New Picture Quiz: "Get a grip"

JGK wrote:

PeterCS wrote:5 (two pics)

Spoiler:

John Newcombe?

Feedback so far:

Bradman:

1 is sadly incorrect. Arm is too slender for him, grip not "snake-like" enough on the ball - and as Skully pointed out, bangles don't prove anything (...... except perhaps eternal flames). But right country.

BD:

5 is (obviously) incorrect

Skully:

Correct are: 1 (as you confirmed), 3, 5 (following up JGK's lead as you confirmed, and good detection work getting there), 8, 11, 14 (the former - as confirmed), 16, and 17.

25: simpler than that.

Spoiler:

26: a good alternative solution - but even so, he has something one of the others hasn't. Or to put it another way, lacks something like all but one of the rest.

Incorrect:
12 - right about the style/action though. And that the colour of the ball gives some guidance.
13 - wrong continent
19 - spectacularly not! (right country, very wrong era)
21 - no, but right area (so to speak), slightly wrong era.

JGK:

Correct are: 1, 5 (the former - see Skully's answer, and gloss), 8, 11 & 20 (all after Skully, but I think arrived at independently - 11 is evidently brown enough!), 16, 18 (glad you got the hint), 20, 24.

Incorrect:
3 - (see Skully's)
4 - wrong side of the sea
6 - nooooooo - wrong continent and decade(s)
9 - the player you named would NOT be pleased ...
17 - it does look like his grip (though not his hand). Later - the debt was clear. (see Skully's for more details).
21 - as Skully pointed out, you were going the wrong direction. That there is a chest! See also comment above on Skully's guess on this one.

Update ....

Still to be identified (at least correctly) are:

2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 19, 21, 22, 23 .... and perhaps 26 (see above)

(Six Aus, two each of Pak, Ind & Eng, and one NZ. Plus the Thunderball, 26.)

Cheers Pete. But to save me going back and checking multiple spoilers, can I trouble you to post the ones we have jointly got correct - with names. Cheers, ol' bean.

Will do sometime later ... am off in a rush now. Soz.

A list of the hands correctly identified by anyone so far
(in response to Skully's request).

Have a go before you peek - go on, you know you want to have a go .....

Don't peek too early ..................

Spoiler:

Good quiz...

Thanks!

Agreed. Excellent stuff, Petey. Kudos.

Thanks for the summary of where we are at with correct guesses. Now on with the quest.

OK, I'll add to this post as I guess at them...

Spoiler:

I can't see the photos but it would be quiz about slow bowlers of one of them wasn't Jim Higgs

Woody: WTW*A*AS ....

Skully:

Correct on 2 and 21.

22: Right continent, wrong country. ....

The former.

Well spotted.

Some would say "manly".


Someone in Victoria might not ...

So we've knocked out 2, 10 and 21.

4 is left-arm chinaman but over the seas from Bevan. He played both Tests and ODIs. Seems to be white.

So Pete can I ask the era of no. 4? Pre or post 1990?

Spoiler:

Still playing. Though not the last match.

And he does have a characteristic grip .... between index and middle.

Chinaman?




I didn't say over the seaS. At least I hope not.

PeterCS wrote:Still playing. Though not the last match.

And he does have a characteristic grip .... between index and middle.

Chinaman?




I didn't say over the seaS. At least I hope not.

Left arm unorthodox, like Bevan and Katich? No?

Do you mean he's got Sheep genes?

15:

Nooooooooooooo ... though same bowling "type".

Different continent.

Later.