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ROUND 1

1. Who won BBC Sports Personality of the Year last December?

2. In 2017, who became the first double-barrelled cricketer to play for since Norman ‘Mandy’ Mitchell-Innes in 1935.

3. In 1900, while playing for the MCC against County, this man, more famous for creating a world famous fictional detective, took his only first-class ; the wicket of W.G. Grace. Who was the bowler?

4. In 2005, who was the first cricketer to win Strictly Come Dancing?

5. And two years earlier, in 2003, which cricketer was only the second winner of I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here?

6. is the only Australian batsman to score a hundred centuries in first-class . is the only West Indian. Who is the only Pakistani?

7. In February 2019, hit his 477th six in international cricket, a new record, beating the 476 sixes struck by whom?

8. took six as England out India in the World Cup Final at Lord’s. Two further wickets fell to outs. Which left- arm spinner, a woman who has only been dismissed herself once in her entire international career, took the other two wickets?

9. Who wrote the following words in a national newspaper in 2017: “ has an unforgettable name and this winter became the fist English spinner to play in the Sheffield Shield since....well, me actually.”

10. Who in 2009 was the first woman ever to be selected by Wisden Cricketers Almanack as a Cricketer of the Year? ROUND 2 - PICTURE ROUND

NAME THE BOWLERS FROM THEIR SILHOUETTES

ROUND 3

1. The lowest first-class total to contain a was recorded in 1981 when Nottinghamshire scored 143 against Hampshire. Which South African born Notts batsman, who died in 2015 scored 105 that day?

2. , the leading scorer of Test runs in 2019, was born in which country?

3. In 1999, while playing for England against New Zealand at Edgbaston, set the England record for the highest score by a with 99 . Whose record, which had stood for more than 66 years, did he break?

4. There were two matches between England and Australia; one at in 1977, the other at Lord’s in 1980. Who was the only Englishman who played in both? 5. Two England cricketers have played in five Ashes winning series. is one. Who is the other?

6. In November 2010, who became the first man ever to take a hat-trick in a test on his birthday?

7. Who is the only Australian batsman to score more first-class runs than Sir Donald Bradman? He made 28,382 of them before retiring in 2009.

8. Speaking of the Don, was Donald Bradman ever out in the nineties in a Test match?

9. Who was chosen as one of Wisden’s five Cricketers of the Year in 2013, 74 years after his grandfather?

10. Which Englishman has scored the most runs in without making a double hundred?

ROUND 4 - PICTURE ROUND NAME THE GROUNDS

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ROUND 5

1. In the 200-year history of the Eton vs Harrow cricket match, there has only ever been one hat-trick. Who, more famous now as a commentator, was its third victim?

2. ‘Cricket is greater than sex, though sex isn’t too bad either.’ Words spoken by which winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature?

3. In 1900 a cricket team called Devon County Wanderers embarked on a tour of Paris and surrounding areas, during the course of which they recorded which unique achievement that has never been repeated?

4. Who is the only man to have captained England and appeared in a film with Elizabeth Taylor?

5. Who played his only test for Australia in 2009 at of 35? He bowled 18 overs of leg-spin, conceded 149 runs and failed to take a wicket. 6. According to Sir this man, who struck his fis ball in test cricket for four, made “ look as easy as drinking tea.” The man about whom Sir Len spoke these words said “it’s hard work making batting look effortless.” Who is this man? 7. In the , which Australian was the only player to be voted Man of the Match on two separate occasions?

8. Which prolific Australian woman all rounder missed the World T20 Final with injury but did get to watch her American namesake perform in the pre-match entertainment?

9. never lets us forget that he scored his hundredth hundred at Headingley against Australia in 1977. He was the second person to reach one hundred 100s that year. Which Surrey batsman had done it earlier that season in a county match?

10. While at Cambridge University this Essex and England all rounder was an extra in the film Chariots Of Fire. He ended up with a first-class of 28.26 and a average of 28.26. Who is he?