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Uploaded England 1950s.

Of all the teams created in this universe I dont think any can trot out as many world beaters as this side. Now with all the cricketing nations completed for the 1950s we can test it.

Test, ODI and T20 I think this team would great in Tests. I think a tinker with the squad members would also make this team a handful in shorter versions.

With Len Hutton in the 1940s squad,the selectors have gone for Peter May. May must feel hes won the lottery here, with World Class talent everywhere.

Ken Barrington is a tough run machine who will blunt the new ball. He will open the innings with the more attractive to watch Reg Simpson.

At 3 is the former Cambridge man, Peter May, one of England's most heralded batsmen ever. At 4 is another icon of English batting and an Oxford man in, Colin Cowdrey.

At 5 is probably the most attractive of the group in stroke playing Tom Graveney. Graveney, like Barrington and Cowdrey and a few others could also have played for the 1960s team, but hes decided the 1950s is the more dangerous team.

At 6 is one of the slowest run getters in Test history but an arch competitor in Trevor Bailey. At 7 the man behind the gloves is Jim Parks Jnr.

At 8 is a man who famously was the first to take 19 wickets in a test match in Jim Laker. Laker cannot rest on his laurels in this squad, despite being the best off spinner in the world during the era. As other excellent spinners like Johnny Wardle, Bob Appleyard and his arch rival Tony Locke wait for him to falter.

At 9 is the man himself, one time world record holder for test cricket wickets in Fred Trueman. Trueman is delighted that he will be given the new ball.

At 10 is another former world record holder for Test wickets in Brian Statham. Statham is not only quick but a master of accuracy.

At 11 is one of Englands fastest bowlers of all time, even faster than Trueman in Frank 'Typhoon' Tyson without doubt was the fastest bowler in the 1950s.

The squad is 27 deep and contains many familiar names for scenario builders such as, Bob Appleyard, Peter Loader, Tony Locke, Derek Shackleton, Doug Insole, David Shepherd( went on to be an ordained minister), Alan Moss, and of course my favourite Johnny Wardle.

Thanks to the uniform, bat, logo, stadium makers.

Enjoy!!

 

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Uploaded England 1950s.

Of all the teams created in this universe I dont think any can trot out as many world beaters as this side. Now with all the cricketing nations completed for the 1950s we can test it.

Test, ODI and T20 I think this team would great in Tests. I think a tinker with the squad members would also make this team a handful in shorter versions.

With Len Hutton in the 1940s squad,the selectors have gone for Peter May. May must feel hes won the lottery here, with World Class talent everywhere.

Ken Barrington is a tough run machine who will blunt the new ball. He will open the innings with the more attractive to watch Reg Simpson.

At 3 is the former Cambridge man, Peter May, one of England's most heralded batsmen ever. At 4 is another icon of English batting and an Oxford man in, Colin Cowdrey.

At 5 is probably the most attractive of the group in stroke playing Tom Graveney. Graveney, like Barrington and Cowdrey and a few others could also have played for the 1960s team, but hes decided the 1950s is the more dangerous team.

At 6 is one of the slowest run getters in Test history but an arch competitor in Trevor Bailey. At 7 the man behind the gloves is Jim Parks Jnr.

At 8 is a man who famously was the first to take 19 wickets in a test match in Jim Laker. Laker cannot rest on his laurels in this squad, despite being the best off spinner in the world during the era. As other excellent spinners like Johnny Wardle, Bob Appleyard and his arch rival Tony Locke wait for him to falter.

At 9 is the man himself, one time world record holder for test cricket wickets in Fred Trueman. Trueman is delighted that he will be given the new ball.

At 10 is another former world record holder for Test wickets in Brian Statham. Statham is not only quick but a master of accuracy.

At 11 is one of Englands fastest bowlers of all time, even faster than Trueman in Frank 'Typhoon' Tyson without doubt was the fastest bowler in the 1950s.

The squad is 27 deep and contains many familiar names for scenario builders such as, Bob Appleyard, Peter Loader, Tony Locke, Derek Shackleton, Doug Insole, David Shepherd( went on to be an ordained minister), Alan Moss, and of course my favourite Johnny Wardle.

Thanks to the uniform, bat, logo, stadium makers.

Enjoy!!

EPIC mate!!

Such a purist of the game!!

 

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Uploaded England 1960s, a squad off 22. This squad had a lot of potential players like Colin Cowdrey and Tom Graveney who fancied their chances with the talent loaded 1950s squad, or other mercenary types like John Edrich and Geoff Boycott who fled to the filthy lucre, offered by the 1970s squad.

Still this 1960s England squad offers a health amount of shrewdness, games manship an absolute superstar in Ted Dexter that may give the other "England's" a ride for their money. That said for all their talent, this side has a group of Yorkshiremen lying in wait, like Brutus to claim the captaincy from the controversial selection in Ted Dexter. That's Lord Ted to me and you. You can bet your bottom dollar that Brian Close and Ray Illingworth will be watching for the crown to fall.

The opening pair is a strong one with Raman Subba Row and Geoff "Noddy" Pullar, they should see 60's England off to a decent start in Tests. They have a tandem of back ups in Colin Milburn and Bob Barber who should be the pair in shorter formats with their explosive batting.

At 3 is the great moderniser himself, Ted Dexter. Lord Ted brings the flair to the game with his one day mindset, on his day he can take the best attacks in any era apart. Ted is the crowd puller here and the star attraction. In the shorter formats, imagine a 1 2 3 of Milburn, Barber and Dexter!

At 4 is where is gets tricky, but MJK Smith is a dependable batsman, followed at 5 by the more attacking presence of Basil D'Olivera another who has a glint in his eye, not only on the field.

At 6 is one of the best slip fielders of all time in Phil Sharpe. Sharpe is a decent player in his own right, but only India's Eknath Solkar can surpass him for his abilty catching the ball.

At 7 is the all round talent and toughness of Brian Close. "Closey" opted out of the 50s squad to settle here and really should be the skipper. Closey will hold it altogether in the Tests.

At 8 is the wily old allround talent of Raymond Illingworth. Illy is another who felt agrieved at mssing out the top spot, but such is his professionalism he will wait his chance again.

At 9 is the immaculate keeper, JT Murray. JT makes keeping look beautful. At 10 is the talented "Ben Stokes" of his day. Barry Knight.

Barry Knight could bat higher up but such is the depth here if not star quality. Knight is the often forgotten England allrounder when we discuss modern allrounders. We always start with Botham and compare between Flintoff and Stokes. Yet Barry is right up there statistically. 11 was a toss up as the team lacks any out and out fast bowler, in fact there is a talk of bringing Fred Trueman into the squad from the 1950s squad, to leave Statham and Tyson together. It may still happen. So 11 goes for now to the very good Ken Higgs.

Its in reserve where this squad is spoilt for choice, attacking batsman, Peter Parfitt, openers, Barber and Milbur, excellent spinners David Allen and the durable Fred Titmus.

Surely Titmus must deserve a chance, he pulled out of the 1950s squad as his path was blocked by Laker, Appleyard and Wardle, now it's blocked by a glut of allrounders. Yet it is a long season, Titmus will have his day.

Norman Gifford is a slow armer for consideration and what about one of England's rare leg spinners of this era, Robin Hobbs? The seam department has Jeff Jones, John Price and a real wildcard in 6'7 David Larter. Larter's career averages are excellent but he does breakdown so he has to be managed well.

My feeling is this side will give the other sides in the 60s a match. In an all England ODI and T20 I expect this team to win. The players largely reflect the change in English cricket as this was the end of the gentleman player rubbish and the beginning of the one day era.

So now we have Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, West Indies, England and South Africa completed era squads for the 1960s.

Thanks to the kit, logo, unform, bat and stadium makers!

Enjoy!![DOUBLEPOST=1589141732][/DOUBLEPOST]Uploaded two new recruits for England 1970 and re-uploaded the squad.

Fast bowler Peter Lever now joins the 70s squad along with cult hero, David Steele.

Any thoughts on bringing Fred Trueman to the 60s squad?

 

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Updated England 1950s and 1960s. Freddie Trueman has joined his Yorkshire pals in thr 1960s squad.

 

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Updated England 1950s and 1960s. Freddie Trueman has joined his Yorkshire pals in thr 1960s squad.

I meant to comment on your post yesterday. For reasons of “purity”, I’d have kept Trueman in the 50s squad. But hell yeah, i can’t think of another decent genuine pacer for the 60s squad, so it helps them more for sure.

 

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Yeah I have you right Fred back into the 1950s where he was at his peak. He took his last test wicket in 1964. Imagine England had probably their best collection of talent in the 1950s, but the partnership with the new ball was either Trueman and Statham or Tyson and Statham. Tyson didn't play for too long though, Freddie was left out during Tyson's time because of issues with selectors.

Updated 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. I took JK Lever out of the 1970s and put him in the 1980s squad which is coming.

I've already done the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s as most of the bases exist. Will post them once I've tweaked and added a few players I could not find.


On that note, I did post Ben Hollioake tonight on the academy in tribute to a cricketer that could have rivalled Freddie Flintoff had he lived.

 

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Barmaids and Bollinger, Whitewashes and Weed, and oh dont forget the cricket we are England, please.

This is England the 1980s uploaded.

I've gone into my database and used bases and tweaked and tweaked, from either, @blockerdave, @gleeso73 @relaxedanderson @DalePlaysCricket or created my own. I've also used one or two off the new playfaces from @wasteyouryouth.

Thank you all for your work even if I havnt used any of the above mentioned it was still good to compare.

So here is a mammoth squad of 34 for those scenario builders.

Leading out the team is the great opening batsman, Graham Gooch. With Gooch is the temperamental but talented left hander, Chris Broad.

At 3 is one of the most beautiful to watch at the crease in David Gower. At 4 is the brave, chirpy mischievous Alan Lamb.

At 5 is one of my favourite players of all time and captain of this team, Mike Gatting. At 6 is the immortal charismatic heartbeat of this team, Ian Botham. In 20/20 Botham is electric!

At 7 and 8 Enngland have gone for two capable allrounders who can contribute to any format in Peter Willey, and Geoff Miller.

At 9 is wicketkeeper Paul Downton, a more than capable keeper of the era and at 10 is Essex legend JK Lever. The final man is pacer, Graham Dilley.

It's in reserve when the fun is, they are loaded. Phil Edmonds, Ned Larkins, boring Chris Tavare, Bill Athey, Norman Cowans, Roland Butcher the first black man to play for England, Eddie Hemmings, Graeme Fowler, Derek Pringle, Nick Cook, Neil Foster, Richard Ellison, Tim Robinson, Bruce French, Martyn Moxon, Geoff Cook, Vic Mark's, Paul Allott, controversial Robin Jackman , John Emburey, Neid Radford, Gladstone Small, David Capel and Mike Brearley.

Thanks to the kit logos uniform bat and stadium makers Enjoy!!!

 

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Uploaded England 1990s

A whole host of popular England players from the 1990s. What group of characters! Scruffy but defiant Cambridge graduate Athers, fitness freak Alec Stewart, Flat track bully Graham Hick, cockney Thorpy, intense Nasser, even more intense Ramps, chirpy Goughie, Blind as a bat pace bowler Devon, baked bean eating Jack Russell, knackered looking Angus Fraser, defiant and brave Robin 'Judgie' Smith, and of course spinner, Phil "two sugars" Tufnell.

I've used spme existing bases in my academy and created new players too. So big thanks to creations from the creators below, I may have used and tweaked and perked some of their bases.

@blockerdave @gleeso73 @DalePlaysCricket @relaxedanderson @wasteyouryouth

Leading out to open are Michael Atherton and Alec Stewart. At 3 I's the talented Graham Hick, 4 is my favourite player from this side, Robin Smith. At 5 is another of my favourites in Graham Thorpe, at 6 is yet another in Nasser Hussein.

At 7 is a player who really deserved more in talented allrounder Craig White. At 8 is the best keeper in England, Jack Russell.

At 9 is the charismatic Darren Gough, at 10 is the underrated Angus Fraser and at 11 is the talented and often comical left arm spinner, Phil 'The Cat' Tufnel.

There is so much talent in reserve especially in the one day game. Opener Nick Knight will come in for ODi as will other specialist like spinner Richard Illingworth and allrounder Adam Hollioake. Neil Fairbrother was one if best ODI players in the world at the time.

Yet the talent continues, Mark Ramprakash was a beast in first class but struggled in Tests, John Crawley was another talent who struggled with his offside play.

The allround talent in the side was staggering. Dominic Cork was an aggressive player who really should have been a star but whatever the reason he did not seem well liked, but he was a handful.

What about Andy Caddick? For a while Caddick and Gough formed a deadly strike duo. Sadly the talent of Ben Hollioake was lost too soon. Robert Croft was another good spinner in and out the team. Chris Lewis was another talent who could best he described a mercurial.

Devon Malcolm another favourite from the early 90s could start. Better watch out because if Devon has his radar off it will fly all over the place! Love Devon though, what we was he said to the South African dressing room that day?

What about bowler Dean Headley? The grandson of the famous George Headley and son of Ron Headley. He was on the verge of being a world star before injury took him down.

Really enjoyed researching the players here who are fresher in my memory. Glad a lot if the original work was done.

Thanks always to the uniform kit stadium bat logo makers!

Enjoy!!

 

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Uploaded, the burly but unlucky pace bowler, Sid "Hissing Sid" Lawrence and Keeper batsman Jack Richards to the academy. They are 80s England players but the squad already has a maximum of 34.

Enjoy!

 

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Uploaded, the burly but unlucky pace bowler, Sid "Hissing Sid" Lawrence and Keeper batsman Jack Richard's to the academy. They are 80s England players but the squad already has a maximum of 34.

Enjoy!

Lawrence actually played more tests in the 90s than 80s, so he could go in that squad. Think he played 2 in the 80s, 3 in the 90s?

 

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Lawrence actually played more tests in the 90s than 80s, so he could go in that squad. Think he played 2 in the 80s, 3 in the 90s?

Well spotted @blockerdave , in the 1990s he goes. Did you have him already? I was thinking you may be in the era where he had his brief brush with Test cricket?

 

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Well spotted @blockerdave , in the 1990s he goes. Did you have him already? I was thinking you may be in the era where he had his brief brush with Test cricket?

Yep, he played the 3rd and 5th tests in the West Indies 1991 series (I’ve just started the 5th test), then injured his knee in the 3rd test of the winter tour to New Zealand (his only test match of the tour!)

 

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Uploaded the unlucky Alan Jones, one if the best players never to play Test Cricket, though he should have one test cap but it was scratched from the records. Jones, an opener is added to England 1960s.

Also added the talented opening batsman, Wilf Slack, who died sadly young. I was fascinated with Slack when I was a boy as he came to the West Indies once, I think to play Shell Shield regional competition or on tour and because he had chosen to play for England, the crowd at rowdy Sabina Park, threw all sorts of rubbish at him.

I recall feeling sorry for him as he got dogs abuse that day and had to be escorted off the field . Im sure some debris caught him just as he left the pitch and he looked up at the baying crowd in the George Headley stand with a pained expression that said, "How could you?". The 1980s were a volatile time politically in the West Indies, especially Jamaica.

Slack was a talented batsman who piled on runs for Middlesex, but I remember him very well from that day at Sabina Park, Jamaiica. I dont recall a creation of him on Ashes, DB17 on DB so he's now on the academy.

As the 1980s England is full, he is on the academy but I think he toured with England in 1986 to the West Indies , the tour that Gatting got his nose busted. A scenario to build? I think that was the series when the West Indies unleashed Patrick Patterson.

On reflection it was an interesting era for West Indian born ccricketers who had come to England as children but chose to play for England because of dual nationality and the stiff competition to get in the Windies side.

Players like Gladstone Small, Devon Malcolm, Neil William's, Joey Benjamin, Chris Lewis, Phil de Freitas, Norman Cowans, Monte Lynch, Roland Butcher, Wilf Slack and Gordon Greenidge come to mind. Greenidge famously came to England at a young age but chose the West Indies and had done so in the 1970s. The others were from the 1980s era.

I will add Benjamin, Lynch, and Wiliams though I think @blockerdave may already have them. Along with naturalised South Africans and Zimbawaeans this 1980s to 1990s period was of great change and politics in cricket

Later British born Asian players would make their mark too, Min Patel being amongst the earliest I can remember.

 

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Following on from previous posts. I have uploaded England Players 1980s Part 2!

There were so many 1 cap, 2 cap wonders the squad is already full at 34 and yet there were notable cricketers left out, or floating about on the academy. These players are my bases, though @blockerdave has done great work and he is the inspiration for creating some of these players who may have been left out of my original squad of 34, In one way or another they are notable, mostly down to bad luck or some other misfortune that prevented them becoming better known at Test Level.

What I did notice is a lot of them had the misfortune to play against the West Indies in the 1980s when the West Indies were at their terrific peak. Did this make the players bad players? Did they get a fair shake? So with that in mind I created 15 more players. This now means there are 49 players that could fit into the England 1980s squad. There were more I could do but time limits me!

So without further rambling here they are,

Leading the team out to bat from the opener positions are Brian Rose and Chris "Kippy" Smith. Smith is Robin Smith's brother and Rose was Ian Botham's mate at Somerset, who had a run in the early 1980s in the Test side, when England were trying to partner Gooch with Boycott about to retire.

At three is a West Indies Rebel, Surrey's attacking Monte Lynch. Lynch played a couple of ODI's for England and on his day a terrific exciting player, but he was discarded early. Monte should do well in 20/20. At 4 is another player I talked about in a previous post in Wilf Slack, normally an opener (There are a lot of openers) he will try to hold it together and can be swapped around with Lynch. At 5 is Paul Parker a consistent player at County Level.

At 6 is a Yorkshire all-rounder, Graham Stevenson who was more than capable of delivering, I would be interested to see how he does in the short formats. At 7 is Chris Cowdrey and he is the captain here, son of the famous Colin Cowdrey he will look to make his mark on the captaincy of this side.

At 8, is Johnny Bairstow's dad, David Bairstow, a very good keeper at the time. At 9 is Middlesex fast medium, Neil Williams, at 10 is a player I mentioned in a previous post and was going to put into the original 80s side, then on @blockerdave suggestion, I moved him to 90s, then overnight Sid Lawrence, about turned and now wants to play in this squad. Fair enough. At 11 is the Welsh pace-man, Greg Thomas. Thomas was very rapid but a bit wayward, but did trouble West Indian batsmen on the England tour in 1986, though his average suggests not accurately.

There are reserves, such as Tony Grieg;s brother, Ian Grieg, Andy Lloyd a batsman who had his jaw broken during the first "Black-wash" series in 1984. Needless to say he was never the same again. There is also Paul Terry, another who had his arm broken in the 1984 series. Finally we have "Aggers", Jonathan Agnew! A decent bowler on his day.

Thanks to @blockerdave for the inspiration. Though I am doing my own project on creating most of the players who played Test Cricket for every Test playing nation, our projects have met as I am doing players, that he has created too, or is now playing in his England in the 90s series.

I enjoy that series very much!

There are some sad stories with regards to some of these players, but they get to live on in Cricket 19.

Thanks to logo, stadium, bat, uniform, jumper creators!

Enjoy.

 

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Updated England 1990s with a few more squad members. Now a squad of 33.