Trivia time!

[ioppolo]

One of the countries you mentioned is correct, but it happened only a fortnight ago!

I cheated and googled it but like anyone else will get it.
Belgium were 8/14 against Austria. Low and behold, their 9th wicket stand is 132*, number eight makes 100* (47) and number ten 26* (39). They win on DL method.

Naturally, the team is made up entirely of sub continental expats or immigrants.

 

[footyfan1978]

The question had been specific to test cricket, so was surprised he was mentioned. The positive is that there is international cricket team of any sorts in the Philippines.

Yeah, I just got the stats from a cricket site and thought it was Test players listed but turns out it just must have been international cricketers which turns out other formats of cricketer too.

 

[deanc]

I thought that maybe he had a penchant for just letting the ball go through to the keeper, and thus the nickname.

That would be Chris Tavare, who I believe still holds the record for the least amount of runs scored during a (88 over) day of test cricket - this may or not have been during a test in India in the early 80's, where he scored 30 odd runs but was at the crease for nearly 7 hours..!!!

 

[Marklar_33]

I cheated and googled it but like anyone else will get it.
Belgium were 8/14 against Austria. Low and behold, their 9th wicket stand is 132*, number eight makes 100* (47) and number ten 26* (39). They win on DL method.

Naturally, the team is made up entirely of sub continental expats or immigrants.

Yeah I wasn’t expecting anyone to legitimately get it!
And also, all nations bar England were formed by expats

 

[big_e]

This many:

Smith, A C	25/10/1936	England	6​	​	​
Smith, A M	01/10/1967	England	1​	​	​
Smith, C A	21/07/1863	England	1​	​	​
Smith, C I J	25/08/1906	England	5​	​	​
Smith, C J	15/01/1971	Bermuda	​	12​	​
Smith, C J E	25/12/1872	South Africa	3​	​	​
Smith , C J O	27/09/1972	Scotland	​	27​	8​
Smith, C L	15/10/1958	England	8​	4​	​
Smith, C W	29/07/1933	West Indies	5​	​	​
Smith, D	24/01/1907	England	2​	​	​
Smith, D B M	14/09/1884	Australia	2​	​	​
Smith, D C	16/03/1992	Philippines	​	​	4​
Smith, D M	09/01/1956	England	2​	2​	​
Smith, D R	05/10/1934	England	5​	​	​
Smith, D R	12/04/1983	West Indies	10​	105​	33​
Smith, D S	21/10/1981	West Indies	43​	47​	6​
Smith, D V	14/06/1923	England	3​	​	​
Smith, E J	06/02/1886	England	11​	​	​
Smith, E T	19/07/1977	England	3​	​	​
Smith, F B	13/03/1922	New Zealand	4​	​	​
Smith, F W	31/03/1861	South Africa	3​	​	​
Smith, G C	01/02/1981	South Africa	117​	197​	33​
Smith, H	21/05/1890	England	1​	​	​
Smith, H D	08/01/1913	New Zealand	1​	​	​
Smith, I D S	28/02/1957	New Zealand	63​	98​	​
Smith, M	31/08/1991	Bermuda	​	1​	​
Smith, M J	04/01/1942	England	​	5​	​
Smith, M J	30/03/1966	Scotland	​	5​	​
Smith, M J K	30/06/1933	England	50​	​	​
Smith, N M K	27/07/1967	England	​	7​	​
Smith, O F	01/11/1996	West Indies	​	​	2​
Smith, O G	05/05/1933	West Indies	26​	​	​
Smith, R A	13/09/1963	England	62​	71​	​
Smith, R A J	05/08/1994	Scotland	​	2​	2​
Smith, S	27/09/1991	Bermuda	​	​	5​
Smith, S B	18/10/1961	Australia	3​	28​	​
Smith, S J S	08/12/1979	Scotland	​	​	5​
Smith, S P D	02/06/1989	Australia	77​	128​	45​
Smith, T P B	30/10/1908	England	4​	​	​
Smith, V I	23/02/1925	South Africa	9​	​	​

Plenty of Smiths but only one is the OG Smith

 

[STFU Donnie]

I thought that maybe he had a penchant for just letting the ball go through to the keeper, and thus the nickname.

That is also my understanding.

 

[footyfan1978]

Plenty of Smiths but only one is the OG Smith

 

[STFU Donnie]

That would be Chris Tavare, who I believe still holds the record for the least amount of runs scored during a (88 over) day of test cricket - this may or not have been during a test in India in the early 80's, where he scored 30 odd runs but was at the crease for nearly 7 hours..!!!

He scored 66 in a full day at the WACA in 1982/83. England finished the day at 242/4, which isn't too bad. He opened the innings and scored 89 of 337 balls.
This was his lowest all day score.

Other notable slow innings:
82 off 277 vs Pak., Lord's 1982
78 off 289 vs Aus., Old Trafford 1981
42 off 202 vs WI, Lord's 1980
22 off 143 vs Ind., Bangalore 1981/82
35 off 240 vs Ind., Chennai 1981/82

That last one is the innings you referred to, which because of hideously slow overrates lasted 332 minutes. In fact that test lasted the full five days and saw only 358 overs bowled.

At stumps on Day 3, England were 0/144 with Gooch on 117* and your man Tavare on 26*.

 

[worbod]

During the 1970s when was the first time Lillee and Thomson played together for Australia in a cricket match overseas?

 

[RohitSharma]

This cricketer once had a parking lot brawl with an old man who later died of his punch, tick tock?

 

[STFU Donnie]

During the 1970s when was the first time Lillee and Thomson played together for Australia in a cricket match overseas?

First class? Was it one of those condescending tours to New Zealand? Before Australia deigned to play them at Test level?

 

[worbod]

First class? Was it one of those condescending tours to New Zealand? Before Australia deigned to play them at Test level?

Correct. I was wondering whether I would trick anyone into thinking about Jeff Thomson instead of Alan "Froggy" Thomson. And then I was wondering whether people would recall the 1975 tour of Canada which came before the 1975 tour of England. But yes, Dennis Lillee and Alan Thomson bowled together for Australia against New Zealand Under 23 in a first class game during March 1970.

 

[cricketnut14]

He scored 66 in a full day at the WACA in 1982/83. England finished the day at 242/4, which isn't too bad. He opened the innings and scored 89 of 337 balls.
This was his lowest all day score.

Other notable slow innings:
82 off 277 vs Pak., Lord's 1982
78 off 289 vs Aus., Old Trafford 1981
42 off 202 vs WI, Lord's 1980
22 off 143 vs Ind., Bangalore 1981/82
35 off 240 vs Ind., Chennai 1981/82

That last one is the innings you referred to, which because of hideously slow overrates lasted 332 minutes. In fact that test lasted the full five days and saw only 358 overs bowled.

At stumps on Day 3, England were 0/144 with Gooch on 117* and your man Tavare on 26*.

try odi #19

gavaskar 36* (174) he batted the full 60 overs and thought coz they weren't bowled out , that it was a DRAW.
surely at some point during the innings, he would have been told by SOMEONE - this was also india's 3rd ever odi.

 

[BGman]

Naturally, the team is made up entirely of sub continental expats or immigrants.

The case with most European nations. Until these countries start luring home grown cricketers to their national side I wont take European cricket seriously.

Trivia: In which English county and when was a white ball first used during the day?

 

[worbod]

This cricketer once had a parking lot brawl with an old man who later died of his punch, tick tock?

You might have to give us a clue about this. Was the old man a well-known identity?

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Who am I.

I umpired my first Test at the age of 22.

2 years later I played my one and only Test match.

In the last game of that series I umpired my second Test Match.

I remain the youngest ever Test Umpire.

I played for Carlton and won one Premiership. I was widely considered to be the best player in Victoria.

I stopped playing football after being suspended for a season where I was reported for fighting and swearing. The Chairman of the tribunal expressed the opinion that "bad language is far worse than blows."

One year later I was to die from Tuberculosis at the age of 27.

I was later made a member of both the Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame and the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Spoiler: Click here to find out

[George Coulthard]

 

[deanc]

Who am I.

I umpired my first Test at the age of 22.

2 years later I played my one and only Test match.

In the last game of that series I umpired my second Test Match.

I remain the youngest ever Test Umpire.

I played for Carlton and won one Premiership. I was widely considered to be the best player in Victoria.

I stopped playing football after being suspended for a season where I was reported for fighting and swearing. The Chairman of the tribunal expressed the opinion that "bad language is far worse than blows."

One year later I was to die from Tuberculosis at the age of 27.

I only know who this is because his wife, Letitia Jackson, is one of my friends great grandmother.

As an umpire, GC is perhaps best known in cricket for instigating the sports first international riot when, in 1879 in Sydney he controversially gave NSW batsman Billy Murdoch out against Lord Harris English XI. GC was co-officiating the match with Edmund Barton, later to become the first Prime Minister of Australia.

GC is also known as Australian football's first "man in white", for in 1880 he umpired a match in what would become the traditional all-white uniform.

 

[010203]

Who Am I?

I'm a former English cricketer who was actually born in England.

I played my domestic cricket for Essex and Western Province.

I played more than 100 tests and more than 100 One Day Internationals.

My first test was against Australia, so was my last.

I can lay claim to having faced Dennis Lillee and Shane Warne.

I got a pair in my first test but scored my first ever test runs at Lord's in the following test.

I have a test triple century and hold the record for most runs scored in a test (456).

I have the dubious honour of playing in 3 losing 50 World Cup Finals.

 

[eth-dog]

Who Am I?

I'm a former English cricketer who was actually born in England.

I played my domestic cricket for Essex and Western Province.

I played more than 100 tests and more than 100 One Day Internationals.

My first test was against Australia, so was my last.

I can lay claim to having faced Dennis Lillee and Shane Warne.

I got a pair in my first test but scored my first ever test runs at Lord's in the following test.

I have a test triple century and hold the record for most runs scored in a test (456).

I have the dubious honour of playing in 3 losing 50 World Cup Finals.

Gooch?

 

[010203]

Gooch?

Yes. What gave it away?

 

[eth-dog]

Yes. What gave it away?

The runs.

 

[Zach Package]

Yes. What gave it away?

Most runs in a test. Think Gooch is the only man to make a triple and a single in the same test?

 

[Plugger35]

The pair in his first test was also a give away, I can't think of any other test batsman who got a pair on debut, certainly no one with that sort of record.

 

[deanc]

The pair in his first test was also a give away, I can't think of any other test batsman who got a pair on debut, certainly no one with that sort of record.

That and the fact he's an England Test player born in England also helps.
Gooch once made one the funniest comments post match I've ever heard. After a Perth Ashes test he was asked about Phil Tufnell's infamous poor fielding. Gooch quipped: "You know Tuffers is the only cricketer I've ever played with at any level, who finds it a burden to actually watch the game..!"

 

[Wallaby]

I think about 40 players have made a pair on Test Debut (mostly bowlers), the most famous being WG Grace's brother George. Other Batsmen include Marvin Attaputtu, Saeed Anwar and Dean Elgar. Think the first aussie to do it was Mike Whitney. Not sure of anyone else.

Sangakarra also got a triple and a century in one game.