"Series C" - a Big Quiz. (with a long intro/explanation: bear with me ...)

PeterCS wrote:8.) Who the hell is practising for the series here - with that strange right-leg kick?

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PeterCS wrote:7) Oh, NO - not again?!?! ...

a) What the hell's happening here?
b) Location?



c) What are the guys in the last of the pics below doing with their precious time?

(Bonus points for any successful player IDs ... remember: you check back to Q1 if it helps!)

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PeterCS wrote:9)

a) Who are these two guys?
b) What's the occasion?
c) Location?

CLUE ...:

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PeterCS wrote:10)

a) Who's this dashing young Test debutant?
b) How old was he at the time of his 1st Test?

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skully wrote:

PeterCS wrote:2) An eccentric early twist to this quiz ...
(if you prefer the more conventional questions, just move on to Q3) etc.!)

a) Locate in the photos above, & name:

One colonel, & two cricket-unrelated captains!

b) Can you name "A back4"? (= the gent not decked out in cricket togs!)

(Bonus point?

c) Can you name who 3 months later became b)'s exact counterpart in the opposing team? (He's not pictured!)

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PeterCS wrote:11) Three significant moments here, in three successive Tests.

a) What's the (two-part) common factor? (one part of the common factor is very visible, the other not)
b) Can you name the three unhappy batsmen? (NB: apologies for picture quality - use visual clues!)

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PeterCS wrote:12)

a) What's going on here?
b) Who are the two players in the centre of the action?
c) What relation was the cartoonist to the bowler?

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PeterCS wrote:13) In the 2nd Test of the series:

a) Who's the batsman living up to his nickname here?
b) Which normally safe pair of hands is in this instance the "oaf" at 3rd slip?

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PeterCS wrote:14)

a) Name these two coming out to bat, after lunch on Day 2 of the same Test.
b) Why do they look so pleased? (Be as exact as you can!)

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PeterCS wrote:15) Third Test. "And ... GOT 'IM! - NO!! ANOTHER SITTER GOES DOWN at 3rd slip!"

a) What Oval favourite is muffing this snick, off a leading all-rounder?
b) How did that spill prove particularly significant?

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PeterCS wrote:19)

a) Who's the dynamic slip catcher adroitly snapping up these two in the 5th Test?

b) Three bonus points for identifying the two batsmen (note: compare their respective statures!), and the keeper.

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PeterCS wrote:16) Two Tests after Q1, and if you look, "Team B" (Q1) has changed two of its players.

a) Locate (use same team photo ref. system? - e.g. "Back5", "Front2") and name those two new men?
b) Can you name the two men (from Q1) they replaced?

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PeterCS wrote:17) Only ONE member of "Team B"'s total 16 selections in this series - either to play or be 12th man - took no part in the return series immediately following it.

a) Can you name the unlucky man?
b) What was his (main) profession?

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PeterCS wrote:18) Here is the XII chosen from "Squad A" of Q1 to play a regional match at the very end of the tour.

a) Location (city) where the photo was taken?
b) What dubious Test distinction do the team members located at "back1" & "front2" share?
c) How did the player at "back2" just pip them both, in that same respect?

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d) What did all three of the above have in common with "front1"?

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PeterCS wrote:20) How many (Test) debutants did the home side field in the 1st Test of this series?

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PeterCS wrote:21) Who took the most wickets in the series:

a) for the home side?
b) for the visitors?

Bonus point each for the total number of wickets each of these bowlers took.

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PeterCS wrote:22) What was unprecedented about the outcome of the series?

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PeterCS wrote:Supplementary set of questions (if anyone is still game):

S1) By virtually universal consensus of the cricket journalists of the day (among them Clem Hill & Charlie Turner), this was the unluckiest bowler of the series.

Can you name him?

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PeterCS wrote:S2) The home team's leading wicket taker in the series played in the 2nd Test.

But did not bowl a single delivery.

Why not?

(There's one answer that by now may be obvious! But there's also a deeper reason.)

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PeterCS wrote:S3) Still outstanding at the time of the series, and to this day regarded as one of his country's best ever, this batsman (the picture is from a few years earlier) played only in the 1st and 5th Tests of the series.

Why? (He wasn't injured - or considered too old.)

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skully wrote:

PeterCS wrote:22) What was unprecedented about the outcome of the series?

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PeterCS wrote:S4) Who are these apparently proud owners of a private motorised vehicle?

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PeterCS wrote:S5)

a) Who's this cat batting (until he was caught) in a cool hat? (4th Test)
b) Who's taking the blinding catch? (btw: Not the giant celebrating that acrobatic feat on his back!)
c) And the bowler?

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PeterCS wrote:S6) So reader, how well have you been taking note?

a) Who, for once, is shelling this (admittedly not easy) chance at slip?
b) Who's the imposing veteran with the bat, getting off lightly?

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