An original question (So there is a little chance that it is incorrect) and one of those which can be answered from a close reading of the scorecard and the pages leading from it. What first class record was set in the match between Barisal & Sylhet at Barisal in November 2000 : http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/71/71081.html ? Tintin 12:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Can I scrap the question. There is a good chance that it is wrong. Tintin 14:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
I say you may scrap the question! (As long as you tell us your answer, please!) -- RobertG ♬ talk 14:33, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
The expected answer was that Rajin Saleh captained the side at the age of 17 years and 7 days which may make him the youngest fc captain, but there is a possibility that there is some young Pakistani captain hiding somewhere. Tintin 14:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
MG Vijayasarathy and MV Nagendra, both Test umpires, umpired together in the Mysore v Andhra match in 1960-61 ( http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/24/24551.html ) making it a very rare instance of a father and son umpiring together. There is at least one other instance prior to this when a father and son stood in a first class match. Both also played first class cricket and father (who has a wikipedia article) was unlucky not have played a Test match. Who ? Tintin 14:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Rodney and Winston Trott?? Rakuten06 22:38, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. The all-rounder hint was very helpful. 8-) Johnlp 19:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Which Test player was known as Tommy's Ghost? And who was Tommy? Johnlp 19:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
No. More recent. Johnlp 20:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Tommy's Ghost appeared to have modelled his bowling action on a colleague called "Tommy" (more usually Tom), 14 years his senior. Tommy went off to play for other teams; the Ghost later changed his bowling style and played Test cricket in his latter mode (though he's perhaps better known for a Test batting exploit). Johnlp 13:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
the ghost also sounds a bit like an american poet (but don't put that in capitals). Johnlp 17:48, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
That's the innings I meant: he did it as a nightwatchman (and it was more famous than any Test bowling he ever did!) Have you found Tommy yet? Johnlp 20:55, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
We are indeed: e.e.hemmings and Tommy Cartwright. Well done, the two of you. I think the precedent is that the supplier of the full answer gets it. So WillE, it's you, with due commiserations to Tintin. Johnlp 23:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Feel a bit of a fraud - as well as finishing off other's crosswords, I finish off other people's questions too, but OK....
What prompted a man born in East Ham to give his teeth to a man born in Barnsley? WillE 14:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
The wife of which amateur cricketer was mistaken for the Empress of France? -- ALoan (Talk) 13:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Lionel Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson? -- Dweller 16:01, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Do I get any points for saying Marie Antoinette???!! Mdcollins1984 23:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Richard Penruddocke Long (wife Charlotte) - at last. Mdcollins1984 00:09, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
On first meeting, who said to whom "I hear you like driving. I like drinking - We are going to get on well!"? Mdcollins1984 00:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
The Test record is four wickets down for none. I will award the question to anyone who can find me a first-class match in which a side were five down for none and won the match. There may be several instances: I do know of one. Giving instances of low scores at the fall of each wicket (for instance, Surrey v Essex, 1983, were eight for 8 before Sylvester Clarke edged a four) will win you prestige, but will not earn you the right to set the next question! RobertG ♬ talk 11:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Only once in the history of Test cricket has the first four batsmen (Batsmen 1-4 - not the first four to get out) in a team's innings were all out for ducks. Scorecard please. Tintin 13:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
A v E, 2nd inns at Old Trafford, 1888. -- RobertG ♬ talk 13:09, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Which left-handed opening batsman has the rare distinction of scoring 250 runs in a first-class match against his own country? RobertG ♬ talk 13:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
No, you were ever so much warmer with Jaques! I am going offline in half an hour - do you want another clue? -- RobertG ♬ talk 17:08, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
How about Graeme Hick?
Jonesy has it right. The colour-blind and short-sighted Australian opening batsman Chris Rogers (cricketer) scored 56 and 209 for Leicestershire v Australians in 2005.
I did specify 250 runs in a first-class match, I am very sorry if that was unclear. Jonesy's turn. -- RobertG ♬ talk 08:28, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
This is my first turn at this so I apologise if this question has been asked before. Which Australian bowler who has taken more than 50 test wickets has had the highest percentage caught? Jonesy 07:05, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Kerry O'Keeffe Rakuten06 13:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Correct. Over to you Rakuten06 Jonesy 22:55, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Also, I have a request: Can someone archive the question 381 to 400?? Rakuten06 23:08, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Assuming Mohammed Azharuddin's life ban holds, he will end up with the rare distinction of having scored a hundred in his first and last tests. Which other player achieved the same distinction, albeit with less notoriety? Rakuten06 23:06, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Who holds the record for the most first-class catches? What about non-wicketkeepers? Stephen Turner ( Talk) 05:32, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
What cricket record currently stands at 139? -- LiamE 16:00, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Some form of partnership? к1иg f1$н £я5ω1fт 18:23, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
What is significant about the Test debuts of Graham McKenzie, Jeff Thomson, Greg Ritchie, Damien Martyn and Michael Clarke? The-Pope 10:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
I would love it if that was right. And, Mr. Steven Turner, My sig is marvellous and original - yours is a bland name! I have seen more attractive sloths :) к1иg f1$н £я5ω1fт 19:35, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Each was born in a different decade from all the others in their team. Graham McKenzie was the only Aussie in his debut match born in the 1940s. Thomson was the only one born in the 50s. Greg Ritchie was the only one born in the 60s. Damien Martyn was the only one born in the 1970s. Michael Clarke was the only one born in the 1980s. -- UdayS 05:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Very good question. (Gratified that I wasn't too far off with youngest on debut...) -- ALoan (Talk) 11:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Simple question to keep things moving. What batting record is shared by Greenidge, Bradman and Sunil Gavaskar UdayS 01:42, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
"The blow of the ball on bare legs is not mollified by the irredeemable fact of automatically being out LBW".
Where? WillE 18:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
John Robert Troutbeck Barclay, erstwhile Sussex captain. Johnlp 16:07, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Who are the only pair of openers to have opened together at grade, state and Test level in the one season (note use of the word "state")? -- Roisterer 22:16, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Vinod Kambli & Sachin Tendulkar ?
That's them. I got the question from a new book I'm reading, One Test, about Australians who played one Test (Thoms being one of them). I'm not sure whether they are the only pair worldwide to have done this (the point isn't really clear in the book) so I kept the question restricted to Australia. The book also recites the following story from Thoms; When they (Thoms and McDonald) were named in the Test team, (Australian selector) Jack Ryder came into the dressing room and told them not to get caught up in the drinking atmosphere of the national side. The moment Ryder left, McDonald turned to Thoms and asked him to get him a beer. When Thoms returned with two beers, he found that Ryder was back talking to McDonald. Thoms offered McDonald a beer but McDonald politely refused while Ryder no doubt glared at Thoms. -- Roisterer 02:45, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Sorry for the delay.
Who am I:
I played Test cricket less that 2 years after my first-class debut. I took 9 wickets in my debut Test match, but none in my second, and never played at that level again. I took over 90 wickets in one year, including 10 in one innings, but played in only 6 matches for my first-class team the next year, and moved to a different team. I ended my career with a third first-class team. Towards the end of my life, I married the widow of a close friend who was a colleague at my first first-class team, and who often kept me out of the side. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:27, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I am thinking about an Indian cricketer who has appeared in Tests and ODIs. He represented five different teams in Ranji Trophy. More interestingly, he represented a particular team between 1989/90 - 1992/3, went off to play for others, returned and played for the same team again from 1999-00 to 2001-2, went off again, returned in 2005-06 and has remained with that team since. Who ? (Is there anyone anywhere who has played for the same team for three different terms while playing in the same tournaments for other teams in the intermediate years ?) Tintin 08:00, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Quirk by name, a Quirk indeed.
Who, and why? 164.36.142.217 13:21, 15 February 2007 (UTC) WillE 23:48, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
OK, I'll invoke Rule 3 to get things moving again.
"Better in my day, oh, Lord!"
How many were they out for, what happened next, where, and give the source. WillE 18:10, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Well done. Onwards and upwards. WillE 21:33, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
An original question (So there is a little chance that it is incorrect) and one of those which can be answered from a close reading of the scorecard and the pages leading from it. What first class record was set in the match between Barisal & Sylhet at Barisal in November 2000 : http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/71/71081.html ? Tintin 12:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Can I scrap the question. There is a good chance that it is wrong. Tintin 14:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
I say you may scrap the question! (As long as you tell us your answer, please!) -- RobertG ♬ talk 14:33, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
The expected answer was that Rajin Saleh captained the side at the age of 17 years and 7 days which may make him the youngest fc captain, but there is a possibility that there is some young Pakistani captain hiding somewhere. Tintin 14:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
MG Vijayasarathy and MV Nagendra, both Test umpires, umpired together in the Mysore v Andhra match in 1960-61 ( http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/24/24551.html ) making it a very rare instance of a father and son umpiring together. There is at least one other instance prior to this when a father and son stood in a first class match. Both also played first class cricket and father (who has a wikipedia article) was unlucky not have played a Test match. Who ? Tintin 14:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Rodney and Winston Trott?? Rakuten06 22:38, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. The all-rounder hint was very helpful. 8-) Johnlp 19:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Which Test player was known as Tommy's Ghost? And who was Tommy? Johnlp 19:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
No. More recent. Johnlp 20:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Tommy's Ghost appeared to have modelled his bowling action on a colleague called "Tommy" (more usually Tom), 14 years his senior. Tommy went off to play for other teams; the Ghost later changed his bowling style and played Test cricket in his latter mode (though he's perhaps better known for a Test batting exploit). Johnlp 13:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
the ghost also sounds a bit like an american poet (but don't put that in capitals). Johnlp 17:48, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
That's the innings I meant: he did it as a nightwatchman (and it was more famous than any Test bowling he ever did!) Have you found Tommy yet? Johnlp 20:55, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
We are indeed: e.e.hemmings and Tommy Cartwright. Well done, the two of you. I think the precedent is that the supplier of the full answer gets it. So WillE, it's you, with due commiserations to Tintin. Johnlp 23:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Feel a bit of a fraud - as well as finishing off other's crosswords, I finish off other people's questions too, but OK....
What prompted a man born in East Ham to give his teeth to a man born in Barnsley? WillE 14:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
The wife of which amateur cricketer was mistaken for the Empress of France? -- ALoan (Talk) 13:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Lionel Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson? -- Dweller 16:01, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Do I get any points for saying Marie Antoinette???!! Mdcollins1984 23:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Richard Penruddocke Long (wife Charlotte) - at last. Mdcollins1984 00:09, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
On first meeting, who said to whom "I hear you like driving. I like drinking - We are going to get on well!"? Mdcollins1984 00:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
The Test record is four wickets down for none. I will award the question to anyone who can find me a first-class match in which a side were five down for none and won the match. There may be several instances: I do know of one. Giving instances of low scores at the fall of each wicket (for instance, Surrey v Essex, 1983, were eight for 8 before Sylvester Clarke edged a four) will win you prestige, but will not earn you the right to set the next question! RobertG ♬ talk 11:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Only once in the history of Test cricket has the first four batsmen (Batsmen 1-4 - not the first four to get out) in a team's innings were all out for ducks. Scorecard please. Tintin 13:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
A v E, 2nd inns at Old Trafford, 1888. -- RobertG ♬ talk 13:09, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Which left-handed opening batsman has the rare distinction of scoring 250 runs in a first-class match against his own country? RobertG ♬ talk 13:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
No, you were ever so much warmer with Jaques! I am going offline in half an hour - do you want another clue? -- RobertG ♬ talk 17:08, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
How about Graeme Hick?
Jonesy has it right. The colour-blind and short-sighted Australian opening batsman Chris Rogers (cricketer) scored 56 and 209 for Leicestershire v Australians in 2005.
I did specify 250 runs in a first-class match, I am very sorry if that was unclear. Jonesy's turn. -- RobertG ♬ talk 08:28, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
This is my first turn at this so I apologise if this question has been asked before. Which Australian bowler who has taken more than 50 test wickets has had the highest percentage caught? Jonesy 07:05, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Kerry O'Keeffe Rakuten06 13:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Correct. Over to you Rakuten06 Jonesy 22:55, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Also, I have a request: Can someone archive the question 381 to 400?? Rakuten06 23:08, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Assuming Mohammed Azharuddin's life ban holds, he will end up with the rare distinction of having scored a hundred in his first and last tests. Which other player achieved the same distinction, albeit with less notoriety? Rakuten06 23:06, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Who holds the record for the most first-class catches? What about non-wicketkeepers? Stephen Turner ( Talk) 05:32, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
What cricket record currently stands at 139? -- LiamE 16:00, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Some form of partnership? к1иg f1$н £я5ω1fт 18:23, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
What is significant about the Test debuts of Graham McKenzie, Jeff Thomson, Greg Ritchie, Damien Martyn and Michael Clarke? The-Pope 10:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
I would love it if that was right. And, Mr. Steven Turner, My sig is marvellous and original - yours is a bland name! I have seen more attractive sloths :) к1иg f1$н £я5ω1fт 19:35, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Each was born in a different decade from all the others in their team. Graham McKenzie was the only Aussie in his debut match born in the 1940s. Thomson was the only one born in the 50s. Greg Ritchie was the only one born in the 60s. Damien Martyn was the only one born in the 1970s. Michael Clarke was the only one born in the 1980s. -- UdayS 05:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Very good question. (Gratified that I wasn't too far off with youngest on debut...) -- ALoan (Talk) 11:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Simple question to keep things moving. What batting record is shared by Greenidge, Bradman and Sunil Gavaskar UdayS 01:42, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
"The blow of the ball on bare legs is not mollified by the irredeemable fact of automatically being out LBW".
Where? WillE 18:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
John Robert Troutbeck Barclay, erstwhile Sussex captain. Johnlp 16:07, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Who are the only pair of openers to have opened together at grade, state and Test level in the one season (note use of the word "state")? -- Roisterer 22:16, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Vinod Kambli & Sachin Tendulkar ?
That's them. I got the question from a new book I'm reading, One Test, about Australians who played one Test (Thoms being one of them). I'm not sure whether they are the only pair worldwide to have done this (the point isn't really clear in the book) so I kept the question restricted to Australia. The book also recites the following story from Thoms; When they (Thoms and McDonald) were named in the Test team, (Australian selector) Jack Ryder came into the dressing room and told them not to get caught up in the drinking atmosphere of the national side. The moment Ryder left, McDonald turned to Thoms and asked him to get him a beer. When Thoms returned with two beers, he found that Ryder was back talking to McDonald. Thoms offered McDonald a beer but McDonald politely refused while Ryder no doubt glared at Thoms. -- Roisterer 02:45, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Sorry for the delay.
Who am I:
I played Test cricket less that 2 years after my first-class debut. I took 9 wickets in my debut Test match, but none in my second, and never played at that level again. I took over 90 wickets in one year, including 10 in one innings, but played in only 6 matches for my first-class team the next year, and moved to a different team. I ended my career with a third first-class team. Towards the end of my life, I married the widow of a close friend who was a colleague at my first first-class team, and who often kept me out of the side. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:27, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I am thinking about an Indian cricketer who has appeared in Tests and ODIs. He represented five different teams in Ranji Trophy. More interestingly, he represented a particular team between 1989/90 - 1992/3, went off to play for others, returned and played for the same team again from 1999-00 to 2001-2, went off again, returned in 2005-06 and has remained with that team since. Who ? (Is there anyone anywhere who has played for the same team for three different terms while playing in the same tournaments for other teams in the intermediate years ?) Tintin 08:00, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Quirk by name, a Quirk indeed.
Who, and why? 164.36.142.217 13:21, 15 February 2007 (UTC) WillE 23:48, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
OK, I'll invoke Rule 3 to get things moving again.
"Better in my day, oh, Lord!"
How many were they out for, what happened next, where, and give the source. WillE 18:10, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Well done. Onwards and upwards. WillE 21:33, 18 February 2007 (UTC)