cricket trivia

[Ken Gargett]

thought i'd toss in a query for the cricket fans -

What did Shiv Chanderpaul, Denis Compton, Garry Sobers, Imran Khan, Mohammad Yousuf and Brian Lara all have in common?

a clue? i could add another good player to this list.

[JohnS]

I could only think, off the top of my head, that it took these players awhile to score their first century, but when they did it was significant (for some). Maybe not so for Denis Compton, but Bobby Simpson also took awhile to breakthrough with 311 at Manchester in 1964.

[Bill Hayes]

Just having a stab but all perhaps started as all rounders. The other player being - Steve Smith? Or maybe swapped key disciplines?

[Ken Gargett]

I could only think, off the top of my head, that it took these players awhile to score their first century, but when they did it was significant (for some). Maybe not so for Denis Compton, but Bobby Simpson also took awhile to breakthrough with 311 at Manchester in 1964.

simpson did take ages. but he is not one of these players and not so.

[Ken Gargett]

Just having a stab but all perhaps started as all rounders. The other player being - Steve Smith? Or maybe swapped key disciplines?

bill, no, but interesting guess.

i should say that it is not some weird unguessable thing at all.

and a further clue, the other good player was bradman. and i make no claims that this is the exclusive list of players who achieved this but some of the notable ones.

[dicko]

triple centurions?? although that full list would be a fair bit longer...

[dicko]

I could only think, off the top of my head, that it took these players awhile to score their first century, but when they did it was significant (for some). Maybe not so for Denis Compton, but Bobby Simpson also took awhile to breakthrough with 311 at Manchester in 1964.

Steve Waugh would be in that list too. 19 odd tests something like that? imagine that these days you get a couple of games, maybe a series, and you are out if you don't score big

[Ken Gargett]

triple centurions?? although that full list would be a fair bit longer...

dicko, i am not suggesting that the list is exclusive - just that all of those named have something in common (and there could be others). not triple centurions. nice guess - i could be wrong but i have khan with a top score of may be 140 ish?

another clue - brendon mccullum failed to join this list.

[Miner]

A duck in their final test ?

[bummy]

All made a Duck in there last test innings , Don Bradman the other one Ken!

[Ken Gargett]

Steve Waugh would be in that list too. 19 odd tests something like that? imagine that these days you get a couple of games, maybe a series, and you are out if you don't score big

that is for sure. sadly.

but i vaguely remember (from reading about it - i am not that old) that denis compton scored a ton against the aussies when he was about 19?

it really isn't a difficult question, as i am certain you'll all agree.

shall we say that it relates, in part, to something where glenn mcgrath just marginally exceeded warnie who just marginally exceeded murali.

[Ken Gargett]

A duck in their final test ?

we have a winner!

[Ken Gargett]

as i mentioned, this is not an exclusive list. i'm sure that there are many more.

[Miner]

we have a winner!

Whoo Hoo

You can send the case of wine to..........

[Ken Gargett]

Whoo Hoo

You can send the case of wine to..........

.... the truly optimistic.

[bummy]

Rob Quiney has the the honour of getting a pair in his last test! ( Can't see him playing any more test),poor bugger!

[bummy]

Here's one for you Ken & boys , last aussie cricketer to get a duck in their first & last test !

[Ken Gargett]

All made a Duck in there last test innings , Don Bradman the other one Ken!

one thing - it was last test. not sure if it was also last innings. may not have been.

[Ken Gargett]

Here's one for you Ken & boys , last aussie cricketer to get a duck in their first & last test !

i'm thinking mcgrath?

[JohnS]

Here's one for you Ken & boys , last aussie cricketer to get a duck in their first & last test !

Andrew Symonds?

[bummy]

Hint , he's a Queenslander!

[bummy]

Lol nice work John , bingo!

[Ken Gargett]

mind you, i suppose anyone playing only the one innings for a duck would also qualify.

i see the west indian who played just one test and averaged 112 from his one innings v the poms died at 95 this week.

as for symmo, not a genius but might be the best fieldsman i've ever seen (maybe mark waugh). and could bat on occasion. went up to toowoomba many years ago with the family to watch qld v poms on a tour game. he scored a brilliant century (might have been his first for qld). flogged them. was so far ahead of the pack that day. sadly, not consistent.

best innings for australia had to be the one day world cup knock in south africa on the day warnie sent home for drugs. against pakistan or the safricans. can't recall.

[JohnS]

If I recall, Ponting insisted that Symonds be included in the World Cup squad in 2003, as Symonds was down to his last chance. Prior to that match-winning innings against Pakistan when Australia were 4 for not-many, Symonds had done nothing in one-day cricket, the thought he could hit 140-odd at No.6 in those circumstances gave him the confidence to eventually become a great player in that format.

[Ken Gargett]

If I recall, Ponting insisted that Symonds be included in the World Cup squad in 2003, as Symonds was down to his last chance. Prior to that match-winning innings against Pakistan when Australia were 4 for not-many, Symonds had done nothing in one-day cricket, the thought he could hit 140-odd at No.6 in those circumstances gave him the confidence to eventually become a great player in that format.

spot on, john.