It is a privilege to have this chance to pick the best team of players with whom I played in Sydney grade cricket for Penrith and Bankstown. It is a Mug’s Luck that I had the fortune to play with so many first-class and Test cricketers, and just to show how challenging grade cricket was in the 1980s and 1990s, I am going to exclude them from selection. That means leaving out John Benaud, Trevor Bayliss, Rod Bower, ME and SR and DP Waugh, SB Smith, Bobby Vidler, Dave Freedman, Scott Prestwidge, Len Pascoe, ‘Jack’ Small, Scott Thompson, Peter Clough, Jason Arnberger, and the wizard behind the stumps, Terry Davies. Except…I am picking Wayne Holdsworth just for the thrill of seeing him charging in again!
My selections attribute each player with the club where we played together.