Cricket Trivia

[Twizzle]

Larry Gomes?

He black, had an affro

 

[ANTiLAG]

take it you mean bat? or captain? maybe the latter... batting - Sutcliffe, Donnelly, Dempster, Turner, Crowe, Jones, Reid x2 all easily better... others Richardson, Coney, Wright, Astle arguably better

the cricinfo best ever XI was
Turner, Dempster, Sutcliffe, Crowe, DOnnelly, Reid, Hadlee, Smith, Vetorri, Bond and Cowie

relatively slim pickings, but Smith and Vetorri aside, not much to argue about... one thing we have had is world-class all-rounders - that team has Reid, Hadlee and Vetorri... but Chris Cairns and Bruce Taylor were outstanding cricketers too

I would have McCullum batting seven over Smith and above Hadlee.

Think Reid been selected on prestige - I'd have Cairns for his bowling. Their batting records are near identical. Taylor was fairly lethal according to the poms.

Cowie, Bond, Hadlee with Cairns as the Donkey.

Reid x2 was kinda soft wasn't he? He kept retiring to avoid Windies and scored all his runs against a Pakistan with injured/no Imran and a shabby 80's Aussie outfit. Not sure he qualifies ahead of Flem so defintely JJ.

ANYWAY start a trivia question someone....

 

[Timbo]

I did. Scroll up.

 

[Matt23]

Geoff Greenidge?

 

[ANTiLAG]

Roy Marshall?

 

[Timbo]

Geoff Greenidge?

Got it.

Have a crack.

 

[Matt23]

Who faced the first ball in the first ever One Day International?

 

[ANTiLAG]

Boycott G

Who bowled it?

 

[hineyrulz]

Froggy Thomson???

 

[ANTiLAG]

Froggy Thomson???

Close - he was an opening bowler - got Boycs wicket in fact. But he did not send down the first 8 ball over

 

[yappy]

Close - he was an opening bowler - got Boycs wicket in fact. But he did not send down the first 8 ball over

McKenzie?

 

[Twizzle]

my we have some trivia buffs

4 pages in half a day

 

[Twizzle]

Geoff Dymock

 

[Matt23]

Yappy has it with McKenzie

 

[ANTiLAG]

He does...

 

[Matt23]

...or maybe he does'nt

 

[ANTiLAG]

I asked the question - so he does.

Its Yappy's question to ask now...

Someone should set up a trivia thread for origin next time that is on

 

[yappy]

Australia have been on the losing end of all three tests where the team following-on has won. Who is the only individual to be involved in two of these three matches?

 

[ANTiLAG]

Do we need a new question?

Who was the last white player to represent the West Indies before Brendan Nash?

Brendan Nash is not white...

http://www.espncricinfo.com/wiveng2009/content/story/389064.html




According to Michael Holding in that article Larry Gomes is as "white" as Nash is too...

 

[Twizzle]

If Gomes is white, so am I