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New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'
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SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Then there were Sri Lankan cricketers who got hundreds in first class cricket in other countries, in India for example where many of them played in the pentangular or saram who got a hundred for Oxford University in 1934. Others may have done it much before that.
Question. Was it a Sri Lankan getting a hundred in another countries competition ?
Question. Was it a Sri Lankan getting a hundred in another countries competition ?
Burpey
Cricketer Of The Year
Well, in this match Herbert Sutcliffe scored a century for a Ceylonese sideburkey_1988 said:
Also, SJS, I had the thought this could be a trick question ... i.e. first SRI LANKAN player rather than CEYLONESE player to score a first-class century. Jason, can you confirm or deny this?
Question
He's the first SriLankan to score a century in First Class Cricket . Who is he ?
Q1 Was it CK Nayudu or DB Deodhar ? No (Burkey as SJS has already said Cricket guru quiz, Nayudu was India's first Captain !! )
Q2 Was it before 1930 ? No
Q3 Is it George Vanderspar ? No
(whoever he may be !! 
) His century would not be counted as first class century as cricket played in Ceylon as it was then called was not considered as First Class Cricket !! )
Q4 Was it a SriLankan getting a century in another countries competition ? Yes
He's the first SriLankan to score a century in First Class Cricket . Who is he ?
Q1 Was it CK Nayudu or DB Deodhar ? No (Burkey as SJS has already said Cricket guru quiz, Nayudu was India's first Captain !! )
Q2 Was it before 1930 ? No
Q3 Is it George Vanderspar ? No
(whoever he may be !! ) His century would not be counted as first class century as cricket played in Ceylon as it was then called was not considered as First Class Cricket !! )Q4 Was it a SriLankan getting a century in another countries competition ? Yes
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Question
He's the first SriLankan to score a century in First Class Cricket . Who is he ?
Q1 Was it CK Nayudu or DB Deodhar ? No (Burkey as SJS has already said in Cricket guru quiz, Nayudu was India's first Captain !! )
Q2 Was it before 1930 ? No
Q3 Is it George Vanderspar ? No (whoever he may be !! ) His century would not be counted as first class century as cricket played in Ceylon as it was then called was not considered as First Class Cricket !! )
Q4 Was it a SriLankan getting a century in another countries competition ? Yes
He's the first SriLankan to score a century in First Class Cricket . Who is he ?
Q1 Was it CK Nayudu or DB Deodhar ? No (Burkey as SJS has already said in Cricket guru quiz, Nayudu was India's first Captain !! )
Q2 Was it before 1930 ? No
Q3 Is it George Vanderspar ? No
(whoever he may be !! ) His century would not be counted as first class century as cricket played in Ceylon as it was then called was not considered as First Class Cricket !! )Q4 Was it a SriLankan getting a century in another countries competition ? Yes
I am told, he subsequently, in later years spent time in Prison for trying to overthrow the elected Government in SriLanka of the day in a coup with a few other of his Associates !!
For this reason I think he was often referred to as Coup .................(surname) !!
Where is Tapioca , when you need him ? He would have slammed this question down and eaten it for break fast !!
for trying to overthrow the elected Government in SriLanka of the day in a coup with a few other of his Associates !! For this reason I think he was often referred to as Coup .................(surname) !!
Where is Tapioca , when you need him ? He would have slammed this question down and eaten it for break fast !!
The Baconator
International Vice-Captain
Did he score it before World War 2?
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
It is FC de Saram whose name I have already indicated in the second post in answer to this question.JASON said:I am told, he subsequently, in later years spent time in Prison
For this reason I think he was often referred to as Coup .................(surname) !!
Where is Tapioca , when you need him ? He would have slammed this question down and eaten it for break fast !!
SJS said:
He played for Oxford university against the visiting Australians and scored a hundred against Grimmett and Orielly. Of his 128 runs, 96 were scored in boundaries(18 fours and four sixes.). His 128 was scored of a total innings score of 216.
In 1962, by which time he had put away his kit for good, he was a key figure in the right-wing, military-aided attempt to unseat the democratically elected government of S.W.R.D. Bandarnaike. The coup failed, and De Saram was incarcerated for a long time in Colombo jail.
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