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New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
No

1) Were you born before 1914? No
2) Are you a Test match player? Yes
3) Was the "outcome" something batting related? Yes
4) Did you play Test cricket for England? No
5) Was the outcome the scoring of a century? No
6) Something to do with the number of runs scored? Yes
7) Was it a duck? Yes
8) Did it happen in the last 10 years? No
9) Did it have anything to do with diet? Or ***? No
10) Are you Australian? No
11) Was it their first duck? No 99% sure - you have answered the "outcome" part of the question nicely.
Now just the other two questions who am I and what was my preparation.
12) Was he an opener? No
 

Jarquis

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Did the preparation involve some form of non-cricket related activity?

Edit: Basically, a different sport?
 
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Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
This is two different questions so I am go to answer each separately and number both.

yes the preparation wasn't strictly cricket related or traditionally associated with cricket
No it wasn't a different sport




1) Were you born before 1914? No
2) Are you a Test match player? Yes
3) Was the "outcome" something batting related? Yes
4) Did you play Test cricket for England? No
5) Was the outcome the scoring of a century? No
6) Something to do with the number of runs scored? Yes
7) Was it a duck? Yes
8) Did it happen in the last 10 years? No
9) Did it have anything to do with diet? Or ***? No
10) Are you Australian? No
11) Was it their first duck? No 99% sure - you have answered the "outcome" part of the question nicely.
Now just the other two questions who am I and what was my preparation.
12) Was he an opener? No
13) Did the preparation involve some form of non-cricket related activity? Yes (see clarification)
14) Edit: Basically, a different sport? No

Other Note - I have to pop out now for a few hours will come online again later.
 

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
Yes

1) Were you born before 1914? No
2) Are you a Test match player? Yes
3) Was the "outcome" something batting related? Yes
4) Did you play Test cricket for England? No
5) Was the outcome the scoring of a century? No
6) Something to do with the number of runs scored? Yes
7) Was it a duck? Yes
8) Did it happen in the last 10 years? No
9) Did it have anything to do with diet? Or ***? No
10) Are you Australian? No
11) Was it their first duck? No 99% sure - you have answered the "outcome" part of the question nicely.
Now just the other two questions who am I and what was my preparation.
12) Was he an opener? No
13) Did the preparation involve some form of non-cricket related activity? Yes (see clarification)
14) Edit: Basically, a different sport? No
15) Did he debut in Tests after the second world war? Yes
 

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
2nd clue:

I was having a bad run of form and was going to be facing the mighty west indies of the 70s and 80s so I tried this form of preparation.
 

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
Yes. Great Guess. You know the outcome of his inning a duck. You now know the preparation hypnosis. Just need his name now.

1) Were you born before 1914? No
2) Are you a Test match player? Yes
3) Was the "outcome" something batting related? Yes
4) Did you play Test cricket for England? No
5) Was the outcome the scoring of a century? No
6) Something to do with the number of runs scored? Yes
7) Was it a duck? Yes
8) Did it happen in the last 10 years? No
9) Did it have anything to do with diet? Or ***? No
10) Are you Australian? No
11) Was it their first duck? No 99% sure - you have answered the "outcome" part of the question nicely.
Now just the other two questions who am I and what was my preparation.
12) Was he an opener? No
13) Did the preparation involve some form of non-cricket related activity? Yes (see clarification)
14) Edit: Basically, a different sport? No
15) Did he debut in Tests after the second world war? Yes
16) Is hypnosis or something similar involved? Yes - Just need his name now
 

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
OK I''ll step in then

What record do the Surrey batsman of the Golden Age, Tom Hayward, and the Lancashire slow left armer of the immediate post WW2 period, Malcolm Hilton share?
 
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BoyBrumby

Englishman
Do we get to know the name of the Lanky SLA bowler? (Not an actual question for SJS purposes)

This is tho:

Is it an aggregate record?
 

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