The Alphabet Game

[DiligentDefence]

Roy Fredericks to open?

Pre WWi Aubrey Faulkner?

[Arthur Crabtree]

Fredericks is a must.

[Arthur Crabtree]

James Faulkner. Got about one cap, so no.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Suggestions. Maybes in brackets.

1. Fredericks
2 (Fingleton)
3. (S.Fleming)
4.
5.
6. A.Flower
7. Flintoff
8.
9. (D.Fleming)
10. Fraser
11. (Farnes)

Longer shots: K.Fletcher, N.Foster, Fry, Ferris, F.Foster, Fleetwood-Smith for spinner, actually Tich Freeman should probably be the spinner.

[Arthur Crabtree]

No Asian players yet.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Don't think there's SL Fernando worthy of a place?

[rich1uk]

Don't think there's SL Fernando worthy of a place?

maybe in an Abba thread

[Arthur Crabtree]

Assuming Damien Fleming and Fraser are in, plus Freddie, we need a pace bowler from:

Farnes
Finn
Neil Foster
Ferris
F.Foster
Dilhara Fernando.

[Arthur Crabtree]

1. Fredericks
2. Fingleton
3. S.Fleming
4. K.Fletcher
5. Aubrey Faulkner
6. A.Flower
7. Flintoff
8. D.Fleming
9. Fraser
10. Freeman
11. Farnes

Suggestion, after looking at the stats.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Pre WWi Aubrey Faulkner?

Great suggestion.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Faulkner gassed himself. Farnes was shot down in WWII. Looking up players back then is a completely different experience. I know the link between cricket and suicide goes on, but the lives they lived feel completely different. Ferris died in the Boer War. Fingleton assisted in the war office in WWII and didn't go back to the game and became a political as well as cricket correspondent.

[ianp1970]

Are we moving onto G then?

[rich1uk]

Are we moving onto G then?

i think so

Fs were a struggle

i'll throw the following names in to start

Gooch
Greenidge
Gower
Gilchrist
Garner
Gavaskar
Grimmett

[Arthur Crabtree]

There's an obvious side:

Gavaskar
Greenidge
Gooch
Gower
Greig
X
Gilchrist
Gough
Gillespie
Garner
Grimmett

Which maybe could be improved: Gower, and Gough perhaps.

[rich1uk]

lance gibbs ?