New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'

[BoyBrumby]

Was he from the sub-continent?

 

[SJS]

Was he from the sub-continent?

No. Though Jimmy Amarnath did call the selectors jokers and Atapattu has dome womething similar lately.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Australian?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Okay here is a new one and I hope people will stay around long enough for this to be answered within this year

Who said this and why ?

I've always thought selectors were a bunch of idiots. All they've done now is to confirm it.

My Aunty Valerie when John Snow was left out of the tour party to Australia in 1974/75.

 

[sirdj]

Thommo

 

[Goughy]

Who said this and why ?

I've always thought selectors were a bunch of idiots. All they've done now is to confirm it.

Anything to do with Gowers ommission from a touring party?

 

[wpdavid]

Okay here is a new one and I hope people will stay around long enough for this to be answered within this year

Who said this and why ?

I've always thought selectors were a bunch of idiots. All they've done now is to confirm it.

Sounds like the sort of thing that Bob Willis or Ian Botham would say.

 

[archie mac]

Bill O'Reilly on Clarrie?

 

[SJS]

Sounds like the sort of thing that Bob Willis or Ian Botham would say.

Neither

 

[SJS]

Bill O'Reilly on Clarrie?

Neither

 

[Engle]

Sounds like something Syd would say

 

[SJS]

Sounds like something Syd would say

NO

 

[BoyBrumby]

Australian?

*coughs*

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I think it must be Margaret Thatcher in 1982 when Derek Pringle was selected for England while still at university.

 

[SJS]

Australian?

YES !

Sorry BB I missed that one.

 

[SJS]

I think it must be Margaret Thatcher in 1982 when Derek Pringle was selected for England while still at university.

NO

 

[sirdj]

Hey I said Thommo, you missed that post of mine. When he was dropped for the 1981 England series.

 

[SJS]

Hey I said Thommo, you missed that post of mine. When he was dropped for the 1981 England series.

I am so sorry. I missed all those posts in a cluster it seems.

Yes Thommo is correct and so is the context.

 

[pasag]

Seeing as there's already a question in the Quote Quiz section, I'll ask this here.

About what individual innings was it written:

This score should be entered in the cricket book of all time, in letters of gold.

 

[archie mac]

Seeing as there's already a question in the Quote Quiz section, I'll ask this here.

About what individual innings was it written:

This score should be entered in the cricket book of all time, in letters of gold.

Trumper's ton before lunch 1902?