Trivia time!

May 8, 2007
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Wayne Clark.

That's it.

Came in when we were Packerized - bowled straight, good length, medium pace. Put the Fast Bowler Fear of God into absolutely no one. But reliable and handy.

Good player - never a champ. As soon as Lillee, Thomson, Pascoe, Walker came back, he was gone. Plus we found Hoggy.

Interestingly, the overall all-nation wicket record-holder without a 5-fer is Mike Hendrick - for his description, see above. Same type.
 
May 8, 2007
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How many bowlers have missed a test hat trick due to a dropped catch. I don't know the answer.
I remember Warney dropped one off Fleming.

Not sure - Geoff Cope (English Offie) came sort-of close.

Took 2-in2 - next ball, snick to slip, Brearley (good slipper) takes it. Everyone jumps around excited - Brearly says 'You know - I don't know if it carried or not'. Batsman recalled.

Cope's debut test, as well.
 

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Let's see - they thumped us in the 1880s pretty regularly - we started evening things up by the 1900s - so we probably drew level in about....

1921?

Correct. After the fourth Test of the 1920-21 series finished on February 16, England were ahead by 40 wins to 39. We then won the fifth Test to draw level and have not been headed since.
 
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Mckenzie was an organiser/liaison manager for the tour.

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Everyone knows Shane Warne has made the most runs for Australia without making a century.
Who took the most wickets for Australia without taking a five-for?
Wayne Clark?
Edit- sniped by Scotland. Note to self- read thread before posting.
 
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Correct. After the fourth Test of the 1920-21 series finished on February 16, England were ahead by 40 wins to 39. We then won the fifth Test to draw level and have not been headed since.


OK - that was a pure fluke guess. I thought it would be somewhere between 1900 and 1940, so I picked the middle. Not many people remember how dominant England were aganst us in the 19th century (funny that - I was there!).

We've always had an advantage in 'tests won' because up to 1940, tests in Australia were played to a finish, whole England was restricted to 3, 4, and eventually 5 days. Even after the war, in Australia we played 6-day tests up to 58/59. That (plus our more reliable weather) meant the side that dominated a series in Aus won 3-1. 4-0 etc, while in England, the series results were 1-0, 2-1 etc,

We're not quite as dominant as you think when you see the head-to-head 143-108. Of the 93 draws, only 27 were in Aus, while 66 were in England. On the overall tally, we're still behind on tests played in England.
 
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