Trivia 2021

How about the bowlers then? A bit harder, particularly at the lower (higher?) end…

Most Test wickets @ average of:

Over 25
Over 30
Over 35
Over 40
Over 45
Over 50
Over 60
Over 80
Over 100 (2 players)

How about the bowlers then? A bit harder, particularly at the lower (higher?) end…

Most Test wickets @ average of:

Over 25 - Warne
Over 30 - Harby (Lyon maybe in the next 12 months)
Over 35 - Vettori
Over 40 - Shastri
Over 45 - Greg Matthews
Over 50 - Hooper
Over 60 - Grant Flower
Over 80 - Chanderpaul
Over 100 (2 players) - Rawl Lewis FFS; a'Beckett

And if it's not Vettori for 35 (I know he was around that) I'll have a shot at Moeen Ali given what I saw of his stats during the last Test.


And also, Hooper got more wickets than Matthews so I can't correct. I thought Hooper was just over 50 average but if he's just under, he'd be the 45+. In which case, I'll have a crack with Tendulkar for the 50+.

First four are right, taking Mo as your answer… Frankie just sneaked inside the 35 barrier.

Hooper correct for 45. 50+ was a specialist bowler for a non-minnow country…

60 is an active player from a slightly lesser nation. 80 and 100x2 are two renowned SA-born batsmen, and someone else more famous as an umpire.

Over 80 - Pietersen
Over 100 (2 players) - Graeme Smith, Asoka de Silva

Over 50 - Mohammad Sami
Over 60 - Rubel Hossain

Yes, they’re the ones…

Good triv, beams.

Joe Root recently went past 9,000 Test runs and did it by scoring 180*. He has an impressive record when it comes to making a big score to reach an aggregate milestone.

This includes making:

- 200* to go past 1,000 Test runs
- 182* to go past 2,000
- 228 to go past 8,000
- 180* to go past 9,000

He also made 50s to go past 3,000; 5,000; 6,000 & 7,000. He made 39 to go past 4,000.

However he doesn't hold the record for the highest score to achieve any of the 1,000 run milestones in Test Cricket.  Who does?

Highest score to reach a Test aggregate milestone:

1,000 - ?

2,000 - ?

3,000 - ?

4,000 - ?

5,000 - ?

6,000 - ?

7,000 - ?

8,000 - ?

9,000 - ?

10,000 - ?

11,000 - ?

12,000 - ?

Small clue: All scores are over 200 except one.

Lara must have managed one with his 375 and/or 400…

I think DGB's 334 would have been close to taking him 1000.

And it looks like his 270 got him to 4000.

Tubby 334 also?

Actually, now that I think about it, Sobers' 365* probably took him to 1000 runs as well.

beamer wrote:Lara must have managed one with his 375 and/or 400…

No, but he does have an impressive milestone record = He scored 167 to get to 1,000 runs, 65 to get to 2,000, 179/3,000, 115/4,000, 213/5,000, 182/6,000, 221/7,000, 68/8,000, and 226/11,000.

JGK wrote:I think DGB's 334 would have been close to taking him 1000.

And it looks like his 270 got him to 4000.

Nup. DGB doesn't appear.

lardbucket wrote:Tubby 334 also?

Aye.

JGK wrote:Actually, now that I think about it, Sobers' 365* probably took him to 1000 runs as well.

Aye.

Highest score to reach a Test aggregate milestone:

1,000 - GstA Sobers 365* (856-1221) - WI v Pak, Bridgetown, 1957-58

2,000 - ?

3,000 - ?

4,000 - ?

5,000 - ?

6,000 - ?

7,000 - MA Taylor 334* (6787-7121) - Aus v Pak, Peshawar, 1998-99

8,000 - ?

9,000 - ?

10,000 - ?

11,000 - ?

12,000 - ?

Small clue: All scores are over 200 except one.

2000 is Viv.

4000 is Azhar Ali.

Aye x 2.

Highest score to reach a Test aggregate milestone:

1,000 - GstA Sobers 365* (856-1,221) - WI v Pak, Bridgetown, 1957-58

2,000 - IVA Richards 291 (1,890-2,181) - WI v Eng, Leeds, 1976

3,000 - ?

4,000 - Azhar Ali 302 (3,722-4,024) - Pak v WI, Dubai, 2016-17

5,000 - ?

6,000 - ?

7,000 - MA Taylor 334* (6,787-7,121) - Aus v Pak, Peshawar, 1998-99

8,000 - ?

9,000 - ?

10,000 - ?

11,000 - ?

12,000 - ?

Small clue: All scores are over 200 except one.

Hayden’s Zimbashing?

Cook got a double quite late on in his career, could have claimed one of the higher ones?

Sangakkara 203 v NZ to go to 12000?

... and a 300+ to get to 11000

Red's BF Graeme Smith's double century to reach 9000

beamer wrote:Hayden’s Zimbashing?

Cook got a double quite late on in his career, could have claimed one of the higher ones?

Nup x 2.

lardbucket wrote:Sangakkara 203 v NZ to go to 12000?

lardbucket wrote:... and a 300+ to get to 11000

Aye x 2

Highest score to reach a Test aggregate milestone:

1,000 - GstA Sobers 365* (856-1,221) - WI v Pak, Bridgetown, 1957-58

2,000 - IVA Richards 291 (1,890-2,181) - WI v Eng, Leeds, 1976

3,000 - ?

4,000 - Azhar Ali 302 (3,722-4,024) - Pak v WI, Dubai, 2016-17

5,000 - ?

6,000 - ?

7,000 - MA Taylor 334* (6,787-7,121) - Aus v Pak, Peshawar, 1998-99

8,000 - ?

9,000 - ?

10,000 - ?

11,000 - KC Sangakkara 319 (10,727-11,046) - SL v BD, Chittagong, 2013-14

12,000 - KC Sangakkara 203 (11,995-12,198) - SL v NZ, Wellington, 2014-15

Small clue: All scores are over 200 except one.

Jayawardene 240 to get to 8000?

Aye.

Highest score to reach a Test aggregate milestone:

1,000 - GstA Sobers 365* (856-1,221) - WI v Pak, Bridgetown, 1957-58

2,000 - IVA Richards 291 (1,890-2,181) - WI v Eng, Leeds, 1976

3,000 - ?

4,000 - Azhar Ali 302 (3,722-4,024) - Pak v WI, Dubai, 2016-17

5,000 - ?

6,000 - ?

7,000 - MA Taylor 334* (6,787-7,121) - Aus v Pak, Peshawar, 1998-99

8,000 - DPM Jayawardene 240 (7,959-8,199) - SL v Pak, Karachi, 2008-09

9,000 - ?

10,000 - ?

11,000 - KC Sangakkara 319 (10,727-11,046) - SL v BD, Chittagong, 2013-14

12,000 - KC Sangakkara 203 (11,995-12,198) - SL v NZ, Wellington, 2014-15

lardbucket wrote:Red's BF Graeme Smith's double century to reach 9000

Nup.