Trivia time!

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

This one is good fun

Quiz! Name all of Australia’s men’s Test centurions in the 21st century

By now, you’ve probably had a go at naming all of England’s Test centurions this century.

www.wisden.com

I got 29...

 

[eth-dog]

This one is good fun

Quiz! Name all of Australia’s men’s Test centurions in the 21st century

By now, you’ve probably had a go at naming all of England’s Test centurions this century.

www.wisden.com

I got 29...

35. Missed 02-03, 09-10, 93-01

 

[Van_Dyke]

33. Missed 09-10, 93-01, 96-06, 04-08 and 13-17

 

[monty1104]

25. Missed some gimmies

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

25. Missed some gimmies

Spoiler: My worst misses

Andrew Symonds and Matthew Wade

 

[Van_Dyke]

Spoiler: My worst misses

Andrew Symonds and Matthew Wade

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as someone who loved marcus north, that was a stinker of a miss from me

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

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as someone who loved marcus north, that was a stinker of a miss from me

Spoiler: Memory

I loved him too. I was watching his test debut in South Africa at a pub with some mates. He tucked an awkward rising delivery at his ribs (first ball from memory) away for a single with apparent ease and I declared that he'd make a hundred

 

[eth-dog]

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as someone who loved marcus north, that was a stinker of a miss from me

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I only missed Slater because I assumed he went out in the 90's

 

[PhatBoy]

I reckon I would have been able to get all of them if I didn’t have to do it in order. Without looking did anyone struggle with a Queensland batsman with a four letter last name?
he’d have been the most obscure I reckon

 

[eth-dog]

I reckon I would have been able to get all of them if I didn’t have to do it in order. Without looking did anyone struggle with a Queensland batsman with a four letter last name?
he’d have been the most obscure I reckon

You don't have to do them in order.

 

[monty1104]

I reckon I would have been able to get all of them if I didn’t have to do it in order. Without looking did anyone struggle with a Queensland batsman with a four letter last name?
he’d have been the most obscure I reckon

I thought of him but didn’t put him in. Assumed he was 90s

 

[corbies]

I got 34

Spoiler: Missed

Missed some obvious ones. Katich, Lehmann, Jaques and Maxwell.

 

[PhatBoy]

I actually found the most recent ones the hardest

 

[Van_Dyke]

I reckon I would have been able to get all of them if I didn’t have to do it in order. Without looking did anyone struggle with a Queensland batsman with a four letter last name?
he’d have been the most obscure I reckon

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If anything for me the timing of his century being his last test innings helped me

 

[PhatBoy]

Got 9 of the 10 all rounders on the same page

 

[PhatBoy]

45/50 with the 50 most prolific international batsmen.
Wow this is much more fun than work

 

[eth-dog]

Got 9 of the 10 all rounders on the same page

Spoiler

Missed Hooper, you?

 

[big_e]

This one is good fun

Quiz! Name all of Australia’s men’s Test centurions in the 21st century

By now, you’ve probably had a go at naming all of England’s Test centurions this century.

www.wisden.com

I got 29...

30

Only missed one of the one-century guys, but in doing so, missed a couple of obvious ones, including a current player.

 

[PhatBoy]

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Missed Hooper, you?

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Lol Gayle. Hooper was the first I thought of precisely for his obscurity

 

[corbies]

Got 9 of the 10 all rounders on the same page

45/50 with the 50 most prolific international batsmen.
Wow this is much more fun than work

I can't find these

 

[PhatBoy]

I can't find these

im On a desktop at work, if you go to competitions or whatever the menu is at the top, the drop-down has ‘quizzes’ and there’s pages and pages of them.

one name keeps tripping me up in a lot of them - Samaraweera. Hard to think of a more underrated player

 

[eth-dog]

im On a desktop at work, if you go to competitions or whatever the menu is at the top, the drop-down has ‘quizzes’ and there’s pages and pages of them.

one name keeps tripping me up in a lot of them - Samaraweera. Hard to think of a more underrated player

Younis Khan and Mohammed Yousuf immediately spring to mind as just as underrated.

 

[PhatBoy]

Younis Khan and Mohammed Yousuf immediately spring to mind as just as underrated.

Younis definitely - though he’s rated a lot higher than Samaraweera, rightly as he was a better batsman.

but yeah for some reason when I think of the gun SL bats the real obvious ones like Sanga, the two Jayas, De Silva, even Dilshan, Attapattu and Hashan Tilleketatne pop into mind but I always forget Samaraweera. Didn’t do a great deal out of Asia admittedly

 

[eth-dog]

Younis definitely - though he’s rated a lot higher than Samaraweera, rightly as he was a better batsman.

but yeah for some reason when I think of the gun SL bats the real obvious ones like Sanga, the two Jayas, De Silva, even Dilshan, Attapattu and Hashan Tilleketatne pop into mind but I always forget Samaraweera. Didn’t do a great deal out of Asia admittedly

Sangakkara possibly the most underrated of them all. Has just as good a record, if not better, than Lara, Kallis, Ponting and Sachin yet never gets mentioned in that conversation.

 

[PhatBoy]

Sangakkara possibly the most underrated of them all. Has just as good a record, if not better, than Lara, Kallis, Ponting and Sachin yet never gets mentioned in that conversation.

The perils of playing for an out of the spotlight side I suppose.

not that he’s on the same scale as sangakkara but a guy like kemar Roach is a huge forgotten figure of current bowlers because he’s out of sight out of mind