Cricket trivia

[Second Spitter]

St George's Ground, New York.

 

[the big bambino]

Not what I have but the source I looked up might not be definitive. Can you give me a year? (If its post 1800 it isn't St. George's).

 

[watson]

Which ground hosted the first recorded game outside England? (If you have a different answer to mine that could reflect that I haven't been able to check all the records before posting the question or you have something to tell the game's historians).

Launceston 1851, TAS v VIC was the first official game in Australia. But that's probably not the answer because it will be somewhere tricky like Philadelphia, or perhaps a Welsh village with an unpronounceable name containing the entire alphabet times two.

 

[Second Spitter]

Yeah, i miss-read the question as the first international match.

 

[the big bambino]

Not Welsh and not unpronounceable. A very economical 7 letters split over two words. You don't have to cross the ocean to get to this ground from England. I'm going for a walk now. Will be about half an hour. I'll think of another clue and post it when I get back if the right answer isn't given.

 

[the big bambino]

Think Scotland and the 1780s. I found the place in a well known archive

 

[the big bambino]

Sorry i didn't mean to kill the thread. The 1st recorded game outside England occured at The Arns, Alloa according to cricketarchive, in 1785. There the Hon Col Talbot's XI smited the Duke of Atholl's XI by 94 runs. I would have suspected the result to be engineered to flatter the social hierarchy of the times but unless Talbot ranks the Duke that didn't happen. In fact the Duke (who opened the batting and the bowling) had his stumps scattered by the lowly Meares in his second inning for a duck. The Duke's XI also had the Earl of Winchilsea playing for them. No doubt being groomed as a future captain.

Since Watson came closest I'll hand over the next question to him.

 

[watson]

OK then.

Which batsman practiced his shots nude in front of the mirror prior to a big match?

 

[Second Spitter]

Swampy.

 

[watson]

Swampy.

Yep.

 

[Teja.]

Post-2000, Warne has the highest number of away wickets at 226, Murali is third with 201, the second naturally is the quick with the highest number of away wickets in the period and the only one with 200+ away wickets.

Who is this pacer?

(It's very easy to statsguru this so please don't be tempted)

 

[OverratedSanity]

Haha i actually know that. Not really tough to guess if you know who debuted really early in the 2000s

 

[OverratedSanity]

Ca't be Steyn, because he hasn't had enough overseas tours, so it has to be

 

[Howe_zat]

McGrath is the obvious answer so presumably not him

Steyn?

 

[Howe_zat]

Ca't be Steyn, because he hasn't had enough overseas tours, so it has to be

Took 2/3 of his wickets away from home? Weirdo.

 

[Teja.]

Took 2/3 of his wickets away from home? Weirdo.

Where we needed them the most considering we had spinners bossing it up in India but ineffective away.

Anyway, one of you ****s ask a question.

 

[Howe_zat]

Alright

Last week Younis Khan became the 12th player to score a ton against every other Test team. Who are the other 11

 

[morgieb]

As in every Test team they played against or all nine Test teams?

 

[Howe_zat]

all 9

 

[Red]

I'll try to guess

Sachin
S.Waugh
Cook
KP
Hayden
Sehwag
R Taylor
Clarke
Trott
AB
Amla

Prob way off