Trivia time!

[The Speaker]

After much searching through when each of the very small number of Aboriginal cricketers played, I believe the answer is Albert Marsh and John Henry.

I imagine if they're both fast bowlers with short careers that they were accused of chucking.

EDIT: http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5867.html

 

[Wallaby]

You win the prize sir. After plenty of mutterings about his action, Marsh was not allowed to play for NSW in the Shield, so the only matches he got to play were the non-Shield games - against Qld, WA, Tassie etc - and the MCC. He did all right against the MCC, and there was some call for him to be included in the Test team - but the attitude was 'If he's not good enough for NSW, he's not good enough for Australia'. The poms did not express much misgivings about his action. Apparently Monty Noble - chief selector and head supremo in NSW - had a set against Marsh.

I don't know much about Henry, except for, as you say, he was accused of chucking. Also, note the pleasing similarity of their respective innings in the match in question.

 

[worbod]

Is it true that when a batsman faces a no-ball or a wide it does not count in his "balls faced" stats?

It seems weird that you can potentially hit a four or six off a ball you "haven't faced".

 

[Lensen]

wides don't, no balls do

i think up until the early 90s wides did count but they no longer do

 

[monty1104]

It makes sense that wides don't count. You can't score off a wide. I assume though if you are stumped for a wide it would count.

 

[Belnakor]

It makes sense that wides don't count. You can't score off a wide. I assume though if you are stumped for a wide it would count.

doesn't count

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/412685.html?innings=2;view=scorecard

pollard was stumped for a diamond duck.

 

[monty1104]

doesn't count

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/412685.html?innings=2;view=scorecard

pollard was stumped for a diamond duck.

I never would've guessed that, how odd!

 

[Belnakor]

I never would've guessed that, how odd!

good quiz night question - how can you be dismissed for a diamond duck without being run out

 

[worbod]

What unique "hat trick" did Bob Willis achieve in Test cricket?

 

[worbod]

Seeing as I have you all baffled, Bob Willis is the only bowler who has dismissed all three Chappell brothers.

 

[Miqar_Baqfhied]

If the striker hits the ball, the two batsman cross for a single, a throw is made at the stumps and the ball goes for 4 overthrows, the striker is duly awarded 5 runs.

Does the striker retain the strike next ball however?

 

[The_Reaper]

What iconic cartoon character is named after a famous cricketer?

 

[TassieEagle]

What iconic cartoon character is named after a famous cricketer?

Jiminy Cricket?
Donald Duck?

If the striker hits the ball, the two batsman cross for a single, a throw is made at the stumps and the ball goes for 4 overthrows, the striker is duly awarded 5 runs.

Does the striker retain the strike next ball however?

No

 

[The_Reaper]

Jiminy Cricket?
Donald Duck?

No

Yep

 

[TassieEagle]

Yep

I was just taking a punt... Is he named after THE Don? If so do you know how that came to be?

 

[The_Reaper]

I was just taking a punt... Is he named after THE Don? If so do you know how that came to be?

Walt Disney saw a news article which said that Donald Bradman had scored a duck and decided he liked the alliteration of Donald Duck

 

[worbod]

With the new cricket season underway, I'll see whether it's worth reviving this thread.

Which batsman scored his 81st first class century in 1981, his 82nd century in 1982 and his 83rd century in 1983?

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Geoff Boycott?

 

[worbod]

No, it's not Boycs, but it is another player from that era.

 

[The Speaker]

I was thinking Greg Chappell, but I don't think he got that many hundreds. It would have to be an Englishman, or someone who played a lot of county cricket.

 

[worbod]

I was thinking Greg Chappell, but I don't think he got that many hundreds. It would have to be an Englishman, or someone who played a lot of county cricket.

There is nothing faulty with your assumption.

 

[Gough]

Dennis Amiss?

 

[worbod]

Correct squire.

 

[Wallaby]

Ok - here's one that some may know.

Who was the first black cricketer to play in an official test?

 

[The_Reaper]

Learie Constantine?