World Cup Trivia

[Natman20]

List of the Top 9 most extras in an innings in WC history

Correct. Your turn

 

[BoyBrumby]

Ok, here's a quicky that I don't actually know thew full answer to.

Name the players in their countries' squads for this year's WC who played in the 1992 tournament. I can think of only 4, but others may do better!

Jayasuriya, Tendulkar, Lara, Inzamam

I won't be on to post a question for a few days if I'm right, so someone else can take my turn if that's the case.

I think there's actually five: the missing player is Anderson Cummings, now of Canada but then of the Windies!

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Could be an easy one but....

Name the last 3 players from Test Playing Nations to score their maiden ODI century at a World Cup

 

[Poker Boy]

Scott Stryis, Andrew Symonds and Chris Harris?

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Scott Stryis, Andrew Symonds and Chris Harris?

CORRECT!

 

[Poker Boy]

What do Dennis Amiss and Glenn Turner have in common?

 

[Natman20]

They both scored centuries in their first matches of a world cup?

 

[Poker Boy]

No - its more than that.

 

[honestbharani]

They scored centuries in the very first WC matches of their respective teams?

 

[Poker Boy]

Yes - but there's more than that.

 

[wpdavid]

Yes - but there's more than that.

They scored the first ever WC hundreds. Couldn't tell you who reached his first, but the games were played simultaneously on the first day of the 1975 WC.

 

[Poker Boy]

There is something else though...

 

[biased indian]

and that were their maiden centuries also

 

[wpdavid]

and that were their maiden centuries also

No, they' d both hit loads of tons before then. It wasn't even Amiss' first oneday hundred, fwiw.

 

[Natman20]

Was it both their highest scores in ODI cricket?

 

[honestbharani]

Both their team went on to lose those matches?

 

[wpdavid]

Both their team went on to lose those matches?

No, they both won by truckloads.

 

[Dasa]

Also the highest individual scores for their teams in ODIs (up to that time)?

 

[Poker Boy]

They did both score centuaries on the first day of the WC but there is something else too...