OLD TIMER'S FOUR BEST TEAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 8 March 1924, Page 3

OLD TIMER'S FOUR BEST TEAMS.

(Sydney Referee.) The world's four best teams, each man at his best! This theme should always interest your readers. Only Test match players included, thus J. R. M. Mackay is barred: First Team: W. G. Grace, V. Trumper, K. S. Ranjitsinhji, A. C. MacLaren (capt.), J. B. Hobbs, M. A. Noble, F. S. Jackson, W. Rhodes, Lockwood, J. Blackham, F. S. Spofforth. Second Team: A. Shrewsbury, T. Hayward, G. Hill, J. T. Tyldesley, G.

A. Faulkner, J. Darling* (capt.), G. Giffen, J. M. Gregory, A. Lilley, T. Richardson, C. T. B. Turner. Third Team: W. Bardsley, R, Abel, C. Bannermaii, C. G, Macartney, G. Gunn, W. W. Armstrong (capt.), F. Woolley, G. H. Hirst, H. Trumble, H. Carter, S*. F. Barnes. Fourth Team: R, A. Du-f£, W". Barnes, W. W. Read, C. B. Fry, & E. Gregory, G. H. S. Trott (capt.)", A. E. Trott, G. A. Lohmann, E. Pilling or P. W. Sherwell, E. Jones, A. Shaw. Reserve, any team, G. L. Jessop. Old Timer must be a very keen follower of the world's cricket for a great many years; moreover, he must be a fine judge of a player and have a good knowledge of what is necessary in team building to get the highest results. It is inevitable, of course, that some good players are not ehcsen.