E: 31/01 All Out Crickets Big Fat Christmas Quiz 2014 (HELP NEEDED)

thingamaBob

ALL OUT CRICKET

This is a quiz of four sections with 40 questions divided into 4 rounds
Each round has it's own prize plus there is an overall prize.
I will post each part in separate posts below.
I have found many of the answers but would stress that these are my answers and could be wrong. Help with the missing answers/any corrections would be appreciated

ROUND 1: CRICKET IN 2014

WIN! Match-ready, special edition Kookaburra bat, signed by Ian Bell, launched in celebration of his hundredth Test, courtesy of MCC

ROUND 2: UNUSUAL PLAYERS

WIN! The Nightwatchman (editions 1-8) and five best-selling cricket books

ROUND 3: QUIRKY GOINGS-ON

WIN! Joshila bat and VKS Players Edition batting gloves

ROUND 4: FANTASTIC FEATS

WIN! Limited-edition Wisden 150 bat, signed by Andrew Flintoff and Ricky Ponting

OVERALL WINNER

WIN! A Kit bag worth in excess of £500, featuring a bat from retailer All-Rounder Cricket

AND JUST FOR TAKING PART…

We’ll be picking one entrant at random for a VIP day at the Kia Oval, taking in England’s ODI against New Zealand on June 12.

The winner of each round will also receive a 12-month digital subscription to AOC, a Bulldog Skincare gift pack and a Trion:Z wristband

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1. CRICKET IN 2014
The prize for this part of the quiz is a match-ready, special edition Kookaburra bat signed by Ian Bell, launched in celebration of his hundredth Test, courtesy of MCC.

1. Who became the first player to hit his first delivery in Test cricket for six?
Answer: Mark Craig

2. Who was out in the first over of a Test innings for 14?
Answer: Ahmed Shehzad

3. Who scored six runs from 123 deliveries in a Test?
Answer: Jean-Paul Duminy

4. Who batted through an entire uninterrupted first day of a Test this year scoring just 74 not out?
Answer: Tamim Iqbal

5. Who took four wickets in four balls in the County Championship?
Answer: Alfonso Thomas

6. Who became the oldest man to score two centuries in the same Test Match?
Answer: Misbah ul Haq

7. Pankaj Singh conceded 274 runs before his first Test wicket. But who holds the record of having conceded 285 runs before taking his first Test wicket?
Answer: Roger Wijesuriya

8. Stuart Broad took his second Test hat-trick, joining which other players to have achieved the feat more than once?
Answer: Wasim Akram, Hugh Trumble, Jimmy Matthews

9. What did South Africa's Dane Piedt become the 19th person to achieve?
Answer: Take a wicket with first ball of his test career

10. Who became the first player from his country to score a Test triple-century?
Answer: Brendan McCullum

11. The third India Test of this summer was the first to start on a Sunday in England. Which other day of the week has only seen one Test start in England?
Answer: Tuesday (Thanks to jwebber86 for answer - See posts 22/23)

12. Which Australian seamer had only celebrated five birthdays before making his debut in international cricket in 2014?
Answer: Sean Abbott

13. Who was the first batsman to reach 1,000 ODI runs this year?
Answer: Angelo Mathews

14. Who became the first man for more than 500 Tests to take nine wickets in an innings?
Answer: Rangana Herath

15. Which West Indian took five catches in the field on a single day of a Test?
Answer: Darren Bravo

16. Who took his first Test wicket in his 105th Test?
Answer: Alastair Cook

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2. UNUSUAL PLAYERS
The prize for this part of the quiz is editions 1-8 of The Nightwatchman, the Wisden Cricket Quarterly, and five best-selling cricket books.

17. Which Derbyshire first-class cricketer is remembered as part of the epic tale of survival of Ernest Shackleton’s men on Elephant Island?
Answer: Dudley Docker

18. Which recent Australian seamer’s forename and surname are worth 44 points in Scrabble?
Answer: Michael Kasprowicz

19. Who was England’s most recent teenage Test cricketer?
Answer: Ben Hollioake (Thanks to missmiller - see posts 15/16 below.)

20. Whose England captaincy stint has so far lasted just two deliveries?
Answer: James Tredwell

21. Who took advantage of a ban for disputing an umpiring decision to play serious football and ended up representing his country in World Cup qualifying matches?
Answer: Sir Viv Richards (See post 12 below.)

22. Who appeared in 23 Tests, made only 10 runs and took only one wicket?
Answer: Ken Palmer - Thanks to Karboro at post 31 for this.

23. Why will England’s next Test cricketer have a dilemma regarding his shirt?
Answer: As the 666th England player he can elect to take the 666 numbered shirt or pass to 667

24. Which cricketer who fell in the First World War was immortalised in fiction by PG Wodehouse?
Answer: Percy Jeeves

weeowens

thingamaBob wrote: »

Post being composed

thingamaBob wrote: »

Reserved for details

It's a bit GCHQ for me :-)


Is it a secret site?:D

thingamaBob

3. QUIRKY GOINGS-ON
The prize for this part of the quiz is a Joshila bat and VKS Players Edition batting gloves.

25. What did the tosses in the first Test between Zimbabwe and Pakistan at Harare in 1995 and the 2011 World Cup final have in common?
Answer: Both were retaken after referee said he had not heard the call and both callers lost 2nd call after seemingly calling correctly first time.

26. What did Sven Koenig in 2004 and Matt Prior in 2011 both achieve at Lord's?
Answer: Scored a century without losing their wicket ?? - Thanks to jwebber86 - See post 35 & 40 OR Smashed a window on their dismissal. See post 50

27. Why did mirth surround the wicket of Scotland's Freddie Coleman against Durham at the Riverside in 2013?
Answer: Scorecard read - Coleman caught Mustard bowled Onions

28. Which Australian's Test innings of 38 started on Friday and ended on Tuesday?
Answer: Ian Craig (Thanks to missmiller post 18 below.)

29. In a County Championship match, what is the maximum number of people to legally be on the field when the ball is in play?
Answer: 17 ?? (i.e. 11 fielders, 2 batsmen, 2 runners & 2 Umpires) (See posts 9 (thanks diddlydoop) & 10)

30. Why does Alec Stewart find it easy to remember the number of Test runs he scored?
Answer: He was born on 8/4/63 and scored 8463 runs

31. Who was dismissed 'handled ball' in the County Championship this summer?
Answer: Cheteshwar Pujara

32. Who is the only Test cricketer to have all the letters of the word "Cricket" in his surname?
Answer: Marcus Trescothick

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4. FANTASIC FEATS
The prize for this part of the quiz is a limited-edition Wisden 150 bat, signed by Andrew Flintoff and Ricky Ponting.

33. Which Zimbabwean was the only bowler to dismiss Sachin Tendulkar in each innings on his Test debut?
Answer: Neil Johnson

34. The Galle Test in December 2003 was the last time an England Test team had what characteristic?
Answer: All of the team were born in England

35. Which batsman/bowler combination has produced the most runs in Test cricket?
Answer: ??
What does this question actually ask? See posts 24 & 25
I'm going for Jonathan Trott & Stuart Broad who scored 332 for the 8th wicket in the 4th test in 2010. But see post 48 below.
I think they want the highest score by a batsman and a bowler batting together but jwebber86 thinks they want the most runs scored by a batsman off of one bowler.

36. How many times did Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne share all 10 of the opposition wickets in a Test innings?
Answer: Nine

37. Graeme Swann went for 22 runs in the final over of his Test career. But who conceded 24 runs in his last Test over?
Answer: Derek Stirling

38. Who was the last England batsman before Gary Ballance to reach his maiden Test century with a six?
Answer: Eoin Morgan

39. Which two father-son combinations each took more than 100 Test wickets
(all four of them)?
Answer: Lance Cairns & Chris Cairns and Shaun Pollock & Peter Pollock

40. Who has scored the most first-class runs in the 21st Century so far?
Answer: Murray Goodwin now looks probable/possible - See posts 37/38 below.

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thingamaBob wrote: »

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thingamaBob wrote: »

Reserved for part 3

Even more interesting now:D

weeowens

I think that I might start doing this for all my comps.

I will never be pipped to the post again as I can just edit the comp in & the URL will show mine as the first post.

Cheers for the tip :-)

diddlydoop

Thanks for all this Thingamabob have had my oh look at it but he doesn't know any off the top of his head but he said question 29 could possibly be 17 and not 15 as each batsman could have a runner although that would be the same in any match and not just county championship games

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diddlydoop wrote: »

Thanks for all this Thingamabob have had my oh look at it but he doesn't know any off the top of his head but he said question 29 could possibly be 17 and not 15 as each batsman could have a runner although that would be the same in any match and not just county championship games

That's what I originally thought for question 29 but my googling suggests that runners are no longer allowed by ICC rules. Are the County Championship rules different to ICC on this point?

ETA: Have just found a comment that this ban only applies to International cricket so 29 can be 17.

thingamaBob

Question 11. The third India Test of this summer was the first to start on a Sunday in England. Which other day of the week has only seen one Test start in England?

I think I have been able to eliminate all days but Monday and can only find that one match has started on a Monday although I believe that some are scheduled for that day next year.