New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'

[shankar]

First time a batsman had scored more than the sum of his team-mates' scores?

 

[Adamc]

First time a batsman had scored more than the sum of his team-mates' scores?

Nope, I think Charles Bannerman managed that in the very first Test match.

 

[Adamc]

I should clarify that the record is related to that innings, but not that innings alone.

 

[shankar]

Nope, I think Charles Bannerman managed that in the very first Test match.

Ah, I'd suspected that.

 

[SJS]

Does it have to do with the two ducks he scored on either side of this his highest test innings ?

 

[Adamc]

Nope. As I said earlier, it's to do with Test centuries (note the plural).

 

[Jamee999]

First man to score 2 test centuries?

 

[Adamc]

First man to score 2 test centuries?

No.

 

[a massive zebra]

Longest gap between Test centuries - 14 years.

 

[Adamc]

Longest gap between Test centuries - 14 years.

Ta da. Your turn.

 

[a massive zebra]

Woohoo.

I feel guilty now. SJS knows so much and really derserved that, but he probably tried a little too hard.

Who is the only player to hold the record for the highest individual innings in first class cricket for over 50 years? Which years did he hold it?

 

[Jamee999]

This must have been in the 1820s or so.

 

[Jamee999]

W Ward? 1820-1883?

 

[a massive zebra]

W Ward? 1820-1883?

You got the name right but not the years. I'll be kind and give it too you though.

William Ward's phenomenal 278 for MCC against Norfolk in 1820 was over 100 more than anyone else had ever made in first class cricket up to that point and remained the record until WG Grace beat it with 344 for MCC against Kent in 1876. This was the start of an amazing sequence in which Grace made a still unprecedented 839 runs in three innings. So Ward held the title for 56 years between 1820 and 1876.

 

[Jamee999]

OK.

What national record does JV Coney hold?

 

[The Baconator]

Is it a batting record?

 

[Jamee999]

No.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Is it a test record?

 

[Jamee999]

Aye.

 

[Pratters]

R
James Southerton the first test cricketer to be born on 16th Nov 1827 nearly 50 years before the first ever test match) and the first to die on 16th June 1880 (just 4 years and 3 months after the first test.

More on Southerton

At 49 years 119 days, James Southerton is the oldest player to make a Test debut, a record unlikely to be eclipsed - he was also the first Test cricketer to die. The bulk of his first-class career came before his appearances in the first two Tests (in 1876-77) . Initially a batsmen, he turned his hand to slow round-arm bowling (then a rarity) and as time went on metamorphosed into a more conventional slow left-armer. He was a capable batsman and a sound slip fielder. In 1867 he represented three counties (Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex) in an era before strict rules on qualification. In his final years he was landlord of the famous "Cricketers" pub on Mitcham Green.

By Martin Williamson