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    1. The South African cricket team of the early 1900s sometimes fielded four leg spin/googly bowlers: Faulkner, Vogler, Schwarz and White. 2. The first ever Test match between England and Australia in 1877 and the centenary Test in 1997 both ended in Australian victories by the same margin of 45 runs. 3. Niaz Ahmed, who played two Tests for Pakistan in the 1960s, was unique as the only Bangladesh-based cricketer to represent Pakistan.

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    1. The South African cricket team of the early 1900s sometimes fielded four leg spin/googly bowlers: Faulkner, Vogler, Schwarz and White. 2. The first ever Test match between England and Australia in 1877 and the centenary Test in 1997 both ended in Australian victories by the same margin of 45 runs. 3. Niaz Ahmed, who played two Tests for Pakistan in the 1960s, was unique as the only Bangladesh-based cricketer to represent Pakistan.

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    1. The South African cricket team of the early 1900s sometimes fielded four leg spin/googly bowlers: Faulkner, Vogler, Schwarz and White. 2. The first ever Test match between England and Australia in 1877 and the centenary Test in 1997 both ended in Australian victories by the same margin of 45 runs. 3. Niaz Ahmed, who played two Tests for Pakistan in the 1960s, was unique as the only Bangladesh-based cricketer to represent Pakistan.

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    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
    1
    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
    2
    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
    3
    (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)


    8
    # Neville Cardus
    What connects the following: Colin Cowdrey, Ted Dexter, Ashok
    Gandotra, Lall Singh and Salim Durrani?
    9
    # 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)


    12
    # 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?
    13
    # 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)


    16
    # 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
    17
    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?
    19
    # 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?
    20
    # (a) Bill Lawry (b) Graham McKenzie (c) Charlie Mcartney (d) Bill
    Armstrong

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