Vintcent van der Bijl & Mike Procter

Naming just one player is too hard when you've got a choice between Vince van der Bijl and Mike Procter.

Vince van der Bijl Right-arm fast-medium bowler & right-handed batsman South Africa First-class career 1967-1983 767 wickets @ 16.54 Mike Procter Right-handed batsman & right-arm bowler South Africa First-class career 1965-1989 1,417 wickets @ 19.53 21,936 runs @ 36.01

Everything with Vince was free flowing. His hair, his shirt, his thoughts and his action. Everything flowed.

He was magnificent to watch and a fast bowler who thought and made his own plans with absolutely devastating effect.

But he was not an archetypal bowler. There was never any nastiness about him and in that regard he was behind his time.

You were supposed to spitting angry and hostile but he was a gentleman and showed that you could take hundreds and hundreds of wickets without being brutal and aggressive.

Mike Procter was who every kid wanted to be.

He was instinctive with both bat and ball and did things his way because he could - absolutely amazing.

If they had been given the chance to play Test cricket they would have been as big as anyone, and as if to prove that, in only seven Tests Proccy took 41 wickets at 15.

Andy Flower

He may have retired from international cricket, but Andy Flower is still playing and he is one of the greats.

Left-handed batsman Zimbabwe 63 Tests (1992-2002) 4,794 runs @ 51.55

When you consider what he has done in the game, you have to remember that there has never been anyone as good as him in the history of his country's cricket.

He had nobody to learn from, no role models and is self taught, which is absolutely amazing.

Flower has a library of books and to teach yourself to be great in a game from books is quite astonishing

He has to be one of the cleverest batsmen I've ever seen, although he has a sharp tongue and is aggressive at the crease.

But then he needed to be hostile because he has only ever been in a weak team and to finish with a Test average of 52 having played for Zimbabwe is a real feat.

We haven't had time for it to sink in and in 30 years time he will be refered to as a great, although I think of him as a great now, and that's not a word I ever use lightly.