Can you beat for the cricket guru title?

[luckyeddie]

Can anyone guess the player who scored twice against the english in the 91st and 93rd minute?

Zutalors

 

[Waughney]

Many cricketers have been knighted. Who was the first?

 

[Craig]

Many cricketers have been knighted. Who was the first?

Sir Donald Bradman?

 

[luckyeddie]

Many cricketers have been knighted. Who was the first?

Debatable

Most references suggest that it is Pelham Warner, but the MCC Secretary Francis Lacey was also knighted for services to crisket, 16 years before - and he has a first-class double hundred.

Francis Eden Lacey

 

[Waughney]

Well Pelham Warner was what I heard was right, might be Francis Eden Lacey, anyway you're correct.

 

[luckyeddie]

Ohhhhh, cricket. I'd done 'crisket', which is cricket played with a piece of beef.

 

[luckyeddie]

Six names:

Waqar Younis, Naved Anjum, Malcolm Jarvis, Brian McMillan, Rajindra Dhanraj, Min Patel.

Which is the odd one out and why?

 

[shankar]

Rajindra Dhanraj

All the players on the above list made their test debuts against India. But Dhanraj was the only one to do it in India. The rest did it on their home grounds.

Is that right?

 

[luckyeddie]

Sorry, shankar. Not the one I'm looking for

 

[Craig]

Six names:

Waqar Younis, Naved Anjum, Malcolm Jarvis, Brian McMillan, Rajindra Dhanraj, Min Patel.

Which is the odd one out and why?

Min Patel never played ODIs?

 

[luckyeddie]

Sorry, Craig. Much more fundamental than that.

 

[Craig]

Rajindra Dhanraj never played against India?

 

[luckyeddie]

Far, far more basic. There's a reason for selecting those players, and those only. They're not names I just grabbed out of the air.

Once you've established the relationship, the odd one out will strike you as obvious.

Or not - but it should leave you saying 'well I never'.

 

[biased indian]

Brian Macmillan

he has no relatives in india

 

[luckyeddie]

It's as good an answer as any so far.

Oh, wait - it isn't.

 

[shankar]

I think I've got it now

Min Patel. Manjrekar was the first test wicket of all the players on that list. But Patel was the only one on that list who picked up Manjrekar's wicket in his second test unlike the rest who did so in their first tests.

 

[luckyeddie]

I think I've got it now

Min Patel. Manjrekar was the first test wicket of all the players on that list. But Patel was the only one on that list who picked up Manjrekar's wicket in his second test unlike the rest who did so in their first tests.

Spot on, Shankar.

I would have also accepted a variation on the theme stating that Manjrekar was Min Patel's LAST test victim (because of course he only took the single wicket - as you say, in his SECOND test whereas the others did it on debut).

 

[Craig]

To keep this thread going:

He played one Test for England against South Africa in the 19th century, but he didn't score a Test run or bowled a ball.

Who is he and what is the unusul bit about his Test debut?

 

[luckyeddie]

Joseph McMaster

It was his only first class match ever

 

[Craig]

Correct Eddie.