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

by PeterCS Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:42 am

Delirious! Laughing

by PeterCS Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:08 am

Question G.

Who wrote this, about whom?

There is a sizeable clue about the latter under the Spoiler, if you need it.

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A big, barrel-chested lad, he was a lot quicker than people think and he could swing it in and out - very rare - and also move it both ways off the seam. Kenny Barrington thought he was 'absolutely outstanding' - and he should know. ...

He could make useful runs down the order and averaged 22 with the bat but, more importantly, in a tight situation he could take the initiative away from the bowler. ...

He provides options by being able to bowl 'em out or bottle 'em up - that rarest of breeds, an attacking bowler who doesn't give runs away - and that's a captain's dream. He's in my team [for that country] any time.

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by Brass Monkey Mon Jan 21, 2013 9:31 am

PeterCS wrote:Question G.

Who wrote this, about whom?

There is a sizeable clue about the latter under the Spoiler, if you need it.

Didn't need it. It was easy.

Spoiler:

by PeterCS Mon Jan 21, 2013 10:46 am

Grrrr.

And like many an England opener, you didn't even address the opening delivery.

by Brass Monkey Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:37 pm

PeterCS wrote:Grrrr.

And like many an England opener, you didn't even address the opening delivery.

Like not many an England opener, I smashed the first ball straight down the ground for a DLF maximum - quote me and ye shall see what ye, and peterg, love.

by PeterCS Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:41 pm

Mullally wouldn't average 22 with the bat in his own village green cricket!

by Brass Monkey Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:43 pm

Quote the original answer I gave and all will be revealed. Gollygosh, if you were a spy, you'd be dead by now. Or had a burn notice put on you.

by PeterCS Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:48 pm

Invisible writing? That's James Bond Jr stuff!

Round here, we stand up like men and be counted, sir.

Who wrote it anyhow? You still skipped that bit. The first ball, likes I said.

It gated you worse than a gay alligator wearing gaiters at the gates of Everglades Alligator Park.

by Brass Monkey Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:23 pm

Oh, the wife beater.

by mynah Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:40 pm

PeterCS wrote:
taipan wrote:
mynah wrote:This player was selected to make his debut in test cricket three times. In neither of the two times he missed out was he unavailable to play for any reason. The circumstances in which he failed to make his debut the first two times were highly unusual, and the first instance differed entirely from the second.

Who is this?

Spoiler:

bumpity bump for mynah to find.

Yup, everyone knows about the second time, but the first got rather overshadowed by the events around it.

by PeterCS Tue Jan 22, 2013 12:54 am

Brass Monkey wrote:Oh, the wife beater.

True.

Well, the person. Can't remember the legal outcome.

by Brass Monkey Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:15 am

How very correct of you. Let us just call him: "un mari brutal" because it was a French conviction. You can sigh with relief.

by PeterCS Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:32 am

I wasn't being PC. I just remember it being batted around a bit. Was it quashed, was it upheld? Was it appealed? I remember it was a case for ages.

by Brass Monkey Tue Jan 22, 2013 2:07 am

Aye, upheld. He said she fell - the court(after having seen photographic evidence) said "What, did she fall again and again, in different places?".

Lucky to be in a job, really.

by PeterCS Tue Jan 22, 2013 2:18 am

Maybe she did fall again and again, in different places.

At the end of his bat. :-O

Yeah, you're right, of course.

As an oar-in commentator (in the broader sense), he has a lot of cricket experience though, and is always entertaining. In his overbearing, "spectrum" way.

Does this make me part of an exploitation process? Party to abuse? Hmmmm.

by Brass Monkey Tue Jan 22, 2013 2:45 am

PeterCS wrote:Maybe she did fall again and again, in different places.

At the end of his bat. :-O

Yeah, you're right, of course.

As an oar-in commentator (in the broader sense), he has a lot of cricket experience though, and is always entertaining. In his overbearing, "spectrum" way.

Does this make me part of an exploitation process? Party to abuse? Hmmmm.

If you're listening, you're condoning Wink

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In all seriousness, I'm not saying people aren't allowed indiscretions - I'm just saying that in this age of villification, it's surprising that he has got off scot-free.

by PeterCS Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:43 am

This is true too.

Vilas-Boas got vilified at the Bridge, and it wasn't good.

It even came from the top.

by PeterCS Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:27 pm

This 10-item quiz about players (or their presence of mind) going AWOL has run aground, so here are the answers.

I'll repeat each basic clue - location and year - just in case anyone still wants a google-assisted or google-free go .....

Can you name a cricketer who .... :

F1. forgot his bat on the way to the crease? (Test)
(Wally got this one.)

Spoiler:

F2. forgot his bat on the way back to the pavilion? (FC)
Taunton, 1930

Spoiler:

F3. got lost in the toilets on the way out to bat? (T)
(Trike got this one.)

Spoiler:

F4. got locked in a women's toilet before giving a speech at Lord's? (T)
(This one is an ex-player - it's not Warney btw)

Lord's, 1998

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F5. got lost on the Underground on the way to the match? (FC)

The Oval, 1921

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F6. missed the bus to the ground, and retired from all cricket the next day? (T)

Antigua, 2008

Spoiler:

F7. as a Number 11 batsman in the last innings of the match, was timed out with the scores tied? (FC)

Taunton again, 1919

Spoiler:

F8. was timed out when not in the same country as the match? (FC)

East London, 2002

Spoiler:

F9. missed out on a FC career entirely through the intervention of rain?

Bristol, 1927

Spoiler:

F10. missed out on a FC career after being twice timed out in a match?

Lord's again, 1908

Spoiler:

by PeterCS Fri Feb 01, 2013 12:08 am

This passage was no doubt assisted by a (lyrically-minded) ghostwriter.

But whose boyhood experiences does it describe?

SPOILER please ...

It is a beautiful place, especially in springtime, when the roads are bordered with flowers that have a strong perfume of violets, and the green terraces are luxuriant with crops. I have faint, childish memories, poignant as such recollections are, of these things; and much clearer memories of the first cricket I ever played, when I was eight or nine years old, in the brilliant Malta sunshine.

We used to chalk a wicket on the gun-shed door, being most careful to draw in immovable bails; our ball was an irregular object that looked like one of those ruins that Cromwell (who was a notable cricketer) knocked about a bit. It had not improved since. As for the bat, it was one discarded by the soldiers because of a smashed end; we sawed off the broken part, and found the extra-long handle even more effective with the shorter blade. To that bat I owe much. It taught me what I have since found to be one of the essentials of cricket - that the batsman should strike the ball, and not just pat it. In Malta, on the rough concrete, we thought small beer of any boy who did not strike out with the long-handled batkin; we knew that the bowler must be attacked and not merely warded off; and it did me the world of good to assimilate that lesson young.

by WideWally Fri Feb 01, 2013 12:22 am

Spoiler:

by PeterCS Fri Feb 01, 2013 12:44 am

Indeed.

'Flowery' as it may be, the passage seems to provide quite an insight into his mind.

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by skully Sun Feb 03, 2013 11:12 am

I think Pete's Q's have all been answered. Apologies if not but here's one to think about.

What record do Saqlain Mushtaq and Vinoo Mankad hold?

by PeterCS Sun Feb 03, 2013 12:35 pm

Is this something like

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by skully Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:08 pm

It's exactly like that, Pete. No need for spoilers. Cool

The only 2 bowlers to TWICE concede over 200 runs in a single Test innings.

5-228 MH Mankad WI v Ind Kingston 1952-53
3-202 MH Mankad Ind v WI Mumbai 1948-49

3-237 Saqlain Mushtaq SA v Pak Capetown 2002-03
1-204 Saqlain Mushtaq Pak v Ind Multan 2003-04

by PeterCS Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:27 am

Whose words are the following?
(Bonus point: In what year were they first published?)

SPOILER please ...!

"Feelings were too heated at the time to permit calm discussion. A misguided nationalism obtruded itself with emphasis, and most people automatically ranged themselves behind their country. It was said on one side: An Englishman would not behave like this; the MCC side is obviously too good for the Australians, and therefore, the Australians must be squealers. It was said on the other: Australians have proved to the world their sportsmanship, in addition to their fighting qualities. If the Australians are objecting, the Englishmen must be doing something wrong.

As soon as that brick wall was built up, a wall of unyielding resistance, the sun of reason was overclouded and a solution became more and more remote.

Followed a period of quick appeasement and reconciliation. A concerted hush-hush policy on the part of the Marylebone Cricket Club and the Australian Board of Control (its many critics called this the Board of No Control at the time) bundled the issue from the public gaze.

[... However,] you do not really settle a controversy by locking it up in a cupboard like a family skeleton. It can be settled only by stating the facts without passion, and allowing informed judgement to decide what lessons are to be learned from them."

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