Trivia time!

[kickazz]

There's no general cricket news thread so I recon this belongs here. Almost as strict as our backyard rules back in the day:

Cricket club in West Sussex bans sixes after neighbours’ damage complaints

Players in Southwick told not to play top-scoring shot after damage to nearby windows, cars and sheds

www.theguardian.com

 

[Gough]

From today's Times cryptic
An unknown in B&B all for playing it aggressively. (7)

Spoiler

Bazball

 

[worbod]

Does anybody know the progression of the beer can drinking record on Ashes flights to England? It doesn't happen any more but I believe the record is David Boon with 52 on the 1989 flight. Apparently Boon broke Rod Marsh's record of 51 (1981 I think). But then there is an article stating Marsh drank 45 cans on the trip over to the World Cup in 1983 and that this constituted a record at the time. I have also read that Doug Walters consumed 44 cans on the 1977 Ashes flight, and maybe this is the record Marsh was trying to break in 1983. There is also an online article stating that both Marsh and Walters consumed 44 cans on the flight back from the West Indies in 1973. There could well be a lot of embellishment to these stories but has anyone heard any other can-drinking stats?

 

[Gough]

What do Graeme Wood, Rodney Hogg, Carl Rackemann and AB have in common at the WACA?

 

[eth-dog]

What do Graeme Wood, Rodney Hogg, Carl Rackemann and AB have in common at the WACA?

I'm guessing they all took 10-fa in a test match there?

 

[010203]

I'm guessing they all took 10-fa in a test match there?

I think the only time AB achieved that feat was in Sydney.

 

[eth-dog]

I think the only time AB achieved that feat was in Sydney.

You're right. Tricky one

 

[Wallaby]

Well, since AB famously made a pair against the Windies there, and Carl Rackemann probably made a pair everywhere he batted, I'm going to say that - they all scored a pair in Perth.

 

[010203]

Well, since AB famously made a pair against the Windies there, and Carl Rackemann probably made a pair everywhere he batted, I'm going to say that - they all scored a pair in Perth.

I never saw him bat but it sounds like he was the Australian Chris Martin with the willow.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

What do Graeme Wood, Rodney Hogg, Carl Rackemann and AB have in common at the WACA?

If Graeme Wood is involved, it has to be to do with run outs.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

I never saw him bat but it sounds like he was the Australian Chris Martin with the willow.

Not quite. That would have been Bruce Reid. Who also won the era's Shaun Tait Award for Perpetual Injury.

 

[Rabish Binney]

What do Graeme Wood, Rodney Hogg, Carl Rackemann and AB have in common at the WACA?

All made their 1st class debuts at the ground?

 

[PhatBoy]

This isn’t a trivia question just a useless piece of trivia in itself.

Finally went to the Bradman Museum over the weekend during an Easter trip to Bowral and between all the beers found an hour or two to have a look around at some really interesting cricket memorabilia.

What I found most interesting?

A display bat which you can pick up and swing that Chris Gayle’s bat maker donated that the great man sent back.


Because it was too LIGHT.

This thing was as heavy as Andre the Giant.

No wonder he hits the ball so far. I do not know how he swings it, even allowing for how big the guy is.

 

[Rabish Binney]

This isn’t a trivia question just a useless piece of trivia in itself.

Finally went to the Bradman Museum over the weekend during an Easter trip to Bowral and between all the beers found an hour or two to have a look around at some really interesting cricket memorabilia.

What I found most interesting?

A display bat which you can pick up and swing that Chris Gayle’s bat maker donated that the great man sent back.


Because it was too LIGHT.

This thing was as heavy as Andre the Giant.

No wonder he hits the ball so far. I do not know how he swings it, even allowing for how big the guy is.

Didn’t Clive Lloyd have 7 grips on his bat?

 

[PhatBoy]

Didn’t Clive Lloyd have 7 grips on his bat?

Something along those lines yep.

That was the other noticeable thing with the exhibition bats they had: there was one that belonged to (I think) Bert Oldfield - there really didn’t feel a lot of difference between that one and some of the ones from the 70s/80s like the scoops, as far as the size of the bats and the weights went: picking up Oldfield’s bat I sort of thought ‘yeah if you put a grip on this I could actually visualise myself using it’ BUT - the handles were incredibly thin. You’d have to put 2-3 grips on it just to make it feel normal

 

[PhatBoy]

That was Gayle’s blade.

 

[kickazz]

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That was Gayle’s blade.

Wow. What does it look like side on?

 

[worbod]

Well, since AB famously made a pair against the Windies there, and Carl Rackemann probably made a pair everywhere he batted, I'm going to say that - they all scored a pair in Perth.

I reckon you're right. Wood made a pair at Perth against the Kiwis in 1980-81.
New Zealand's Bruce Edgar, a left-handed opener just like Wood, also scored a pair in this game. Edgar faced 6 balls in the first innings and 2 in the second. Wood faced 2 balls in the first innings and 6 in the second.

 

[cricketnut14]

which test nation is the only team NOT to have played a 'neutral' test?

 

[kickazz]

which test nation is the only team NOT to have played a 'neutral' test?

I'm guessing England?

Do the Pakistan games in various places like UAE count as neutral?

 

[cricketnut14]

I'm guessing England?

Do the Pakistan games in various places like UAE count as neutral?

it's not England, as you quite rightly pointed out that they have played tests v Pakistan in the U.A.E.

 

[Gough]

I'm guessing Zimbabwe given they weren't playing for a lot of the time Pakistan were playing in the UAE.

 

[cricketnut14]

I'm guessing Zimbabwe given they weren't playing for a lot of the time Pakistan were playing in the UAE.

it's not Zimbabwe as they played 2 tests v Afghanistan in the U.A.E back in 2020/21.

 

[kickazz]

Was going to say India because they avoid playing Pakistan but obviously they played NZ in the WTC final.

 

[cricketnut14]

Was going to say India because they avoid playing Pakistan but obviously they played NZ in the WTC final.

yeah india have played in WTC finals v NZ and Aust in England.