Can you beat for the cricket guru title?

[Tapioca]

The file names are satha1 and sathas3. So the cricketer should be Mahadevan 'Satha' Sathasivam of Ceylon

 

[BoyBrumby]

Learie (spelling?) Constantine?

He's about the only Windies player of that era I could name off top of my head!

 

[SJS]

The file names are satha1 and sathas3. So the cricketer should be Mahadevan 'Satha' Sathasivam of Ceylon

Well done Tapioca. I am sure you are right. I did look for a cricketer with a name starting from Satha but I restricted myself to those who played tests

The topee of the Don only confirms that it was Sri Lnka. It was very common there.

 

[JASON]

The file names are satha1 and sathas3. So the cricketer should be Mahadevan 'Satha' Sathasivam of Ceylon

Correct. It was Mahadeva Sathasivam, Sri Lankan cricket captain tossing with Sir Don Bradman, during the First Class game played in Colombo 1948 and the same M. Sathasivam, then exchanging or ? receiving a bat from Sir Gary Sobers (circa 1948-50s).

Great investigative work by Tapioca. over to you for next question.



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[SJS]

Correct. It was Mahadeva Sathasivam, Sri Lankan cricket captain tossing with Sir Don Bradman, during the First Class game played in Colombo 1948 and the same M. Sathasivam, then exchanging or ? receiving a bat from Sir Gary Sobers (circa 1948-50s).

Great investigative work by Tapioca. over to you for next question.



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BTW, He probably played the greatest ever innings at the Chepaulk at Chennai (then Madras)

 

[Tapioca]

Sathasivam uniquely captained three countries in cricket - two South East Asian countries (Singapore and Malaysia, I think) apart from Ceylon.

Satha was once accused of murdering his wife and was lucky to escape the rope.

So, which Test cricketer between the wars was hanged for murdering his wife (- played between the wars, hanged in 1954 or so) ?

 

[SJS]

Sathasivam uniquely captained three countries in cricket - two South East Asian countries (Singapore and Malaysia, I think) apart from Ceylon.

Satha was once accused of murdering his wife and was lucky to escape the rope.

So, which Test cricketer between the wars was hanged for murdering his wife (- played between the wars, hanged in 1954 or so) ?

It was a west Indian

 

[Tapioca]

It was a West Indian ....

 

[Neil Pickup]

Leslie Hylton

 

[SJS]

It was a West Indian ....

Leslie Hylton : Hanged for killing his wife

 

[SJS]

Neil. You beat me to it

Your turn to ask

 

[Tapioca]

NP. All yours.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Righto, better make it good this time.

Who is the only Test player who has opened an innings never to have been dismissed?

 

[Paid The Umpire]

Timothy Andrew Lloyd

on debut he was on ten, when he got smacked in the head by a Malcolm Marshall bouncer. Down he went, carried from the field never to come back or play test cricket again.

 

[Paid The Umpire]

My question...

What was odd about the selection of Kenneth Burn as Australia's second keeper for the 1890 Ashes tour?

 

[bryce]

He'd never kept wicket before (Wisden reported that "only when he had accepted the terms offered and joined the ship at Adelaide was the discovery made that he had never kept wicket in his life").

Turning the tables - Steven asks you hahaha

 

[SJS]

He'd never kept wicket before (Wisden reported that "only when he had accepted the terms offered and joined the ship at Adelaide was the discovery made that he had never kept wicket in his life").

I wonder if his keeping on tour was worse than Parthiv Patel's in this current one

 

[SJS]

He'd never kept wicket before (Wisden reported that "only when he had accepted the terms offered and joined the ship at Adelaide was the discovery made that he had never kept wicket in his life").

Turning the tables - Steven asks you hahaha

Hi Bryce,

I am goinng ahead and asking the next one on your behalf (Pardon')

Which is the one test cricket record that will never ever be bettered ??

 

[JASON]

Hi Bryce,

I am goinng ahead and asking the next one on your behalf (Pardon')

Which is the one test cricket record that will never ever be bettered ??

I'm not sure whether the following was the answer you had in mind.
But here are some records that could not be bettered-

Narrowest Test victory by runs (1,West Indies (252 & 146) beat Australia (213 & 184) at Adelaide in 1992/93).

Closest draw by runs remaining ( 1,Zimbabwe (376 & 234) v England (406 & 204-6) at Bulawayo in 1996/97)

Longest Test Match by days played (10, South Africa v England at Durban in 1938/39)

There are several others but I am not sure this is what you had in mind .

 

[SJS]

I'm not sure whether the following was the answer you had in mind.
But here are some records that could not be bettered-

Narrowest Test victory by runs (1,West Indies (252 & 146) beat Australia (213 & 184) at Adelaide in 1992/93).

Closest draw by runs remaining ( 1,Zimbabwe (376 & 234) v England (406 & 204-6) at Bulawayo in 1996/97)

Longest Test Match by days played (10, South Africa v England at Durban in 1938/39)

There are several others but I am not sure this is what you had in mind .

You are right that both these qualify as answers so I will add a rider.

I doubt if it can ever be equalled too !!