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

"Ah were never hooked, an' Ah were never cut"

"But [' cut] were never a business stroke"

" 'Best ball on a sticky pitch is a spinnin' 'alf-volley"

"If 'batsman thinks as I'm spinnin' them, then I am."

"There's somebody runnin' up and down this wicket. Ah don't know 'oo it is, but there's somebody runnin' up and down this wicket."

"We don't play this game for fun, y'know"


What a guy. He would have made Boyks look like a humble pygmy.

WideWally wrote:Is it players who played in the most number of losses against Australia?

right track ...another qualification needed

Most runs and most wickets in losses v Aust?

JGK wrote:Most runs and most wickets in losses v Aust?

no

ww was close

The most number of losses against Australia in Australia?

v Oz IN Oz??

BUGGERSNAP!

Oh yeah... snap. 5 minutes snap. I know places where you can get shot for snapping 5 minutes after someone else has snapped. You'd get snapped.

I had windows open. I deserted my post. I didn't spot your bugger when I hit my snap post. Sorry.

What can I do to make you love me?


I tell you what, I'll give you the point if it's right. Does that count? Will that do?

Brass Monkey wrote:The most number of losses against Australia in Australia?

yep

Pla]er Span Mat
JB Hobbs (Eng) 1908-1929 14
SR Tendulkar (India) 1991-2012 14
BC Lara (ICC/WI) 1992-2005 13
W Rhodes (Eng) 1904-1921 12
IR Bell (Eng) 2006-2014 11
AN Cook (Eng) 2006-2014 11
R Dravid (ICC/India) 1999-2012 11
KP Pietersen (Eng) 2006-2014 11
AJ Stewart (Eng) 1990-2002 11
CA Walsh (WI) 1984-2001 11
RGD Willis (Eng) 1974-1982 11


Full list

Well played Monks. 1-0 to the Cobblers!

11/15 for some of our current brave boys. That's some f*cking effort. What a f*cking effort that f*cking is.

embee wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:The most number of losses against Australia in Australia?

yep

Pla]er Span Mat
JB Hobbs (Eng) 1908-1929 14
SR Tendulkar (India) 1991-2012 14
BC Lara (ICC/WI) 1992-2005 13
W Rhodes (Eng) 1904-1921 12
IR Bell (Eng) 2006-2014 11
AN Cook (Eng) 2006-2014 11
R Dravid (ICC/India) 1999-2012 11
KP Pietersen (Eng) 2006-2014 11
AJ Stewart (Eng) 1990-2002 11
CA Walsh (WI) 1984-2001 11
RGD Willis (Eng) 1974-1982 11


Full list

And yet, in some ATG parallel universe, that team - esp if they could substitute Bell (and of late Cook) and stick in a good quick or two - might give any ATGPU Aussie XI a right old scrap, you'd have thought.

Does it, as a matter of interest, say on any page around that one how many times they each WON in Oz?

I can tell you that KPBellCook have only won 3.

That's why I'd drop 1.5 of them (see above). Thunderqunts.

Quivering hand-shandy shitmunching tromboning munterrific cyberwankers

Also interesting reading

HERE

"PITCH"

Name the year and location of this Test match pitch.

Was that the windies v Poms one which got abandoned?

"Resumption after lunch on Day 1"

1. Year, location?
2. Who are the two resuming batsmen?
3. Who is the umpire on the far left? (Ignore the Sigmund Freud lookalike nearer the gate)
4. Why might the batsman in front be a bit suspicious of the conversation ahead of him?
5. And why might the other batsman be keen to avoid the same umpire at all costs?



Nice collection of boaters, btw, don't you think?

@JGK

Yes it is. ... Have you also got the details to answer the questions?

Jamaica 98

That's the one.

(Sabina Park - playground for batsmen facing Curtny Walmbrose.)

So no takers for "Resumption"? (bottom of previous page)

PeterCS wrote:So no takers for "Resumption"? (bottom of previous page)

Getting there.