New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'

[Jarquis]

Their autobiographies were all entitled Time to Declare or some very close variant of.

Yeah when we established it was about books I did a search.
Vaughan's is titled "Time to Declare" but the only result I got for D'Oliveira was "Cricket and Conspiracy".

Edit : Probably something to do with me not being very good at searching

 

[The Sean]

Spot on - your turn Sean

Ha ha I feel like I put away a tap-in there...

I don't have one right now, will come up with something. If someone has one they'd like to ask in the meantime though please feel free.

 

[The Sean]

Yeah when we established it was about books I did a search.
Vaughan's is titled "Time to Declare" but the only result I got for D'Oliveira was "Cricket and Conspiracy".

Edit : Probably something to do with me not being very good at searching

I actually didn't know what Dolly's autobiography was called - but I knew that Taylor and Vaughan both had that in their titles so I took a shot that D'Oliveira did too.

 

[fredfertang]

Ha ha I feel like I put away a tap-in there...

CW's own Van Nistelrooy - they all count ....

but much credit to Marcus for creating the opening

 

[stumpski]

Yeah when we established it was about books I did a search.
Vaughan's is titled "Time to Declare" but the only result I got for D'Oliveira was "Cricket and Conspiracy".

Edit : Probably something to do with me not being very good at searching

I think Dolly wrote two autobiographies in fact - one during his playing days and Time to Declare which, as you might expect, appeared shortly after his retirement. Cricket and Conspiracy was of course the acclaimed effort by Peter Oborne. Incidentally there seems to be some confusion as to whether he now suffers from Alzheimer's or Parkinson's Disease - I thought it was the latter but his Wiki entry suggests otherwise.

 

[zaremba]

Jeesh, I didn't know that. Very very cruel whichever of the two it is.

 

[SJS]

Okay I will give it a try.

In (X-city), I stayed with a cousin of (Y). On the first morning we parted on the doorstep, I to play cricket, he to settle a tribal war.​

You have to guess,

1. who said this?
2. which is the X-city?
3. who is Y?

At the end of ten questions if none of the three is out, I will disclose one as the first hint and at the end of 15 (if we reach that far) the second as the second hint.

 

[zaremba]

Did any of those involved play for Sussex?

 

[fredfertang]

Is X in Africa?

 

[Hurricane]

was Y a political figure?

 

[Sir Alex]

Okay I will give it a try.

In (X-city), I stayed with a cousin of (Y). On the first morning we parted on the doorstep, I to play cricket, he to settle a tribal war.​

You have to guess,

1. who said this?
2. which is the X-city?
3. who is Y?

At the end of ten questions if none of the three is out, I will disclose one as the first hint and at the end of 15 (if we reach that far) the second as the second hint.

Is the city in India?

 

[SJS]

First of all my apologies. I am not keeping well so you dont see me here. I was feeling much better the day I posted this and then relapsed again. I am better now though not in perfect shape.

Anyway, here are the answers

1. Did any of those involved play for Sussex?. . . NO

2. Is X in Africa?. . . NO

3. was Y a political figure?. . . NO

4. Is the city in India?. . . YES​

 

[fredfertang]

Sorry to hear about your travails SJS - I am sure I speak for everyone when I express the hope that you're back to full fitness very soon

Did this occur prior to the Great War?

 

[SJS]

Sorry to hear about your travails SJS - I am sure I speak for everyone when I express the hope that you're back to full fitness very soon

Did this occur prior to the Great War?

Thanks Fred

5. Did this occur prior to the Great War? . . . NO

 

[zaremba]

Was Y a cricketer?

 

[fredfertang]

Are you Indian?

 

[SJS]

5. Was Y a cricketer?. . . Yes

 

[SJS]

6. Are you Indian?. . . No

 

[zaremba]

Are you English?
Is Y Indian?

 

[SJS]

7. Are you English?. . . Yes
8. Is Y Indian? . . . No