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Can you beat for the cricket guru title?
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archie mac
International Coach
Glamorgan Hey, does not help me much 
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Not quite, or at least not the one I had in mind. Jones played for England in the first of the unofficial "tests" v The Rest of The World XI in 1970, who replaced the banned South Africans.Jamee999 said:
He alone of all the England players who appeared in that series never gained a full test cap.
Anyway, your go.
archie mac
International Coach
I hear they are going to give the Super Test Aust V the World to be played later this year full Test Status, will they have the guts to retrospectively award Test caps to players like Jones?BoyBrumby said:Not quite, or at least not the one I had in mind. Jones played for England in the first of the unofficial "tests" v The Rest of The World XI in 1970, who replaced the banned South Africans.
He alone of all the England players who appeared in that series never gained a full test cap.
Anyway, your go.
Question
Who was the cricketer who was part of an MCC team in India who was banished from a region of India for allegedly making a pass at the Viceroy's daughter and the Viceroy and his Lady then pressurising the English Captain to keep the individual out of an MCC Team to play the Viceroy's Eleven subsequently
? Name the English Captain . 
Who was the cricketer who was part of an MCC team in India who was banished from a region of India for allegedly making a pass at the Viceroy's daughter and the Viceroy and his Lady then pressurising the English Captain to keep the individual out of an MCC Team to play the Viceroy's Eleven subsequently
? Name the English Captain .
archie mac
International Coach
JASON said:Question
Who was the cricketer who was part of an MCC team in India who was banished from a region of India for allegedly making a pass at the Viceroy's daughter and the Viceroy and his Lady then pressurising the English Captain to keep the individual out of an MCC Team to play the Viceroy's Eleven subsequently
A quick guess Jardine?
archie mac
International Coach
hopper Levett?JASON said:That's the easy part , but who was the cricketer ?
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By the way with this Post I reach a personal Milestone on this Thread !! This is my 1000th post on this Thread !!
Well done on reaching a K Jason, without you this thread would have folded long ago
No !archie mac said:
Thanks Archie Mac, But I wouldn't go that far, I am sure others would've carried it . But I have derived great pleasure from this thread Interacting with you, Burkey , Tapioca, SJS, biased Indian, Somerset, Marc, Jamee999, Craig, and several others via this thread !!archie mac said:Well done on reaching a K Jason, without you this thread would have folded long ago
I consider you guys all my Web friends and makes me happy to know you all this way !!
: Well done Jason. It's been a great 6 months or so posting on the trivia threads. People like you and SJS have really been the cornerstone of them. Don't forget Pratyush ... he started this all Well done Burkey !! Your turn.burkey_1988 said:
The Maharajah of Patiala had apparently flirted with the daughter of Lord Willingdon the Viceroy and the Viceroy and Lady Willingdon had urged Douglas Jardine to drop the Maharajah from the MCC team to play the Viceroys XI.
The strange aspect of this is that the Maharajah despite being Indian was part of the MCC Team !! And his abilities as a cricketer were pretty poor to say the least !!
So based on his cricketing ability he would hardly have got picked for a Club XI let alone the MCC !!
Its unclear what ultimately lead to his not being included in the MCC Team - cricketing ability or rather the lack of it, or his flirtation with the daughter of the Viceroy !!
The other strange aspect to this is that when this happened in 1933 the Maharajah would've been 42 years old ,
and in the preceding game to this between the Maharajah of Patiala's XI v MCC , he played along with his son Yuvraj of Patiala who was 20 at the time !! Wonder what this says about the Maharajah of Patiala !!!