A Hunt in Linlithgow - and a possessive 136 balls? What was special? WillE 20:01, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
For a minimum of 50 first-class games, who has the highest percentage of Tests in their career First-Class tally? -- Travisbasevi 20:24, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Yes, McGrath is the one who prefers the upper classes. It's a 3-way race with him on 65.61%, followed by Yousuf 65.52% and Boucher 64.60%. 27 of McGrath's last 28 FC games were Tests (similarly 28/30 for Boucher's recent past). They might all be trumped by Mashrafe Mortaza who currently has 25/35 = 71.43%, although that probably depends more on Bangladesh filling the gaps in their sparse fixture list. -- Travisbasevi 06:48, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Play in a 1993/94 Barbados League match was interrupted when which national leader arrived and asked to have a bat? -- Roisterer 12:16, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Under what circumstances did a Test cricketer have a close shave on the pitch? Literally. Johnlp 08:19, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Er, no. It was a club match rather than a Test match, though the player in question and some others were Test players. Johnlp 15:03, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Clue? The player was the captain of Clifton Gymkhana. Johnlp 23:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
No, though it's a nice idea. This is a very long way from the Clifton where WG might have had his beard singed. Johnlp 00:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Not this one. The incident I'm thinking of happened during a match. And it involved motorbikes. Johnlp 11:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Correct. Well done. Over to you. Johnlp 18:48, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Did wonder whether someone would ask! Club match between Clifton Gymkhana and Nazimabad Sports. Captain Aftab Baloch omitted one of the Clifton players from the team to play. Omitted player took umbrage, and recruited four leather-clad bikers to drive on to the pitch during the match, corner Aftab and cut his hair off. Other players and umpires were deterred from intervening because the bikers carried knives. Serious stuff, this club cricket. Johnlp 10:12, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Clem Hill was the first to achieve this in Tests, who was the first to complete the feat in ODIs? -- Jpeeling 19:20, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Sorry Johnlp and Cowboydan78 both are correct but not what I'm looking for, Hill achieved it in 1902, the ODI version was completed first in 1983. -- Jpeeling 10:26, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Not that either WillE, it's not that rare it's been achieved by 58 different batsman in Tests and 46 in ODIs. -- Jpeeling 12:40, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Well done David Gower was the first man to score 1,000 ODIs runs in a year, and his 1,086 runs in 1983 is still the English record, Ian Bell fell 6 runs short this year. BTW 24 batsman have scored 1,000 in both forms of the game including Abraham de Villiers, Hansie Cronje and Paul Collingwood although names not on the list include Mohammad Azharuddin, Allan Border, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Sourav Ganguly, Adam Gilchrist, Javed Miandad and Marcus Trescothick. -- Jpeeling 09:27, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
The complement to Q602. Which Test cricketer (ie, we're excluding the tens of thousands who never played a Test) has the lowest Test to First-Class matches ratio. -- Travisbasevi 10:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Who is the only wicket-keeper to have opened the bowling in Test cricket? -- Jpeeling 11:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Kunderan wasn't keeping in the match when he opened the bowling. -- Jpeeling 12:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
I should have researched better as the answer I had was
Clyde Walcott in
1950 who bowled in a proper innings :), anyway Travisbasevi it's your turn. --
Jpeeling 12:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Rashid Latif also did it in 1994 -- Roberry 14:41, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Whose tardy record will Sourav Ganguly almost likely (but not definitely, and quite possibly never) break in the current ODI series against Pakistan? -- Travisbasevi 19:54, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, he has 99 ODI wickets in 308 games. So is it that he will have taken the most matches to reach 100 wickets. Aravinda de Silva took his 100th wicket in his 303rd match, and currently holds the record. - -- Roberry 20:04, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Not sure how to word this, but hopefully it will make sense. Which XI players played together more often than any other in Tests (they played 11 times together)? -- Roberry 20:19, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
This tricky one came up in the pub tonight, and I'm happy if I can be proven wrong, but which slow left arm chinaman bowler has taken the most wickets for any of the four Asian Test countries. -- Travisbasevi 21:47, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Which bowler holds the record for most first class wickets on a tour of England? -- Jpeeling 09:36, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
If Courtney Walsh is No 1 and Steve Harmison No 2, which two players are jointly No 3? Johnlp 13:48, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
No, nothing to do with height. Johnlp 14:32, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm away for a couple of days in a short while, so will give a clue in the hope that it moves this on before I disappear: The numbers refer to runs and, if this is an order of merit, then perhaps it's recording the ability to handle pressure in the final analysis... Johnlp 20:00, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Hurrah. That's it. Over to you. Johnlp 06:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Easy one. Who is the first batsman to make two centuries on his first class debut? Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 07:00, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Name those who have taken a wicket with their 1st ball of their T-20 career ? — Wattmaster 08:35, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Siddharth Trivedi [10] , also as a footnote Tyron Henderson [11] acheived his effort on county debut in England, having previously played in South Africa, he'd apparently only arrived in the country on the morning of the match and his kit was still stuck at Heathrow. As Graham Onions appears to have done a Michael Kasprowicz with wickets with his 1st 2 deliveries of his career, I'll give it to Travisbasevi, over to you. — Wattmaster 20:17, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, who fielded throughout a whole first class match, with the opposition batting twice, only touching the ball for the first time when holding the catch that closed the second innings of the opposition? WillE 23:03, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
"I only ever played the game once myself, in the park with some evacuees from Bootle. I was allowed to join in because I held a biscuit tin filled with shortbread that my mother had baked. They said I could have a turn if I gave them a biscuit afterwards. I didn't make any runs because I never hit the ball, and when I kept my promise and began to open the tin the evacuees knocked me over and took every piece of shortbread. They threw the tin over the wall into the gentlemen's lavatory. I had to tell my mother a six-foot-high naughty man with a Hitler moustache had chased me; she would have slapped me for playing with evacuees." Whose experience of cricket was this? Johnlp 18:21, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Well done. Over to you. Johnlp 19:13, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm running out of questions. When was the first occurence of opposing Test captains scoring centuries in the same match? -- Jpeeling 19:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
What links these players? Alastair Cook, Shahriar Nafees, Jacques Kallis, Paul Collingwood, Kevin Pietersen, Ashwell Prince, Jacques Rudolph, Brian Lara and Dwayne Bravo? KingStrato 18:33, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes, they're the players to have scored a century against Australia since the end of the 2005 Ashes. KingStrato 07:05, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
What scorecard curio was achieved by Australia in the recent Test in Brisbane that has only been done once before in Test history, namely Australia v South Africa at Adelaide, 1931/32? -- Travisbasevi 08:31, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
He was purely a batsman and played in modern times. After scoring his second hundred in his 12th Test match, he played, with hardly any breaks, for ten more years. During this time, he played in three World Cups and in the last two years of his career, captained his country. Yet, in a career of more than 50 Tests, he did not score a hundred after the 12th Test. Who ? Tintin 16:38, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
A Hunt in Linlithgow - and a possessive 136 balls? What was special? WillE 20:01, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
For a minimum of 50 first-class games, who has the highest percentage of Tests in their career First-Class tally? -- Travisbasevi 20:24, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Yes, McGrath is the one who prefers the upper classes. It's a 3-way race with him on 65.61%, followed by Yousuf 65.52% and Boucher 64.60%. 27 of McGrath's last 28 FC games were Tests (similarly 28/30 for Boucher's recent past). They might all be trumped by Mashrafe Mortaza who currently has 25/35 = 71.43%, although that probably depends more on Bangladesh filling the gaps in their sparse fixture list. -- Travisbasevi 06:48, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Play in a 1993/94 Barbados League match was interrupted when which national leader arrived and asked to have a bat? -- Roisterer 12:16, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Under what circumstances did a Test cricketer have a close shave on the pitch? Literally. Johnlp 08:19, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Er, no. It was a club match rather than a Test match, though the player in question and some others were Test players. Johnlp 15:03, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Clue? The player was the captain of Clifton Gymkhana. Johnlp 23:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
No, though it's a nice idea. This is a very long way from the Clifton where WG might have had his beard singed. Johnlp 00:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Not this one. The incident I'm thinking of happened during a match. And it involved motorbikes. Johnlp 11:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Correct. Well done. Over to you. Johnlp 18:48, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Did wonder whether someone would ask! Club match between Clifton Gymkhana and Nazimabad Sports. Captain Aftab Baloch omitted one of the Clifton players from the team to play. Omitted player took umbrage, and recruited four leather-clad bikers to drive on to the pitch during the match, corner Aftab and cut his hair off. Other players and umpires were deterred from intervening because the bikers carried knives. Serious stuff, this club cricket. Johnlp 10:12, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Clem Hill was the first to achieve this in Tests, who was the first to complete the feat in ODIs? -- Jpeeling 19:20, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Sorry Johnlp and Cowboydan78 both are correct but not what I'm looking for, Hill achieved it in 1902, the ODI version was completed first in 1983. -- Jpeeling 10:26, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Not that either WillE, it's not that rare it's been achieved by 58 different batsman in Tests and 46 in ODIs. -- Jpeeling 12:40, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Well done David Gower was the first man to score 1,000 ODIs runs in a year, and his 1,086 runs in 1983 is still the English record, Ian Bell fell 6 runs short this year. BTW 24 batsman have scored 1,000 in both forms of the game including Abraham de Villiers, Hansie Cronje and Paul Collingwood although names not on the list include Mohammad Azharuddin, Allan Border, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Sourav Ganguly, Adam Gilchrist, Javed Miandad and Marcus Trescothick. -- Jpeeling 09:27, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
The complement to Q602. Which Test cricketer (ie, we're excluding the tens of thousands who never played a Test) has the lowest Test to First-Class matches ratio. -- Travisbasevi 10:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Who is the only wicket-keeper to have opened the bowling in Test cricket? -- Jpeeling 11:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Kunderan wasn't keeping in the match when he opened the bowling. -- Jpeeling 12:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
I should have researched better as the answer I had was
Clyde Walcott in
1950 who bowled in a proper innings :), anyway Travisbasevi it's your turn. --
Jpeeling 12:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Rashid Latif also did it in 1994 -- Roberry 14:41, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Whose tardy record will Sourav Ganguly almost likely (but not definitely, and quite possibly never) break in the current ODI series against Pakistan? -- Travisbasevi 19:54, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, he has 99 ODI wickets in 308 games. So is it that he will have taken the most matches to reach 100 wickets. Aravinda de Silva took his 100th wicket in his 303rd match, and currently holds the record. - -- Roberry 20:04, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Not sure how to word this, but hopefully it will make sense. Which XI players played together more often than any other in Tests (they played 11 times together)? -- Roberry 20:19, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
This tricky one came up in the pub tonight, and I'm happy if I can be proven wrong, but which slow left arm chinaman bowler has taken the most wickets for any of the four Asian Test countries. -- Travisbasevi 21:47, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Which bowler holds the record for most first class wickets on a tour of England? -- Jpeeling 09:36, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
If Courtney Walsh is No 1 and Steve Harmison No 2, which two players are jointly No 3? Johnlp 13:48, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
No, nothing to do with height. Johnlp 14:32, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm away for a couple of days in a short while, so will give a clue in the hope that it moves this on before I disappear: The numbers refer to runs and, if this is an order of merit, then perhaps it's recording the ability to handle pressure in the final analysis... Johnlp 20:00, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Hurrah. That's it. Over to you. Johnlp 06:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Easy one. Who is the first batsman to make two centuries on his first class debut? Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 07:00, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Name those who have taken a wicket with their 1st ball of their T-20 career ? — Wattmaster 08:35, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Siddharth Trivedi [10] , also as a footnote Tyron Henderson [11] acheived his effort on county debut in England, having previously played in South Africa, he'd apparently only arrived in the country on the morning of the match and his kit was still stuck at Heathrow. As Graham Onions appears to have done a Michael Kasprowicz with wickets with his 1st 2 deliveries of his career, I'll give it to Travisbasevi, over to you. — Wattmaster 20:17, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, who fielded throughout a whole first class match, with the opposition batting twice, only touching the ball for the first time when holding the catch that closed the second innings of the opposition? WillE 23:03, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
"I only ever played the game once myself, in the park with some evacuees from Bootle. I was allowed to join in because I held a biscuit tin filled with shortbread that my mother had baked. They said I could have a turn if I gave them a biscuit afterwards. I didn't make any runs because I never hit the ball, and when I kept my promise and began to open the tin the evacuees knocked me over and took every piece of shortbread. They threw the tin over the wall into the gentlemen's lavatory. I had to tell my mother a six-foot-high naughty man with a Hitler moustache had chased me; she would have slapped me for playing with evacuees." Whose experience of cricket was this? Johnlp 18:21, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Well done. Over to you. Johnlp 19:13, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm running out of questions. When was the first occurence of opposing Test captains scoring centuries in the same match? -- Jpeeling 19:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
What links these players? Alastair Cook, Shahriar Nafees, Jacques Kallis, Paul Collingwood, Kevin Pietersen, Ashwell Prince, Jacques Rudolph, Brian Lara and Dwayne Bravo? KingStrato 18:33, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes, they're the players to have scored a century against Australia since the end of the 2005 Ashes. KingStrato 07:05, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
What scorecard curio was achieved by Australia in the recent Test in Brisbane that has only been done once before in Test history, namely Australia v South Africa at Adelaide, 1931/32? -- Travisbasevi 08:31, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
He was purely a batsman and played in modern times. After scoring his second hundred in his 12th Test match, he played, with hardly any breaks, for ten more years. During this time, he played in three World Cups and in the last two years of his career, captained his country. Yet, in a career of more than 50 Tests, he did not score a hundred after the 12th Test. Who ? Tintin 16:38, 14 November 2007 (UTC)