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Can you beat for the cricket guru title?
- Thread starter Pratters
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Actually I have just realised I made a mistake in my question!!
There are actually 3 people who were knighted during their playing days. (And hence were "Sir" even while playing.
The third I had not counted was India's own Vizzy or Maharajah of Vizhianagram who was knighted in 1936 while in England as captain of Indian Team !!
So then, who is the other ?
There are actually 3 people who were knighted during their playing days. (And hence were "Sir" even while playing.
The third I had not counted was India's own Vizzy or Maharajah of Vizhianagram who was knighted in 1936 while in England as captain of Indian Team !!
So then, who is the other ?
For SJS - here's the extract from Wisden obituary on Monty Noble -
"Noble again was the best all-rounder in the second team captained by Joe Darling. During this 1902 tour he made his highest score in England — 284 at Hove against Sussex, he and Warwick Armstrong putting on 428, then a world record, for the sixth wicket. He stood out among his colleagues with 1,416 runs, average 32.93, next to Victor Trumper, and 98 wickets at less than 20 runs apiece, Hugh Trumble and J. V. Saunders being more effective with the ball. That was the tour in which Australia became sure of the rubber by a three runs victory at Old Trafford, while England in an equally dramatic finish won by one wicket at The Oval.
Three years later Darling lost the toss to F. S. Jackson, now Sir Stanley, in all five Tests, and England carried off the honours with two victories in the only decisive games."
"Noble again was the best all-rounder in the second team captained by Joe Darling. During this 1902 tour he made his highest score in England — 284 at Hove against Sussex, he and Warwick Armstrong putting on 428, then a world record, for the sixth wicket. He stood out among his colleagues with 1,416 runs, average 32.93, next to Victor Trumper, and 98 wickets at less than 20 runs apiece, Hugh Trumble and J. V. Saunders being more effective with the ball. That was the tour in which Australia became sure of the rubber by a three runs victory at Old Trafford, while England in an equally dramatic finish won by one wicket at The Oval.
Three years later Darling lost the toss to F. S. Jackson, now Sir Stanley, in all five Tests, and England carried off the honours with two victories in the only decisive games."