Just wondered - when was the last "RH-friendly" side picked for England?

Going back to 1981 in India there was Gooch, Boycott, Tavare, Gower, 
Fletcher, Botham, Emburey, Dilley, Taylor and Underwood. I'm assuming this 
would meet your satisfaction, RH?

Any team more recently?

Richard

On 14 May, 22:32, Richard Dixon  wrote:
> Just wondered - when was the last "RH-friendly" side picked for England?
>
> Going back to 1981 in India there was Gooch, Boycott, Tavare, Gower,
> Fletcher, Botham, Emburey, Dilley, Taylor and Underwood. I'm assuming this> would meet your satisfaction, RH?
>
> Any team more recently?

We’ve had the question of the last time there was an England side with
all members born in England before (within the last 3 or 4 years
IIRC), but the last time an RH friendly side was picked is a tad
harder.  As has been made very clear over the years, RH’s selection
criteria are far from objective – they seem to hang in certain cases
on things like accent, whether ‘English people in a pub would
recognise them as one of their own’ (although RH refutes any English
people who don’t come to the conclusion he thinks they should come
to), and the never fully defined ‘upbringing’ (Something Strauss has
but Butcher never had, we’re told).  I’m all for playing games of
picking England sides under spurious selection restraints (an XI all
left handers, an XI from Middlesex etc), but it’s hard to play the RH
approved game when his criteria are unclear.

Having said that it’d probably have been in the 1950s, no?  The land
of milk and honey...

People are nostalgic about the times when they first watched cricket
properly.  I have the misfortune to have started in the early 90s so
am required to be nostalgic for batting collapses and inconsistent
selection, perhaps I should envy RH with his 1950s rose tinted glasses

On Wed, 14 May 2008 21:32:26 GMT, Richard Dixon
 wrote:

>Just wondered - when was the last "RH-friendly" side picked for England?
>
>Going back to 1981 in India there was Gooch, Boycott, Tavare, Gower, 
>Fletcher, Botham, Emburey, Dilley, Taylor and Underwood. I'm assuming this 
>would meet your satisfaction, RH?
>
>Any team more recently?
>
>Richard

Dunno about England teams but Sussex played an all-white team
recently with no overseas player - a rarity these days that I
was pleased to see :o)

CD Nash
MJ Prior
CJ Adams
MW Goodwin
LJ Wright 
MH Yardy
CD Hopkinson
RSC Martin-Jenkins
TMJ Smith
RJ Kirtley
JD Lewry

...and thrashed Middx by 7 wickets!

Prior is a proud Afrikaaner and Goodwin is a Rhodesian refugee,
but the remaining nine were born in England.

May not be good enough for some people but certainly very good
for me!!!

On 14 May, 22:32, Richard Dixon  wrote:
> Just wondered - when was the last "RH-friendly" side picked for England?
>
> Going back to 1981 in India there was Gooch, Boycott, Tavare, Gower,
> Fletcher, Botham, Emburey, Dilley, Taylor and Underwood. I'm assuming this
> would meet your satisfaction, RH?
>
> Any team more recently?
>
> Richard

Conversely, when looking at the 1991 England v West Indies series, I
wondered if that was the least "RH-friendly" England side: in the
first two tests, after Gooch and Atherton, the team was Hick, Lamb,
Ramprakash, Smith, Russell, Pringle, DeFreitas, Watkin, Malcolm - of
these only Russell and (probably) Pringle are presumably
"satisfactory". Morris, Lewis and Lawrence also played in the series.