To help take your mind off England’s tortuous progress in the World Cup, here’s the latest edition of our occasional cricket quiz. Enter your answers below – so avoid scrolling down in advance, to prevent a spoiler – or e-mail them to maxie@thefulltoss.com
Good luck!
1. Whom did Steve Waugh accuse of dropping the 1999 World Cup?
2. If Middlesex have three seaxes, and Warwickshire have a bear and a staff, who has (a) three pears, and (b) a blue shield with a yellow cross?
3. Graham Gooch famously made 333 against India at Lord’s in 1990. But despite England racking up a first innings 653-4 in the process, India avoided the follow-on – after Kapil Dev hit four consecutive sixes off which unfortunate bowler?
4. Which is the only mode of dismissal in which the batsman is reprieved if, specifically, he/she was genuinely attempting to prevent the ball hitting the stumps?
5. The journalist Lawrence Booth recently became the youngest person for seventy two years to hold which prestigious cricketing role?
6. Before Alastair Cook, who was the last England player to score three centuries in the same Ashes series?
7. One of the biggest rock bands of the 1990s played several gigs at a test cricket ground, but for personal reasons insisted that it was not referred to by its usual name on either the tickets or marketing material. For a point each, name the band, and the title used for the venue in this context.
8. Which cricketer, with 355 test wickets to his name, boasts the forenames Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph, but is usually known by another?
9.In a 1960s championship match between Sussex and Leicestershire, the scorecard was annotated with the remark ‘ball exploded’, after bowler John Snow swapped the cricket ball for a sphere of which substance?
10. Steve Waugh was the winning captain, and Tony Blair performed the opening ceremony. But for the 1999 World Cup, what was the role of Dave Stewart?
1. Herschelle Gibbs
2. (a) Worcs; (b) Durham
3. Eddie Hemmings
4. Handled the ball?
5. Editor of Wisden
6. Chris Broad
7. Oasis; “Lancashire CCC”
8. Chaminda Vaas
9. ?
10. Wrote the England theme tune