Quiz LXXXXIIII - Answers

We nowadays have Test teams fielding as many as four pace or

medium pace bowlers. However, the South African team of the
first decade of the twentieth century used to play at times with as
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many as four leg spin/googly bowlers! Who were they?
# Faulkner (who was also, incidentally, an outstanding all
rounder), Vogler, Schwarz and White

One of the great coincidences of cricket is that the first ever Test,
between England and Australia in March 1877, and the centenary
Test between the two countries, in March 1997, both ended in
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Australian victories with the identical margin. What was the
margin?
# Australia won both Tests by 45 runs

What was unique, or unusual, about the Pakistani cricketer Niaz

Ahmed, who played two Tests for Pakistan during the 1960s?
# He was the only Bangladesh-based cricketer to play for Pakistan
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(note: he was probably not a Bengali speaking Bangladeshi-he
migrated from Varanasi, and could be presumed to be an Urdu
speaking Muslim)

Identify this bowler. (Clue: It is in the visual) (Visual)

4 # Sonny Ramadhin-he used to bowl with his shirt sleeves
buttoned at the wrist

What connects Duncan Sharpe and Roger Binny?

5 # Duncan Sharpe was the only Anglo Pakistani to play for
Pakistan; Roger Binny was the only ANGLO Indian to play for India

India’s first home Test, played at Bombay against England in

1933/34, was at that time the first Test to future a certain
6 practice, which has since become absolutely commonplace. What
was it?
# The first ever Test to be played on a Sunday

Wally Hammond remarked about this cricketer of the 1930s-a

fast-medium pace bowler and hard hitting lower order batsman:
"With the new ball he was perhaps better than anyone I have ever
7 seen". Len Hutton remarked in 1970, "There is no better bowler in
the world today than...'' He died, unfortunately, at the age 29, of
pneumonia. Who am I talking about?
# Ladha Amar Singh

Identify this doyen of cricket writers. (Visual)

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# Neville Cardus
 What connects the following: Colin Cowdrey, Ted Dexter, Ashok
Gandotra, Lall Singh and Salim Durrani?
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# They wear all Test cricketers who were not born in the country
for which they played Test cricket

I had asked in the last quiz about Wisden’s listing of the greatest
batting beats in Test crickets. Can you tell me which bowling feat
in a particular innings did Wisden rank in 2001 as the greatest
10 ever in Test cricket? (Clue: It was NOT Laker’s 10 for 53 or
Kumble’s 10 for 74)
# Hugh Tayfield’s 9 for 113 for South Africa against England, at
Johannesburg, in 1956/57 Kumble’s 10 for 74 ranks second

Give the next three names in this series: Johnny Briggs, Clarrie
Grimmet, ..
11 # Freddie Trueman, Richard Hadlee and Courtney Walsh-the first
cricketers to take 100, 200, 300, 400 And 500 Test wickets
respectively

Identify these two cricketers. (Visual)

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# Peter May and Colin Cowdrey

What record did the great English cricketer Reginald ‘Tip’ Foster of
the early twentieth century set in cricket and football?
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# The only sportsperson to date to have captained England in
both cricket and football

Which cricketer was the first ever to be given out for handling the
ball, and was also the fielder involved when Len Hutton became
14 the first batsman to be given out for obstructing the field? (I am
deliberately not giving the years or the nationality of the cricketer)
# Russel Endean of South Africa

Give the next three names in this series: Arthur Shrewsbury, Clem
Hill, Jack Hobbes, ..
15 # Wally Hammond, Colin Cowdrey, Garry Sobers-the cricketers to
hold the record for the largest number of runs scored in Test
cricket

Identify this bowler. (Visual)

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# SF Barnes

Who were the two not-out batmen at the end of each of the two
tied Tests in cricket history-Australia against the West Indies in
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1960/61, and Australia against India in 1986/87?
# Lindsay Kline and Ravi Shastri
 What is the third Test series in this sequence: the West Indies
against England, 1929/30; India against the West Indies,
1958/59; England against the West Indies, 1988?
18 # Sorry, I have given away the answer; the answer is that these
are the only series where one of the teams has deployed as many
as four captains-the teams being respectively the West Indies,
India and England

Kapil Dev missed only one Test in his illustrious career. Which
Test, and for what reason?
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# The third Test of the 1984/85 series against England, at
Calcutta, on account of indiscipline

Which Australian cricketers had the following surnames: (a)

Phanto (b) Garth (c) The Governor General (d) The Big Ship?
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# (a) Bill Lawry (b) Graham McKenzie (c) Charlie Mcartney (d) Bill
Armstrong