Pub quiz question

The final question in our local pub quiz this week was: Which cricketer has the lowest test batting average of all players to have scored a test century? I guessed (wrongly to much mocking from my friends who seem to think i should know everything about cricket) at Kumble. Now its more than possible the answer is a player from the 1880's who i have never even heard of, but i was wondering if anyone could enlighten me?

Must be a pretty sh'ouse quiz if they didn't give you the correct answer at the end.

If it's not someone obscure and from long ago- how about Saqlain Mushtaq?

Gillespie?

Zat wrote:Must be a pretty sh'ouse quiz if they didn't give you the correct answer at the end.

The last question is always for the team thats won the main quiz to get the cash prize, otherwise you just get drinks. They never give you the answer to that final question if you dont get it right.

Gildas wrote:

Zat wrote:Must be a pretty sh'ouse quiz if they didn't give you the correct answer at the end.

The last question is always for the team thats won the main quiz to get the cash prize, otherwise you just get drinks. They never give you the answer to that final question if you dont get it right.

Sounds like a scam to me. If you get it right, but they don't want to give you the cash, they just say 'nope, laddy, that's wrong, now finish your free drink and fook off'. They should always give the correct answer in circumstances like that IMO.

It seems to be Saqlain (average 14.48 ) . But i suppose it's possible that Saqlain could yet play anopther test.

Xenophon Constantine Balaskas of South Africa averaged 14.50 in the 1930s. Surely the finest name of any test cricketer. By getting out for 29 rather than 30 in his last innings in 1939 Balaskas took the record from Jack Badcock (average 14.54).

Saqlain the leading candidate from a quick book search, 14.48

Just ahead of Xen Balaskis of South Africa (you wanted obscure!), average 14.50

And in third would be Clayvel Lindsay 'Jack' Badcock, a Test average of 14.54, despite scoring 118 in his third Test. he only managed a total of 160 in a 7-Test career.

His first class average was 51.5, he scored over 7,000 FC runs, including 26 tons, and at least one triple.

Zat wrote:And in third would be Clayvel Lindsay 'Jack' Badcock, a Test average of 14.54, despite scoring 118 in his third Test. he only managed a total of 160 in a 7-Test career.

His first class average was 51.5, he scored over 7,000 FC runs, including 26 tons, and at least one triple.

plagiarism Zat! (read my post from 9.33)

tya, I was doing my own research! But I'd suggest we've nailed the right culprits.

Zat wrote:tya, I was doing my own research! But I'd suggest we've nailed the right culprits.

Looks like it.

If anyone is looking for an enigmatic name for a child, I reckon Xenophon Constantine would come a close second to Wolfgang Amadeus.

No. My favourite is Seigfreid Mohammed St George

Yes, that's quite a name. Anyone famous?

ten years after wrote:Yes, that's quite a name. Anyone famous?

My cousin . . . he's from a mixed marriage.

tac wrote:

ten years after wrote:Yes, that's quite a name. Anyone famous?

My cousin . . . he's from a mixed marriage.

Brother and sister.

Dello wrote:

tac wrote:

ten years after wrote:Yes, that's quite a name. Anyone famous?

My cousin . . . he's from a mixed marriage.

Brother and sister.

You Appalachian, Dello?

No, it's just the way I walk.