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GregP Feb 2021 6:57pm, 1 Feb 2021 125,007 posts	0 GregP In other news, this was in the current Wisden Cricket Monthly. It's the England XII for the second test against Australia in 1975. I named 11 out of 12. It was 46 years ago. I was 11.
NDWDave Feb 2021 7:00pm, 1 Feb 2021 13,884 posts	0 NDWDave Are you sure that isn’t the Geography teachers XI?
Cerrertonia Feb 2021 7:01pm, 1 Feb 2021 13,685 posts	0 Cerrertonia 7 for me, but I would have been only 5.
Cerrertonia Feb 2021 7:03pm, 1 Feb 2021 13,686 posts	0 Cerrertonia One of those players made his county debut in 1964, and had his final county appearance in 1990 - which one?
NDWDave Feb 2021 7:18pm, 1 Feb 2021 13,885 posts	0 NDWDave I reckon I would get two right but I was minus 5 at the time
TROSaracen Feb 2021 7:18pm, 1 Feb 2021 22,773 posts	0 TROSaracen 3 for me, maybe another 3 fairly decent guesses. And probably another 3/4 ‘England cricketers I know were around at the time so probably in there even if don’t recognise them’.
NDWDave Feb 2021 7:23pm, 1 Feb 2021 13,886 posts	0 NDWDave David Steele and Gooch for me
ThorntonRunner Feb 2021 8:24pm, 1 Feb 2021 4,554 posts	0 ThorntonRunner 8 - which is poor given I was 15
Ocelot Spleens Feb 2021 8:35pm, 1 Feb 2021 30,072 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens I only miss 16 middle back row. The cricketer has a good article by Brearly about touring India. Take 5 proper bowlers, use 3 seamers! Bat long.
Ocelot Spleens Feb 2021 8:40pm, 1 Feb 2021 30,073 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens Oh I was 12