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Q541

Who is believed to be the only player to score a century and a try at both Headingley and the SCG? –MDCollins (talk) 12:07, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It must be a remarkable enough achievement to play both cricket and one of the rugby codes at a high enough level in both countries. The best I can come up with is Andy Stoddart, although I have to think it's a rugby league try, not rugby union. --Travisbasevi 13:49, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, not Stoddart. –MDCollins (talk) 14:08, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Clues --Roberry 14:34, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Correct [1] [2] –MDCollins (talk) 14:37, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q542

What uniquely happened on the 2nd day of the England/West Indies Test at Lord's in 2000? --Roberry 15:59, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One of the MCC members joined in the Mexican Wave. Stephen Turner (Talk) 16:00, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All four innings on the same day? Stephen Turner (Talk) 16:04, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alternatively: innings finished off the first ball of a day's play? Stephen Turner (Talk) 16:06, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I knew it was easy - I was just surprised - all four innings took place on the same day - the 1st innings ended with the first ball of the day, then both teams were bowled out, leaving England enough time to face 1.1 overs in their second innings before the close. Next question is yours, Stephen Turner . --Roberry 16:09, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q543

Who am I? I catch like the rubbered avian. My partner in crime was an exuberant gambler. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:10, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All I can think of is "Big Bird" Joel Garner, but it's probably completely wrong. Stephen Turner (Talk) 09:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there must be two related people. The second part makes me think of Ponting but I dont see a connection to the first part there. Looking at the rubber avian that must be a duck... so maybe Frank Duckworth...(no idea about the catching though) with Lewis being the guy interested in the maths of gambling? Its thin I know. --LiamE 10:18, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was leaning towards Glenn McGrath with Shane Warne as his gambling partner but I'm not sure why McGrath would be referred to as Big Bird. Jonesy 10:35, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Did Ponting give Ajit Agarkar the nickname "Bombay Duck" for a run of ducks against the Aussies? --LiamE 11:11, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For a rubber avian I think of the staple of b-grade comedians, the Rubber Chicken (as made famous in Aust by Rod Quantock - had to preview to see if he was red-linked, good to see he's not)... but no obvious link to cricket. There is the story on the rubber chicken page that is links both clues and is worth repeating... where were Greg Ritchie or Phil Tufnell at this time? During the fifth end break (curling's version of halftime and/or a seventh inning stretch) at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, a man ran across the ice wearing nothing but an online gambling ad and a strategically placed rubber chicken. Chief referee Keith Wendorf tackled the man, and an umpire covered him with a coat before he was led out of the arena by the Italian police. Glenn McGrath is known as pigeon, to move to another bird type, but he wasn't really known for his catching. Catch could indicate that it is Mark someone that we are looking for. I think we need another clue. The-Pope 17:45, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How about Mark Greatcatch? Now I'm just being silly. --LiamE 23:59, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Clue: Catching with rubber can only apply to one type of player on the cricket field. Secondly, this player played before most of us (and perhaps almost all) here were born. And, all the references in the question are on-field references. So, none of the above. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:30, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don Tallon being a wicketkeeper and a pun on a bird's talons? I guess the partner in crime was having taken 12 of his Test catches off Keith Miller, being well known for a flutter?? --Travisbasevi 04:40, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don Tallon is indeed the "rubbered avian" I was thinking of, but I was thinking someone who caught like Tallon....Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:03, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ted Pooley [3]?? In google I trust, but not sure if I got it right. Sarvagnya 08:28, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barry Jarman was also a keeper with 50 Test catches, so could be said to have "caught like Tallon". The best I can do for the gambling reference is that he was the match referee for Cronje's Centurion forfeit. (And now checking his profile upon preview he was also involved in horseracing). Rohan Kanhai, and Kim Hughes are the only other players with exactly 50 catches in Tests. --Travisbasevi 12:44, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Clue: "caught like" is another metaphor. The "gambler" reference and the "exuberant" are all about onfield behaviour. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:28, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rod Marsh and Dennis Lillee?? Rprpsych 00:34, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. Denis Compton was an "exuberant gambler" on the field and he had a partner-in-crime, namely Bill Edrich. They both played against Tallon but then I'm stuck for a connection between Edrich and "caught like (Tallon)". --Fiddlers Three 16:19, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Compton was a well known friend of the afore mentioned Keith Miller. No lots of Tallon's catches came off Miller. --LiamE 21:21, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alan Knott and Ian Botham??Jonesy 01:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Clue: Australian players. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:58, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A wild guess: Bill O'Reilly and Clarrie Grimmett. —Moondyne 03:59, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ian Healy and Merv Hughes?? Jonesy 04:04, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Clue: Since I have had little success in the quiz myself, you can be sure that if I know something this intricate, I probably wrote about it. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:18, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Guessing, but Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller? --Fiddlers Three 12:26, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How about Bob Simpson who was a superb slip fielder? His partner was Bill Lawry, though! --Fiddlers Three 19:17, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Nope. There aren't many possibilities though. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:45, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Does the gambling reference relate to the Mark Waugh / Shane Warne controversy? If so, is the catcher Adam Gilchrist? --Fiddlers Three 11:56, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: As I noted above, these players were from before most of us were born.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:12, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Time to move on, I think. I've flown halfway around the world, been subject to 28 Georgian toasts at a party, been laid in bed on a drip for 24 hours with a nasty virus, thought I was dying, finally get to check the quiz and we're STILL on the same question!!!!!!!! WillE from Telavi, Georgia.... (Can't find the tilde on the georgian keyboard...)

My wifr has asked me to clarify that I was not dying, but to add that were I still playing, my subsequent dislocated shoulder would now see me out for the season! WillE

I agree - guideline one of the quiz says "If you're finding no-one can get the answer to your question, consider offering clues or replacing your question with an easier one. The aim is to keep the quiz moving. " - let's have a different question - none gets the clues and everyone is just randomly guessing.

Jack Fingleton? Australian, finished his career before WW2 and you've worked on his page. He was an occasional wicketkeeper[4] but his partner Bill Brown was probably a better fielder and once replaced Tallon as WK but you haven't worked on his page. --Jpeeling 21:19, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Answer - Alan Davidson - "The Claw" and his bowling partner Richie Benaud was an exuberant and emotional player who was a risk-taking captain. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:31, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q544

Who was described as a "fox-headed cricketer" when his action revolutionised the sport? – --Fiddlers Three 05:46, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The guy who threw his bat at the ball and was caught at point in the 1829 match between underarmers and round armers. Can't remember the name ! Tintin 06:26, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Edgar Willsher? --Roberry 18:22, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Willsher is good thinking but wrong revolution. Tintin is nearer. --Fiddlers Three 19:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll go for John Willes (cricketer) if we're looking at the earlier revolution. The Roundarm trial matches were in 1827 if the quote is attributed to those matches, although I can't find anything specific. --Travisbasevi 22:10, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Travis. I was thinking of Jem Broadbridge. Tintin 01:12, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll guess his roundarm partner, William Lillywhite then. The-Pope 01:41, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Over to you, Tintin. Broadbridge was referred to by Lillywhite as a "fox-headed cricketer". There is a reference to it in the H S Altham history. --Fiddlers Three 06:10, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The round-armers won the first two matches but apparently threw away the third because they did not want to create the impression that round-arm was far more effective than underarm. Broadbridge almost literally threw away his wicket by throwing his bat at a very wide ball and getting caught at point. This dismissal is sometimes cited as an example of his "fox-headed" character. Whether a batsman could be declared caught when the bat is not attached to his body, and whether the ball should have been a wide were major points of discussion (under the current law, of course, it cannot be a wide if the batsman made contact with the ball). Tintin 06:53, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q545

According to Bill Frindall, there has been only one Test match where both the captains and both the vice-captains scored hundreds. It was a match where he was a scorer, and one which may be called a "great" Test match. Which one ? Tintin 06:53, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gooch's Test v India in 1990? The captains Gooch and Azharuddin scored tons along with Lamb, Smith and Shastri. I know Lamb was definitely the vice, but I'm only guessing Shastri was also. --Travisbasevi 13:30, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Right. I am sure that Shastri was the VC but wasn't sure about Lamb. Tintin 13:39, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q546

Paul Collingwood just lost his 8th toss in 9 matches (ODIs and T20Is) as England captain this summer. But which ODI captain has a toss winning percentage of 20% with a near-reverse match winning percentage of 73%? --Travisbasevi 14:08, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gatting had a good ODI record as captain I think - not sure whether he was a quite such a useless tosser though. --LiamE 15:46, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gilchrist won 11 lost 4, won only 3 tosses. Stephen Turner (Talk) 16:04, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Strangely, two of the matches he lost were when he won the toss. So it's probably a good job he didn't win the toss more often! [5] Stephen Turner (Talk) 16:06, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Correct. Gilchrist was, in Liam's words, the useless tosser. --Travisbasevi 20:56, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q547

I think this one's not too hard, but it's one I happened to wonder about yesterday. What is the lowest total successfully defended in a full-length ODI? Stephen Turner (Talk) 09:08, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Eng v Pakistan, 1 March. 1992. 74 and 24 [6] Not sure if this is the lowest though. —Moondyne 09:45, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, that one doesn't count because the match was reduced in length (and then not completed). It has to be a full-length match (by which I mean that it wasn't reduced by rain: both teams either faced 50 overs or got bowled out while facing 50 overs, or whatever the full number of overs for that match was). Stephen Turner (Talk) 09:59, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

India defended 125 against Pakistan in 1984-85, bowling them out for 87. —Raven42 10:37, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's the one. Pakistan must have been gutted: win the toss, put India in, bowl them out for 125 ... and then lose by nearly 40.

For the record, the lowest in a reduced match is where Pakistan again scored 87 ... but this time beat India.[7] That was in a 16-over match — how many do you think a team would score in a 16-over match nowadays?

Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:48, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q548

What's the connection between this eleven? Shivnarine Chanderpaul, ~~Michael Carew~~ Joey Carew, Viv Richards, Nathan Astle, Mike Hendrick, Brett Lee, Joel Garner, Courtney Walsh, Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan, Anil Kumble. —Raven42 11:57, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you mean Joey Carew (Michael Conrad Carew) otherwise you're certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons with the Michael Philip Carew you've linked to there. --Travisbasevi 13:07, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops. Yes, that's the one I meant. —Raven42 13:12, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No takers? There's a very strong hint on one of those players' pages. —Raven42 10:19, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bit of a tough clue when you've got a fair selection of some of cricket's most accomplished players (and longest Wikipedia pages). Since Carew never played ODIs, and the few batsmen there are also part-time bowlers, would it be on the right track to say it's something to do with bowling in Tests? --Travisbasevi 13:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Scratch that, because I've got it. It's the most career wickets in order of the most number of wickets taken in an innings. Chanderpaul and Carew 8 wickets for a max of 1 in an innings, then Richards 32 (max 2), Astle 51 (3), Hendrick 87 (4), Lee 231 (5), Garner 259 (6), Walsh 519 (7), Warne 708 (8), Murali 700 (9), Kumble 566 (10). I knew that half hour I spent staring at all the 1s on Carew's innings bowling list would eventually pay off! --Travisbasevi 13:19, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Correct. —Raven42 13:44, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q549

On the very simple assumption that 1 wicket roughly equals 30 runs (found by the quotient of all runs scored by batsmen and all wickets taken by bowlers), this rather boringly gives Laker's 19 wickets and 3 runs (573 points) as the best allround performance in a Test match. So to make it more interesting, using this formula, who has the best match performance on the losing side in a Test? --Travisbasevi 13:56, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For a start, Giffen had a 161 + 41 + 8 wkts = 442 [8]. Tintin 14:00, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spot on. Trumble's 64* + 7* + 12 wickets = 431 in 1902 being second in the list. Amazing effort by Giffen: 118 overs bowled without much of a break whilst England follow on, then still bats at 3 and gets Australia to 135/4 chasing 177 before they collapse on a sticky and lose by 10 runs. --Travisbasevi 14:25, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where does Giffen rank overall (ie, incl. winners and losers) ? Tintin 14:27, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Quite far down the list at 23rd. The fault with the formula being that most bowlers with 15 wickets in the match (450 points, more than anyone except Gooch has scored with the bat in a match) only batted once and rarely scored much - Barnes with 17 wickets and 0 runs being second in the list! Botham 114 and 13 wickets in the Golden Jubilee Test does come in 4th though. Davidson 124 runs/11 wickets, Edrich 213/8, Atkinson 239/7, Imran 117/11 being the other authentic allround efforts ahead of Giffen. --Travisbasevi 15:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q550

This record is held by X who played in the 1950s. For a time, it looked as if Mohammad Sharif of Bangladesh would break it, but X reclaimed his top position a few months back. Who is X and what is the record ? Tintin 14:34, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Khalid Hasan as the youngest player in his final (and only) Test match. Mohammad Sharif lost the record having played two Tests recently. —Raven42 16:50, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect. Khalid Hasan played his only Test a week short of 17 years of age. Sharif's 5th Test match was at the age of 16 years and two months in Jan 2002, but he appeared in two more Tests recently. Tintin 18:36, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q551

Which player is number 200, 100, and 11? —Raven42 18:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You could have made it 200, 100 and 10, instead of 11 to keep the round number theme going! I was surprised that Vettori hadn't played a Twenty20 game... it was the first list I checked (just happened to check NZ first too for some unknown reason - well I knew it couldn't be Aust or Eng, too many players!) The-Pope 19:19, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vettori it is, though I was thinking of his ODI shirt number for the 11. Over to you. —Raven42 19:25, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He would be number 11 for the ICC World XI in both Tests and ODIs. Do I win a prize? --Travisbasevi 19:33, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I meant to put the 11 as world XI Test cricketers, not ODIs twice - so no Travis, no prize as if the wiki page is to be believed (haven't check if its from a RS!), then he is 10 in ODIs, 11 in Tests. The-Pope 23:53, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, yes, W for Warne does come after V for Vettori. Ignore me. --Travisbasevi 02:10, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q552

What links the following team: Graham Gooch, Aamer Sohail, Rahul Dravid, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Adam Bacher, Ravi Shastri, Carl Hooper, Steve Rhodes, Simon Doull, Courtney Walsh, Ranjith Madurasinghe. The-Pope 04:21, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A clue: 11 x one of a kind, unique, exclusive, sole. Unrepeatable. The-Pope 14:39, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think we might need another clue - does it have anything to do with the word single? --Roberry 19:26, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sort of, but not to do with running a single or not married or anything. One more clue and explanations of the previous clues: No Aussies on that list. It has omething to do with one dismissal for each of them. And it is a complete list - no-one else can be added or deleted from this list, unless someone changes their mind. The-Pope 16:01, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I originally saw that Warne has dismissed them all, but couldn't find any connection between them. Now your last clue certainly indicates it's something to do with Warne, but I'm still baffled. Throwing this out there for someone to hopefully take forward. --Travisbasevi 16:24, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think I know what it is but it's not easy to explain.

Graham Gooch c Julian b Warne 65
Aamer Sohail st Emery b Warne 105
Rahul Dravid c Robertson b Warne 52
Shivnarine Chanderpaul c Bracken b Warne 2
Adam Bacher c MacGill b Warne 41
Ravi Shastri c Jones b Warne 206
Carl Hooper c Whitney b Warne 0
Steve Rhodes c Fleming b Warne 2
Simon Doull c May b Warne 1
Courtney Walsh c Hughes b Warne 0
Ranjith Madurasinghe c Matthews b Warne 0

These are the 11 unique fielder/Warne dismissals (i.e. the fielders at the bottom of this page victims) --Jpeeling 19:17, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's it... of Warnie's 708 test wickets, 100s were out bowled or lbw Warne, over 40 (?) c Healy b Warne, or c Hayden b Warne etc... but only these 11 were out to a unique scorecard. Amazing that the 11 make up a decent team, in terms of a couple of actual openers, good middle order, a couple of all rounders, a wicketkeeper and some quicks. Very pleased I was able to stump you all for a couple of days! The-Pope 00:32, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q553

Sorry for the delay, Leslie Fleetwood-Smith, Abey Kuruvilla and Jayananda Warnaweera share the record in Tests who holds it in ODIs? --Jpeeling 18:01, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ata-ur-Rehman ? Tintin 18:26, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Correct, Fleetwood-Smith, Kuruvilla and Warnaweera all played 10 Tests without taking a catch and the one-day equivalent is Ata-ur-Rehman who played 30 ODIs without a single catch. Over to Tintin. --Jpeeling 18:42, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please give me one more day to ask the next one. Tintin 10:30, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q554

Philo Wallace did it during the ICC Knockout tournament in Bangladesh in late 1998; Sehwag did the same in the World Series Cup in Australia in 2003-04. They are probably the only players to do it in ODIs ~~(no one has done it in Tests)~~ . What ? Tintin 11:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Smash down the stumps in frustration having been given out? WillE 12:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No. There are probably enough people who have smashed down the stumps in Tests to create an article about it, including those who later became respected match referees and team managers :-) Tintin 13:04, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. There is at least one person who has done it in Tests. So please ignore that part. Tintin 13:11, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hit the first ball of the match for six? WillE 14:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hit the first ball of an innings for six, but that's good enough. Wallace lofted Srinath over long off; Sehwag flicked Gillespie over long leg. Aravinda de Silva did it against India in the first Test at Colombo, 1985-86. Over to WillE for a question about Holmes and Sutcliffe. Tintin 15:04, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q555

What was the partnership between Holmes and Sutclif....

Erm - no.

FC Dinamo Tbilisi and Žalgiris Vilnius, and Cricket? What's the connection? WillE 16:42, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All I know is they played each other in Georgia's first full international match (representing Georgia and Lithuania), does that have anything to with it? --Roberry 19:28, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes - but I need more than that to make the connection. WillE 20:22, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was originally a game played between two club teams, but the authorities in hindsight later declared it an international... with the (tenuous) link to cricket being that the ICC/MCC often arbitarily after the fact declare games to be FC/Test/ODI or not. The-Pope 22:30, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's it. The first test match was only declared such much later, and the soccer match in question was retrospectively described as Georgia's first international, even before it was recognised as an independent nation. Must be strange knowing you've been to a match with the programme saying it was between two teams, but all the reporting in later years saying it was between two different entities. Over to His Eminence. WillE 06:51, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q556

Wow, didn't expect to get that. Still in a bit of shock after the Aussies dismal batting display, so another "what links this team" question. Only these 11 players are currently members of this club, but others may join them in the future. Upul Tharanga, Maurice Ouma, David Obuya, Kevin Pietersen, Steve Tikolo, MS Dhoni, Shane Bond, John Blain, Abdur Razzak, Monde Zondeki, Peter Ongondo. And a hint to save you going down the wrong path... unlike my previous questions, there is no importance to the lack of Aussies in this team - they could easily qualify for it in the future. The-Pope 18:07, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Everyone must be caught up with the Twenty20 fever. Or is it Rugby World Cup time? Anyway, a clue. No one else has joined this list since I asked the question. The-Pope 04:39, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~A wild guess: All have been out for 0 in their debut International Twenty20 match? —Moondyne 05:41, 14 September 2007 (UTC)~~ wrong. [9] —Moondyne 07:05, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is it that all eleven have been dismissed for 0, where the bowler has required no assistance in taking the wicket? AMBerry (talk | contribs) 22:46, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Almost perfect, just missing the extra bit that the fielderless ducks (ie bowled, lbw, hit wicket etc) all happened in Twenty20 Internationals. Mr Ouma has now qualified twice! The-Pope 00:07, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q557

That'd be what I meant. Which cricketer cum commentator once uttered the saying: "Nobody's perfect. You know what happened to the last person who was - they crucified him"? AMBerry (talk | contribs) 20:37, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like something Mr Boycott might say --Bedders 20:50, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alas, spot on. Your turn Bedders. AMBerry (talk | contribs) 22:01, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q558

Mathew Sinclair's unwanted international first? --Bedders 07:14, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  First duck in Twenty20 internationals (was also a golden duck to boot!) - Cowboydan78 07:41, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spot on, your turn --Bedders 09:56, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q559

There are two different reasons that make the number 229 unique. Name one of these. Cowboydan78 10:50, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's the lowest score that's never been made by a batsman in Tests? --Travisbasevi 11:03, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's it. seems my first attempt at hosting the question was a short lived one! The other reason is it's the highest individual score made in an (women's) ODI game, by Belinda Clark. Over to you Travis - Cowboydan78 11:17, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Q560

Desmond Haynes, Len Hutton and Steve Waugh jointly hold which record? --Travisbasevi 12:51, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Being dismissed in most different ways in Test cricket. Tintin 12:57, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That should be seven, I guess. Tintin 12:58, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Aye. All have done the main five ways plus a hit wicket plus Hutton has an obstruction whilst Haynes and Waugh have a handled the ball. The question stick passes to you. --Travisbasevi 14:02, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]