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Welcome to the WP:Cricket quiz. The quiz is a general knowledge quiz centred around the sport of cricket that any Wikipedian can enter. It is run as a friendly competition to test and improve your knowledge of one of the world's most popular games. Most importantly, it's supposed to be fun.

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Number of correct answers

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(after Q720)

85	Johnlp
82	Tintin
47	Stephen Turner
42	Travisbasevi
42	Jpeeling
39	ALoan
28	WillE
26	Roisterer
25	Moondyne
23	Deville
21	The-Pope
20	Sam Vimes
20	KingStrato
18	Bedders
17	Roberry

15	Dingbatdan
12	Dweller
10	Gurubrahma
10	Jguk
10	Paul
9	UdayS
9	Sam Korn
9	Raven42
6	Blnguyen
6	Mdcollins
6	SeaTurtlesMate
5	DaGizza
5	Wisden17
5	Rakuten06
5	Blowtorch

5	LiamE
4	JPD
4	Wattmaster
3	Rprpsych
3	Eusebius12
3	QazPlm
3	RobertG
3	Jazzycab
3	Jonesy
2	Nabhen
2	Kingfisherswift
2	Aussie King Pin
2	bujiarun
1	AMBerry

1	OrangeKnight
1	Nil Einne
1	Raven4x4x
1	BlackJack
1	BradK
1	Riddick
1	Cowboydan78
1	Elelmnelo
1	Karthik Sampath
1	Surodeep
1	Rachit
1	Kezzt
1	Gibbsyspin
1	KNM
1	Abeer.ag

8	Extras (No correct answer)

Questions

Q721

Sorry for the delay; my girlfriend, for whatever reason, believes that there are more important things to do than write quiz questions. I thought I would continue the Kenneth Burn theme from my last question. Besides being famous for that moment on the ship taking the Australian team to England when he wandered up to team management, cleared his throat, and said "there's probably something you should know about my wicket keeping experience", Burn also holds an Australian first-class record. What is it? --Roisterer (talk) 00:56, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He made the highest score for his team in both his first and last first-class innings. SeaTurtlesMate (talk) 03:03, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Damn, I thought he was the scorer of Tasmania's first First-class century, but then I spotted CJ Eady, so desperately looking for a reward for my efforts I'll say he was the first Tasmanian captain to score a century. Pffft. --Travis Basevi (talk) 06:37, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's neither. I would think that someone else has surely gotten the highest score for his team in their first and last innings, while he may have been the first Tasmanian cpatian to score a century, it's not what I am after. What I am after is century related though. --Roisterer (talk) 23:55, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He was 45 when he hit his only other century in 1908 - is that an Australian first-class record for the eldest century scorer? --Travis Basevi (talk) 11:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I thnk that's close enough: Burn remains the oldest Australian to score a first-class century in Australia. --Roisterer (talk) 11:59, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Q722

What's the record here? Riaz Afridi 66, Matthew Hoggard 65, Jimmy Anderson 64, Sanath Jayasuriya 64, James Kirtley 63. --Travis Basevi (talk) 13:49, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I enjoyed it a great deal when the Pakistanis hit Jayasuriya for 64 in the 20/20 World Cup. A check of Afridi's career reveals a 4-0-66-1. Guess that should be sufficient. Tintin 15:21, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, most runs conceded in a Twenty20 match. --Travis Basevi (talk) 22:57, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Q723

Who was, for two decades, the only person to score a hundred on debut for India in women's Test matches ? Tintin 07:05, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Highest score on Debut for india in woman's test is Chanderkanta Kaul's 75 or is any Trick involve in this Q. . .? Bharath Bharath628 (talk) 07:42, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I assume it's because a match (or matches) was either added to the current set of Tests or removed from it, or perhaps there was a case of mistaken identity. I do note that Sandhya Agarwal got a hundred in her second match in 83/84 but I doubt there was any problems with the scoring in that series, and less likely it took 20 years to correct the error. The main series I know of with poor scoring was WI v Ind in 76/77 (the 6th Test is still incomplete) but I can't seem to make a connection there. Consider me curious! --Travis Basevi (talk) 08:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Travis is on the right track. Tintin 10:44, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aha! If you take away that entire West Indies series (and I think nothing other than the team scores and results were known for some time) then Shanta Rangaswamy would have been considered to have made a ton on debut [1] --Travis Basevi (talk) 13:18, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Right. The WI matches were given Test status only c.2000 and Ms Rangaswamy had a century on debut till then. Tintin 14:05, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Q724

84 players have had this honour which has occurred a total of 114 times, most recently by Zaheer Khan, Daren Powell, Mohammad Sami, Chaminda Vaas, Steve Harmison, Matthew Hoggard, Pedro Collins. What is it? --Travis Basevi (talk) 16:09, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And to remove an avenue for confusion I better say the first player was Ted Peate. --Travis Basevi (talk) 16:20, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All petulantly announced premature retirement from ODIs? Coat! WillE (talk) 20:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A coat on a day like today? The most anyone has done this is a somewhat surprisingly small 4 times by both Fred Trueman and Alec Bedser. --Travis Basevi (talk) 10:38, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wicket in the first over of a Test match ? Tintin 10:49, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To nip in on that theme, is it a wicket with their first ball of a series? Obviously with Harmison in the list I assume that I'm wrong. KingStrato (talk) 17:14, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"First ball of a series" is coincidentally related in recent times and why I listed Peate as the very first player to remove the confusion. It's not an obscure micro-stat - you can find the total (and list) of 114 from using Statsguru. --Travis Basevi (talk) 18:43, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strangely, no Australians in the list...or is that just a coincidence? SeaTurtlesMate (talk) 19:03, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A matter of going back far enough. McGrath has done it twice. Lillee has done it 3 times. --Travis Basevi (talk) 19:11, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

3 in 4 balls? WillE (talk) 19:31, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, it's an achievement you can easily see from a basic scorecard. --Travis Basevi (talk) 19:49, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First ball in a Lord's test match SeaTurtlesMate (talk) 20:16, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spot on, and my panic over the ambiguity was that Lord's has hosted every first Test of a series in England for the last several years. Over to Watching Turtle's Friend. --Travis Basevi (talk) 20:40, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Q725

What does this sequence of 10 numbers refer to - 0,1,0,5,2,3,12,7,28,53? SeaTurtlesMate (talk) 19:17, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

3-0 (Richie Benaud) 4-5 Pervez Sajjad(?) 5-2 (The Black Prince) 6-3 (JJ Lawson) 7-12 (Harmy), 8-7 (Geo Lohmann) 9-28 (Geo L again) and 10-53 (Jim Laker). Best analysis per wickets taken. Surpised no-ones ever taken 2-0! WillE (talk) 22:41, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, you cracked it without needing a clue. Of course, for wickets 1 and 2, there are many contenders - that's why I guess you left them out in your answer. Over to you, WillE. SeaTurtlesMate (talk) 00:05, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ken Higgs's 4-5 is better than Pervez Sajjad because higgs bowled less overs, Frank Woolley,Collie Smith,Wasim Raja,Ramnaresh Sarwan and Daniel Vettori have had 2-0 in their life once.Bharath628 (talk) 07:18, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Woolley and co had 2 for 1. See http://stats.cricinfo.com/statsguru/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;concededmax1=2;concededval1=conceded;filter=advanced;orderby=wickets;template=results;type=bowling;view=innings;wicketsmax1=2;wicketsmin1=2;wicketsval1=wickets Tintin 07:36, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ooops did i wrote 2-0 instead of 2-1 . .? errrr thats a silly mistake ofcourse its 2-1, 2-0 had never happened in test cricket, though Andy Bichel did it in a ODI

Silly me :-((( Bharath628 (talk) 12:37, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could it not be argued that Sajjad's figures are better due to his lower economy rate? A bit like the strange (ish) situation to my mind that in some one-day matches that in the case of a tie the winner is the team losing the fewer wickets (as the other side played more forcefully, more players to "play themselves in etc") - more evidence for the bat being mightier than the ball? 86.130.133.64 (talk)

Q726

How did AB de Villiers recently emulate Rohan Kanhai? WillE (talk) 17:30, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Feels like a longshot, but I have checked, and they are the only two players with their highest scores in Test cricket being double-centuries in innings wins against India in India. --Travis Basevi (talk) 18:43, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

True, (he says, as if he had any idea that that was the case...) but not the kind of champagne moment I'm looking for. WillE (talk) 20:15, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]