Re: Trivia & Quizzia 2013 (an occasional series, by whoever wishes)

by skully Wed 25 Mar 2015, 23:47

I know I certainly didn't hit 23 in my whole 18 year or so "career". I did hit two in one innings though, and suffered priapism for a week.

by embee Thu 26 Mar 2015, 00:18

I hit 3 sixes in an over off a bowler who used to* open the bowling with Garth McKenzie for Claremont Cott

The first slip started the over with " A carton says you cant hit him six"

Bang over cow corner

next was " Double or nothing you cant do it again"

bang over cow corner

Then came " Fluke double or nothing again"

bang over cow corner

as the first slip started to say something the bowler shouted " FFS ...will you shut up ...beer is his currency"

* 20 years previously

by horace Thu 26 Mar 2015, 00:25

well done Embee...nothing like incentive

by Ethics? The Gall! Thu 26 Mar 2015, 04:43

did he pay up the four cartons he owed you?

by embee Thu 26 Mar 2015, 04:45

He did

We drank them together

The bowler wasn't thirsty

by lardbucket Tue 12 Dec 2017, 05:55

trivia time ...

Name the batsmen who have themselves scored seven or more from one ball at Test level (this excludes sixes from no-balls or wides, obviously).

I am aware of four Test sevens within the last 40 years or so; including a couple of recent Australians. One current player memorably opened his Test batting account with a seven. I do not have a complete list.

There have been a couple of 8's as well ...

by JGK Tue 12 Dec 2017, 06:04

lardbucket wrote:trivia time ...

Name the batsmen who have themselves scored seven or more from one ball at Test level (this excludes sixes from no-balls or wides, obviously).

I am aware of four Test sevens within the last 40 years or so; including a couple of recent Australians. One current player memorably opened his Test batting account with a seven. I do not have a complete list.

There have been a couple of 8's as well ...

Did Huss get one on that frenetic last day at Adelaide in 2006?

by lardbucket Tue 12 Dec 2017, 06:05

Not on my list.

by JGK Tue 12 Dec 2017, 06:08

I seem to recall Dougie maybe at the MCG.

Also, someone in the 83/4 Pak tour at the MCG.

by JGK Tue 12 Dec 2017, 06:08

JGK wrote:I seem to recall Dougie maybe at the MCG.

Also, someone in the 83/4 Pak tour at the MCG.

Or maybe I'm thinking about all run 5s...

by JGK Tue 12 Dec 2017, 06:11

JGK wrote:
lardbucket wrote:trivia time ...

Name the batsmen who have themselves scored seven or more from one ball at Test level (this excludes sixes from no-balls or wides, obviously).

I am aware of four Test sevens within the last 40 years or so; including a couple of recent Australians. One current player memorably opened his Test batting account with a seven. I do not have a complete list.

There have been a couple of 8's as well ...

Did Huss get one on that frenetic last day at Adelaide in 2006?

Pup maybe then.

by lardbucket Tue 12 Dec 2017, 06:19

Michael Clarke definitely, he scored a 7, started off as a 3 and there were 4 overthrows (usual method of scoring 7). A more recent Australian has also scored a 7 in Tests, and a "good mate" of Pup's scored an 8.

by lardbucket Tue 12 Dec 2017, 06:20

missed your earlier post

not Dougie

more detail please on the Stanis

by lardbucket Tue 12 Dec 2017, 06:23

clue: not 83-4

by skully Tue 12 Dec 2017, 22:30

Apparently* there have been 4 8s in Test cricket (Google tells me) but I can't find a reference to 7s.

by embee Tue 12 Dec 2017, 23:13

I got a seven (all run...two lots of overthrows) for Aquinas second XI in 1984

We would have got 8 but the non striker refused to run ...

by embee Tue 12 Dec 2017, 23:19

by embee Tue 12 Dec 2017, 23:24

by embee Tue 12 Dec 2017, 23:27

lardbucket wrote:Michael Clarke definitely, he scored a 7, started off as a 3 and there were 4 overthrows (usual method of scoring 7). A more recent Australian has also scored a 7 in Tests, and a "good mate" of Pup's scored an 8.

Roy

by lardbucket Tue 12 Dec 2017, 23:36

The Majid-Mudassar all-run 7 incident, the Clarke 7, a similar Chris Rogers 7, and Kraigg Brathwaite opening his Test runs account with a 7 were the ones I had. I think Brian Lara may also have been involved in a Test 7 by scoring 2 runs, with 5 penalty runs also being awarded to the TEAM rather than to him, when the fielder's return hit the keeper's helmet.

8's I'm aware of: Patsy Hendren, Andrew Symonds.

Of the above, most (barring Hendren, obviously) are viewable on Ewetube, which is where I found them.

by lardbucket Tue 12 Dec 2017, 23:48

Syd Gregory
Colin Cowdrey
Alan Border
Sachin Tendulkar

?

by JGK Wed 13 Dec 2017, 01:20

lardbucket wrote:Syd Gregory
Colin Cowdrey
Alan Border
Sachin Tendulkar

?

!!!

by JGK Wed 13 Dec 2017, 01:23

lardbucket wrote:Syd Gregory
Colin Cowdrey
Alan Border
Sachin Tendulkar

?

Something to do with tosses?

by WideWally Wed 13 Dec 2017, 01:48

Test milestones - The first to 50, 100, 150, 200 matches

.... and the first to reach 250 will be Mitchell Marsh.

by skully Wed 13 Dec 2017, 02:15

lardbucket wrote:8's I'm aware of: Patsy Hendren, Andrew Symonds.

Cricinfo on 8s:

"Andrew Symonds managed this rare feat in Brisbane with an all-run four plus four overthrows off the unfortunate New Zealand bowler Iain O'Brien, who had had Symonds dropped the previous ball (he did get him out shortly afterwards, though). Charlie Wat's exhaustive statistical tome Test Cricket Lists gives three previous instances of eight being scored off one ball.

The first one was in Melbourne in 1928-29 - the final Test of Don Bradman's first series - when England's Patsy Hendren also collected four overthrows after an all-run four off the Australian debutant Percy Hornibrook.

The next known instance was also in Melbourne, in 1980-81: this time it was New Zealand's John Wright who benefited from four overthrows (by Rod Marsh, who collected a fielder's return and hurled it at the stumps) after an all-run four off an unamused Lenny Pascoe.

The other eight occurred in Port-of-Spain in 2004-05, when Brian Lara glanced a ball from the South African slow left-armer Nicky Boje for three. The wicketkeeper, Mark Boucher, ran after the ball and threw it back in, but his return hit a fielder's helmet on the ground, so he incurred five penalty runs, making eight in all off that delivery. The five runs would previously have been credited to Lara, but after a recent rule change they went down as penalty extras. Lara probably cursed the lawmakers - he was out later for 196. "

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