Almanac Cricket: Citrus Bob’s Doosra Bumper Cricket Quiz
CITRUS BOB’S DOOSRA BUMPER CRICKET QUIZ
If you get all questions correct I will donate my book on football as the prize. No correspondence will be entered into.
As I always said to my students read the questions closely!
1. In what year did “S” become part of “DL”?
2. I was/am known as “Whispering Death”?
3. Ditto “White Lightning”?
4. I did not appear in “The Crown” TV series?*
5.What is famous about Pocos de Caldas?
6. How many cricketers have full-time contracts in Thailand?
7. In 1912 and 1926 we defeated MCC touring sides?
8. In 1995 on their tour of South Africa Stephen Fleming (NZ) confessed?
9. What is Malcolm Nash famous for?
10. Who was the last wicketkeeper to have 11 dismissals in a Test match?
11. Re 4 (above) I should have captained Australia?*
12. Who was the first Tasmanian-born batsman to score a century for Tasmania in the Sheffield Shield?
13. Who was the first cricketer (1978) to receive the membership of the Order of Australia?
14. Who succeeded Geoff Boycott as captain of Australian side Waverley in 1977-78?
*(4) and (11) will separate the real aficionados from the rest.
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About Bob Utber
At 84 years of age Citrus Bob is doing what he has always done since growing up on a small farm at Lang Lang. Talking, watching and writing sport and in recent years writing books. He lives in Mildura with his very considerate wife (Jenny) and a groodle named 'Chloe on Flinders' and can be found at Deakin 27 every day.
This is a tough one CB! Are we allowed to use Google?
Bob’s confirmed that I nailed 4 and 11.
Wow Malcolm Nash, now there’s a blast from the past.
Handy bowler in his FC career, though that’s certainly not the answer required.
Glen!
BOMBER If you feel guilty use Google by all means. Mihght not help also.
SWISH well played sir, well played. Let them stew.
GLEN wHere are your answers my friend? Saying Nash was ok does not get the biscuits
2. Michael Holding
3. Allan Donald
4&11. Keith Miller – Princess Margaret had a thing for fighter pilots.
9. Malcolm Nash was a left arm orthox spinner for Glamorgan in county cricket. First bowler to be hit for 6 every ball of an over in first class cricket – by Gary Sobers when he was playing for Notts.
PB – I had a feeling you would come out of the cupboard with 4 & 11! Well done!
Michael Holding “Whispering Death” – so light on his feet the umpires did not know when he was reaching them to deliver his fearful balls.
Allan Donald – “White Lightning” one probably can’t say that today. I went to Sydney to see him bowl his first ball in Australia to Geoff Marsh. Marsh definitely nicked it but it was too quick for the umpire to decide! he was unbelievably quick on his day.
Know doubt some smartie out there will wait for a host of people to come up with odd answers and then put them all together to win the prize. Word of warning – you could be waiting a while.
MANY THANKS AS USUAL PB
MALCOLM NASH – was a pretty good seamer for Glamorgan in his day and played in their first county championship team. Apparently, he decided on the fateful day that he would bowl “offies” to G.StA. Sobers but lost the plot. Nash also took 993 wickets in County cricket and scored over seven thousand runs so he was no slouch.
PB – I thought 4 & 11 were right up your alley – well done.
What about the rest of the answers though to win the prize?
Whispering Death – Michael Holding. Apparently, he was so light on his feet the umpires did not know he was coming.
White Lightning – Allan Donald – flew to Sydney to see him bowl his first ball in Australia. Geoff Marsh definitely snicked it but it went so quickly to Boucher (I think) the umpire gave him not out.
Sorry Bob, as I certainly knew the answer there, but not with many of the others, rather than a spoiler alert I thought I’d allude to it.
Re 7 I’m looking at the US of A: maybe: or would it have been a Maharaja’s team? I wonder.
With 12 I’ll say Ricky Ponting. I thought it may have been Charlie Badcock, but I’ll go with the ‘Punter’.
Glen!
GLEN
With 7 you are heading in the right direction.
12 – Wrong answer but 2 fine batsmen (whoops done it again!) batters. Ponting a great and Badcock after a good start in Tests fell by the wayside.
In the words of Scotty Palmer “keep on punchin’
Thanks again for having another go!
12. Fine wicketkeeper-batsman Roger Woolley who later played 2 Tests for Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Woolley Englishman John Hampshire made a century for Tasmania earlier in the season.
13. Bobby Simpson – he made 225 opening for Australia in a 244 run opening partnership with Bill Lawry in the first Test match I ever saw live (January 1966 against MJK Smith’s English team). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simpson_(cricketer)
1. 2014 – When Duckworth Lewis retired & Professor Steven Stern became custodian of the method for calculating winners in shortened limited overs matches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duckworth–Lewis–Stern_method
14. Tony Greig ??
Waverley (now Eastern Suburbs CC) has a great history of imported star players – most notably Tony Greig – no doubt due to wealthy business benefactors like Kerry Packer. https://stumptostump.com/eastscricketclub-o__ZTVJ/tonygreigtributeeasternsuburbscricketclub-s__fuUi But Tony would have been busy with World Series Cricket after 1978. Malcolm Marshall, Peter Roebuck, Ian Greig (Tony’s brother) and Chetan Chauhan all played for them in that period, but looking at their club records my guess is that Kepler Wessels is the answer to your question.
Outstanding Citrus.
Reckon I might not have got the numbers for a pass!
DIPS – Come on Dips. You are a true Pivotonian and we never give up!
SMOKIE – “Get the Lion on the Line” Only 13 to go.
PB has used his substitute runner again and come up with the answers except it IS the SA guy TG.
Still a few loaded bases aficionados – COME ON!
Hope I don’t have to ring my mate Guru Brydon Coverdale for the answers
Ian Greig was my cricket coach at UQCC. A delightful chap who went on to have a career at Churchie, and not just as a cricket coach.
The Greig family story is worth a read.
JTH what was your cricket like in those days? Many people older than me often quoted you as being “Felix at the Bat” Tell us more without being boastful.
I have heard that about the Greig family. I must get that book.
Cheers CB
Your quizzes are too hard for me.
As a cricketer, I enjoyed a lot of post-match beers and rums. I was a down-the-grades Brisbane Grade cricketer – thirds and fourths. Skippered the thirds one year. Gave cricket away early (27) after back issues. Made a comeback which gets a run in Confessions from memory. Regrets around retiring early. Played golf.
One of my most enjoyable summers was playing for the Eudunda-Robertstown CC with the Moseys of Robertstown and the good German Lutherans of Eudunda. With one of my brothers. Worked in the silos for the harvest and played cricket and drank beer. Peter Argent knows all those excellent Barossa cricketers. He claims I was dour. I say I was technically sound.
Played the occasional game after that. For Benson St among others, including The Eccentrics in Melbourne (which was enjoyable). More on those another day.
I’ll check out the Felix the Bat reference.
I clung to the silly belief – even if it were good enough for Bradman and G.S. Chappell – that a batsman should keep the ball along the ground at all times, Played straight. Should have been carving the cut shot over gully and pulling over forward square.
Bowled offies.
Won one premiership in 16 seasons.
Played in an epic losing Grand Final.
I think cricket is a magnificent game.
JTH – Many thanks for that. Sounds like a good book there “Dour batters I Have Known”
For me, it was 2 premierships in (one as captain) in forty years of playing.!
it is indeed a magnificent game.
CB- I’m unsure as to why but the best quiz topic is cricket. This one is a beauty.
I reckon the number of Thai cricketers with contracts is either zero or lots!
My favourite ever cricket quiz question, and I trot this out regularly at a BBQ or in the pub is, Who is the only Australian Test cricketer to have played in the 70s, 80s and 90s, apart from AB?
JTH- I reckon a Mosey XI would be as good a one-family only eleven as any in country cricket.
Mickey – that would be Peter Sleep !!
Well done, Smokie. I love that question.
Sorry, Citrus. As you were!
Well done Citrus Bob. Brilliant quiz. Lots of curly leaf questions and no downy mildew.
Took a while but I believe I have found the answer to #7.
Barbados
1912-13 Barbados vs MCC Bridgetown 30 Jan – 1 Feb 1913
Barbados 6/520 d MCC 306 and 185
Interesting names in the MCC team – Punter Humphreys and Razor Smith. Razor, a leg spinner from Somerset, was so-named because he was very slim.
Two of the MCC batsmen were named Arthur Somerset, probably father (aged 52) and son. They scored 1 and 7 in the first innings but put together a partnership of 67 for the eighth wicket in the second. None of the team had played in the England Test team in the Triangular tournament (England/Australia/South Africa) during the previous English summer.
For Barbados, George Challenor made 118 and took 4/70 and 1/55.
1926
Barbados vs MCC Bridgetown 4-6 Jan 1926
Barbados 7/289 d MCC 151 and 65
The MCC team included Wally Hammond. Eight other members of the team played Test cricket. Four of the Barbados team had played in the 1912/13 match. Fast bowlers George Francis (3/35 and 6/21) and Hermione Griffith (5/54 and 4/42) were the destroyers in the 1926 match. While not as feared as his namesake and fellow Barbadian Charlie, Hermione Griffith took 44 Test wickets bowling “brisk medium-fast out-swingers and cleverly changing his pace”. He was “powerful, exuding a sturdy confidence”. In 1930/31 he dismissed Bradman for 4 (First Test) and then bowled him for 0 (Fifth Test). In his intervening innings Bradman managed 447 runs but this was his first Test duck. Hermione dined out on the fact that Bradman was his “rabbit”.
Ref
https://www.windiescricket.com/matches/181370/#scorecard
https://www.windiescricket.com/matches/152145/#scorecard
The Complete Who’s Who of Test Cricketers by Christopher Martin-Jenkins
MICKEY R – Will forgive you this time! Perhaps it is time for a sports quiz from yourself or one on “A Tale Of An Ale”?
PETER C – Well done with the Barbados answer. Thought that would have been a difficult one but with your nose to the grindstone you did it! George Challenor was probably the original “great “West Indian batsman. He hit 2 centuries against the Poms. In two successive club finals, he made 261,204 and 133. In all first-class cricket, he hit 15 centuries.
Wish someone would have a go at answering all questions PC
Thanks, Peter indeed.
Thanks Citrus Bob
I have enjoyed digging to find out more about George Challenor and WI cricket of his era.
1. Interesting discussion on the Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method on ABC Grandstand radio last Saturday.
5. Pocos de Caldas. Your wondrous quiz has also provided me with a tutorial on cricket in Brazil and the efforts of Matt Featherstone.
Found reference to “another form of the sport – a two-a-side game called Taco, which pits a bowler and wicketkeeper against two batsmen and includes stumpings and run-outs – is popular among children in the favelas, in theory providing something of a launching pad”
I wonder that, in Taco, the children of Brazil foresee the future of T20? Also, is the afternoon interval in club matches known as Coffee rather then Tea?
PETER C – Thanks Peter, at my age I want to see the aficionados out there keeping their minds active, particularly those of my age.
That certainly was a great question about cricket in Brazil and I am glad you have explored it and found a bit about Taco! The mind boggles as to what cricket will be like in the Americas in the next 20 years,
Thanks for your support and I look forward to having another quiz up and running before the first test.
By the way, answers will be up on Saturday, particularly for Victorian readers who will have nothing to do that day except to hear explanations of what went wrong in the elections!