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Q601
A Hunt in Linlithgow - and a possessive 136 balls? What was special? WillE 20:01, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
 * A guess, Graeme 'Foxy' Fowler and this partnership. --Jpeeling 11:50, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Nope. It was by a Bermudan professional called Alma Hunt, who took 7-11 (6 bowled) and scored 49*. But what was special....? 164.36.38.240 13:41, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * According to his obit in the 2000 Wisden, he scored all of his team's runs in a 10-wicket win. --Travisbasevi 14:49, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Aye, that's it. Onwards and upwards.... WillE 18:21, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Q602
For a minimum of 50 first-class games, who has the highest percentage of Tests in their career First-Class tally? --Travisbasevi 20:24, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Sachin would be hard to beat I guess. --LiamE 20:33, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Early guess, Daniel Vettori Brett Lee Mohammad Yousuf. --Jpeeling 20:38, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Close, Yousuf is second by a whisker. In fact, I think he could take a lead if his next FC game is a Test. --Travisbasevi 04:34, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Glenn McGrath? --Roisterer 05:57, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, McGrath is the one who prefers the upper classes. It's a 3-way race with him on 65.61%, followed by Yousuf 65.52% and Boucher 64.60%. 27 of McGrath's last 28 FC games were Tests (similarly 28/30 for Boucher's recent past). They might all be trumped by Mashrafe Mortaza who currently has 25/35 = 71.43%, although that probably depends more on Bangladesh filling the gaps in their sparse fixture list. --Travisbasevi 06:48, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Q603
Play in a 1993/94 Barbados League match was interrupted when which national leader arrived and asked to have a bat? --Roisterer 12:16, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Bill Clinton? 164.36.38.240 17:56, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * John Major would have been PM then and England did tour West Indies that season - was it him? --Roberry 18:09, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Nelson Mandela???? Jonesy 21:00, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * No to all of them. I'll try and think of a clue that won't give it away. --Roisterer 22:40, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Robert Mugabe? WillE 22:51, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * No. The chap in question is from the region. --Roisterer 23:20, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Fidel Castro? Johnlp 23:25, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep. Fidel Castro was being driven past the oval when he stopped, wandered out and asked for a bat. He swung and missed three times and left. Shame, because if he had hit one out of the ground, he might have proclaimed cricket as Cuba's national sport. --Roisterer 23:38, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Q604
Under what circumstances did a Test cricketer have a close shave on the pitch? Literally. Johnlp 08:19, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Was this the occasion when Dickie Bird had to shear off Sunil Gavaskar's flowing locks during a Test, and did so muttering "The things I have to do these days..."? Rprpsych 13:44, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Er, no. It was a club match rather than a Test match, though the player in question and some others were Test players. Johnlp 15:03, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Clue? The player was the captain of Clifton Gymkhana. Johnlp 23:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
 * WG Grace Jonesy 00:04, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

No, though it's a nice idea. This is a very long way from the Clifton where WG might have had his beard singed. Johnlp 00:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ian Botham was shaved in Wellington for charity .   KingStrato 08:42, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Not this one. The incident I'm thinking of happened during a match. And it involved motorbikes. Johnlp 11:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Aftab Baloch --Jpeeling 15:31, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Correct. Well done. Over to you. Johnlp 18:48, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Hang on, can someone tell us the story! Stephen Turner (Talk) 09:54, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Did wonder whether someone would ask! Club match between Clifton Gymkhana and Nazimabad Sports. Captain Aftab Baloch omitted one of the Clifton players from the team to play. Omitted player took umbrage, and recruited four leather-clad bikers to drive on to the pitch during the match, corner Aftab and cut his hair off. Other players and umpires were deterred from intervening because the bikers carried knives. Serious stuff, this club cricket. Johnlp 10:12, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Q605
Clem Hill was the first to achieve this in Tests, who was the first to complete the feat in ODIs? --Jpeeling 19:20, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Geoffrey Boycott? First to be out for 99. Johnlp 22:49, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * It looks like he was the first player to score 2000 and 3000 test runs, the ODI equivalent is Greg Chappell and Viv Richards respectively Cowboydan78 09:35, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry Johnlp and Cowboydan78 both are correct but not what I'm looking for, Hill achieved it in 1902, the ODI version was completed first in 1983. --Jpeeling 10:26, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Is it to do with three consecutive nineties? Don't know who the ODI equivalent is, though. WillE 11:50, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Not that either WillE, it's not that rare it's been achieved by 58 different batsman in Tests and 46 in ODIs. --Jpeeling 12:40, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * A further clue may be needed, Denis Compton was the second to achieve it in Tests and Desmond Haynes the second in ODIs. The last to do it in Tests is Alastair Cook and Abraham de Villiers was the last in ODIs, achieving it 17 days ago. --Jpeeling 18:21, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * A further further clue is needed, the feat is 1,000 runs in a calendar year so who was the first to achieve it in ODIs? --Jpeeling 08:35, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Detective Inspector Gower. Feels like I'm cheating chipping in now after so many clues. --Travisbasevi 09:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Well done David Gower was the first man to score 1,000 ODIs runs in a year, and his 1,086 runs in 1983 is still the English record, Ian Bell fell 6 runs short this year. BTW 24 batsman have scored 1,000 in both forms of the game including Abraham de Villiers, Hansie Cronje and Paul Collingwood although names not on the list include Mohammad Azharuddin, Allan Border, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Sourav Ganguly, Adam Gilchrist, Javed Miandad and Marcus Trescothick. --Jpeeling 09:27, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Q606
The complement to Q602. Which Test cricketer (ie, we're excluding the tens of thousands who never played a Test) has the lowest Test to First-Class matches ratio. --Travisbasevi 10:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Charlie Parker? --Jpeeling 10:38, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * That's the one. Just ahead of Wally Hardinge. There's 4 others with more than 500 FC games but only 1 Test. --Travisbasevi 11:04, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Q607
Who is the only wicket-keeper to have opened the bowling in Test cricket? --Jpeeling 11:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Budhi Kunderan? WillE 12:04, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Kunderan wasn't keeping in the match when he opened the bowling. --Jpeeling 12:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I know Kirmani did it against WI in 82/83 but it also seems the appropriately initialled WK Lees did it in his only Test bowling appearance against Pakistan in 76/77. Do I get double points? --Travisbasevi 12:34, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

I should have researched better as the answer I had was Clyde Walcott in 1950 who bowled in a proper innings :), anyway Travisbasevi it's your turn. --Jpeeling 12:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Rashid Latif also did it in 1994 --Roberry 14:41, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Or did he? Cricinfo shows he bowled first change - which is more reliable? - --Roberry 15:13, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Cricinfo also shows Walcott was bowler number 6 - --Roberry 15:36, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Wisden 1951 says Walcott opened and of all the sources is the most reliable. --Jpeeling 16:18, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * CI's main source for matches prior to about 1995 was the Frindall Test Cricket books, which at the time did not list the 2nd innings bowling figures (I think even the most recent edition from 2000 or 2001 only lists them for the 3rd volume which is 1977 onwards), so almost definitely both Walcott and Latif also did it. Anyway, at least we should be sure no keeper has done it in the first innings. Let me keep things moving.... --Travisbasevi 19:54, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Q608
Whose tardy record will Sourav Ganguly almost likely (but not definitely, and quite possibly never) break in the current ODI series against Pakistan? --Travisbasevi 19:54, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, he has 99 ODI wickets in 308 games. So is it that he will have taken the most matches to reach 100 wickets. Aravinda de Silva took his 100th wicket in his 303rd match, and currently holds the record. - --Roberry 20:04, 5 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Bang on the money. I need to think of more arcane questions. --Travisbasevi 20:09, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Q609
Not sure how to word this, but hopefully it will make sense. Which XI players played together more often than any other in Tests (they played 11 times together)? --Roberry 20:19, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Langer, Hayden, Ponting, Martyn, Waugh, Waugh, Gilchrist, Warne, Gillespie, McGrath, Lee? KingStrato 20:42, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll go for the Windies stability of around the early 1990s, and on the cliff-edge of their massive fall from grace: Greenidge, Haynes, Richardson, Richards, Hooper, Logie, Dujon, Marshall, Ambrose, Walsh, Patterson. This 11 played all five of the 1990/91 dogfight at home against Australia, and at least 2 or 3 of the following 1991 series in England. --Travisbasevi 20:58, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I thought the 80's West Indies would be up there, but can't remember the line ups that well :) KingStrato 21:08, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * That is correct - the Aussie lineup wasn't a bad guess - they are second with 9 matches played together. Over to you --Travisbasevi --Roberry 21:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Now I look further, they were incredibly stable between the departure of Gomes/Holding/Garner in 1987 (with Ambrose arriving the following year) and the 1991 to 1992 watershed of Greenidge/Richards/Logie/Dujon/Marshall. You'd think of none of the above 11 as being injury-prone, and if only it wasn't for Bishop being crocked half the time and Patterson constantly filling in for him, then the count would be much higher than 11. Although you could probably say the same for Gillespie being one of the walking dead and Warne messing around with his mother's pills. --Travisbasevi 21:32, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I was poking around as I thought that it might have been Australia after Mark Waugh retired, and a core of 9 players seems to have played about 50 matches, but Kasprowicz, Bichel, Clarke, Lehmann, Katich seem to have filled in the other 2 places on a regular basis.

Q610
This tricky one came up in the pub tonight, and I'm happy if I can be proven wrong, but which slow left arm chinaman bowler has taken the most wickets for any of the four Asian Test countries. --Travisbasevi 21:47, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Can I take the political viewpoint, rather than the geographical one (and assume you can't count) and say Michael Bevan with 29? Well we are Asian as far as the Soccer/football world is concerned!The-Pope 21:58, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * If we are talking the traditional Asian Test countries then how about Narendra Hirwani - --Roberry 22:08, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Can't find any Asian men who played internationally but I found Preeti Dimri --Jpeeling 22:42, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I might go out on a limb here and guess that there hasn't been a slow left arm chinaman bowler from the four Asian test countries who has taken a wicket? Jonesy 01:25, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I can't find a single one. Even one not taking a wicket. Dimri is true, so I'll give it to Jpeeling who essentially says there is no men. Remarkable stat for such spin loving countries, especially Bangladesh with their production line of left arm orthodox spinners - not one of them has thought of giving it a rip the other way? Nice try from The-Pope but Chuck Fleetwood-Smith would be your man in that case. --Travisbasevi 04:43, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * This is both late and not overly correct but I'll throw in the thought that Dilip Doshi, in an early 80s ODI, bowled a variety of deliveries (left arm medium pace, right arm spin and, importantly, left arm leg spin). Doshi didn't take a wicket with his chinaman but this could theoretically make Doshi the most successful Asian chinaman bowler. --Roisterer 05:57, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Q611
Which bowler holds the record for most first class wickets on a tour of England? --Jpeeling 09:36, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Charles Turner? Johnlp 09:43, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Correct, Turner took 283 wickets at 11.68 in 1888, this included his best bowling in an innings (9/15) and in a match (17/50) both against an England XI. --Jpeeling 09:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Q612
If Courtney Walsh is No 1 and Steve Harmison No 2, which two players are jointly No 3? Johnlp 13:48, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Possibly something to do with tall Test cricketers, but I have no idea who's next on the list. &mdash;Moondyne 13:58, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

No, nothing to do with height. Johnlp 14:32, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm away for a couple of days in a short while, so will give a clue in the hope that it moves this on before I disappear: The numbers refer to runs and, if this is an order of merit, then perhaps it's recording the ability to handle pressure in the final analysis... Johnlp 20:00, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Jack Saunders and Ian Botham. Walsh took the wicket of Craig McDermott to seal the 1-run Test victory, Harmison took Michael Kasprowicz, then Saunders and Botham took the final wicket in teh 3-run victories (there were two of them). Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 00:02, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Hurrah. That's it. Over to you. Johnlp 06:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Q613
Easy one. Who is the first batsman to make two centuries on his first class debut?  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 07:00, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * How about Arthur Morris for NSW v Qld 1940-41? Wattmaster 07:10, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Geez that was easy.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 07:15, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Q614
Name those who have taken a wicket with their 1st ball of their T-20 career ? &mdash;Wattmaster 08:35, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Internationals or all Twenty20s? I know Kasprowicz got 2 with his first 2 international balls --Travisbasevi 09:50, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Alfonso Thomas is also another one who has got wicket of his first ball in T-20 internationals,as per this -- ¿Amar៛ Talk to me / My edits 09:58, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I'd been away for a couple of days, to clarify, all Twenty20 matches &mdash; Wattmaster 09:20, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The silence is deafening. How many is there anyway? --122.167.195.144 18:42, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * David Harrison might be one. WillE 22:30, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, to get things moving along, Shaun Pollock & Rory Kleinveldt, Johan Botha , Graham Onions , Amila Ranga , Imran Nazir ,

Siddharth Trivedi , also as a footnote Tyron Henderson acheived his effort on county debut in England, having previously played in South Africa, he'd apparently only arrived in the country on the morning of the match and his kit was still stuck at Heathrow. As Graham Onions appears to have done a Michael Kasprowicz with wickets with his 1st 2 deliveries of his career, I'll give it to Travisbasevi, over to you. &mdash; Wattmaster 20:17, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * It wasn't Kasprowicz's first Twenty20 match he played in 2003 and opened with David Harrison. So shouldn't WillE get the next question as he was the only person to find a single example. --Jpeeling 20:34, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay then, my apologies to Travis, over to you WillE &mdash; Wattmaster 20:58, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Q615
OK, who fielded throughout a whole first class match, with the opposition batting twice, only touching the ball for the first time when holding the catch that closed the second innings of the opposition? WillE 23:03, 10 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Peter Smith of Essex v Yorkshire, 1935. Johnlp 00:02, 11 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Yep, that's him. Over to you. WillE 16:23, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Q616
"I only ever played the game once myself, in the park with some evacuees from Bootle. I was allowed to join in because I held a biscuit tin filled with shortbread that my mother had baked. They said I could have a turn if I gave them a biscuit afterwards. I didn't make any runs because I never hit the ball, and when I kept my promise and began to open the tin the evacuees knocked me over and took every piece of shortbread. They threw the tin over the wall into the gentlemen's lavatory. I had to tell my mother a six-foot-high naughty man with a Hitler moustache had chased me; she would have slapped me for playing with evacuees." Whose experience of cricket was this? Johnlp 18:21, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Beryl Bainbridge --Jpeeling 19:03, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Well done. Over to you. Johnlp 19:13, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Q617
I'm running out of questions. When was the first occurence of opposing Test captains scoring centuries in the same match? --Jpeeling 19:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * This match? KingStrato 19:55, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * That's the answer I've got. All yours KingStrato. --Jpeeling 20:09, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Q618
What links these players? Alastair Cook, Shahriar Nafees, Jacques Kallis, Paul Collingwood, Kevin Pietersen, Ashwell Prince, Jacques Rudolph, Brian Lara and Dwayne Bravo? KingStrato 18:33, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The 9 most recent century scorers against Australia (Kallis doing so twice in that period). --Travisbasevi 04:06, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, they're the players to have scored a century against Australia since the end of the 2005 Ashes. KingStrato 07:05, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Q619
What scorecard curio was achieved by Australia in the recent Test in Brisbane that has only been done once before in Test history, namely Australia v South Africa at Adelaide, 1931/32? --Travisbasevi 08:31, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Same number of wickets in both innings by all bowlers. Tintin 09:26, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * If you add on that it's the same number for all five bowlers then I'll give it to you. (Been done once each for 4 bowlers and 3 bowlers). --Travisbasevi 13:47, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Q620
He was purely a batsman and played in modern times. After scoring his second hundred in his 12th Test match, he played, with hardly any breaks, for ten more years. During this time, he played in three World Cups and in the last two years of his career, captained his country. Yet, in a career of more than 50 Tests, he did not score a hundred after the 12th Test. Who ? Tintin 16:38, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ramiz Raja? KingStrato 16:56, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Correct. *sigh* Tintin 17:09, 14 November 2007 (UTC)