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My Favorite England Cricket Team

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My favorite England cricket team In lieu of the first test of the summer,  I have decided to compile my list of my favorite England team. I have only really watched cricket since the 2005 ashes, so therefore I am not going to mention any players from before then. I know this means I am not including such players as Botham and Gower, you may disagree with this but I can't judge people based on highlights and purely a record.  Alistair Cook  161 Caps, 12,472 runs, 45.35 average 33 100s, 50 50s  Need I say any more, statically the best English batsman of all time. The highest scorer in terms of runs scored and with the number of 100s scored. People don’t remember but during the 2009 ashes, there were many frequent calls for Cook to be dropped. If my memory serves Cook scored an important 50 in one of the last tests which kept him in the squad for the next ashes. Then the rest as they say is history. In my humble opinion, I think that the test series is probably...