Re: Picture Quiz 8: "Whirled Cricket"

by PeterCS Sun 21 Aug 2011, 10:59

Wally - You are cleaning up again.

Even most of your triple question marks are correct.

Correct so far:

1, 3, 5-8, 10-12, 14,16, 18,19, 21-26, 28, 29, 31, 33 & 34. (Twenty-four correct, I think (!) ).

2: very warm

15, no

20 - very warm, if you meant David.

Still blanks: 4, 13, 17, 27, 30,32, 35. (9 is cancelled - see above!)

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by PeterCS Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:00

Jill - right about 34!

by Yorkie Jill Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:01

PeterCS wrote:Jill (2)

5 is not the Don. Right country, rightish era, though he was a little older than the Do(ye)n of the Bat.

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by WideWally Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:03

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by PeterCS Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:05

Jill, on 5 again:

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by PeterCS Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:06

Wally - characteristically brilliant on 32.

by Yorkie Jill Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:09

Ahhh, I looked at Wally's answers to find my mystery man! I wouldn't have guessed that, even though 222-2 often talked about him.

35 is baffling me. As is the tall dude in 27.

by PeterCS Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:10

Wally - you now have 25/34. Which is staggering.

(Tho Jill has three pics that you haven't yet worked out!)

by WideWally Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:15

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by PeterCS Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:16

Jill:

35, like 15, is credited with the invention (or at least use) of a particular type of delivery.

17 was in every sense "a character", and a warbler and whistler (in the field).

by PeterCS Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:17

Wally - no to 15 and 17.

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by Yorkie Jill Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:20

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by WideWally Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:23

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by PeterCS Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:23

Jill - correct on 13.

Every pic I have seen of him, he's wearing dark shoes! Very Happy

You made the link with 12, well done!

by Yorkie Jill Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:26

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by PeterCS Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:27

Wally - right on 20. That makes 27, I think (??).

Jill now has four others, and Lardy had one or two more IIRC.

So only three names still to be identified by anyone, I think: 17, 15 and 35. (See recent clues?)

by WideWally Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:27

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by PeterCS Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:29

Jill: 35 is indeed. ~ If this were TV (and there were prizes), I would "need a name"!

by Yorkie Jill Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:30

Who is 27?

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by PeterCS Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:35

... and Wally claims the last three! Very Happy

The error I made - the terrible truth can now be told, is that I was under the impression that Ian Meckiff (9) was an Underwood-type bowler. It seems he wasn't. Perhaps the impression came from the fact that most of the other "suspects" during that phase (Lock, Burke ...) WERE spinners. (And then along came Charlie Griffith, and off it went again ...)

But it's also lack of knowledge on my part. It seems that however old you are, you are never old enough for a cricket quiz.

aka: always check all your facts scrupulously ,,,, *sigh*

by PeterCS Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:39

Ah yes - 27 hasn't been identified yet - not even by Wally.

Look at the limbs. Estimate the era, and the country.

Clue: One of those spinners who developed the yips. "He could really have been a player." But he still ended up with a decent little Test average of 46 wkts @ 28. And was a deadly fielder, too.

by WideWally Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:42

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by Yorkie Jill Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:43

A tall West Indian from the 70s? Was there one? Was he also a batsman?

I'll edit to say clearly not the 70s, then!

by Yorkie Jill Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:44

Dammit Wally!

Why does C F-S look like he's black?

by PeterCS Sun 21 Aug 2011, 11:47

80s, Jill. Yes, he could bat a bit - forcefully. But was more a bowler who could bat a bit (and field a lot), whereas his contemporary cool Carl Hooper was a batsman who could bowl a bit (and field quite a lot too).

And Wally has got him!

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