Still delaying number six, this vote is for fast bowlers. Below are the averages for every Ashes paceman to take more than seventy wickets.
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... pe=bowlingSome of the players who don't get selected here will go into a trade off for number six, if an all rounder, or number eleven to go into a repechage with some remaindered spin bowlers.
We're losing something in sensationalist nicknames. The Demon Spofforth. The Terror Turner, the pigeon McGrath...
I left out early bowlers Monty Noble and Tom Richardson to get some more familiar names in (well down the list). I'll include them in the last bowling spot list if anyone demurs.
Some names that didn't get in, on stats: Larwood, McDermott, Botham, Bedser, Willis, Statham. Rodney Hogg took 56 wickets at 17 in Ashes. Ryan Harris 57 at 21. Typhoon Tyson only took 32 Ashes wickets, almost all in one series.
I always say that everybody's right.