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by **Eitan Prin** » Fri, 20 Sep 1996 04:00:00

I've recently been looking at scorecards from the Rebel era and found to my
amazement that very often the South African teams comprised many players
from Transvaal. For example: Jimmy Cook, Graeme Pollock, Clive Rice, Kevin
McKenzie, Ray Jennings, Alan Kourie and Vince van der Bijl have represented
South Africa against rebel tourists in the early eighties - often all seven
of them played. The rest of the team was made up by the Western Province
trio Peter Kirsten, Garth le Roux and Stephen Jefferies. Surely this is
quite incredible. Where a team consists of 10 players drawn from 2 provinces
with Barry Richards of Natal making up the eleven. How often has so many
players from one first class team represented the national side in test
cricket?

Eitan [Just interested]

and just to end of with another question (apologies) who was the first West
Indian born player to represent England in an international match?

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by **James Pettif** » Fri, 20 Sep 1996 04:00:00

Quote:

>I've recently been looking at scorecards from the Rebel era and found to my
>amazement that very often the South African teams comprised many players
>from Transvaal. For example: Jimmy Cook, Graeme Pollock, Clive Rice, Kevin
>McKenzie, Ray Jennings, Alan Kourie and Vince van der Bijl have represented
>South Africa against rebel tourists in the early eighties - often all seven
>of them played. The rest of the team was made up by the Western Province
>trio Peter Kirsten, Garth le Roux and Stephen Jefferies. Surely this is
>quite incredible. Where a team consists of 10 players drawn from 2 provinces
>with Barry Richards of Natal making up the eleven. How often has so many
>players from one first class team represented the national side in test
>cricket?

hmm .. . well look at the current australian team . . .

M.Taylor - NSW
M.Slater - NSW
R.Ponting - TAS
M.Waugh - NSW
S.Waugh - NSW
M.Bevan - NSW
I.Healy - QLD
C.McDermott - QLD
G.McGrath - NSW
S.Warne - Vic
+ one other assorted bowler possibly reifel

so thats 6 from NSW.. . also recently there has been Shane Lee in the
team as well . . . perhaps a bit excessive . . .

james

by **Rick Eyr** » Fri, 20 Sep 1996 04:00:00

Quote:

> and just to end of with another question (apologies) who was the first
West
> Indian born player to represent England in an international match?

I was going to say Roland Butcher, but thinking more about it, I believe
the correct answer is Pelham Warner :-)

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by **Rick Eyr** » Sat, 21 Sep 1996 04:00:00

Quote:

> hmm .. . well look at the current australian team . . .

> M.Taylor - NSW
> M.Slater - NSW
> R.Ponting - TAS
> M.Waugh - NSW
> S.Waugh - NSW
> M.Bevan - NSW
> I.Healy - QLD
> C.McDermott - QLD
> G.McGrath - NSW
> S.Warne - Vic
> + one other assorted bowler possibly reifel

> so thats 6 from NSW.. . also recently there has been Shane Lee in the
> team as well . . . perhaps a bit excessive . . .

It's only excessive if there are better players available from other
states, and although Bevan's place in the first XI (if we are talking
Tests) is still under question, the others are all performing very well.

Shane Lee's presence in the Australian one-day side was a bit unnecessary
though, and on the basis of his bowling form for Somerset this season I
don't expect that the Aussies will have a place for him in a hurry...

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