said for Lever).

I've probably seen more of Cook for England than Essex, but he looks a couple of classes above whenever he returns for Essex and his cause is no doubt helped by how poor Chopra and Pettini have done this season!

I considered Stephenson and Prichard who also both formed great opening partnerships with Gooch.

 

[Cricko]

Personally I think Essex as a team had more excitement about them in the 70s /80s than they do now..I went everywhere to see them,but at home in Chalkwell Park on a Sunday in the summer was the tops...

Bygone days ...Sniff Sniff..:cry:

 

[canveyshrimper]

Personally I think Essex as a team had more excitement about them in the 70s /80s than they do now..I went everywhere to see them,but at home in Chalkwell Park on a Sunday in the summer was the tops...

Bygone days ...Sniff Sniff..:cry:

Blimey you'll have me at it next.:cry:

Cricket week at Chalkwell Park was great. I remember Barry Richards hitting a massive 6, and smashing a window of flat over a shop on the London Road.

Happy days.

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

Blimey you'll have me at it next.:cry:

Cricket week at Chalkwell Park was great. I remember Barry Richards hitting a massive 6, and smashing a window of flat over a shop on the London Road.

Happy days.

Don't forget to vote on the other thread canvey !!!!

 

[Cricko]

Don't forget to vote on the other thread canvey !!!!

Behave Lee he can't Multi-task at his age;)

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Behave Lee he can't Multi-task at his age;)

I'll take your word on that, if anyone knows about the effects of age it will be you!

 

[canveyshrimper]

I'll take your word on that, if anyone knows about the effects of age it will be you!

Thanks saves me the effort of making a response.:D

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

Who else thinks of Harry Enfield and The Old Gits when Cricko and canveyshrimper are on the board ?? :hilarious: :hilarious: :hilarious:

Is it true you two really do live together :confused:

 

[canveyshrimper]

Who else thinks of Harry Enfield and The Old Gits when Cricko and canveyshrimper are on the board ?? :hilarious: :hilarious: :hilarious:

Is it true you two really do live together :confused:

With age comes experience and sagacity.:finger:

I also deny any knowledge of Cricko being under my duvet.:p

 

[ESG]

I'm sure we did this not so long ago but i'd send this lot out

Graham Gooch
Nasser Hussain(cpt)
Ken McEwan
Mark Waugh
Stuart Law
Andy Flower(wkt)
Derek Pringle
Keith Boyce
Nobby Phillip
Danesh Keneria
John Lever

Brian Hardie carrying the drinks :rolleyes:

 

[C C Csiders]

Gooch, Hardie, Law, McEwen, Hussain, Fletcher, Irani (pre dodgy knee version), Smith (wk), Boyce, Lever, Kaneria, Acfield.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Gooch, Hardie, Law, McEwen, Hussain, Fletcher, Irani (pre dodgy knee version), Smith (wk), Boyce, Lever, Kaneria, Acfield.

And the Stuart Pearce award for numeracy goes to.... C C Csiders.

Its only an XI, nominate your 12th man.

 

[C C Csiders]

And the Stuart Pearce award for numeracy goes to.... C C Csiders.

Its only an XI, nominate your 12th man.

It's one of those dodgy tour games where you can select 12 or 13 players, and bat 11 and field another 11. Otherwise Keith Fletcher goes, and Nasser can captain.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Having not looked at the rules (and thus flagrantly breaching the 2 foreigners cap), nor anyone else's selection, the XI + one I'd pick would be:

Gooch
Cook
Hussain *
A. Flower +
Waugh
Law
Irani
Pringle
Lever
Kaneria
N. Foster

Twelfth man: Salim Malik

Hard to leave Bichel or Darren Gough out from the bowlers, but there you go. Cook over Malik is also a tough choice, but I wanted to limit it to three foreign players (although I know I'm semi-cheating with Andy Flower), and when you think of Cook's age and how he has taken to Test cricket, he will undoubtedly be one of our finest sons for some time to come.

Incidentally, one name to look out for in the next season or so is Glen Querl, a young Zimbabwean player who has been turning out for Harrow and now the Essex 2nd XI. With the general paucity of our pace attack and our relegation in both forms of the game, we might well see this young man break through. Having seen him play twice now for Harrow, I've been impressed - whippet-like, pacy and pretty accurate.

Still, Querl hasn't impressed as much as Sam Northeast, another Harrovian whom Kent have got their mits on. Remember that name... Northeast will play for England, of that I'm sure.

Matt

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Incidentally, one name to look out for in the next season or so is Glen Querl, a young Zimbabwean player who has been turning out for Harrow and now the Essex 2nd XI. With the general paucity of our pace attack and our relegation in both forms of the game, we might well see this young man break through. Having seen him play twice now for Harrow, I've been impressed - whippet-like, pacy and pretty accurate.

Still, Querl hasn't impressed as much as Sam Northeast, another Harrovian whom Kent have got their mits on. Remember that name... Northeast will play for England, of that I'm sure.

Matt

Querl

Hmm, interesting. Maybe he'll turn out to be the new Scott Brandt.

Sam Northeast is in the England under 19 squad, alongside Essex's Tom Westley, for the u19 world cup. Northeast and Billy Godleman of Middlesex are supposed to be the two big batting hopes of the next generation. I think Northeast is still only 17, but those two have been tipped for big things for a few years now.

 

[C C Csiders]

Sam Northeast, another Harrovian

Only someone of such a background could have such a bizaare surname. Surely the nearest Harrow has ever had to having a Geordie within its confines.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Only someone of such a background could have such a bizaare surname. Surely the nearest Harrow has ever had to having a Geordie within its confines.

I think its probably a double-barrelled name. The Norths who probably owned North London and the Easts who probably owned East Anglia.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Only someone of such a background could have such a bizaare surname. Surely the nearest Harrow has ever had to having a Geordie within its confines.

There have been some cracking names about which much punnery has ensued on the two occasions I've been lucky enough to cover the Eton v. Harrow games (I say "lucky" because the standard has been really darned impressive).

The ones which immediately jump to mind are "Munchie Turner" - and we asked plenty of times... Munchie really was his name. Cue endless puns about "gobbled up", "tucked in", "swallowed" etc. etc., to much groaning mirth in the commentary box.

The other one that jumps to mind is someone called Macadam (to whom, naturally, one had to surmise that his team-mates said "Ta" after taking a wicket...)

:p

Macadam may also be one to watch. He's now at Oxford University and is developing into a pretty handy pace bowler... handy, not least, because he's 6' 10".

:eek:

That's got to be coming in off about 10' - the sort of height from which Joel Garner frequently caused problems...!

:minger:

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Sam Northeast is in the England under 19 squad, alongside Essex's Tom Westley, for the u19 world cup. Northeast and Billy Godleman of Middlesex are supposed to be the two big batting hopes of the next generation. I think Northeast is still only 17, but those two have been tipped for big things for a few years now.

Spot on. Having watched him stroke a simply sublime 115 at Lord's for the Eton v. Harrow game, however, I can now see what the hype is about in Northeast's case. His timing, placement and effortless stroke-making was quite simply a joy to behold.

Matt