New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'

[Lillian Thomson]

Yes here it is.

Hazare scored 309 out of 387 for rest of India in the Pentangular finals. For the sixth wicket, he had younger brother Vivek put on exactly 300 runs. Vivek scored 21.

December 1943

309 isn't 79% of 387...........bloody stats.

 

[SJS]

309 isn't 79% of 387...........bloody stats.

well it is 79.844961 and if you are not going into decimals as fred did not, it is 79

 

[SJS]

309 isn't 79% of 387...........bloody stats.

How about attempting to answer that one buddy - the quiz i mean

 

[Lillian Thomson]

well it is 79.844961 and if you are not going into decimals as fred did not, it is 79

Not good enough it's much nearer 80.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Okay we will go back to what I had posted earlier and withdrew.

Who said/wrote this - where and when ?

A question which can not fail to present itself to the minds of all cricketers..... is whether the bowling of today is as good as it used to be. This particular question - so often put, and answered so differently - seems to me to be one which it is impossible to decide, as the whole nature of the game has altered in the last few years......

Nowadays a bowler is nothing unless he has command over the ball and can practice variety; batting is so good and grounds are so level that the merely accurate bowler may keep down the runs but he can not get wickets... and our best bowlers - seem to aim not so much at getting rid of the batsman as at keeping down the runs ... and trusting to chance or the impatience of the batsman for his dismissal.​

Richie Benaud, at the Oval 2005.

 

[fredfertang]

Not good enough it's much nearer 80.

I would take Gerald Brodribb to task about it but I regret he is brown bread - I fear, Lill me old china plate, you have spent too much time recently mixing it with the Imran worshippers

 

[fredfertang]

Okay we will go back to what I had posted earlier and withdrew.

Who said/wrote this - where and when ?

A question which can not fail to present itself to the minds of all cricketers..... is whether the bowling of today is as good as it used to be. This particular question - so often put, and answered so differently - seems to me to be one which it is impossible to decide, as the whole nature of the game has altered in the last few years......

Nowadays a bowler is nothing unless he has command over the ball and can practice variety; batting is so good and grounds are so level that the merely accurate bowler may keep down the runs but he can not get wickets... and our best bowlers - seem to aim not so much at getting rid of the batsman as at keeping down the runs ... and trusting to chance or the impatience of the batsman for his dismissal.​

A wild guess then a question

1. Terror Turner

2. Is it pre WW2

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I would take Gerald Brodribb to task about it but I regret he is brown bread - I fear, Lill me old china plate, you have spent too much time recently mixing it with the Imran worshippers

I'm grateful for those words of wisdom from one so young and handsome.

 

[SJS]

Not good enough it's much nearer 80.

bloody statistics minded youngster

 

[SJS]

Q1. Richie Benaud, at the Oval 2005..... NO

Q2. Terror Turner ....NO

Q3. . Is it pre WW2 ..... YES

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Was it said since the year 2000?

 

[SJS]

Was it said since the year 2000?

Sounds like that I know but NO

 

[SJS]

Sorry. I made a mistake answering Q3. It IS pre WW2.

The last question of LT doesn't count.

 

[fredfertang]

I'm grateful for those words of wisdom from one so young and handsome.

beginning to sound like a case of Miller/Sobers induced Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

 

[zaremba]

Hobbs?
SF Barnes?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Was the person who said it Australian?

 

[SJS]

beginning to sound like a case of Miller/Sobers induced Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Hobbs?
SF Barnes?

Was the person who said it Australian?

All of you have the right to change or repeat your questions in the light of the correction to Q3.

Honesty rules OK.

 

[fredfertang]

Were these words uttered by one who would be considered a great batsman from the golden age?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

All of you have the right to change or repeat your questions in the light of the correction to Q3.

Honesty rules OK.

I'll stick to my question regarding the Australianess of the speaker.

 

[SJS]

Were these words uttered by one who would be considered a great batsman from the golden age? .....NO