Can you beat for the cricket guru title?

[JASON]

Sorry. Forgot about it.

What is common between the hundreds made by Neil Harvey against India in 1947/8 and Sanjay Manjrekar's 218 v Pakistan in 1989/90 (maybe not unique, but extremely rare) ?

No sixes !!

 

[Tapioca]

extremely rare ?

It is not there in the scorecard. You'll have to guess.

 

[JASON]

extremely rare ?

It is not there in the scorecard. You'll have to guess.

Harvey's Century made him the youngest Australian ever to score a Test hundred, But I don't think the same applies to Manjrekar does it ?

 

[archie mac]

Sorry. Forgot about it.

What is common between the hundreds made by Neil Harvey against India in 1947/8 and Sanjay Manjrekar's 218 v Pakistan in 1989/90 (maybe not unique, but extremely rare) ?

I don't know how rare it is; both players scored a Hundred in a score of over 500 and no one else made a hundred?

 

[Tapioca]

Nothing to do with age. 500 wouldn't be too rare, archie.

A vague/major hint : While I've never seen a list of people who have done this, a 'similar' feat is well documented. Ken Barrington did that 'similar thing' four times.

 

[archie mac]

Nothing to do with age. 500 wouldn't be too rare, archie.

A vague/major hint : While I've never seen a list of people who have done this, a 'similar' feat is well documented. Ken Barrington did that 'similar thing' four times.

I know Barrington had a habit of bringing up 100s with a Six
But that is not applicable here?

Did they bring up there hundred with a five?

 

[Tapioca]

Did they bring up there hundred with a five?

That's the one. Harvey completed his 100 (95-100) with an all run five. Manjrekar took a quick single from 98 and an overthrow took him to 103.

 

[archie mac]

What achievement do 'the little dasher' & 'pup' share?

 

[SJS]

The Little Dasher : Harry Graham and The Pup, Michael Clarke scored centuries in both their debut tests at home and their debut tests away..

Graham was the first to do it in the last decade of the 19th century and Clark is the last one to do it in the first decade of the 21st !

In between four others achieved the feat.
- Ranji
- Lawrence Rowe
- Kepler Wessels
- Azhar Mehmood

 

[archie mac]

The Little Dasher : Harry Graham and The Pup, Michael Clarke scored centuries in both their debut tests at home and their debut tests away..

Graham was the first to do it in the last decade of the 19th century and Clark is the last one to do it in the first decade of the 21st !

In between four others achieved the feat.
- Ranji
- Lawrence Rowe
- Kepler Wessels
- Azhar Mehmood

Well done SJS, not an easy one, with the nicknames as clues.
Your Turn.

 

[SJS]

Here's a very interesting one.

Who is the only batsman ever to have scored two separate centuries in a first class match , both with a runer throughout the innings !!

 

[archie mac]

Here's a very interesting one.

Who is the only batsman ever to have scored two separate centuries in a first class match , both with a runer throughout the innings !!

Graham Fowler?

 

[SJS]

That was very quick. your turn.

 

[archie mac]

A player is dismissed for a pair, which produced the following converstaion.

Menzies: 'that's a terrible thing to happen to a young cricketer, Warwick, how can you account for it?'

Armstrong: 'Can't bat'

Name the player they are discussing?

 

[viewnut]

lindsay hassett?

 

[archie mac]

lindsay hassett?

Nope, but they were contemporaries

 

[JASON]

? Jack Moroney

 

[archie mac]

? Jack Moroney

He did pick up a pair, but he is not the one

 

[JASON]

He did pick up a pair, but he is not the one

The other Jack then - Jack (with a bad Surname) Badcock

 

[archie mac]

The other Jack then - Jack (with a bad Surname) Badcock

Keep going, you are closer, than you know with both answers