The Really Tough Cricket Quiz - 1

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In conformity with our idea yesterday, I present to you the first edition of "The Really tough Cricket Quiz". cricket-blog's authors can host the weekly quiz on a rotation basis.

Re the quiz itself, someone with a bit of patience can find any answer on google or statsguru, so I've tried my best to frame the questions in a non-google friendly way. Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm privileged at hosting our first quiz and here goes the first salvo!

There are 5 questions in increasing order of difficulty.

1)Who was the man responsible for changing the destiny of the 2005 ashes by throwing that ill fated rugby ball which led to Glenn McGrath's injury?

2)Who remains the only cricketer to score double hundreds in both innings of a first class game?

3)Name the Englishman who has had the distinction of captaining his country in both football and cricket.

4)Who is the only cricketer ever to clear the lords pavillion with a six?

5)Who is the only batsman in history to outscore the entire opposition team in each innings of a test match? (This is probably the only really tough one)

Actually, In discordance with the name, here are 5 pretty easy questions but which are hard to google, I hope.

If the answer to any question still remains a mystery, I'll post them on Monday.

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Posted by Ajesh Nag on Sat 2 Feb

21 comments

Boy its tough please degrade the level of questions!

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Posted by Jatinder on 2008-02-02 21:31:58

I don't want to give away the answers to other readers so I am going to use rot13 :) So no spoilers!

1. Oenq Unqqva (bless him!)
2.
3. Qraavf Pbzcgba
4.
5. Znggurj Unlqra

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Posted by sportsnob on 2008-02-02 21:54:50

Jatinder, there's no point in giving easy questions whose answers can easily be located by google-ing or looking up at cricinfo's records and statsguru.

Besides I think these questions aren't really all that difficult.

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Posted by Ajesh Nag on 2008-02-02 22:01:46

3...is dennis compton...

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Posted by Preshant..... on 2008-02-02 22:18:57

1. Brad Haddin
5. Matthew Hayden

Don't know the rest.

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Posted by Leeisl on 2008-02-02 22:20:13

Leeisl, when did Matty Hayden do this? Could you please send me the scorecard of that game as I ain't aware of it..

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Posted by Ajesh Nag on 2008-02-02 22:21:37

And Preshant, Compton's football matches don't count because they were played during the wartime, so it's not him.

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Posted by Ajesh Nag on 2008-02-02 22:27:05

@Ajesh
I'm guessing that you had another answer in mind.
Anyway:
http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/statsguru/engine/match/64002.html

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Posted by Leeisl on 2008-02-02 23:40:33

Leeisl, my question was who did it in BOTH innings?

Hayden did it only in the first, but didn't bat in the second, so that doesn't count.

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Posted by Ajesh Nag on 2008-02-03 00:26:47

I think you thought one batsman outscoring the other teams score in both innings COMBINED, but my question was one batsman outscoring the other team in EACH innings.

I've modified the question a little bit so that it's easier to understand.

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Posted by Ajesh Nag on 2008-02-03 01:35:57

Should have phased the question clearer then. How was I supposed to know you want the batman in question to have a score in both the 1st and 2nd innings of his team to surpass their opposition's matching inning the way it's phased right now?

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Posted by Leeisl on 2008-02-03 01:42:32

Argh, type half a message, walk away for a bit, finish message and someone already replied in between.

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Posted by Leeisl on 2008-02-03 02:36:05

5. Justin Langer
(v Pakistan, Perth 2004/05)

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Posted by stumps on 2008-02-03 09:51:13

1. Brad Haddin
2. Arthur Fagg
3. RE Foster
4. Albert Trott (the current Lord's pavilion. The old one has fallen to others before him)
5. Justin Langer

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Posted by S on 2008-02-03 12:27:57

Congrats S, you've got all of 'em.

Maybe we can make it tougher next time..

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Posted by Ajesh Nag on 2008-02-03 16:07:43

ajesh langer did that against who???

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Posted by vishnu on 2008-02-03 17:23:56

Langer did it against Pakistan at Perth in 2004.

If I remember right, he scored 191 in the first innings and Pakistan collapsed to 179.

In the second innings he scored 97 (Marto 100*!)and Pakistan were pigeon'ed for 72 all out.

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Posted by Ajesh Nag on 2008-02-03 17:30:12

Vishnu, here you go...

http://ind.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2004-05/PAK_IN_AUS/SCORECARDS/PAK_AUS_T1_16-20DEC2004.html

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Posted by Ajesh Nag on 2008-02-03 17:39:47

ajesh incidentally haydos's score of 119 at sharjah(a truly remarkable innings rem they where saying it was way to hot out there) in the first innings outscored both of PAKISTAN's(again) score of 59 and 53.aus got 310 and pakistan replied meekly with 59 and 53(u put them together and it still doesnt add up to 119!!!!)

but if u look at it that way i rem a game rather vaguely where inzamam got that 329 and NZ could only achieve 70 odd in the first innings and 250 something in the second.

well inzy batted just once and his one innings outscored both the innings of the oppositions and in the case of matty hayden u add both scores it doesnt sum up his score.
now does this count or does the batsman HAVE to play TWO innings???

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Posted by vishnu on 2008-02-05 02:15:21

You got the answer yourself. My question was who did it in EACH innings, so he had to have played in both innings.

According to your conditions, 4 people have, in one inninngs outscored the opposition total in both innings combined.

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Posted by Ajesh Nag on 2008-02-08 20:52:13

these questions dont have answers how stupid !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by jay tubla on 2008-03-28 08:51:33

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