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New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'

Burpey

Cricketer Of The Year
Hussain became the first English captain to win a Test on first attempt after the previous eight captains from David Gower, Mike Gatting, John Emburey, Chris Cowdrey, Graham Gooch, Allan Lamb, Alec Stewart and Mike Atherton have all lost their first Test as captain. Bob Willis against India at Lord's in 1982 was the last one before Hussain to win his maiden Test as captain of England. Interestingly, the previous two English captains (Ian Botham and Keith Fletcher) had also lost their first Tests as captain.

From http://www.rediff.com/sports/1999/jul/05engnz.htm
 

membersstand

State Vice-Captain

What is significant about the following list of names:
Gatting
Emburey
Cowdrey
Gooch
Lamb
Stewart
Atherton
It is NOT that they all captained England


ANSWERED BY BURKEY_1988:
THESE SEVEN PLAYERS WERE SEVEN SUCCESSIVE ENGLISH CAPTAINS WHO ALL LOST THEIR FIRST MATCH AS CAPTAIN


Q1: Bookie: They all played together? NO
Q2: tommo_365: is it to do with county cricket? NO
Q3: tommo_365: they captained england consecutively? NO, not the answer I'm looking for




 

membersstand

State Vice-Captain
Inzamam ul Huq, R Abel and DG Bradman are the only three batsmen in Test cricket
who have individually outscored their opponents total score
 

tassietiger

U19 Debutant
What is interesting about the following three batsmen.

Inzamam-ul-Haq
Robert Abel
Donald Bradman



membersstans got the answer, Don Bradman, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Robert Abel are the three batsmen that have outscored their opposition's entire score.


Pak: Inzamam-ul-Haq 329 v. NZ(73+246=319) in 2002
Eng: R Abel 120 v SA (47+43=90) at Cape Town 1888-89
Aus: DG Bradman 185 v Ind (58+98=156) at Brisbane, 1947-48.

 

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