[2025] PlanetCricket's All Time XIs - England - Who replaces KP?

[Aislabie]

Jack Hobbs

Joe Root

Leslie Ames

Fred Trueman

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

All-Time Test XI
01.
02. Alastair Cook
03.
04. Joe Root - right-arm off break
05.
06.
07. Les Ames
08.
09.
10.
11. James Anderson

Batting positions aren't fixed except Cook (1 or 2). Now, when you make your next nomination, you'll also have to consider your captain because at the moment, it's gonna be Cook and there are few players available who can make this XI with better captaincy records. And \when I say batsman or bowler, you can elect all-rounder as well. But make sure they fit in that role.

1. Opener 2
2. Fast bowler 2 (pacer/all-rounder, you can figure it out)
3. Spinner
4. Fourth bowler (pacer/spinner/all-rounder, trying to keep it flexible for everyone)
5. 3 Middle-order batters, preferably bat at positions 3,5,6 (can be all-rounders as well but make sure batting doesn't get too compromised).

This is separate from previous so voting for players like Jack Hobbs will start from 1. For position 5, the top-3 most nominated would be in.

My nominations:
1. Len Hutton (1)
2. Fred Trueman (1)
3. Derek Underwood (1)
4. Sydney Barnes (1)
5. Wally Hammond (1), Ken Barrington (1), Ian Botham (1) [if he gets picked, Ames at 6, Beefy at 7 makes sense]

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[Kamboh]

Opener 2: Len Hutton
Fast Bowler 2: Fred Trueman (picked him before as well)
Spinner: Graeme Swann
Fourth Bowler (All-rounder): Ben Stokes
Middle-Order: Wally Hammond, Kevin Pietersen, Ken Barrington

Cook as Captain

 

[malikali]

Andrew Strauss
Stuart Broad
Derek Underwood
Ben Stokes
Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Ken Barrington

The Captain of Bazball

 

[Till Valhalla]

That's homework.

 

[Aislabie]

Jack Hobbs
(Cook making it ahead of either Hobbs, Hutton or Grace is an absolute travesty)

Fred Trueman

Hedley Verity

S. F. Barnes

Wally Hammond
Denis Compton
Ted Dexter

 

[Viper.]

1. Jack Hobbs

2. Fred Trueman

3. Jim Laker

4. Sydney Barnes

5. Wally Hammond
Ken Barrington
Ian Botham

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Jack Hobbs
(Cook making it ahead of either Hobbs, Hutton or Grace is an absolute travesty)

Fred Trueman

Hedley Verity

S. F. Barnes

Wally Hammond
Denis Compton
Ted Dexter

Honestly it would be too pre war biased without him, as we really can't compare the two eras so well. Cook can be there deservingly as a modern-day great. One of Hutton/Hobbs would have to make way.

 

[mohsin7827]

1. Marcus Trescothick
2. Bob Willis
3. Derek Underwood
4. Ian Botham
5. Kevin Pietersen, Wally Hammond, Ken Barrington

 

[Fenil]

1. Jack Hobbs

2. Fred Trueman

3. Jim Laker

4. Sydney Barnes

5. Wally Hammond
Kevin Pietersen
Ian Botham

I so wanted to include Swann but Barnes is too good to sit out otherwise I thought 2 pacers and 2 spinners with Beefy donning the third seamer's role would be a team for all conditions.

 

[icyman]

1. Opener : Boycott
2. Fast bowler: Trueman
3. Spinner: Rhodes
4. Fourth bowler: Willis
5. 3 Middle-order batters: Cowdrey, Pietersen & Dexter

 

[Supreme General]

1. Jack Hobbs (literally in the best ever test XI how not first choice here)
2. Fred Trueman
3. Derek Underwood
4. Stuart Broad
5. Wally Hammond Ken Barrington Ian Botham

 

[CerealKiller]

Opener 2: Jack Hobbs
Fast Bowler 2: Sydney Barnes
Spinner: Hedley Verity
Fourth Bowler : Ian Botham
Middle-Order: Wally Hammond, Kevin Pietersen, Ben Stokes

 

[Perfect Square]

Opener 2: Jack Hobbs (C'mon he should be in XI)
Fast Bowler 2: Sydney Barnes
Spinner: Jim Laker
Fourth Bowler : Ian Botham
Middle-Order: Graham Thorpe, Wally Hammond and Kevin Pietersen.

 

[ddrap14]

I would argue that perhaps AR should be its own slot.

Opener 2: Jack Hobbs
Fast Bowler 2: Fred Trueman
Spinner: Jim Laker
Fourth Bowler: Sydney Barnes (he goes here and not fast bowler because he's kinda both)
Batsmen: Wally Hammond, Ted Dexter, Ian Botham

 

[Ed Smith]

Andrew Strauss
Stuart Broad
Derek Underwood
Ben Stokes
Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Ken Barrington

The Captain of Bazball

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