New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'

[Cevno]

Great answering that fred.

 

[fredfertang]

I was perusing my trusty brown book which told me - it knows all!

 

[fredfertang]

Cevno has a good one involving Warren Bardsley, John Morrison and a couple of others that he took down when I did the Strauss one so over to him

 

[Cevno]

Thanks fred.


What is common to Warren Bardsley,Darren Ganga,Sunil Gavaskar and John Morrison?

 

[fredfertang]

Does it relate to Test Cricket?

 

[Cevno]

Does it relate to Test Cricket?yes

 

[archie mac]

Thanks fred.


What is common to Warren Bardsley,Darren Ganga,Sunil Gavaskar and John Morrison?

Has it anything to do with Bardsley scoring two tons in one Test?

 

[Cevno]

Has it anything to do with Bardsley scoring two tons in one Test?no

 

[fredfertang]

Does it relate to a particular ground?

 

[SJS]

Is it to do with runs scored?
Is it something to be proud of?

 

[stumpski]

Is it something only an opener could do?

 

[biased indian]

being dismissed first ball of the match ???

 

[Cevno]

Does it relate to a particular ground?no

Is it to do with runs scored? In in indirect way

Is it something to be proud of?no

Is it something only an opener could do?yes

 

[Cevno]

being dismissed first ball of the match ???

being dismissed first ball of the match ???yes ,got one part right.

 

[biased indian]

being dismissed first ball of the match ???yes ,got one part right.

more than once ???

or to the same bowler twice ???

 

[SJS]

Well Gavaskar has been out first ball on quite a few occasions.

• 1. Edgbaston July 1974
• 2. Chinnaswami stadium vs Windies 1978 but it wasnt the first innings of the match.
• 3. Eden Garden against Windies 1983
• 4. Jaipur Feb 1987 vs Pakistan

That is three innings where he got out off the first ball of the match

• Ganga went first ball vs Sri Lanka in 2001 but it wasnt the first innings of the match.
• In June 2007 he went first ball against England at Riverside.

Thats just one innings as far as I can see.

Morrison went 1st ball of the match at AMI stadium Feb '75
Thats the only one in his career.

• Warren Bardsley went first ball at Melbourne 1911 but he did not take first strike
• And at Headingley in July 1926.

So I dont get it I am afraid. All of them dont seem to have multiple 1st ball (of the match) dismissals from what I can see.

 

[SJS]

I think it has to be something else along with the first ball dismissal.

 

[SJS]

They had scored centuries in the immediately preceding innings

But that is true only for three of them, not for Darren Ganga.

 

[fredfertang]

All caught by the same fielder?

eg all caught by 2nd slip

 

[SJS]

All caught by the same fielder?

eg all caught by 2nd slip

Could be but more likely they were all leading the sides.