Comments on: Pick the team you would support the most: The Realmโ€™s England XI https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/pick-the-team-you-would-support-the-most-the-realms-england-xi/2020/06/08/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Thu, 02 Jul 2020 09:46:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: Balladeer https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/pick-the-team-you-would-support-the-most-the-realms-england-xi/2020/06/08/#comment-263694 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:22:00 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=23688#comment-263694 I think this is my very recent eleven:

Rory Burns
Haseeb Hameed
Jonathan Trott
Gary Ballance
Paul Collingwood (c)
Ben Foakes (wk)
Moeen Ali
Sam Curran
Ollie Rayner
Mark Wood
Chris Rushworth

Three Surrey players. Send help.

]]> By: Dan M https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/pick-the-team-you-would-support-the-most-the-realms-england-xi/2020/06/08/#comment-263692 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 04:12:32 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=23688#comment-263692 My Full Member XI (a true World XI would have Dwayne Leverock in it):

Nick Compton
Kraigg Brathwaite
Kane Williamson
Mominul Haque
Shai Hope
Kevin O’Brien
BJ Watling
Moeen Ali
Rangana Herath
Steven Finn
Trent Boult

]]> By: Ameya https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/pick-the-team-you-would-support-the-most-the-realms-england-xi/2020/06/08/#comment-263688 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 21:38:51 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=23688#comment-263688 ]]> In reply to Ameya.

Both of us had ridiculously Holi coloured faces… Additional colour in an already colourful story ๐Ÿ™‚

]]> By: Ameya https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/pick-the-team-you-would-support-the-most-the-realms-england-xi/2020/06/08/#comment-263687 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 21:20:35 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=23688#comment-263687 All very semi – rational : Liked /felt / invested in/One for your ‘cricketers spotted’ too – I came across an utterly glum Gautam Gambhir at a Holi party in 2007… I knew he could be gold. I sidled up next to him by the poolside, bright sunshine, asked him wassup – I think I had a positively transformative influence on the guy. I told him to chill out, that he had all the shots, all he had to do was believe. After a 10 minute chat, he nodded, and was then pretty much man of the match at that year’s 2007 World T20 final, superb batsman through 08 and 09, and at 2011 ODI world cup final. GG remains one of those for me; in India’s golden 7, he was the 7th.

]]> By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/pick-the-team-you-would-support-the-most-the-realms-england-xi/2020/06/08/#comment-263686 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 21:19:42 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=23688#comment-263686 In reply to Joe.

Had Slane been born in another era, he’d have played 50 Tests at least.

They still talk about him coming round the wicket up in the Lancashire leagues.

]]> By: Topshelf https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/pick-the-team-you-would-support-the-most-the-realms-england-xi/2020/06/08/#comment-263685 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:32:41 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=23688#comment-263685 In reply to Topshelf.

Ha! I picked 12. Seems absolutely right. Drop Stokes then, that would unbalance it best.

]]> By: Topshelf https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/pick-the-team-you-would-support-the-most-the-realms-england-xi/2020/06/08/#comment-263684 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:29:04 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=23688#comment-263684 Picking this as fast as I can write it, which seems fitting.

Vinod Kambli
Matthew Horne
David Gower
Douglas Jardine (c)
Robin Smith
Ben Stokes
Jack Russell
Shahid Afridi
Graeme Dilley
Shoaib Akhtar
SF Barnes
Harold Larwood

I really thought Horne was the real thing, and felt real pain every time he failed. I’m not a Kiwi, and have no idea why.

Dilley is the reason I had a ludicrously curved run up until my knees gave out.

]]> By: Joe https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/pick-the-team-you-would-support-the-most-the-realms-england-xi/2020/06/08/#comment-263682 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 19:17:41 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=23688#comment-263682 I’m also heavily invested in my fiery Barbadian quick, Slane Birkenhead. I’d have loved to have seen him get a game!

https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/west-indian-cricketer-name-generator/2011/11/04/

]]> By: Joe https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/pick-the-team-you-would-support-the-most-the-realms-england-xi/2020/06/08/#comment-263683 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 19:17:41 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=23688#comment-263683 I’m also heavily invested in my fiery Barbadian quick, Slane Birkenhead. I’d have loved to have seen him get a game!

https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/west-indian-cricketer-name-generator/2011/11/04/

]]> By: Joe https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/pick-the-team-you-would-support-the-most-the-realms-england-xi/2020/06/08/#comment-263681 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 19:12:05 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=23688#comment-263681 David Gower – even I was 8 or 9 I could recognise the ethereal beauty of his play.

For some reason, Norman Cowans is also on my list. Perhaps because he seemed quite young and maybe not quite good enough for Test cricket. And poor old Syd Lawrence, though sadly after that injury it was a case of being invested in him getting through county games unscathed. I have quite vivid memories of watching the highlighted of that game against NZ when he shattered his knee-cap – awful.

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