Can you beat for the cricket guru title?

[imagine]

correct ! your turn

 

[JASON]

correct ! your turn

Still Waiting !

 

[sham]

so am i!

 

[sham]

do you think so? the windies were very average!
Poor batting and poor bowling

 

[Sudeep]

Name the only cricketer to have played first-class cricket in England before the First World War and after the Second World War.

 

[tooextracool]

jack hobbs?

 

[Sudeep]

No.

 

[luckyeddie]

Donald Knight

 

[marc71178]

Didn't his career end in 37?

 

[Sudeep]

Not Donald Knight.

 

[luckyeddie]

Didn't his career end in 37?

I thought MCC games were first class - and he scored a century for them in 46 or 47 I think

 

[Sudeep]

I thought MCC games were first class - and he scored a century for them in 46 or 47 I think

I suppose they weren't. I read on his profile on Cricinfo - "In lesser cricket, as far on as 1947, at the age of 53, he was able to score 111 for M.C.C. against Eton."

Where I read about the question I've asked, a different player was mentioned, not Donald Knight.

 

[luckyeddie]

I suppose they weren't. I read on his profile on Cricinfo - "In lesser cricket, as far on as 1947, at the age of 53, he was able to score 111 for M.C.C. against Eton."

Where I read about the question I've asked, a different player was mentioned, not Donald Knight.

No problem. I'll have another think

 

[badgerhair]

I thought MCC games were first class - and he scored a century for them in 46 or 47 I think

MCC play about 400 games a season. On any given Wednesday or Thursday during term time, there are likely to be 3 or 4 MCC sides playing against schools in one-day matches. They are not first-class games.

Cheers,

Mike

 

[Neil Pickup]

They played Exeter University earlier this term - that was one of them.

 

[biased indian]

Bill Ashdown

 

[Neil Pickup]

"Born in 1898, Bill Ashdown made his first-class debut in 1914, for GJV Weigall's team against Oxford University in The Parks. Although he was only 15, he scored 3 and 27. He played for Kent regularly until 1937 – he passed 1000 runs in a season 11 times, and his 332 against Essex in 1934 remains the highest score for them – but came out of retirement in 1947, when he was 48, to play for Maurice Leyland's XI against the Rest of England in a festival match at Harrogate. He finished in some style, with 42 and 40. He is the only man to have played first-class cricket before the first world war and after the second. After that he became an umpire, and stood in four Tests in 1949 and 1950. He also coached Leicestershire, and was their scorer for a time as well."

Well done

 

[Sudeep]

Correct.

 

[Neil Pickup]

So it's Koch_cha's turn.. let's see what he brings up!

 

[biased indian]

which bowler holds the record for taking most number of wickets in a single days play in first class cricket