Re: Difficult Trivia Thread for 2010 (By taipan) II

[lardbucket]

Washbrook? Sutcliffe? Hobbs?

[skully]

So I'm looking for someone back in the Hutton era or earlier.

[Fred Nerk]

The other time a bloke would have faced more new bowlers than usual is straight after WW2.

Arthur Morris? Bruice Mitchell?

[skully]

Excellent machine gun work, your lardness. Sutcliffe it was.

Most times the 1st Test wicket of a bowler:
10 - H Sutcliffe (Eng)
GM Parker and HLE Promnitz (SAf), GN Francis (WI), AJ Bell (SAf), HG Vivian (NZ), Mahomed Nissar (Ind), DL Freeman (NZ), EA Martindale (WI), AG Chipperfield (Aus) and ABC Langton (SAf)

10 - MC Cowdrey (Eng)
KD Mackay and GF Rorke (Aus), CD Watson (WI), GD McKenzie (Aus), Nawab of Pataudi, jr (Ind), R Dumbrill (SAf), KR Stackpole (Aus), BF Butcher (WI), AA Mallett and GS Chappell (Aus)

10 - SR Tendulkar (Ind)
WJ Cronje (SAf), U Ranchod (Zim), RS Kalpage (SL), MA Ealham (Eng), NC Johnson (Zim), JDP Oram (NZ), MS Panesar (Eng), CL White (Aus), PM Siddle (Aus) and PR George (Aus)

Honorable mention to Hobbs with 9.

[skully]

OK, SRT also holds the record for the most times the first ODI victim of a bowler with a remarkable 16 times. He holds the record with one other player. Who?

Most times the 1st ODI wicket of a bowler:
16 - ?

16 - SR Tendulkar (Ind)
CR Matthews and DJ Callaghan (SAf), HH Streak (Zim), DJ Nash (NZ), Sultan Zarawani (UAE), BStA Browne (WI), Mohammad Rafique (BD), Azhar Mahmood and Manzoor Akhtar (Pak), ML Nkala (Zim), SB Styris and CJ Drum (NZ), Mushfiqur Rahman (BD), TBM de Leede (Net), Asim Saeed (UAE), RK Whelan (Ire)

[skully]

Hehehe, ask an ODI question and they run away.

[Fred Nerk]

I'll get the obv guesses out of the way: AB, Steve Waugh, both Chappells (er, better make that the two eldest...)

[skully]

None of them, Nerky.

[skully]

The highest Aussies on the ODI list are Boonie and Gilly with 7.

[Fred Nerk]

Glenn Turner
Sunny Gavaskar
Clive Lloyd

[skully]

None of them even rate above Boonie and Gilly.

[Fred Nerk]

I'm fishing for permanent fixtures around the time ODIs started - am I up the wrong tree (to make an atrocious mixed metaphor)?

[skully]

Wrong tree.

[Fred Nerk]

OK I'll go with the long-termers - multi-WC vets like Jaya, Javed, Viv, Dessie Haynes?

[skully]

Jaya is the man. Well done.

Most times the 1st ODI wicket of a bowler:
16 - ST Jayasuriya (SL)
DL Houghton (Zim), Kabir Khan (Pak), J Angel (Aus), Saqlain Mushtaq (Pak), SB O’Connor (NZ), NM Kulkarni (Ind), Yasir Arafat (Pak), CS Martin and AR Adams (NZ), AJ Tudor (Eng), Tapash Basiya (BD), VD Grandia (Net), T Panyangara (Zim), Ali Asad (UAE), VS Solanki (Eng), M Morkel (Afr)

16 - SR Tendulkar (Ind)
CR Matthews and DJ Callaghan (SAf), HH Streak (Zim), DJ Nash (NZ), Sultan Zarawani (UAE), BStA Browne (WI), Mohammad Rafique (BD), Azhar Mahmood and Manzoor Akhtar (Pak), ML Nkala (Zim), SB Styris and CJ Drum (NZ), Mushfiqur Rahman (BD), TBM de Leede (Net), Asim Saeed (UAE), RK Whelan (Ire)

[skully]

So who do you think holds the record for most Test dismissals without ever being the 1st victim of a bowler?

[Fred Nerk]

Some guy who came into his first series half-way through, playing for an outclassed rabble against a very settled opponent, then played against a lot of very experienced teams early on: somebody like AB.

[skully]

Not AB, but batted in a similar position, and on the same side of the bat.

[skully]

So who's the leftie that has been dismissed well over 100 times in Tests but never as the 1st Test victim of a bowler?

[Allan D]

Gower?

[skully]

Not Gower (not enough melanin).

[embee]

Alvin
Roy
Ridley
Tilla
Curtley

[embee]

Wasim
Sanga
Fatfarque
Chrystal
Sir Gaz

[embee]

WPUJC
Cat
Jaya
LB
Chanders
>T

[skully]

Chanderpaul it is. Dismissed 182 times but never as the 1st Test victim of a bowler.

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