Middlesex All The Way
The rules of this quiz are simple enough.
There are 10 questions.
You have until 16:00 on 26 March to submit your answers.
Answers should be submitted to Loverboy by private message through this site.
On no account should you post your answers on the message board.
If you send your answers in to MTWDADMIN by e-mail, we will forward your answers but we might also poach your answers, as all the administrators are eligible to play and wish to play.
Enough of this frivolity, let's play WHO AM I?:
All ten of the players have played for Middlesex at first team level since 1968.
1.I played for my country and also fathered triplets.
2.I also played minor county cricket as did my brother who was born on the Isle of Man.
3.I played three first-class matches in all ,but never against another county.
4.I took six wickets on first-class debut but subsequently never took another or scored a run.
5.I shared in a record-breaking partnership for Middlesex and later became a first-class umpire.
6.My father was at one-time the Middlesex scorer.
7.I only scored one first-class century and that was against Middlesex
8.I played Youth Test Matches for England and also played for Durham
9.I scored four first-class centuries for my first county,but none after that.
10.My father and grandfather both played first-class cricket but not both for England or in the county championship.
Many thanks to Loverboy for supplying another of his fiendish quizzes and for offering up a super prize: a copy of Ed Smith's latest book "What Sport Tells Us About Life". But beyond the prize surely will be the glory of the win. And surely it will take more than a score of 10% to take the spoils?
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