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TassieEagle said:
Ah, I cheated and got the answer now. So I will leave it for other minds.
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Tut, tut.......;)

I used to drive through this bloke's home town every weekend when I went out to Deloraine to play footy in the early 80s.

Although to call it a town is a bit of a stretch.......
 
It looks safe to say nobody knows the answer to the SCG question. I'm going to have a wild guess at Fred Spofforth making a tailender slog and bringing up a quick ton in the late 1870s.
 
worbod said:
Was it Clayvel Badcock in the 1936-37 Ashes series?
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Yes, CL "Jack" Badcock.

Although he was playing for South Australia at the time.

He is the earliest Tasmanian I know of to score a test hundred.

He played f-c cricket for Tasmania at a ridiculously young age, 15 I think, and he still holds the highest f-c score for Tasmania (274), which he scored when he was 19.
 
when was the last time the number nine batsman top scored in both innings of a test match?

I don't have the answer, but I want to know how rare siddle's current feat really is
 
worbod said:
It looks safe to say nobody knows the answer to the SCG question. I'm going to have a wild guess at Fred Spofforth making a tailender slog and bringing up a quick ton in the late 1870s.
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Since nobody can answer it.

Alec Bannerman
 
India and West Indies first played each other in a Test in 1948-49. What did it take 24 Tests for India to achieve against West Indies?
 

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In 1970-71 India did win their first Test against West Indies (the 25th between the two), and then held that lead to win their first series against West Indies, after which India had played 28 Tests against them. The achievement I'm thinking of took place in the first Test of that series (the 24th between the two).
 
worbod said:
In 1970-71 India did win their first Test against West Indies (the 25th between the two), and then held that lead to win their first series against West Indies, after which India had played 28 Tests against them. The achievement I'm thinking of took place in the first Test of that series (the 24th between the two).
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First fivefer?
 
No, not that. It is a team achievement. Prior to this 24th Test between the two, West Indies held a 22-0 advantage in this statistic.
 
worbod said:
No, not that. It is a team achievement. Prior to this 24th Test between the two, West Indies held a 22-0 advantage in this statistic.
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Winning the toss?
 
It was the first time India took the first innings lead.

The reason it wasn't 23-0 coming into the match was that in one test prior the two teams had tied on the first innings.
 

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Correct answer. If you pretend that Tests were played over one innings, India would have lost their first five series against West Indies 5-0, 5-0, 4-0, 5-0 and 3-0, and then 5-0 again in 1974-75.

During Australia's Ashes dominance of recent years, they took a first innings lead over England in 21 consecutive Tests, from the second Test of 1997 to the first Test of 2005.
 
I just found a player who scored his highest score and took his best bowling figures in the same Test. I'm sure there's more, so name one

The catch? Minimum 20 Tests
 
I was initially thinking about Rodney Hogg taking 6-74 and scoring 36 on debut, but then I realised he made a half century in 1984. Then I was thinking about somebody such as Michael Slater, David Gower or Sunil Gavaskar making a big score and then picking up a tailender as the game petered out to a draw. This is a very good question. I decided to look up a list of all players who had scored a century and taken five wickets in an innings in the same Test. I found Jimmy Sinclair, the South African all rounder who played in the 1890s and 1900s. He made his highest Test score (106) and took his best figures (6-26) against England at Cape Town in 1898-99. Whether he is the only player to do this with a career of more than 20 Tests I'm not sure.
 
I still can't figure out who you are referring to, but I have discovered John Lever (21Tests) achieved his bests (53 & 7-46) versus India in 1976-77 on his Test debut.
 

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