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TambourineMan
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My answers were the same as Somerset's apart from:
16. 64 by Simon Doull and Shayne O'Connor
23. Never (according to Steve Pittard here)
30. Denied a runner for cramp
32. Never topped the Test bowling rankings (not sure that meets the frustrating element)
38. Ray Lindwall and Hugh Trumble
41. Ian Botham
Fairly confident on the first three, 32 and 41 were the answers I was least confident about, 38 is obviously wrong.
16. 64 by Simon Doull and Shayne O'Connor
23. Never (according to Steve Pittard here)
30. Denied a runner for cramp
32. Never topped the Test bowling rankings (not sure that meets the frustrating element)
38. Ray Lindwall and Hugh Trumble
41. Ian Botham
Fairly confident on the first three, 32 and 41 were the answers I was least confident about, 38 is obviously wrong.
Somerset
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Yup I think its safe to say I've got 16 wrong - can blame the Statsguru and myself for not checking!
I don't think 23 is a trick question with an answer of never (though obviously zero can be an answer, to the KP question for instance). That link you provided said it was the worst batting performance (6/73) - it didn't say six wickets hadn't fallen before lunch at Headingley before (as in 1899 the sixth wicket fell with 131 runs on the board). I'm not saying in 1899 it did because I don't have sufficient proof, just I wouldn't imagine never would be the answer and each other test at Headingley I found some aspect that proves six wickets didn't fall before lunch.
Your answer to 30 sounds good - indeed painful - though batting with broken fingers also seems to fit the criteria. When was Kanhai not allowed a runner? I prefer the answer Peter and I have for 32 though yours is also a decent shout - on second thoughts that actually sounds a really good answer, might well be right.
I don't think you've got 38 right. 41 may well be Botham, that was my most dubious answer as well.
I don't think 23 is a trick question with an answer of never (though obviously zero can be an answer, to the KP question for instance). That link you provided said it was the worst batting performance (6/73) - it didn't say six wickets hadn't fallen before lunch at Headingley before (as in 1899 the sixth wicket fell with 131 runs on the board). I'm not saying in 1899 it did because I don't have sufficient proof, just I wouldn't imagine never would be the answer and each other test at Headingley I found some aspect that proves six wickets didn't fall before lunch.
Your answer to 30 sounds good - indeed painful - though batting with broken fingers also seems to fit the criteria. When was Kanhai not allowed a runner? I prefer the answer Peter and I have for 32 though yours is also a decent shout - on second thoughts that actually sounds a really good answer, might well be right.
I don't think you've got 38 right. 41 may well be Botham, that was my most dubious answer as well.
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TambourineMan
Cricket Spectator
Kanhai was refused a runner by Peter May in the third Test of the 1959/60 series
Wisden - West Indies v England
Wisden - West Indies v England
Somerset
Cricketer Of The Year
Fair enough, I think you'd feel somewhat aggreived if you get that wrong, though my answer of batting with a broken finger also sounds painful - perhaps more so given you feel the impact every time you hit the ball, whereas cramps, while painful, doesn't completely prevent the batsman from scoring.
Out of interest did you find anything close to conclusive for your answer of Botham for 41?
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TambourineMan
Cricket Spectator
My initial thinking was batting with a broken finger/hand but I don't think I could find a example for Ranatunga. If there is one then that could easily be the answer.
As I said that one of the questions I was unsure about, without the ball-by-ball records it's guesswork. I tried piecing together the bits of information I could find and sketcherly guessed that Willis took his fifth wicket in the eleventh over.
Somerset
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I actually think you might be right with the cramps on second thoughts - going back over my proof it looks as though Ranatunga may only have had a broken hand, rather than finger - not sure if Peter can add to/confirm that.
TambourineMan
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Your answer was "They all batted in a test match (official or unofficial) with a hand injury"?
Somerset
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Sorry I'm managing to confuse myself now with fingers and hands - I'll stand by my original answer.
Hi
I just registered so I could compare answers. I haven't done as well this year as previously.
q32 I have as frustratingly only ever reached a ranking of no. 2.
I also put the Holland answer for 28 without being convinced. I couldn't find any proof for Haynes or Cronje.
q.41 was a guess. Laker did it v.quickly during his 9 wicket haul, and Alec Bedser did too again before the over by over reporting. Harmy did it in 11.4 overs
I also got 1959 India for q23. they were 6 down very quickly, but not 100% sure it was by lunch.
Did get 64 for q16.
I preferred this to last year when there were too many ambiguous questions or questions with more than 1 valid answer.
I just registered so I could compare answers. I haven't done as well this year as previously.
q32 I have as frustratingly only ever reached a ranking of no. 2.
I also put the Holland answer for 28 without being convinced. I couldn't find any proof for Haynes or Cronje.
q.41 was a guess. Laker did it v.quickly during his 9 wicket haul, and Alec Bedser did too again before the over by over reporting. Harmy did it in 11.4 overs
I also got 1959 India for q23. they were 6 down very quickly, but not 100% sure it was by lunch.
Did get 64 for q16.
I preferred this to last year when there were too many ambiguous questions or questions with more than 1 valid answer.
TambourineMan
Cricket Spectator
I am pretty sure 28 relates to losing to the Netherlands, Cronje and Haynes have done it.
There were about 20 mins between Laker's fifth wicket and the end of the innings so I assumed he could get through at best, with wickets falling, 5 overs in that time taking it back to around 11.4 overs. I remember seeing a Times match report which listed the overs in which Bedser took the wickets of one of his five-fors and the fifth was in his twelfth over.
The Glasgow Herald report of the India 1959 Test says the visitors had scored only 45 by lunch.
The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search
Somerset
Cricketer Of The Year
Davidson took 29 matches to achieve the 100 wickets/500 runs double, while Lawson needed only 25 (second to Johnson with 23).
Somerset
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Welcome to the forum - sounds like you've done well. Cronje and Haynes both captained a side to a loss against the Netherlands as provided in the links by TambourineMan.
I am getting a strong feeling that your answer to 32 might be a better shout than mine now. 16 you're definitely right.
For 23 I agree with TambourineMan's proof that you have an incorrect answer. As for 41, thats really up in the air!
Thanks Guys
I guess the WI and SA matches v Holland weren't official ODIs as no mention on cricinfo. Must remember cricketarchive for next year.
I went belt and braces for q 18 adding that Jimmy Anderson had been called a ***** in Justin Langer's dossier, although I don't doubt that you have enough for the points.
Is there a link to the Don Tallon question, which I couldn't find anywhere. I guessed something similar, but probably not close enough.
I guess the WI and SA matches v Holland weren't official ODIs as no mention on cricinfo. Must remember cricketarchive for next year.
I went belt and braces for q 18 adding that Jimmy Anderson had been called a ***** in Justin Langer's dossier, although I don't doubt that you have enough for the points.
Is there a link to the Don Tallon question, which I couldn't find anywhere. I guessed something similar, but probably not close enough.
TambourineMan
Cricket Spectator
Somerset
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Yup TWC tends to have just their annual Christmas quiz - though if theres enough interest I may copy out the questions of a previous year's quiz during the year (as I have all the past copies of TWC since the merge between The Cricketer and Wisden Cricket Monthly) as some sort of practice for next year's TWC quiz!
Been off radar for a week (work related)
I had
1 Recreation Ground, Antigua
2 Derrick Bailey
3 Dangerous sports TV show, Bungee Jump
4 Michael Vaughan
5 A woman named as one of Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Year (Clare Taylor)
6 England beat Australia in a Test at Lords
7 Duckworth & Lewis
8 Justin Langer – highest first class runs by an Australian
9 Jonathan Bairstow
10 Chris Lewis
11 Marcus Trescothick
12 Matthew Hoggard
13 Joint men of the match in a test match
14 Ground ends named after them
15 None – he hit two with the replacement ball
16 64 balls Australia v New Zealand at Hobart - SB Doull and SB O'Connor
17 Ian Bell – the rest Twitter
18 James Anderson – the others have Cat related nicknames
19 Test matches played on a Sunday (Vic Pollard & Bruce Murray)
20 Brian Statham
21 Robert George Dylan Willis
22 Warwickshire – R Kanhai / A Kallicharran / D Murray / L Gibbs
23 – 1899
24 - Arthur Morris
25 - Tallon was out for 96, but Oldfield confessed to the umpire that 4 extras in fact came from Tallon's bat.
26 – Kumar Sangakkara / Doug Walters / Alvin Kallicharran and Andy Flower
27 - They are the options for the answer to one of the questions in Slumdog Millionaire
28 – Disciplinary hearings
29 – The titles of their books are the same as past cricketers' books
30 – Batted with broken hands in cricket matches
31 – First to 1000 first class runs in an English season
32 – 10 wickets in a first class game and their team lost
33 – Peter the Lords cat
34 – Elton John
35 - He seemed scared as he edged a delivery to a fielder in the gully-point area where he was dropped
36 – Sam Palmer (The Final Test)
37 - Their appearance on a postage stamp - honoured with a set of special Royal Mail stamps. Andrew Flintoff, Kevin Pietersen, Michael Vaughan were the first living people, apart from the Royal Family, to be recognisable on stamps.
38 Geoff Lawson (25 matches)
39 The record hit – W Fellows hit a ball 175 yrds at Oxford
40 Derek Randall (4)
41 Bob Willis (1981)
42 Ian Botham / Ray Illingworth / Gubby Allen / Gary Sobers / Keith Miller /
M H (Vinoo) Mankad
I had thought about the Holland link as I remembered Roebuck / Collingwood doing it but couldnt find detail on the others. I think the denined a runner shout is a good one.
I had
1 Recreation Ground, Antigua
2 Derrick Bailey
3 Dangerous sports TV show, Bungee Jump
4 Michael Vaughan
5 A woman named as one of Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Year (Clare Taylor)
6 England beat Australia in a Test at Lords
7 Duckworth & Lewis
8 Justin Langer – highest first class runs by an Australian
9 Jonathan Bairstow
10 Chris Lewis
11 Marcus Trescothick
12 Matthew Hoggard
13 Joint men of the match in a test match
14 Ground ends named after them
15 None – he hit two with the replacement ball
16 64 balls Australia v New Zealand at Hobart - SB Doull and SB O'Connor
17 Ian Bell – the rest Twitter
18 James Anderson – the others have Cat related nicknames
19 Test matches played on a Sunday (Vic Pollard & Bruce Murray)
20 Brian Statham
21 Robert George Dylan Willis
22 Warwickshire – R Kanhai / A Kallicharran / D Murray / L Gibbs
23 – 1899
24 - Arthur Morris
25 - Tallon was out for 96, but Oldfield confessed to the umpire that 4 extras in fact came from Tallon's bat.
26 – Kumar Sangakkara / Doug Walters / Alvin Kallicharran and Andy Flower
27 - They are the options for the answer to one of the questions in Slumdog Millionaire
28 – Disciplinary hearings
29 – The titles of their books are the same as past cricketers' books
30 – Batted with broken hands in cricket matches
31 – First to 1000 first class runs in an English season
32 – 10 wickets in a first class game and their team lost
33 – Peter the Lords cat
34 – Elton John
35 - He seemed scared as he edged a delivery to a fielder in the gully-point area where he was dropped
36 – Sam Palmer (The Final Test)
37 - Their appearance on a postage stamp - honoured with a set of special Royal Mail stamps. Andrew Flintoff, Kevin Pietersen, Michael Vaughan were the first living people, apart from the Royal Family, to be recognisable on stamps.
38 Geoff Lawson (25 matches)
39 The record hit – W Fellows hit a ball 175 yrds at Oxford
40 Derek Randall (4)
41 Bob Willis (1981)
42 Ian Botham / Ray Illingworth / Gubby Allen / Gary Sobers / Keith Miller /
M H (Vinoo) Mankad
I had thought about the Holland link as I remembered Roebuck / Collingwood doing it but couldnt find detail on the others. I think the denined a runner shout is a good one.
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