Completing our series, Sir Geoffrey Boycott picks his team of White Rose all-timers
1. HERBERT SUTCLIFFE
602 matches (in first-class cricket for Yorkshire – 1919-45), 38,558 runs at 50.20, 112 hundreds, 167 fifties; 8 wickets at 47.62
Sutcliffe’s first-class career almost exactly spanned the period between the two World Wars. He was one of the game’s greatest bad-wicket batters, with a supreme belief in his own ability.
During his career, Yorkshire won the County Championship 12 times, which tells you something. He scored nearly 40,000 runs for the club, just a...
