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New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'

SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Jack Cuffe

  • Born : 26th June 1880, Coonamble, New South Wales, Australia
  • First Match : For New South Wales v Queensland - 26th December 1902
  • Cricket in England : May 1903 to August 1914
  • Football : Played 10 seasons (279 matches) for Glossop
  • Death : On May 16th 1931 his body was found in the River Trent at Stoke-on-Trent. The death certificate read - "drowning due to throwing himself into a river - suicide while temporarily insane. No post mortem."
 
zaremba

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
May I jump in with a quick one, Fred?

Who was John Bickersdyke, and what was his cricketing faux pas? NB internet searching is strictly forbidden.
 
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fredfertang

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Bickersdyke is a name I have never heard of in a cricketing context so I am not going to ask if it's a List A game and I don't think you would ask about a minor county or club match. The name sounds like an archetypal English surname so I doubt there is an overseas element either

Mr Z I put it to you that you are teasing us with a work of fiction - Is Mr Bickersdyke a character created by Dickens?
 
zaremba

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
Mr Z I put it to you that you are teasing us with a work of fiction: YES

Is Mr Bickersdyke a character created by Dickens?: NO

You're making good progress so I won't give you any clues just yet.
 
fredfertang

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
zaremba said:
You're making good progress so I won't give you any clues just yet.
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This is about as far as I go - the only cricket fiction I know, apart from the County Championship in 2003, 2006 and 2007, is De Selincourt's "The Cricket Match" and MacDonnell's "England their England" and methinks 'tis none of those - I need a clue Mr Z or I'm out
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Is this character covered in either of the two volumes on "The Best of Cricket Fiction" (editor Leslie Frewin)
 
zaremba

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
SJS said:
If not, then is he a character of one of Wodehouses cricket stories ?
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Indeed he is.

The book is "Psmith in the City", the opening chapter of which is entitled "Mr Bickersdyke Walks Behind the Bowler's Arm." Mr B does indeed w behind the b's a, with the result that Mike Jackson is out for 98.

I shall tell you no more about the book if you haven't read it. Suffice to say that the chapter entitled "At Lord's" is pure cricket porn.

Over to you SJS - or was it Fred's turn?
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
zaremba said:
Indeed he is.

The book is "Psmith in the City", the opening chapter of which is entitled "Mr Bickersdyke Walks Behind the Bowler's Arm." Mr B does indeed w behind the b's a, with the result that Mike Jackson is out for 98.

I shall tell you no more about the book if you haven't read it. Suffice to say that the chapter entitled "At Lord's" is pure cricket porn.

Over to you SJS - or was it Fred's turn?
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Yes I have read the book though I did not remember the name of the character.

Psmith is one of my favourite Wodehouse characters.

And yes it is my turn - it was my turn for the previous question also :) Give me ten minutes
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
Who snubbed whom by saying the following and in what context?

"You run your side, I'll run mine."
 
zaremba

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
Indipper said:
I didn't know Wodehouse wrote cricket stories. Must get that book!
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Very much so - particularly in his early years when he wrote a series of books featuring Mike Jackson, who was the victim of Mr Bickersdyke Walking Behind the Bowler's Arm.

I recently bought a book via Amazon called "Wodehouse at the Wicket" which recounts his career as a (fairly decent) player and contains some cricket-related extracts from his books including an extract from Psmith in the City.

Psmith's real name of course was Smith but he decided this was too prosaic and so added the silent "P" - "as in "pshrimp"." Genius.
 
archie mac

archie mac

International Coach
zaremba said:
Very much so - particularly in his early years when he wrote a series of books featuring Mike Jackson, who was the victim of Mr Bickersdyke Walking Behind the Bowler's Arm.

I recently bought a book via Amazon called "Wodehouse at the Wicket" which recounts his career as a (fairly decent) player and contains some cricket-related extracts from his books including an extract from Psmith in the City.

Psmith's real name of course was Smith but he decided this was too prosaic and so added the silent "P" - "as in "pshrimp"." Genius.
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I will have to buy that:)

On to SJS, was it an Aussie captain?
 
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