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Quiz

We’ll try and keep the questions a bit more up to date this time with a lot of them relating to that tremendous two-match series between India and South Africa. Good luck…

1. Alviro Petersen became only the third South African to make a hundred on debut at Kolkata. Who were the other two?

2. Sachin Tendulkar became the first man to score 200 in a one-day international in his innings against South Africa at Gwalior in February. Which two batsmen had previously come closest?

3. Dale Steyn had match figures of 10 for 108 for South Africa at Nagpur, the fourth time he has taken 10 wickets in a match. Who is the only other South African bowler to take ten in a match on four occasions?

4. India have played only one Test match when there were four 100plus partnerships in the same innings. When and where was it and against who?

5.South Africa have had ten partnerships worth 300 or more. Which two batsmen have taken part in most?

6. India had four centurions in the win at Kolkata against South Africa. On which other occasion did they have four century makers in the same innings?

7. There were seven centuries scored in the Test against South Africa at Kolkata. In which Test match were eight hundreds recorded, the most in any Test?

8. Which country saw none of its batsmen reach double figures in Test match innings?

9. Which Indian batsman has made most consecutive half centuries in Test match innings?

10. Which batsmen have been out on the 90s most times in Test matches?

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Closing date for entries is May 31. In the event of a tie the first email opened with the correct answers will be the winner. GB’s decision will be final and no correspondence can be entered into.

March’s winner was Richard from Wiltshire, the answers were:

1. How many of Alec Stewart’s 15 centuries for England were made when he was picked as wicketkeeper?

Six

2. Two batsmen have been out in the nineties 10 times. Who are they?

Rahul Dravid and Steve Waugh

3. Which English Test match ground has seen most triple centuries?

Headingley with three, Bradman twice and John Edrich

4. Who is the youngest batsman to score a triple hundred in Tests?

Garfield Sobers who was 21years and 213 days when he scored 365 not out against Pakistan in Kingston in Feb 1958, then a world record

5. Who is the oldest Indian player to score Test hundred?

V M Merchant who was 40 years and 21days when he made 154 against England at Delhi in 1951

6. Who was the last player to score a hundred before lunch on the first day of a Test match?

Majid Khan who made an undefeated 108 against New Zealand at Karachi in 1976-77 before the first interval.

7. Who was the last number 11 to make the top score of the innings in a Test match?

Steve Harmison with 42 in England’s total of 304 against South Africa in Cape Town in Jan 2005. The next highest was Rob Key’s 41.

8. Who is the youngest bowler to take 10 wickets in a Test match?

Enamul Haque jnr with 12 for 200 against Zimbabwe in Dhaka in Jan 2005 when he was just 18 years and 40 days old

9. Which English bowler sent down most deliveries in his Test career?

Derek Underwood who bowled 21,862 balls in his 86 Tests

10. Which Test match bowler had the highest percentage of his victims caught behind?

Glenn McGrath of Australia with 152 of his 563 wickets caught by the wicketkeeper, 26.29 per cent.