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Can you beat for the cricket guru title?
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biased indian
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1st Innings : Abdul Aziz, retired hurt, 0
2nd Innings : Abdul Aziz, did not bat, Dead, 0
2nd Innings : Abdul Aziz, did not bat, Dead, 0
biased indian
International Coach
Name the No 11 Batsman who top scored for his team on his test debut???
This Question is My Tribute to Keith Miller !Tapioca said:
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
Question -
The only Cricketer to take 14 wickets in a day in a Test Match, He like Miller, was a participant in World War 2 , although unlike Miller he was a Captain in the Army and was leading his company when he received his wounds in the Eighth Army’s first attack on the German positions at Catania, in Sicily and died two months after his 38th birthday, of wounds as Prisoner of War in Italy . Cricket lost a great Bowler then, as it does today a great allrounder on the death of Keith Miller.
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Paid The Umpire
All Time Legend
The late great
Hedley Verity of ENGLAND
Hedley Verity of ENGLAND
Paid The Umpire
All Time Legend
Who is the only player in First Class cricket to do the following...
Get a hat trick AND four-in-a-row in the one innings. Well huh?
Get a hat trick AND four-in-a-row in the one innings. Well huh?
Correct. Over to you.Paid The Umpire said:
The ANZAC Day march was over - the old Digger had done his best.
His body ached from marching - it was time to sit and rest.
He made his way to a park bench and sat with lowered head.
A young boy passing saw him - approached and politely said,
"Please sir do you mind if I ask you what the medals you wear are for?
Did you get them for being a hero, when fighting in a war?"
Startled, the old Digger moved over and beckoned the boy to sit.
Eagerly the lad accepted - he had not expected this!
"First of all I was not a hero," said the old Digger in solemn tone,
"But I served with many heroes, the ones that never came home.
So when you talk of heroes, it's important to understand,
The greatest of all heroes gave their lives defending this land.
"The medals are worn in their honour, as a symbol of respect.
All diggers wear them on ANZAC Day - it shows they don't forget."
The old digger then climbed to his feet and asked the boy to stand.
Carefully he removed the medals and placed them in his hand.
He told him he could keep them - to treasure throughout his life,
A legacy of a kind - left behind - paid for in sacrifice.
Overwhelmed the young boy was speechless - he couldn’t find words to say.
It was there the old Digger left him - going quietly on his way.
In the distance the young boy glimpsed him - saw him turn and wave goodbye.
Saddened he sat alone on the bench - tears welled in his eyes.
He never again saw him ever - but still remembers with pride,
When the old Digger told him of Heroes and a young boy sat and cried.
Clyde Hamilton
Paid The Umpire
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Too late here it is
Paid The Umpire said:
Paid The Umpire
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Ding straight back to you.
This time a World War 1 veteran.Paid The Umpire said:
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His career may never have started !! As a corporal in the 15th Field Ambulance, 15th Brigade, he was buried for several hours during the heavy bombardment of Polygon Wood in 1918 and was barely alive when rescued.
Always a gentleman, on regaining consciousness after being carried away unconscious off the field, after being hit in the head (and sustaining a fractured skull) by Larwood during the Body line Test in Adelaide, he is said to have famously said “My own fault.”
Holds a Wicket keeping record, which still stands several decades on!!
To make this question a teeny weeny bit difficult, Who is he ? What is the wicket keeping record he still holds ?
(only answer to question in bold wins)
