New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'

[SJS]

If Astill is also the answer, that is a remarkable coincidence - he wasn't the player I was looking for though. This man was also picked for a South African tour, late in his career.

Yes it IS remarkable.

Astrill took 1490 wickets in all FC matches before he was taken to South Africa in 1927-28 at 42 yrs of age.

[B]Season	Wkts[/B]
1906	3
1907	80
1908	95
1909	79
1910	67
1911	27
1912	80
1913	42
1914	15
1919	2
1920	97
1921	153
1922	144
1923	114
1924	103
1924-25	8
1925	105
1925-26	33
1926	107
1926-27	53
1926-27	18
1927	65
	
[B]Overall	1490[/B]

In South Africa he took 14 wickets (not 7) before the first Test Match where he made his Test debut.

Orange Free 	2
Natal         	5
Natal         	5
Transvaal	1
Transvaal	0
South Afr XI	1

So he actually tok 1504 wickets before his Test debut !!

James Southerton had taken even more - 1527 before he made his debut in the first ever Test match.

 

[SJS]

Is it an Englishman

 

[stumpski]

It is, yes (sorry, off to work now - will catch you in a few hours)

 

[Precambrian]

Tich Freeman?

SJS, Where do you get all these stats from?

 

[Precambrian]

Ian Thomson (Sus, MCC, Eng)

[I][U]In England[/U][/I]

[B]Season	Runs	Wkts[/B]
1952	1370	45
1953	2027	101
1954	2462	127
1955	2675	118
1955-56	215	11
1956	2278	114
1957	2197	111
1958	2204	133
1959	2774	129
1960	2002	106
1961	2812	134
1962	2968	122
1963	2173	112
1964	1891	116
		[B]1479[/B]
Add:
[I][U]1964 : In South Africa (For MCC)[/U][/I]		

[B]Vs		Wickets[/B]
Rhodesia	3
SA Colts XI	0
Transvaal	4
Natal		8
W Province	3
		[B]18[/B]
		
Grand Total	[B][U]1497[/U][/B]

 

[Precambrian]

A lob:

I played only 78 First Class Matches. But I am holder of two Test World Records. Who am I?

 

[stumpski]

Before I tackle that, a note about Ian Thomson: he played all five Tests of the 1964-65 series, but no other Tests in his career (he retired the following season). The only other England players I know who've done that are another Sussex man, Chris Adams, and the lob bowler RT Simpson-Hayward - all on tours of South Africa. But no doubt there are others.


Fred Trueman, left out of that tour, is said to have expressed his dismay, to put it mildly, that Thomson and Somerset medium-pacer Ken Palmer were opening the bowling for England.

 

[stumpski]

A lob:

I played only 78 First Class Matches. But I am holder of two Test World Records. Who am I?

Did one or both of these records have something to do with the player's age at the time of his Test debut?

 

[SJS]

Tich Freeman?

SJS, Where do you get all these stats from?

cricketarchivesdotcom

 

[Precambrian]

Did one or both of these records have something to do with the player's age at the time of his Test debut?

No.

 

[bryce]

Am I English?
Are they batting records?
Pre WWI cricketer?
Career end to sickness/injury?
Record(s) have anything to do with debut?

 

[SJS]

Records something to be proud of ?

 

[Precambrian]

Am I English?
Are they batting records?
Pre WWI cricketer?
Career end to sickness/injury?
Record(s) have anything to do with debut?

No

No

No

Yes (however these records would stand had it been in any test, let alone the debut test)

 

[Precambrian]

Records something to be proud of ?

Yes

 

[SJS]

Australian ?

Bowling Record ?

Debut after 1970 ?

 

[Precambrian]

Australian ?

Bowling Record ?

Debut after 1970 ?

No

No

Yes

 

[bryce]

Yajurvindra Singh

 

[Precambrian]

Yes. Well done. Though i warned it was a gentle lob. :-)

Your turn, Bryce.

 

[bryce]

I hold at least one world record. I got my first taste of international cricket in an ODI which was the equivalent - in terms of overs bowled, to todays newer form of 20Twenty cricket. Who am I and what was the match?

 

[Precambrian]

Are you a member of a non-test playing nation?

Did this match happen before 2000?

Both innings of that match were reduced?