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Quiz

You’ve all been doing pretty well in the previous three quizzes so let’s see how you get on with these ten teasers…

1. Only two men have scored a century in each innings of a Roses match for Yorkshire. Can you name them and the year they did it in?

2. Only one man in the history of first class cricket has scored two centuries on the same day in a championship match. Who was it and when?

3. Denis Compton became the youngest English batsman to score a century when he made 102 against Australia at Trent Bridge in 1938. But who held the record before him and where did he achieve his feat?

4. Which Indian bowler had the remarkable innings figures of 35.5 overs 16 maidens 69 runs and nine wickets, the best analysis before Anil Kumble took all ten?

5. Which Pakistan bowler holds the record for the number of wickets taken in a calendar year?

6. Who has the best strike rate (balls per wicket) in Test matches since the end of the Second World War?

7. Who has the best match figures of any bowler ending on the losing side in Test cricket?

8. Who did the hat trick in each innings of a Test, where and when?

9. Who was the last man to take a wicket with the first ball of his Test career?

10. Who is the youngest West Indian batsman to make a double hundred in Tests, how old was he, against which team when and where?

To enter, email your answers to editor@geoffboycott.com not forgetting your name and address.

The prize for this competition is a signed book from the Geoffrey Boycott Shop. Please state your preferred choice:

Sweet Summers
Fire and Ashes
The Best XI
(see the shop for further details.)

Closing date for entries is Feb 28. 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.

January’s winner was John Peeling and he won a copy of Fire and Ashes. Here are the answers:

1) Everton Weekes of the West Indies, 779 at an average of 111.28 in 1948-49

2) Chris Balderstone (2 Tests) played in Scotland in 1977 following spells with Huddersfield Town, Carlisle United and Doncster Rovers.

3) Waqar Younis. He won 10 (58.82%) and lost seven of his 17 matches in charge

4) 75 by Zaheer Khan for India against Bangladesh at Dhaka in December 2004

5) Danish Kaneria, 23 in his first 54 Tests

6) Vanburn Holder, 40 for the West Indies

7) Andy Flower 232 not out for Zimbabwe v India at Nagpur in November 2000

8) Lance Klusener. Eight for 64 v India in Kolkota in November 1996.

9) Jacques Kallis of South Africa. 258 wickets, 10,272 runs and counting.

10) Wally Hammond playing for Gloucestershire against Surrey at Cheltenham in August 1928