Cricket Facts with Lords of Cricket

When playing the Lords of Cricket board game you can select your ideal cricket team from current cricket players, Australian Women's Cricket team or cricketing heroes of the past from the Test Teams: Australian Cricket Team, English Cricket Team, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, West Indes or from the secondary teams. You can invent your own from friends, family members or even Hollywood celebrities.

A team should have two opening batsmen, three middle order batsmen, an all rounder, a wicket keeper, a spin bowler, two opening bowlers and one medium paced bowler. 

At Lords of Cricket we have compiled a list of players who you may like to recruit to make your cricket Dream Team. You can also look at our comprehensive player list for more detailed statistics on your favorite players.

Cricket Test Teams           

  • Australia
  • England
  • New Zealand 
  • Pakistan
  • West Indies
  • South Africa
  • India
  • Sri Lanka

Secondary non Test Playing Cricket Teams

  • Scotland
  • Canada
  • Belgium
  • Kenya
  • Bermuda
  • Ireland
  • Zimbabwe
  • Bangladesh  

2009 Australian Cricket Team

Ricky Ponting, Captain
Michael Clarke
Doug Bollinger
Stuart Clark
Nathan Bracken
Stuart Clark
Brad Haddin
Callum Ferguson
Ben Hilfenhaus
Brad Hodge
Nathan Hauritz
James Hopes
David Hussey		 Simon Katich
Phillip Hughes
Mike Hussey
Mitchell Johnson
Graham Manou
Shaun Marsh
Andrew McDonald
Peter Siddle
Lee Brett
Marcus North
Shaun Tait
Shane Watson
Cameron White

Australian Women's Cricket Team - Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars

Alyssa Healy
Elyse Villani
Rachael Haynes
Jodie Fields
Erin Osborne
Jessica Cameron
Delissa Kimmince
Ellyse Perry
Lauren Ebsary

Australian Cricket Legends

Sir Donald Bradman
Greg Chappel
Adam Gilcrest
Dennis Lillee
Merv Hughes
Alan Border

New Zealand Cricket Legends

Sir Richard Hadlee
Martin Crowe
Chris Cairns

English Cricket Legends 

Len Hutton
Fred Trueman
Sir Ian Botham
Douglas Jardine
Harold Larwood
Andrew Flintoff 

Sri Lankan Cricket Legends

Kumar Sangakkara
Mahela Jayawardena
Muttiah Muralitharan

Indian Cricket Legends

Bishen Bedi
E.A.S. Prasanna
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
Srinivas Venkataraghavan
Sunil Gavaskar
Sachin Tendulka

Pakistan Cricket Legends

Imran Khan
Wasim Akram
Sarfaraz Nawaz
Saeed Anwar

West Indies Cricket Legends

Sir Garfield Sobers

Basil Butcher
Charlie Griffith
Sir Frank Worrell

Brian Lara 

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