Pick your all-time Ashes XI

[GoldenAsif]

Re: Pick your all-time Ashes XI

@Southie

My reason for including Knott over Gilchrist was I have not seen Gilchrist play. More out of lack of following cricket (other than Indian players sporadically) for last several years. Ditto Hammond - never saw him play. I might have seen these two during my vacation to India, but did not get to see too many matches to even know who they are/were.

Having seen Gooch on TV, I was not very impressed by him He was aggressive, but not very consistent.

I don’t think any of us is old enough to have seen Hammond bat Hammond played between 1927 and 1947 and was widely regarded as the second best batter of his time after Bradman (who played between 1928 and 1948). Bradman averaged 99.96 and Hammond 58.45 in tests

Wally Hammond
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/14022.html