Quiz answers

Whoops! We’ve been a little tardy in providing the answers to our most recent quiz. So here they are. Thanks to everyone who entered.

1. Who was the leading wicket-taker for England in the 2000s?

Matthew Hoggard (248)

2. Who is the only England bowler ever to take 50 wickets in a calendar year?

Graeme Swann, in 2009.

3. On three occasions a side has won a test match after following on. Name the only person to have been involved in two of those matches.

Peter Willey. He played for England at Headingley 1981 and then umpired in the 2001 Eden Gardens test. In all three instances of the follow-on victory, the losing side has been Australia.

4. When Devon Malcolm took 9-57 against South Africa at the Oval in 1994, which other England bowler, playing in his only test match, took 4-42 in the first innings?

Joey Benjamin.

5. At which test ground might a six struck over the pavilion land in a pack of Rhinos?

Headingley – where the cricket ground adjoins the stadium of rugby league club Leeds Rhinos.

6. Which two nations contested the first ever international cricket match, at St George’s CC in September 1844?

Canada and the USA. Canada won by 23 runs.

7. Which Surrey player, and later England tour manager, began his first class career as a leg-spinner and remains the last English batsman to finish his career with a batting average of over 50?

Ken Barrington, who averaged 58.67 and played his final test in July 1968.

8. Which former Gloucestershire player, who retired in 2006, was nicknamed ‘Steamy’ by his team-mates?

Matt Windows.

9. At Barbados in 1978, Australian batsman Graham Yallop was booed by spectators when he became the first player in test history to do what?

Wear a helmet.

10. Which other former Gloucestershire player took 519 test wickets and also holds the record for the most ducks – 43 – in a test career?

Courtney Walsh.