Cricket Quiz - now with added answers!

TrueDub

This is the first (hopefully) of an irregular series of quizzes. Questions will cover laws, stats, records and general esoteric cricket knowledge.

There are 5 questions this week - first prize is a weekend away with Lara Croft, second prize is a weekend away with Colin Croft.

Question 1: Read the following scenario:

An injured batsman (with a runner) is facing the bowling. He hits it into the outfield, and sets off to run, stopping when he realises he can't. The non-striker and runner both complete the run successfully. The throw comes into the wicketkeeper, who removes the bails with the injured striker still out of his ground.

Who is out, if anyone, and why or why not?

Question 2: Thanks to Beasty for this one in another thread:

How many batsmen have been out on 99 in a test match? And who is the only person to be stranded on 299 not out in a test match?

Question 3: In which ODI involving Ireland were extras the highest scorer in the Irish innings?

Question 4: In two sentences, describe the difference, in cricket terms, between the wicket and the pitch.


Question 5: Which West Indian great scored an amazing 23.7% of his runs in sixes?

Answers will be posted early next week.

Beasty

I will decline from answering the first part of Question 2, as the said it in commentary (although they did not say whether it included the 5 stranded on 99no)

In terms of the second part, even I cannot remember the day someone nearly got a triple-Don

The final question - I can remember one guy getting 6 in one over (I was quite young at the time, the late 1960s I think) - I would guess it was him

Question 4 - We've been there before, Truedub - I'll let someone else have a go at it (and question 1). I have no idea about 3 (and will avoid the temptation of resorting to t'internet:))

Beasty

Having thought about the sixes question a bit more, it couldn't be the guy I thought of. He scored far too many runs in total. It must have been a big-hitting bowler (no idea who though - probably one of those from the 40s/50s)

dfx-

I don't know if you want my uneducated wild guesses in thread, so..

3: Australia in the World Cup 2007? Sri Lanka?

4: Wicket: the crease; the Pitch: the ground between each wicket

2: I'll guess at Indians on flat pitches - Sehwag? Dravid is also a likelihood to stick around and go slowly enough to be stranded. Ponting was caught on 99 last Summer in Australia...can't think of many others, perhaps Tendulkar during that year of getting out in the nineties

1: The non-striker is now at the striker's end where the bails come off, so I'll guess him

5: I'll presume it's someone from the 80s

I'm looking for second place and Colin Croft anyways:)

Beasty

dfx- wrote: »

1: The non-striker is now at the striker's end where the bails come off, so I'll guess him

OK, I'll have a go at this one. I don't think anyone is out. The striker and runner have both crossed the non-striker. The non-striker has made his ground, and therefore cannot be run out. If, however, they had taken the bails off at the bowler's end, the striker would be out.

Beasty

Just a variation on the "99" question:

Can anyone name the batsman who has been out for 99 and not-out on 99 in Test cricket?
Another one was not out 99, and out for 199. Again, can anyone name him?

TrueDub

Hey beasty, get your own quiz!!

Beasty

dfx- wrote: »

4: Wicket: the crease; the Pitch: the ground between each wicket

The grassy area where the batsmen run and the bowlers bowl is called the pitch. The wicket is the 5-part wooden thing at either end of the pitch

condor69

Question 1: Read the following scenario:

An injured batsman (with a runner) is facing the bowling. He hits it into the outfield, and sets off to run, stopping when he realises he can't. The non-striker and runner both complete the run successfully. The throw comes into the wicketkeeper, who removes the bails with the injured striker still out of his ground.

Who is out, if anyone, and why or why not?

The injured batsman is run out if he is out of his ground (& he takes his runner with him).

Question 4: In two sentences, describe the difference, in cricket terms, between the wicket and the pitch.

Wicket is the 22 yard cut (or artificial) strip. The pitch it the surroundings encompassed by the boundry rope.

The 5 part wooden thing at the end are called stumps.

The crease is the white painted rectangular area infront of the stumps.

randomer

TrueDub wrote: »

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Question 1: Read the following scenario:

An injured batsman (with a runner) is facing the bowling. He hits it into the outfield, and sets off to run, stopping when he realises he can't. The non-striker and runner both complete the run successfully. The throw comes into the wicketkeeper, who removes the bails with the injured striker still out of his ground.

Who is out, if anyone, and why or why not?

The injured striker is out, because he only has one end where he can be "in".

If the bails had been removed at the bowlers end, then no batsman would have been out, even if the injured striker was close to the bowlers end.

TrueDub

The answers:

Q1 - as Randomer put it, the injured striker is out, because he only has one end where he can be "in". Essentially, by opting to have a runner he's said he's not capable of running, so can only be "in" at the striker's end. If he leaves that ground, he's liable to be run out.

Q2 - 76, including KP's recent 99. Full list available, including 199s, 299s, here.
Don Bradman was left stranded on 299 out in the 1932 Adelaide test against England.

Q3 - nobody even attempted this one. The answer is the Ireland Womens' team, playing Australia Women in an ODI in Melbourne on 16 December 1988, when extras scored 14 in their total of 88.

Q4 - Put simply, the wicket is made of wood, the pitch is made of grass (or artificial).

There are 3 stumps, and two bails. When put together (built), they comprise the wicket. The pitch is the 22 yards of grass or artificial that game is played on. The rest of the playing surface is the ground.

Finally, the creases are the inner edges of the lines on the pitch, namely the batting (or popping) crease and the two return creases on either side (vertical). The reason they are defined as the inner edge is so that the lines can be of any thickness. This is why the cricket law of "on the line is out" works.

Q5 - Finally, West Indian great Michael Holding hit 36 sixes in his 910 runs.

dfx-

TrueDub wrote: »

The answers:

Q1 - as Randomer put it, the injured striker is out, because he only has one end where he can be "in". Essentially, by opting to have a runner he's said he's not capable of running, so can only be "in" at the striker's end. If he leaves that ground, he's liable to be run out.

Q3 - nobody even attempted this one. The answer is the Ireland Womens' team, playing Australia Women in an ODI in Melbourne on 16 December 1988, when extras scored 14 in their total of 88.

Q5 - Finally, West Indian great Michael Holding hit 36 sixes in his 910 runs.

Q1: So the obvious answer was right But if the injured striker has essentially declared he cannot run, does his runner not do the actual running for him and if the runner makes it in..alternatively if the runner doesn't make it in, but the injured striker makes it back is he still out?

Q3: I attempted it - right country for me, wrong game and wrong gender are but minor details...

Q5. I wasn't that far off with someone from the 80s :P

TrueDub

dfx- wrote: »

Q1: So the obvious answer was right But if the injured striker has essentially declared he cannot run, does his runner not do the actual running for him and if the runner makes it in..alternatively if the runner doesn't make it in, but the injured striker makes it back is he still out?

The way to look at it is that he has sub-contracted his running to the runner. By doing this he has waived his right to run for himself. So if he's out of the only ground he possesses (striker's end) he's liable to be run out.

He's also subject to the actions of his runner - so if the runner is out of the relevant ground when the bails are removed, the injured striker is out. So the answer to your follow-up question above is yes, he's still out.

dfx- wrote: »

Q3: I attempted it - right country for me, wrong game and wrong gender are but minor details...

So you did, apologies. Those aren't really minor details though...

dfx- wrote: »

Q5. I wasn't that far off with someone from the 80s :P

Not too far - someone did say "it was probably a bowler", which was quite insightful.

Beasty

TrueDub wrote: »

Hey beasty, get your own quiz!!

Are you now going to attempt my questions, Truedub?

TrueDub

Beasty wrote: »

Are you now going to attempt my questions, Truedub?

Not without resorting to Cricinfo, and that's cheating!

Beasty

TrueDub wrote: »

Not without resorting to Cricinfo, and that's cheating!

Some clues then:

The guy who got the 99s is one of my all time heroes, and played in the first county cricket match I ever say (John Player League in the 1970s at a ground called Acklam Park) (more clues if you dig around for info on me on Boards)

The 199 was scored a couple of weeks or so before Giggsy scored the greatest (and last) goal in an FA Cup semi final replay, at the Kensington Oval when Australia were the visitors

PS - it's open for anyone else to have a go also

dfx-

Beasty wrote: »

The 199 was scored a couple of weeks or so before Giggsy scored the greatest (and last) goal in an FA Cup semi final replay, at the Kensington Oval when Australia were the visitors

That would've been 1999, though I'll shed doubt on it being a great goal

Beasty

dfx- wrote: »

That would've been 1999, though I'll shed doubt on it being a great goal

Half right :P

dfx-

:P

I can't decide that naming the visitors along with the venue indicates which team. Has to be Lara if the home team. Mark Waugh maybe if the visitors

Beasty

dfx- wrote: »

:P

I can't decide that naming the visitors along with the venue indicates which team. Has to be Lara if the home team. Mark Waugh maybe if the visitors

A quarter right!!!!

reb73

Beasty wrote: »

Just a variation on the "99" question:

Can anyone name the batsman who has been out for 99 and not-out on 99 in Test cricket?
Another one was not out 99, and out for 199. Again, can anyone name him?

Think the first one is Geoffrey Boycott, the second one would be Steve Waugh..

Beasty

reb73 wrote: »

Think the first one is Geoffrey Boycott, the second one would be Steve Waugh..

Glad someone knows something about cricket around here!

(although you missed the "Sir" before Geoffrey:D)

dfx-

TrueDub wrote: »

The way to look at it is that he has sub-contracted his running to the runner. By doing this he has waived his right to run for himself. So if he's out of the only ground he possesses (striker's end) he's liable to be run out.

He's also subject to the actions of his runner - so if the runner is out of the relevant ground when the bails are removed, the injured striker is out. So the answer to your follow-up question above is yes, he's still out.

Somerset could have used this information at the 20/20 final apparently:pac: