PISTOL PETE'S CHRISTMAS QUIZ

Pistol Pete has very kindly concocted a superb quiz to keep

you all entertained over the Christmas break.  Set that

unenviable task of writing a quiz that cannot be solved with a

few simple Google queries, Pete has come up with a genuinely

fun and interesting quiz.

Publishers "Know the Score Books" were so taken with

Loverboy's review of "My Turn To Spin" by Shaun Udal, they

have very generously donated a copy of the book as this year's

Christmas Quiz prize.  So there's more than just pride and fun to

play for.

Points will be scored as indicated, but bonus points will be

available for those who come up with alternative answers in the

unlikely event that they are equally correct and/or more correct

than Pistol Pete's answers.

I am the only moderator who has seen the questions and

answers, so this game is open to everyone other than me and

Pistol Pete.  For that reason, please submit your answers directly

 to me at:

gedladd@hotmail.co.uk

LAST CHANCE TO ENTER - Stumps will be drawn on this

competition at 20:00 GMT on Tuesday 8 January.

Good luck to everyone and have fun playing the quiz.

1 Who was the first England captain to score 700

runs in a series? 1 point

2 Who was the first man to make a score of 150 or

more in 4 consecutive test matches? 1 point

3 Who has scored the most test match ducks for

England? 1 point

4 Who was the 500th man to play test cricket for

England? 1 point

5 England's finest post-war bowler? Of all the

post-war bowlers who have taken 10  or more test

wickets, who has the lowest bowling average?

1 point

6 Which 2 players took most test wickets at Lord's

 in the 1990s? 2 points

7 Which cricketer finished an Ashes Series with a

bowling average more than 250 times greater than

his batting average? 1 point

8 Who played test cricket on his 21st birthday and

on no other day? 1 point

9 Who was the first man to play first class cricket

for four counties? 1 point

10 Who has taken most wickets in the Currie Cup?

1 point

11 Who is the only man to take 4 wickets in four

balls and score a century in the same game? 1 point

12 Who has scored most first class runs against

Surrey? 1 point

13 Who was the last player to reach a first class

fifty with his 13th boundary of his innings? 1 point

14 On the most recent occasion in the county

championship where five wickets fell at the same

score, who were the two bowlers who took the

wickets? 2 points

15 Who was the last man to take 50 1st class

wickets in a calendar month? 1 point

16 Who has taken most wickets in one season on

one ground? 1 point

17 In the 1980s, which cricketer broke a batting

record for all first class cricket, and then lost the

record to its previous holder during the same innings?

 Explain what happened. 2 points

18 Who has bowled most first class maiden overs?

1 point

19 How many maiden overs did he bowl? 1 point

20 Who wrote the cricket book 'Off and On The

Field'? 1 point

21 Who first wrote a cricket book called 'Many A

Slip'? 1 point

22 Which two players have hit 50 sixes in a season?

2 points

23 Whose only first-class 50 came off 19 balls?

 1 point

24 Who is the only man to score a century before

lunch twice in the same game? 1 point

25 Who was the first Middlesex player to take a

wicket in his first over in a test match? 1 point

26 Who, on his debut for the county, took part in

century opening partnerships for Middlesex with

two different partners? Name all 3 players 3 points

27 Who was the last Middlesex player to score a

double century and open the bowling

in the same season? 1 point

28 Who were the last 2 players to bowl 50 overs in

an innings for Middlesex? 2 points

29 Who scored his only first class century in one of

Middlesex's greatest ever victories? All forenames

and surname required. 4 points

30 Excluding Owais Shah, whom we hope will appear

 again, which 2 Middlesex players batted at number

3 throughout their England test careers? 2 points

31 Who was the first Middlesex player whose

birthplace began with the letter Q? 1 point

32 Who were the last two Middlesex captains to

score a century and take a 5-fer in the same match?

 2 points

33 Each Wisden Almanack publishes the 'first class

averages' for the previous season. Name the last

 Middlesex player to come top of the published

batting averages and the year he did so. 2 points

35 An 34 Name the last Middlesex player to come top of the

            published first class bowling averages

          for the year and state which year. 2 points

35 During the 2007 season, the Middlesex team

achieved something that had not been done

in England for over 100 years. What was it? 1 point

36 What was the first top ten hit to mention cricket

in the lyrics? 1 point