Ashes Trivia

[Spikey]

I wish I could work out England from the 2005 ashes. Bell was the last guy to debut before the 05 Ashes right? So KP is 626. Colly 627? Shane Udal (628) debuted straight after the Ashes. So did then Somerset player IAN BLACKWELL (629). thanks to his recall last summer, I know Liam Plunkett debuted in 2005 too....which means I've got one too many here if Cook is 630. Maybe Udal had already been picked? I know he was an old ****. Monty debuted with Cook right? So he's 631. Sajid Mahmood was here in 06-07. 632?

 

[Spikey]

hahahah missed the boat a bit.

387 wasn't a batsman. The batsman to debut before Clarke (385) was indeed debuted in the 2002/03 Ashes, but as you've noted, wasn't Lehmann.

Lovey! So few guys got debuts around that 2000 to 2004 time you'd think it'd be easy to remember the few new guys but I can't.

 

[King Pietersen]

Colly debuted before Pietersen didn't he?

 

[NUFAN]

Hey lets do ALL test cricketers in order next, I'll start.

1 Bannerman
GO GO GO

 

[Howe_zat]

I'm sure no one debuted between Morgan and Patel. There was a big deal made of the fact England kept the same tea for 2 years. So I must have forgotten a couple of people at the fag end of the first Moores tenure (08-09ish). NFI who that is

 

[Spikey]

I wish I could work out England from the 2005 ashes. Bell was the last guy to debut before the 05 Ashes right? So KP is 626. Colly 627? Shane Udal (628) debuted straight after the Ashes. So did then Somerset player IAN BLACKWELL (629). thanks to his recall last summer, I know Liam Plunkett debuted in 2005 too....which means I've got one too many here if Cook is 630. Maybe Udal had already been picked? I know he was an old ****. Monty debuted with Cook right? So he's 631. Sajid Mahmood was here in 06-07. 632?

On this, I knew Plunkett made an impression in the ODI series before the Ashes, but I never knew he got a test that year until his recall last year which I thought was his debut, but then I saw he debuted in 05 and I was like, "What? How?" or something

 

[Howe_zat]

I think I'm missing a few because I'm struggling a bit after that. Remember Amjad Khan in the West Indies, Darren Pattinson 2008 v SA and not much else. Broad was 2007 in Sri Lanka.

That's it then. Amjad and Pattinson.

639. Tim Ambrose
640. James Pattinson
641. Graeme Swann
642. Amjad Khan
643. Tim Bresnan
644. Graeme Onions
645. Jonathan Trott
646. Steven Finn
647. Michael Carberry
648. James Tredwell
649. Ajmal Shahzad
650. Eoin Morgan
651. Samit Patel
652. Johnny Bairstow
653. James Taylor
654. Nick Compton

surely

 

[NUFAN]

hahahah missed the boat a bit.



Lovey! So few guys got debuts around that 2000 to 2004 time you'd think it'd be easy to remember the few new guys but I can't.

Martin Love is one.

 

[Cabinet96]

613. JM Anderson
625. IR Bell
630. AN Cook
638. SCJ Broad
655. JE Root

Cook - Broad probably

631. Shaun Udal
632. Monty Panesar
633. Saj Mahmood
634. Liam Plunkett
635. Matt Prior
636. Ryan Sidebottom
637. Chris Tremlett

Broad - Root probably

639. Tim Ambrose
640. Darren Pattinson
641. Graeme Swann
642. Amjad Khan
643. Graeme Onions
644. Tim Bresnan
645. Jonathan Trott
646. Steven Finn
647. Michael Carberry
648. James Tredwell
649. Ajmal Shahzad
650. Eoin Morgan
651. Samit Patel
652. Johnny Bairstow
653. James Taylor
654. Nick Compton

Filled in the blanks. You could be forgiven for forgetting those two.

 

[King Pietersen]

Shahzad played his Test before Patel came in.

 

[Cabinet96]

On this, I knew Plunkett made an impression in the ODI series before the Ashes, but I never knew he got a test that year until his recall last year which I thought was his debut, but then I saw he debuted in 05 and I was like, "What? How?" or something

Pretty sure it would've been 06, Sri Lanka at home, at the earliest.

 

[Furball]

653 is James Taylor.

Correct.

613. JM Anderson
625. IR Bell
630. AN Cook
638. SCJ Broad
655. JE Root

Cook - Broad probably

631. Shaun Udal
632. Monty Panesar
633. Saj Mahmood
634. Liam Plunkett
635. Matt Prior
636. Ryan Sidebottom
637. Chris Tremlett

Mahmood and Prior are spot on from this list. Sidebottom is incorrect (debuted in 2001), rest are in the general right place.

I think I'm missing a few because I'm struggling a bit after that. Remember Amjad Khan in the West Indies, Darren Pattinson 2008 v SA and not much else. Broad was 2007 in Sri Lanka.

Think Cabs has the two that Howe has forgotten.

I wish I could work out England from the 2005 ashes. Bell was the last guy to debut before the 05 Ashes right? So KP is 626. Colly 627? Shane Udal (628) debuted straight after the Ashes. So did then Somerset player IAN BLACKWELL (629). thanks to his recall last summer, I know Liam Phlukett debuted in 2005 too....which means I've got one too many here if Cook is 630. Maybe Udal had already been picked? I know he was an old ****. Monty debuted with Cook right? So he's 631. Sajid Mahmood was here in 06-07. 632?

KP, Blackwell and Monty all spot on.

Colly debuted before Pietersen didn't he?

Yes.

 

[Spikey]

Colly debuted before Pietersen didn't he?

I always thought the Oval was his debut. Did his OD form help land a gig before then?

 

[Howe_zat]

put James instead of Darren. Freudian slip I fear. Keeping it

 

[Furball]

That's it then. Amjad and Pattinson.

639. Tim Ambrose
640. James Pattinson
641. Graeme Swann
642. Amjad Khan
643. Tim Bresnan
644. Graeme Onions
645. Jonathan Trott
646. Steven Finn
647. Michael Carberry
648. James Tredwell
649. Ajmal Shahzad
650. Eoin Morgan
651. Samit Patel
652. Johnny Bairstow
653. James Taylor
654. Nick Compton

surely

Caps go in alphabetical order so Carberry before Finn. Also got the wrong Pattinson sibling

 

[Furball]

Pretty sure it would've been 06, Sri Lanka at home, at the earliest.

Incorrect.

 

[Spikey]

Pretty sure it would've been 06, Sri Lanka at home, at the earliest.

I'm 100% certain it's 2005, because I did about 2000 double takes when I saw he debuted in that year. So he's 628 and Udal's 627 if I've got Colly wrong

 

[Spikey]

Wait, I thought Swann was like Sidebottom and got an one-off appearance many years before his actual stint in the team?

 

[Howe_zat]

I'm 100% certain it's 2005, because I did about 2000 double takes when I saw he debuted in that year. So he's 628 and Udal's 627 if I've got Colly wrong

Colly debuted heaps early, 2003 or something.

I've just looked up the absolute rat**** side Anderson first played in against Zimbabwe. Good luck naming all that

 

[Howe_zat]

Wait, I thought Swann was like Sidebottom and got an one-off appearance many years before his actual stint in the team?

Only in ODIs.