With the month of July drawing to a close, our team in CricMASH chose their all-time XIs with July-born cricketers.

Here are the teams chosen by the different contributors:

Mayukh Ghosh
Sunil Gavaskar
Bill Brown
WG Grace (c)
Stan McCabe
Garry Sobers
Allan Border
BJ Watling (wk)
Shaun Pollock
Richard Hadlee
Harbhajan Singh
Dennis Lillee

Comment: Alec Bedser can play if the July XI take on the August XI.
(NB: Don Bradman was born on 27 Aug 1908.)

Arunabha Sengupta
Sunil Gavaskar
Graham Gooch
WG Grace (c)
Stan McCabe
Allan Border
Garry Sobers
MS Dhoni (wk)
Shaun Pollock
Richard Hadlee
Tony Lock
Dennis Lillee

Comment: Heartbreaking to leave out characters such as Ken Farnes, BJ Bosanquet. Perhaps Barry Richards and Jimmy Cook would open in a July first-class XI

Abhishek Mukhejee
Sunil Gavaskar
Barry Richards
Graham Gooch
WG Grace (c)
Allan Border
Garry Sobers
BJ Watling (wk)
Shaun Pollock
Richard Hadlee
Dennis Lillee
Ghulam Ahmed

Comment: Grace is the captain because he would not have allowed anyone else, including Border, to lead anyway.

B Sreeram

Sunil Gavaskar
Barry Richards
Graham Gooch
WG Grace (c)
Allan Border
Garry Sobers
MS Dhoni (wk)
Richard Hadlee
Alec Bedser
Harbhajan Singh
Dennis Lillee

Comment: Bedser is a sentimental choice.

It was more or less universally agreed that Jonty Rhodes will be the twelfth man.

*The rest, who featured in one or more XIs but not all four.*