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

by PeterCS Mon 24 Mar 2014, 23:40

You're certainly on the right lines, H. Though if you read the question again, it's quite a bit more closely focussed/limited than your answer.

And thanks for having a go.

by horace Mon 24 Mar 2014, 23:44

did they all win blues?

by PeterCS Tue 25 Mar 2014, 00:16

Here's the answer!:

by Bradman Tue 25 Mar 2014, 01:36

Well someone's being bowed to. Edward VII was the last fatty. English cricket side circa 1901?

by horace Tue 25 Mar 2014, 04:53

Thanx Pete...btw was DB Carr related to EH Carr?

by PeterCS Tue 25 Mar 2014, 09:42

horace wrote:Thanx Pete...btw was DB Carr related to EH Carr?

Not AFAIK! Smile

Nor (perhaps more obviously) to Douglas (DW) Carr - though he played for OU too - nor even Notts' bullying coward of a skipper Arthur (who was the incubator and then cheerleader for Bodyline throughout the crisis - and then as soon as it was employed against him personally, in 1933, cried foul and insisted on a gentlemen's agreement not to use it!).

Father of John (JD) Carr though, apparently. http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/10672.html

by PeterCS Tue 25 Mar 2014, 09:48

Bradman wrote:Well someone's being bowed to. Edward VII was the last fatty. English cricket side circa 1901?

Good, you've picked up on one of the clues in the picture. But the well turned-out chap is only at best stocky, not corpulent, I'd say. Later, quite a bit later!

It helps if you recognise a couple of (pretty famous) faces at the (right) end of the row. The players seem to be lined up more or less in batting order.

Another clue is where such a formal presentation has most often happened during a Test match. That limits the possible date a bit, too.

by Bradman Wed 26 Mar 2014, 05:19

1928 english side at The Oval. Batting oerder screws me but Leyland bowing and Hendren at fifth. Hobbs obscured?

by PeterCS Wed 26 Mar 2014, 12:30

Push it on a few more years still! .... though now you have the right monnerk.

Right town, but this is at a slightly stiffer formal place, befitting the VIP's status. Not common old Sarflunden, oh no! Heaven forfend!!

A few clues from the picture:

The guy bowing to shake hands (the last man in a team apparently lined up in batting order, as I mentioned above) is a gangly-limbed fair-headed bespectacled chap. Glasses. Hmmmm, ..... not that common.

The guy before him in the line is also pretty tall, has a tapering facial structure, also the ramrod bearing and immaculate turnout of, say, a military officer, ... and looks very, very crafty. Is the latter perhaps part of his job as a cricketer?

The guy slightly fuzzy on the far left looks relatively short, observant, intense even. Maybe suggests something about his role in the team? He seems to bat at about 7. (He seems to have jet-black hair and rather heavy eyebrows, though he's not clearly in focus.)

And the grizzled-and-balding fellow whose head peeps out above the captain and VIP - blimey, he must be ancient!!! Maybe a veteran brought in from the counties, or brought back from international retirement, to handle a crisis? From his place in the line, he doesn't appear to be an opener. He's pretty tall, though not quite as tall as his two colleagues to his left, especially the giraffe at the end. [Historical note: He was in fact almost 41, and this was his last Test.]

In fairness, I should add that, in fact, this team's #10 is not in the line, for some reason. Maybe taken short. Hopefully not one of those dashed Republican boundahhhhs, Jeffries?!?! ~ Seriously though, I've no idea why the home team's tearaway young quick happens to be missing from this photo.

And here's another picture from the same match, two days later - with another look at the VC, this time a proper view of the skipper, and also allowing some of the batsmen a go in the limelight:

by PeterCS Wed 26 Mar 2014, 12:40

Bumping the picture and questions, so nobody has to switch between pages:

1. Which team is this, in which year?
2. Who's the player obscured by the geezer in the suit?
3+. Another other player IDs are bonuses.

(2. will take a bit of detective-type deduction, but it's really not that hard if you follow the leads.)

Trivia & Quizzia 2013 (an occasional series, by whoever wishes) - Page 38 TKAATML

Trivia & Quizzia 2013 (an occasional series, by whoever wishes) - Page 38 TKAATML

by Bradman Thu 27 Mar 2014, 03:47

Ok I was looking at the line being the other way, which is silly now I think about the position of the presenter. And down market it may be but numero deuce still owns the place.

The picture had me stuffed because whilst it looks more modern in the main the background looked even older than Edwardian. The bowing had me farked until I realised the brother's get a bow once they married (I think now I think Wimbeldon).

Couldn't work out if they were glasses or bushy eyebrows casting a wierd shadow on bowing guy.

Second picture helps.

by JGK Thu 27 Mar 2014, 07:15

Spoiler:

by lardbucket Thu 27 Mar 2014, 07:16

looks like him, and maybe 1938?

by JGK Thu 27 Mar 2014, 07:21

Spoiler:

by JGK Thu 27 Mar 2014, 07:24

OK, I've now cheated horribly.

I've got two of the players right I think but not the skipper.

by PeterCS Thu 27 Mar 2014, 09:39

ll I'll say is that it's before 1938, and you're right about the giraffe!

Hammond is not in sight though - not even the top of his head! And the #9 in the line and lineup (with #10 absent) is certainly not young Farnes.

I guess you "cheated horribly", JGK, by fake-quoting the 2nd picture to extract the image reference, and then googling that? It's the knack experienced safecrackers have.

I deliberately left that option, for the cunning ... Wink

by JGK Thu 27 Mar 2014, 11:29

I didn't do that actually but like it.

by PeterCS Thu 27 Mar 2014, 12:38

So here's that scorecard that reveals (almost) all

All major solutions here - check the Pommie batting order:

by PeterCS Thu 27 Mar 2014, 12:51

bazooka

by Bradman Fri 28 Mar 2014, 00:57

Farking cigarette card. That would explain the deceptive nature of the pic.

Well played Sir.

by PeterCS Fri 28 Mar 2014, 00:59

*points bat towards his bed*

by horace Fri 28 Mar 2014, 01:15

super effort Pete

by horace Fri 28 Mar 2014, 01:20

and Oz has much to be ashamed of during that time...Menzies was allowing sale of pig iron to the Japanese (famously manufactured into armanentd) and was critical of local concerns about germany...interestingly some Victorian Aboriginals partnered with the local jewish community in anti nazi activism in melbourne at that time

by PeterCS Tue 01 Apr 2014, 12:51

Just a quickie:

In what way did Lasith Malinga, Bobby ("Pee") Peel and Charlie "Terror" Turner pip Colin Blythe, Nicky Boje, Dilhara Fernando, Irfan Pathan, Abdul Razzaq and Md ("Super-")Rafiq(ue)?

(Assuming, that is, none of those makes a comeback ...)

by WideWally Wed 02 Apr 2014, 18:56

101 vs 100

........ according to Dick Motz

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