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New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Its to do with bowling

It is at first class level

Nothing to do with captaincy


A hint - others who share in the common thread are Jack Iverson, CB Fry and Ken Suttle
 

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yes

Not that it's a big clue but Arthur Carr, Reggie Spooner and PGH Fender as well

Let me know when you want the big clue!
 

stumpski

International Captain
Hmmm ... Blackham took two first-class wickets, and MacLaren one. I would say something like 'called for throwing' but I'd be very surprised, to say the least, if Verity ever was.


It can't be anything to do with a common opponent either, because Suttle's career began long after Blackham and MacLaren's had ended.



Before I search for the match in which MacLaren took his sole wicket, is it connected with the taking of a wicket in any way?
 

stumpski

International Captain
Brearley clinched it for me. I remember a report about him bowling underarm in a Championship match - presumably as some sort of protest - around 1979 or '80. Illegal now, isn't it?


All bowled under-arm in a first-class match? Even Verity?
 

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yes thats the link - there is a fascinating little book by Gerald Brodribb called The Lost Art which contains a list of all who have bowled lobs in a first class match - Verity is on the list but the bloody book has no index so i haven't got to the bit, if indeed it is there, where we learn when he did it.
 

stumpski

International Captain
I shall have a think and come up with something, it may have to be tomorrow though as I have to vacate the laptop soon. If someone wants to ask one before then, that's fine.
 

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
No it is there - Surrey v Yorkshire at the Oval in 1933 - Surrey batted all day on day one and when they batted on after lunch on Day 2 Verity started bowling lobs as a protest - clearly an ill-tempered match because following on Yorkshire refused to score runs to deny Surrey a new ball (which I think came every 200 runs in those days)
 

archie mac

International Coach
I might jump in with an easy one:)

Who am I?

I share a nickname with an Aussie great, although I was not happy with that!

I became a Test and FC umpire, and sometimes would walk around in circles at Square Leg and do "No.1s" or I would bring out a little bottle and do it on the field when no one else was watching:-O
 

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