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Join host Chris Cowdrey and panelists Alec Stewart and Jack Bannister as they debate the selections. Will there be a place for Geoffrey Boycott? How many of England's current test squad will make it? How many all-rounders will feature and who will captain this team of teams? All these questions are answered by the panel with a few tough decisions along the way not the least of which being would Alec himself make it in!
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Now be careful, fellow cricket fans. I bought this in the shop and there are three things you need to know before committing to buy this DVD, especially if you have seen it yourself and read the blurb on the back.
1. It is NOT about English cricket's greatest "ever" XI. Once you start watching, Chris Cowdrey immediately makes it clear that it only deals with the 1950s onwards. So the earliest cricketers considered are Tyson and Laker. No Hobbs, Hammond, Barnes or Grace. No Bosanquet, no Wisden, no Kortright and so on.
2. It is NOT "170 mins approx", which is what it says on the box. Amazon has got it right. It is about 75 minutes long.
3. The box cleverly omits any publication date and the Amazon date is 2007. The programme was in fact made just before the 2005 Ashes series. So there's no Pietersen. Harmison and Giles get more attention than they might now. Flintoff a little less.
These reservations aside, the product is reasonably good. The entire soundtrack is a 75 minute discussion between Cowdrey, Jack Bannister and Alec Stewart, which is a fearfully boring trio on paper, but most of the time their speech acts as a voice over to compilations of the batsmen and bowlers in action. Mainly because, having watched it once and found out what the XI is, I can't imagine a day when I would watch the DVD ever again. So actually you might get this a bit cheaper in a charity shop in south London!
Essentially they talk about and show about three dozen cricketers, pick a squad of 18 and then whittle it down to the final eleven. I won't post a spoiler by telling you what the final XI is.
1. It is NOT about English cricket's greatest "ever" XI. Once you start watching, Chris Cowdrey immediately makes it clear that it only deals with the 1950s onwards. So the earliest cricketers considered are Tyson and Laker. No Hobbs, Hammond, Barnes or Grace. No Bosanquet, no Wisden, no Kortright and so on.
2. It is NOT "170 mins approx", which is what it says on the box. Amazon has got it right. It is about 75 minutes long.
3. The box cleverly omits any publication date and the Amazon date is 2007. The programme was in fact made just before the 2005 Ashes series. So there's no Pietersen. Harmison and Giles get more attention than they might now. Flintoff a little less.
These reservations aside, the product is reasonably good. The entire soundtrack is a 75 minute discussion between Cowdrey, Jack Bannister and Alec Stewart, which is a fearfully boring trio on paper, but most of the time their speech acts as a voice over to compilations of the batsmen and bowlers in action. Mainly because, having watched it once and found out what the XI is, I can't imagine a day when I would watch the DVD ever again. So actually you might get this a bit cheaper in a charity shop in south London!
Essentially they talk about and show about three dozen cricketers, pick a squad of 18 and then whittle it down to the final eleven. I won't post a spoiler by telling you what the final XI is.
I bought this for my grandson. He is very happy with it as a cricket enthusiast.
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful
There are a great number of "best ever" books around. There has been since the game was invented I suppose. Few though go into as much depth as this did. The stars (most of whom I have seen play) come rushing back to memory. This is probably as good as any I've ever read, & better then a lot.
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