New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'

[Sanz]

Since Pasag is on leave of absence, I am jumping ahead here, he is more than welcome to pick it up when he comes back.

Who is/was the only Wicket Keeper to take the catch off the first ball he kept in a test match ?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Who is/was the only Wicket Keeper to take the catch off the first ball he kept in a test match ?

W.G.Grace.

 

[Sanz]

W.G.Grace.

Cricket Geeks !!

 

[archie mac]

Since Pasag is on leave of absence, I am jumping ahead here, he is more than welcome to pick it up when he comes back.

Who is/was the only Wicket Keeper to take the catch off the first ball he kept in a test match ?

If Sanz did not have me on ignore, he would see I posted that in the Bradman V Grace thread

Althought I am sure LT new that one anyway

 

[TambourineMan]

W.G.Grace.

Who kept wicket during Alfred Lyttelton first spell then?

 

[SJS]

Who kept wicket during Alfred Lyttelton first spell then?

That was the first ball Lyttleton ever bowled in a test match since he was the keeper himself.

 

[TambourineMan]

That was the first ball Lyttleton ever bowled in a test match since he was the keeper himself.

It wasn't his first ball in Test cricket he bowled on the first evening.

On that first evening he bowled medium pacers to no effect. Bell's Life went so far as to describe his bowling as "very erratic, the ball generally going wide on the leg side".....[The next day] Shortly before 4pm, Harris again asked Lyttelton to bowl from the Vauxhall End. Lyttelton merely handed his gloves to WG Grace and began to bowl in his pads. Unlike the previous evening, he opted for underarm lobs rather than anything quicker. "The change caused some laughter," noted The Guardian, adding that it grew after what happened next.

With his first ball, looped down the leg side, Billy Midwinter swung wildly and the ball lodged in Grace's gloves more than him catching it. Lyttelton appealed, Grace did not, but the umpire gave him out. "I had no time to prevent the umpire giving his decision," Grace recalled, "so Midwinter had to go." When the bowling was from the Pavilion End, Lyttelton took back the gloves and kept wicket normally.

Source: http://content-www.cricinfo.com/columns/content/story/320591.html

Also he'd be in this list if it was a first baller.
http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283520.html

So I ask again, Who kept wicket during Alfred Lyttelton first spell?

 

[nightprowler10]

Billy Murdoch? Bit of an obvious choice but what the hey!

 

[Lillian Thomson]

So I ask again, Who kept wicket during Alfred Lyttelton first spell?

Are you asking out of curiousity because you don't know or is this the next question?
If it's the latter I'll guess Lord Harris.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Here's the new question.

What do the following players have in common?
Wayne Prior
Rob Langer
Dennis Yagmich

 

[biased indian]

anything to do with WSC

 

[Lillian Thomson]

anything to do with WSC

Yes.

 

[Engle]

They were the only WSC cricketers who never played Test cricket

 

[Engle]

They are the only WSC cricketers to have never played in Tests

 

[Lillian Thomson]

They are the only WSC cricketers to have never played in Tests

Correct (or at least the only Australians, I haven't looked into other nationalities.)

 

[Engle]

Garth LeRoux played WSC, yet never did Tests....so partly correct

Which two Test debutants had the highest partnership amongst themsevles ?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Which two Test debutants had the highest partnership amongst themsevles ?

Khalid Ibadulla and Abdul Kadir.

 

[Engle]

Bang on

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Bang on

What is the significance of these dismissals?

Boycott c Murray b Julien 10
Boycott c Kanhai b Sobers 13

 

[archie mac]

What is the significance of these dismissals?

Boycott c Murray b Julien 10
Boycott c Kanhai b Sobers 13

Anything to do with his excile?

Anything to do with setting the highest run total?