New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'

[JASON]

A Controversial bowler (for more reasons than one) . Still holds a record to this date . Who? What controversies? What record ?

Q 1 Is he a spinner ? Yes.

Q 2 Did he bowl leg spin ? Yes.

Q 3 Did he start his test career between the two world wars ? No


Q 4 did he play before the first WW ? No

Q 5 Is he from the subcontinent ? No

Q 6 Is he alive ? No.

Q 7 Did he ever bowl at Test Match level ? Yes

Q 8 Is he from England ? Yes.

Originally Posted by SJS

Q(. Is it a bowling record ?

Q 9 Is it a bowling record ? No

[SJS]

Is it a cricket record ?

[JASON]

Originally Posted by SJS

Is it a cricket record ?

Q 10 Is it a cricket record ? Yes.

Hint 1- is the following joke .There never has been a more aggressive spin bowler, wrote David Frith in The Slow Men, and the aggression came out in his captaincy, his famous full-throated appealing ( When ........... appeals at The Oval, as the old joke said, someone’s out at Lord’s.) and his marvellous catching.

Hint 2 - He was part of a winning combination.

[SJS]

Did he take seven hat tricks ? ?

[JASON]

Originally Posted by SJS

Is the record the number of hat tricks he took ?

Q 11 Is the record the number of hat tricks he took (namely seven) ? No

Any pooling of information may help the others too in getting the answer !!

I think SJS you changed this question twice, before my very eyes.

[SJS]

Could he be termed an all rounder ?

[SJS]

This is just a clarification.

It is assumed that a leg spinner is a right-hand legspinner and not a left arm orthodox spinner.

Please confirm.

[JASON]

Originally Posted by SJS

Could he be termed an all rounder ?

Q 13 could he be termed an all rounder ? No. I will qualify this statemment. His Test and First class averages don't suggest so, nor does his batting position. But he has been known to make a Match saving innings or two.

Welcome Biased Indian.

[JASON]

Originally Posted by SJS

This is just a clarification.

It is assumed that a leg spinner is a right-hand legspinner and not a left arm orthodox spinner.

Please confirm.

No I did not assume this . Sorry .

OK to clarify the confusion, this bowler was the latter .

[SJS]

Originally Posted by JASON

Q 11 Is the record the number of hat tricks he took (namely seven) ? No

Any pooling of information may help the others too in getting the answer !!

I think SJS you changed this question twice, before my very eyes.

Yes I did. To make it more specific. He may have taken seven hat tricks (which is an all time record) and you could still say NO if that was not the record you had in mind !!!

[biased indian]

Graham Anthony Richard Lock

His final years were overshadowed by two allegations of sexual abuse involving young girls

Tony Lock is the holder of the record for the most number of runs scored in first-class cricket without a century

sorry i didnt see the whole question

[SJS]

Originally Posted by JASON

No I did not assume this . Sorry .

OK to clarify the confusion, this bowler was the latter .

Ah. Thjat makes a huge huge differnce I would have got this long ago !

[SJS]

OR Johnny Wardle althougfh it has to be Lock as the laker lock combination and his aggression

[viktor]

if its leg-spin as in from leg to off for a right hander, lock could be the answer. the controversy, chucking. don't know what the record would be though.. ahh just found it!! yep lock is the answer

[JASON]

Originally Posted by biased indian

Graham Anthony Richard Lock

Q 14 Is he Graham Anthony Richard Lock ? Yes.

Now, what were the controveries ? more importantly, what is the record ?

Originally Posted by SJS

Ah. Thjat makes a huge huge differnce I would have got this long ago !

Originally Posted by SJS

OR Johnny Wardle althougfh it has to be Lock as the laker lock combination and his aggression

Originally Posted by viktor

if its leg-spin as in from leg to off for a right hander, lock could be the answer. the controversy, chucking. don't know what the record would be though

Q 15 Is chucking one of the controversies ? Yes

What's the other ? What about the record ?

His new method was far more effective but produced mutterings about its legitimacy. In 1952 he was called up for the Old Trafford Test against India, and took four for 36 in the second innings. But a week later, when Surrey played the tourists at The Oval, he was no-balled three times in two overs for throwing his quicker ball.

Raising the beam at the Croydon nets helped restore something of Lock’s original action, but he was again called for throwing in the West Indies in 1953–54 and for a time he refrained from bowling his faster ball. It was this delivery which drew the legendary lament from Doug Insole, the Essex captain, to the square-leg umpire when he was bowled by Lock in fading light: How was I out then—run out?