Here’s a reminder of our latest cricket trivia quiz. As ever, enter your answers below – or to avoid spoilers, e-mail them to maxie@thefulltoss.com . We’ll reveal the answers next week. Good luck!
1. Which cricketing items must (a) weigh between 5.5 and 5.75 ounces; and (b) be 4.33 inches long?
2. Which counties link these two pairs of players? (a) Brian Close and Justin Langer. (b) Allan Border and Darren Gough?
3. Which chat-show host once regularly appeared for Barnsley CC in the same batting line-up as Geoffrey Boycott and Dickie Bird?
4. Who said, after his side consecutively beat New Zealand 3-0 and then West Indies 4-0: “the achievement we have achieved is a great achievement”?
5. Rank these England bowlers by the number of test wickets they each took, with the most first: Andrew Flintoff, Andrew Caddick, and Matthew Hoggard.
6. ”Nine runs off the over – 28 Boycott, 15 Gower, 69 for two. And after Trevor Bailey it will be Christopher Martin-Jenkins”. Whose famously unsentimental final words as a Test Match Special commentator, on 2nd September 1980?
7. Which English domestic competition was staged annually from 1963 until 1980, and was originally 65 overs per side?
8. Before Michael Vaughan in 2005, who was the last England captain to regain the Ashes?
9. In terms of spectators, which is the largest capacity English cricket ground outside London?
10. Which England player, who made his test debut in the 1998/99 Ashes, took twenty eight test wickets and has a highest score of 99 not out?
