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Question guidelines

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Number of correct answers

Template:WikiProject Cricket/Quiz archives

(as of Q480)

58	Johnlp
57	Tintin
41	Stephen Turner
39	ALoan
23	Deville
23	Moondyne
20	Sam Vimes
18	Roisterer
15	Bedders
14	Dingbatdan
12	Dweller
11	WillE

10	Paul
10	Jguk
10	Gurubrahma
8	KingStrato
8	The-Pope
8	Sam Korn
6	Jpeeling
6	Travisbasevi
5	Blowtorch
5	DaGizza
5	Wisden17
5	Rakuten06

5	UdayS
4	Raven42
4	LiamE
4	mdcollins1984
4	JPD
3	Roberry
3	Blnguyen
3	Eusebius12
3	QazPlm
3	RobertG
3	Jazzycab
2	Nabhen
2	Kingfisherswift

2	Aussie King Pin
2	bujiarun
1	Nil Einne
1	Raven4x4x
1	BlackJack
1	BradK
1	Riddick
1	Jonesy
1	Elelmnelo
1	Karthik Sampath
1	Surodeep
1	Rachit
6	Extras (No correct answer)

Questions

Q481

In the mid-1990s, it was deemed by the UCB and ICC that the SACB/SACBOC played by non-white South Africans between 1971/72 and 1990/91 were to be retrospectively classified as First-class (223 matches in all), but it's only in the past couple of years that the full scorecards have been found and published. Which three Test players and two ODI players have subsequently had their FC records changed because of these matches? --Travisbasevi 03:33, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shafiek Abrahams, Basil D'Oliveira, Omar Henry, Rohan Kanhai and Henry Williams Dingbatdan 06:02, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect! Over to you. --Travisbasevi 09:41, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q482

Which Australian-born player has the dubious distinction of being run out twice for 199 in his FC career? Dingbatdan 08:15, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jason Gallian of Nottinghamshire in 2005 --Jpeeling 08:28, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pipped by my slow laptop and general laziness! If you look at question 223 I set a similar question back then. That one lasted seven minutes longer. Still, fair play to you JPeeling :-) к1иgf1$н£я5ω1fт 18:23, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, it was me that got it last time. Would have been in this time, but I was at work... KingStrato 20:00, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, too easy guys! over to you... Dingbatdan 16:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q483

What links these players: Sonny Ramadhin, Alf Valentine, Tommy Scott and Jim Laker --Jpeeling 18:18, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spin bowlers, none of whom used their orignal or full forename. WillE 21:30, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, Sonny doesnt qualify. The first clue is to confirm the obvious, it relates to test 'match' bowling. --Jpeeling 09:52, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sonny Ramadhin's given name (as recorded on his birth certificate) was "Boy". But it's your question...WillE 13:44, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Scott once conceded 374 runs in a Test match. Thinking on those lines, all the four have bowled 100+ overs in a Test one at least one occasion. But it is not unique. So ... no idea. Tintin 13:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I feel like I'm close, so good luck to anyone that can take it forward if I'm not close enough. Ramadhin has bowled the most balls in a match (774), Valentine has bowled the most 6-balls-per-over maidens in a match (75), Scott the most runs conceded, and Laker of course with 19 wickets. Valentine seems a bit of an odd one out, rather than having Attewall who has the proper record with 83 4-bpo maidens. --80.168.130.223 14:23, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, hello, 80.168.130.223 is me, who's just cleaned out his cookies. --Travisbasevi 14:24, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They did all concede 200 runs in a match but that doesn't seem unique to these players. Since Scott never took 10 wkts I'm thinking it must be to do with the runs conceded.--Roberry 15:28, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It seems I made my first error, Travisbasevi got the answer I wanted, it refers to the most in a bowlers match analysis:
Most Overs - Ramadhin 129
Most Maidens - Valentine 75 beaten by William Attewell's 83
Most Runs - Scott 374
Most Wickets - Laker 19
I blame my mistake on Bill Frindall --Jpeeling 17:17, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q484

Which team has not won a Test since February 1972? And has also not lost a Test since February 1992? --Travisbasevi 12:41, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New Zealand women [1] Stephen Turner (Talk) 12:49, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Except it was March 1972. Stephen Turner (Talk) 12:51, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes indeed. March or February? - it was a crazy summer! Remarkable set of results anyway. The baton passes to you. --Travisbasevi 13:09, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q485

Who was out twice in two balls in the recent World Cup? Stephen Turner (Talk) 13:18, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't mean to be a nitpicker, but there was a couple of dozen players with golden ducks in the last World Cup. Most of which would have been out on the last ball they faced previous. If you're talking about two golden ducks, then I can only see Boucher and the newly initialled DBL Powell, but neither of them were consecutive, so I'm at a loss. --Travisbasevi 13:54, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. Who was out twice in consecutive balls in one match in the recent World Cup? Stephen Turner (Talk) 13:58, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There was somebody who stayed back as a runner after getting out and was run out off the next ball. Can't remember off the top of the head and feeling too lazy to look up. Tintin 15:45, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Brendan Taylor vs Pakistan, he ran Stuart Matsikenyeri out. Here's the series of events:

Matsikenyeri and Taylor are batting, Matsikenyeri calls for runner at start of 12th over, Taylor is out off first ball of 12th over and so acts as runner, batsman crossed over so Matsikenyeri on strike. He tries a heave and misses, Akmal claims a stumping it goes to video reply, Matsikenyeri in but Taylor was out of his crease. Matsikenyeri was given out run out rather than stumped. Taylor had been run out in the two previous matches against Ireland and the West Indies. [2] --Jpeeling 17:44, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent comprehensive answer from Jpeeling (except it was the 13th over, but I'll forgive you that :-). Here's Cricinfo's commentary. Stephen Turner (Talk) 18:46, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q486

What similar records do Jim Burke and Kepler Wessels hold? --Jpeeling 20:42, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The only thing I can think of is that they Both played 24 tests for Australia, although Wessels ended his career in South Africa. Sparkyboi 10:53, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Clue: Jim Burke holds the Test record and Kepler Wessels holds the ODI record. --Jpeeling 12:25, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Burke has the slowest Test century for Australia [3] , does Wessels have the slowest ODI century for Australia [4]--Roberry 15:19, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good try but no, this century by David Boon I believe is Australia slowest and possible the slowest in all ODI cricket. --Jpeeling 15:00, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is an extremely good question, Jpeeling. The only thing I can find so far is that they were both selected as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in years of which three of the other recipients were English ('57 and '95 respectively), but I'm sure this has occured countless times and what it has to do with test & ODI records I don't know. Still, I shall strive onwards! к1иgf1$н£я5ω1fт 18:47, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Most innings without a duck? WillE 20:21, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Very close but not quite --Jpeeling 20:48, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Highest number of innings BEFORE a duck. WillE 21:55, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AB De Villiers holds the Test record, but he's still playing so maybe it should be 'most innings in a career without a duck', anyone WillE gets it. Burke had 44, De Villiers currently 52. Wessels went 105 ODI innings without a duck well ahead of the next best with 40. --Jpeeling 08:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q487

What personal milestone could only have happened after 12th September 1992, was expected to happen between 3rd January 1993 and 23rd February 1993, did happen on 23rd January 1993, then happened again on 1st May 1993, then happened again on 23rd January 1993? And why? 164.36.142.217 11:29, 29 May 2007 (UTC) (WillE at work...)[reply]

Can you clarify your dates please? You have 23 January, 2003 twice...–MDCollins (talk) 12:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have January 23rd 1993 twice, but I know. *Snigger* WillE 17:32, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Graham Gooch hit his 100th first class 100. It would have happened against India U25 on 23rd January 1993, but the ICC declared that his 100 scored in the rebel tour to SA didn't count, so when he scored another on the 1st May 1993 against Cambridge Uni that was his 100th 100. This assumes that I have rearranged the dates into the right order. KingStrato 18:20, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Correct - provided you can add the last bit of the puzzle, it's yours. WillE 18:30, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure how much more I can give. He scored his previous (98th/99th) against Gloucestershire on 12th September, the last day of the season. He then went on the tour of India from 3rd Jan to 23rd Feb, he scored the 2 hundreds against India U25 which would have been his 100th century, but the ICC refused to accept the 100 he scored on the rebel tour, then he scored a century in the test against India and all hailed the great Goochman. is that enough? KingStrato 18:42, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Have the rebel tours been reinstated? -- ALoan (Talk) 19:13, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the South African board reinstated them at the same time as the SACB fixtures - hence the second use of 23/1/93 to indicate the retcon. Now you've collectively sown a doubt in my mind.... That said, KS, it's yours. 164.36.142.217 12:24, 30 May 2007 (UTC) WillE at work...[reply]

Here's a list of Gooch's centuries, No.28 is the debatable one. The ICC around 1993 decided the rebel tours weren't first-class, however Wisden still treat them as first-class [5],[6] --Jpeeling 19:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q488

Arjuna Ranatunga, Stephen Fleming, Imran Khan, Hansie Cronje and Alistair Campbell (just) jointly hold which record? Saurav Ganguly misses out by one. KingStrato 17:56, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly relates to captaincy: most tosses won? к1иgf1$н£я5ω1fт 13:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This has me stumped, from the names it looks like a ODI captaincy record, it's not most tosses won/loss and it's not most consecutive tosses won/loss. I think it's time for a clue. --Jpeeling 16:19, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lowest score on first appearance as ODI captain? WillE 18:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As an after thought, you can add Habibul Bashar to the list. They each hold 2 captaincy records for their country. Ganguly only holds one of these. KingStrato 19:07, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should Allan Border be on the list? --Jpeeling 20:04, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I thought he should be, and I found a source to back this up, but I also found a source that says he isn't (I'm just trying to find it again now). It was for this reason that I decided to leave him off the list. KingStrato 20:32, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Most test AND one-day victories for their respective nations? Ganguly has the test record but not the ODI, think it applies to the others. к1иgf1$н£я5ω1fт 20:28, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No - scrap that, it's wrong. I think. Sorry! к1иgf1$н£я5ω1fт 20:30, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It relies on Allan Border but I'll say it anyway, they all have captained their teams in the most matches in both forms of the game. --Jpeeling 20:37, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's the one. Howstat has him down as having both, but I found another site which said it was Ponting that holds the Australian ODI record. That's why I left him out and added in Ganguly to show it wasn't just a most matches captained in one form of the game record. KingStrato 20:49, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q489

Indentify this XI (what links them): Alan Turner, Chetan Chauhan, Greg Chappell, Allan Border (c), Mark Burgess, Graham Roope, Richard Hadlee, Warren Lees (wk), Lance Cairns, Dennis Lillee and Joel Garner. --Jpeeling 21:21, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They all played ODIs in the 1970s?... Hooray, I win... Well, maybe not, but it better have something to do with that or I've been running up an hour's worth of blind alleys. --Travisbasevi 02:54, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry Travisbasevi for your wasted hours, I did say I'd be amazed if anyone got it so you should have saved your time for after the clue. The clue is Q476. --Jpeeling 08:59, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Among Javed Miandad's Test victims. Johnlp 09:31, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's it Johnlp, Miandad took 17 Test wickets - the others are: Ian Davis, Gary Cosier, David O'Sullivan, Andrew Roberts and John Parker (twice). --Jpeeling 10:08, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q490

Which four-letter word links a one-Test wonder, a transatlantic wicketkeeping opener and hitting the ball rather hard? Johnlp 10:44, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Slog? WillE 11:41, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

'Fraid not. Johnlp 11:43, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's not: bang, bash, beat, belt, blow, bonk, bump, club, cuff, lick, loft, slam, slap, swat, wham, whip and whop at least according to surnames on cricketarchive. Only cuff produces any results. --Jpeeling 12:00, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, but it is one of these. All you have to do is work out which one, and why! Johnlp 13:07, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wayne Cuff is a West Indian wicketkeeper/opener I guess you could call him transatlantic if only he'd played or toured England. Dammit. --Jpeeling 13:47, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So it's not cuff, then... Only 16 more on your list to go! Exciting, isn't it? Johnlp 13:59, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rodney Redmond? But I don't know which word and I can't find a link. Jonesy 04:42, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is the transatlantic wicketkeeping opener Karl Nunes? Jonesy 05:48, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The transatlantic player did not play Tests or ODIs. The one Test wonder was South African. The associations will take you out of cricket: in one case to a different sport, in the other out of this world entirely. Does that help? Johnlp 08:20, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The word is bash. The one test wonder is William Ash but I'm stumped (no pun intended) on the transatlantic wicketkeeping opener. Jonesy 08:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think I've got it - bash, William Ashley and Ashish Bagai. Jonesy 08:36, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, no, but a nice try. Wrong twosome and the word isn't "bash". I'll give another clue if no one's got it in 12 hours' time. Meanwhile, I'm off... to the cricket! Johnlp 08:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When you said "another sport" I checked SA's rugby test players... but no joy. Hope the hint's coming soon! :-) Kezzt 14:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I'm feeling generous because Somerset won (not a common event at Lord's). The word is "belt" but someone has to tell me who the two cricketers are that I've been thinking of. Johnlp 18:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I got the South African... only 63 one test wonders for them, but I wouldn't call scoring 17 in each innings a wonder. Adrian Kuiper and the Kuiper belt should match the clues. No idea about the transatlantic non test or ODI wicketkeeper! How about we keep this to at least international level!The-Pope 18:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Kuiper is right. But having given such a heavy hint, I think I should stick out for a bit longer to see if someone can get the transatlantic keeper. Johnlp 19:14, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Black belt? Jacobus Black? Probably not an opener or transatlantic but he wasn't international and kept wicket! Kezzt 20:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can't find an exact match, closed is Courtney Browne, a West Indian born in England but he's played tests and ODIs and only opened three times at International level, and there's Henry Brown an American who toured England in 1884 and 1889 but he wasnt a regular keeper or opener. There's no 'fan' or 'seat' so I assume it's martial arts related. --Jpeeling 20:20, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All right, I'll give in and hand it over to The-Pope, who identified Adrian Kuiper and his out-of-this-world belt. The answer I was looking for was Lonsdale Skinner, wicketkeeper and opening bat for Surrey and then, later, for his native Guyana. And the Lonsdale Belt is an award in boxing. Anyway, over to you, Your-Hyphen-Holiness, and well done to all for some interesting suggestions. Johnlp 20:36, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not going to be able to work out a question in the next day or so, so someone else can have a go...The-Pope 04:28, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q491

In Q.486, JPeeling said that De Villiers holds the record for most innings from the start of the Test career without a duck. He has 52. Who did not a score a duck in his first 51 innings and then made a pair in his 52nd and 53rd innings ? Tintin 05:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Geraint Jones 62.56.123.234 06:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC) - Didn't realise I wasn't signed in KingStrato 06:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is. Well done. Tintin 06:44, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q492

What did England finally do in July 1989 after 585 attempts? KingStrato 06:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Won the toss twice in the same match? Johnlp 07:21, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Get out Steve Waugh! 164.36.142.217 10:51, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Field a catch-taking sub? к1иgf1$н£я5ω1fт 15:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]