Cricket Quiz Question for Today

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In two parts -

* Which former England captain celebrates his 53rd birthday today?; and

* the harder and more obscure part, what is the connection between his birth date and a certain Test number he reached?

Amiss it is. A very underrated batsman.

Alastair Cook needs 67 runs to become only the second batsman to score test 5000 runs in England. In honour of that please name who has score the most test runs in each of the countries to host test cricket (WI counts as a single country for this, while UAE and Pakistan are separate).

Tough one.

England - Gooch
Australia - Ponting
NZ - M Crowe
India - Sachin
Pakistan - Miandad
Sri-Lanka - M Jayawardene
UAE - Younis Khan
West Indies - Lara
Zimbabwe - A Flower
Bangladesh - Ashraful
South Africa - Kallis

Looks about right, might swap Jayawardene for Sangakkara though.

I know Jayawardene gets wrongly labelled a 'hometown bully' by some, so went for him.

Stella wrote:Tough one.

England - Gooch
Australia - Ponting
NZ - M Crowe
India - Sachin
Pakistan - Miandad
Sri-Lanka - M Jayawardene
UAE - Younis Khan
West Indies - Lara
Zimbabwe - A Flower
Bangladesh - Ashraful
South Africa - Kallis

Just two wrong - BCL only 30 runs ahead of Shiv!!

Hammersmith harrier wrote:Looks about right, might swap Jayawardene for Sangakkara though.

Little between them, but it was just Mahela

Tanim or Shakib for Bangladesh?

Not sure for NZ, don't think Kane Williamson has been around long enough, so maybe Stephen Fleming?

Shakib just ahead of Tamim.

Fleming 3rd, Crowe 6th, Williamson 11th

Fleming for NZ?

McCullum. Scored about 550 in two knocks.

or Taylor? But yeah, prob McCullum...

McCullum it is.


Now whilst researching the same thing for ODI runs, the highest ODI runscorer in England fascinated me. Who might it be?

I won't attempt them all but is Bell the Englishman?

Yup, Bell is the highest ODI run scorer in England, one of just 4 batsmen with over 2,000 runs. So how about the other 3?

Collingwood, Stewart and Trescothick?

Hick?

Tresco, Morgan, KP?

Trescothick second - still two more to get.

Morgan 4th, KP surprised me by just how far down he was

Cook?

Knight?

Cook 8th Knight about 25th

Strauss?

Pietersen 52 matches and 1201 runs at 30.8 in England, versus a career tally of 136 games 4440 runs at 40.8

Gooch?

VTR wrote:Strauss?

Bingo

LondonTiger wrote:

VTR wrote:Strauss?

Bingo

And believe it or not Strauss S/R was marginally higher than KPs

Actually thinking about it, KP would have scored most of his runs away from home (certainly all but one of his memorable innings were away off-hand), so that makes sense. Here's the full list BTW

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=2;host=1;template=results;type=batting

Bopara higher than Pietersen

Strauss and Tresco's records (at home) are remarkably similar, though Tresco has far more centuries than Strauss.

Strauss was a cracking ODI player for the first 2/3 years he played - its quite easy to forget that as the last few years of his career weren't great really

Only one home ODI century for KP - would never have guessed that

In Australia obviously it's Ponting, by some distance, but I'm a little surprised by who's second on the list...

Dean Jones?

Yup, scored exactly one run more in Aus than Allan Border...

NZ - Taylor?

Stella wrote:NZ - Taylor?

BMac again I think

Must be Nathan Astle.

Hammersmith harrier wrote:Must be Nathan Astle.

aha, very good call.

At some point recently Jimmy went past 1000 runs to join the large list of those with 1000 runs and no hundreds.

However just one player has ever scored 1000 without even a 50 to their name. Who?

Hint: His highest score of 45 was achieved in 1997.

Courtney Walsh?

Murali?

VTR wrote:Strauss was a cracking ODI player for the first 2/3 years he played - its quite easy to forget that as the last few years of his career weren't great really

Different game then as well. He (and more breifly Trott) scored a lot of runs at the top of the ODI order when laying a platform was still a thing even outside England.

To be fair the end of his career wasnt actuall bad ..it was the middle years (around 2007) that he was terrible.
In the end he just had to go to prolong his test career and get Cook in, whilst enabling Trott ( who wa sa run machine at the time) to be retained after the world cup. nOt sure how well that one really worked out but hey ho.

A player like him (or Trott who avergaed over 50 in ODIs) wouldnt get a look in now even at the top of their game. Hales gets critisized if he scores at less than 6 an over.

Geoff Boycotts Gran in her pinny with a stick of rhubarb?

Murali had a highest score of 67.

The man you want shared a partnership while making his highest score with a then debutant who has featured in this year's T20 Bash

Allan Donald?
Andy Caddick?

Looked up the answer, would never have guessed him, first thought was also Caddick.

Never scored a half century ...probably an England opener other than Cook

Ha got it, admitedly cheated a bit by running through every bowler I could think of form that era on cricinfo... but its a Pakistani isnt it