Cricket Trivia

[ThePope]

Originally posted by RooDog
Result: Australia won by 4 wickets
Australia innings (target: 191 runs from 37 overs) R M B 4 6
AR Border not out 26 28 23 2 0
GF Lawson not out 0 18 2 0 0
Total (6 wickets, 36.4 overs) 194

i) We won
ii) Lawson aint a batsman.

keep looking (and no need to post the whole scorecard... a match summary and a link to the cricinfo scroecard is enough.)

Was it Hookesy as the 12th man in the Aluminium bat game?

A strange summer that one, 3 tests vs WI and 3 vs Eng series, alternating between the two, not 3 vs one, then 3 vs the other.
Players not playing in that test but played in others in that season...
McCosker, Hookes ,Chappelli, Higgs, Pascoe, Hogg & Mallett.

 

[RooDog]

HAHAHA!

that was a classic by me!!

posted the wrong game and cant find the right one

im an idiot
sorry Pope ill try find the right answer

 

[Rooboy 34]

Originally posted by Darky
Martin McCague

While on the subject of Martin McCague, name the All time great who also made his first class debut in the same game as McCague made his???

(Try without looking it up as well...)

 

[ThePope]

Originally posted by Rooboy 34
While on the subject of Martin McCague, name the All time great who also made his first class debut in the same game as McCague made his???

(Try without looking it up as well...)

Graeme Thorpe was good, but I wouldn't call him an all-time great... oh, you said first class, not test debut...
Well Mark Lavender was good, but I wouldn't call him an all-time great...

 

[BT]

Was Rod Hogg the 12th man in question?

 

[The Candy Man]

Originally posted by Rooboy 34
While on the subject of Martin McCague, name the All time great who also made his first class debut in the same game as McCague made his???

(Try without looking it up as well...)

I think it was Shane Warne

 

[Lensen]

Which medium pacer bowled 8 maidens and took four wickets in one game in the 1992-93 World Series?

 

[ThePope]

Originally posted by L-Nizzy
Which medium pacer bowled 8 maidens and took four wickets in one game in the 1992-93 World Series?

PV Simmons 4/3 vs Pak.

 

[The Candy Man]

Originally posted by L-Nizzy
Which medium pacer bowled 8 maidens and took four wickets in one game in the 1992-93 World Series?

Bronwyn Calver

 

[Dogwatcher]

Originally posted by BT
Was Rod Hogg the 12th man in question?

Rodney Hogg was the man in question.
He loved being 12th man because it meant he could be there but didn't have to do any work - this occasion was very different.

 

[ThePope]

Originally posted by The Candy Man
Bronwyn Calver

Had to look her stats up, but if the question was "in 1993 who" rather than "in 1992/93 who" then you'd be right...

O    M   R  W Econ I R Match
12    7   8  4 0.67 1 W World Cup  1 v NL  in Eng 1993    at Warrington [159]
12    8   4  4 0.33 1 W World Cup  9 v WI  in Eng 1993    at Tunbridge Wells [167]

Getting back to my question of when was the last time Australia lost a ODI batting second, with 2 batsmen (not bowlers/wicketkeepers) still at the crease at the end.

Aus, 206/4 from 40 (max 40 overs), chasing 235, 2nd ODI v Pak in Pak, 1982/83 at Lahore [160], Laird & Ritchie the not out batsmen.

Over 20 years ago.

If you count Healy as a batsman, then there is one 10 years ago.
Aus 227/5 from 50 overs chasing 233, 1st ODI v SA in SA 1993/94 at Johannesburg [882], S Waugh & Healy the not out batsmen.

So it's a once in 10 year event for Australia to lose without going down swinging.

Aust has played 563 ODIs. We've batted 2nd in 263 of them. We've lost 102 of those games. We've still had wickets in hand in 25 of those. We've lost by less than 10 runs in 9 of those. We've lost by less than 4 runs 4 of those times. The last time was in 1989/90 when a combination of Simon O'Donnell, Glen Campbell, Karl Rackermann and Terry Alderman couldn't get the 3 runs to win. Previous players left at the crease with only 1 or 2 runs left to get for Aus were Healy and McDermott in 88/89 and Walters and Graf in 80/81.
The last time we fell 1 run short of the tie was in 90/91 in Hobart when Greg Matthews and Bruce Reid couldn't quite get there vs NZ (last 4 wkts all run outs!). Dodemaide and Whitney did likewise in Perth in 87/88.
I wonder if Bevan and Symonds are happy to be in these guys' company?
BTW, we haven't won a game off the very last ball since 95/96 when Bevan hit the 4 off the last ball to win at Sydney. (we've had quite a few last over wins, but not last ball).

 

[Rooboy 34]

Originally posted by The Candy Man
I think it was Shane Warne

Yup...

 

[Cupido13]

Originally posted by ThePope
Had to look her stats up, but if the question was "in 1993 who" rather than "in 1992/93 who" then you'd be right...

O    M   R  W Econ I R Match
12    7   8  4 0.67 1 W World Cup  1 v NL  in Eng 1993    at Warrington [159]
12    8   4  4 0.33 1 W World Cup  9 v WI  in Eng 1993    at Tunbridge Wells [167]

No it wouldn't. The question said 92/93 World Series, not 93 World Cup.

 

[The Candy Man]

Originally posted by Cupido13
No it wouldn't. The question said 92/93 World Series, not 93 World Cup.

A bit harsh .... I thought my answer was a pretty good get

 

[BT]

Originally posted by Dogwatcher
Rodney Hogg was the man in question.
He loved being 12th man because it meant he could be there but didn't have to do any work - this occasion was very different.

The former Victorian thing was the sealer.

 

[Dogwatcher]

Okay - who was the first batsman to score three test centuries before he had turned 21?

 

[red+black]

Originally posted by Dogwatcher
Okay - who was the first batsman to score three test centuries before he had turned 21?

my guess was Sachin. then looked it up, he was nearly 3 months shy of his 19th birthday when he scored his 3rd century v Australia in Perth in 1992

 

[Darky]

Originally posted by red+black
my guess was Sachin. then looked it up, he was nearly 3 months shy of his 19th birthday when he scored his 3rd century v Australia in Perth in 1992

Was he the first though?

My guess would be Neil Harvey.

 

[red+black]

nope. Neil Harvey scored his 3rd century when he was 21 and 3 months.

Tendulkar was the obvious answer because we all know he started young and was always a phenomenal player, even at high school.

which leads me to think that there's a dark-horse.

 

[Darky]

Originally posted by red+black
nope. Neil Harvey scored his 3rd century when he was 21 and 3 months.

Tendulkar was the obvious answer because we all know he started young and was always a phenomenal player, even at high school.

which leads me to think that there's a dark-horse.

Must be a dark horse.. why else would it be 21 years instead of 19 if the answer is Tendulkar?

Not doubting for a second that Tendulkar did it, may have even been the youngest... but was he the first?

 

[red+black]

Originally posted by Darky
Must be a dark horse.. why else would it be 21 years instead of 19 if the answer is Tendulkar?

Not doubting for a second that Tendulkar did it, may have even been the youngest... but was he the first?

Could have even been Graeme Smith. Seems to have been around for a while, but he's only 22 or so and has a few big scores to his name.

ok, think for a minute. you're asking if Tendulkar was the first, then suggest that maybe it was Smith. So Smith might have achieved the feat before Tendulkar did in 1991?

Is that what you're trying to say? That Smith might have achieved three centuries by the time he was about 8 years old?

 

[Darky]

Originally posted by red+black
ok, think for a minute. you're asking if Tendulkar was the first, then suggest that maybe it was Smith. So Smith might have achieved the feat before Tendulkar did in 1991?

Is that what you're trying to say? That Smith might have achieved three centuries by the time he was about 8 years old?

Realised it, then deleted it... but the point still stands. Tendulkar may have done it by the time he was 19, but then surely if he was the first, the age limit in question would have been 19 and not 21.

Working on it...

 

[CatManDo]

Originally posted by Dogwatcher
Okay - who was the first batsman to score three test centuries before he had turned 21?

Was it Saleem Malik?

 

[red+black]

i wish Dogwatcher would provide some insight.

i went through some names on the youngest test cricketers list, but have yet to find another player to have achieved the feat.

i wonder if kambli achieved the feat. if he did, it was probably after 91.

 

[CatManDo]

Heres an interesting one, apologies if its been posted already.

Who is the highest scoring Australian born batsman on Test debut?