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The first Test match was played in March 1877, and the 2000th will be in
July 2011. In which year was the 1000th Test played? |
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1946 |
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1963 |
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1975 |
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1984 |
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| 2. |
By June 2011 there had been only two tied Test matches. Which country was involved in both of them? |
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Australia |
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England |
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Sri Lanka |
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West Indies |
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| 3. |
By June 2011 only three Test matches had been won by a team who had to follow on. Which country was on the receiving end each time? |
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Australia |
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England |
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Sri Lanka |
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West Indies |
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| 4. |
What was unusual about the first substitute to take a catch in Test cricket, in 1884? |
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He never played first-class cricket |
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He was the captain of the opposition in the match |
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He was immediately sent home by WG Grace |
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His name has never been discovered |
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| 5. |
Which was the next country after England and Australia to play what is now recognised as a Test match? |
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India |
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New Zealand |
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South Africa |
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West Indies |
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| 6. |
Who is the oldest man to make a century in a Test, aged 46? |
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Geoff Boycott |
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Jack Hobbs |
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Patsy Hendren |
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Don Bradman |
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| 7. |
Who played his first Test in 1899, and his last in 1930, when he was 52? |
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Lord Hawke |
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Sidney Barnes |
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Wilfred Rhodes |
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WG Grace |
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| 8. |
Who was the only man to dismiss Don Bradman for a duck in Tests twice? |
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Eric Hollies |
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Alec Bedser |
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Learie Constantine |
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Doug Wright |
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| 9. |
Don Bradman was out for a duck in his final Test innings, in 1948. How many runs did he need to have scored to finish with a Test average of exactly 100? |
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One |
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Four |
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Six |
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One hundred |
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| 10. |
When Jim Laker claimed a record 19 wickets in the 1956 Old Trafford Ashes Test, who took the other one? |
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Tony Lock |
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Alec Bedser |
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Trevor Bailey |
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No-one - it was a run-out |
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| 11. |
Who was the first man to play in 100 Test matches? |
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Wally Hammond |
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Richie Benaud |
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Colin Cowdrey |
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Godfrey Evans |
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| 12. |
What links Ian Chappell (in 1968-69), Roshan Mahanama (1993) and Alastair Cook (2005-06)? |
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They all made centuries on Test debut |
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They were all run out for 99 |
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They all scored centuries while no-one else in their team reached double figures |
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They scored the 1000th, 2000th and 3000th centuries in Test cricket |
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| 13. |
Who played Test cricket for two different countries, but was born in neither of them? |
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Tony Greig |
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John Traicos |
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Gavin Hamilton |
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Kepler Wessels |
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| 14. |
Who was the first man to score 10,000 runs in Tests? |
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Allan Border |
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Geoff Boycott |
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Sunil Gavaskar |
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Garry Sobers |
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| 15. |
What links Dean Headley of England and Pakistan's Bazid Khan? |
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They dismissed each other twice on their Test debut |
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They both scored a duck in their first Test and a hundred in their second |
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They were the only batsmen dismissed by Mark Taylor as a bowler in Tests |
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They are the only Test players whose father and grandfather also played Tests |
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| 16. |
The Rose Bowl in Southampton held its first Test match in June 2011. Which is the only other ground in Britain that staged only one Test? |
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Riverside, Chester-le-Street |
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Bramall Lane, Sheffield |
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New Road, Worcester |
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Sophia Gardens, Cardiff |
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| 17. |
What distinction in Tests is shared only by Hugh Trumble, Jimmy Matthews and Wasim Akram? |
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They are the only bowlers to have taken two Test hat-tricks |
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They were the first bowlers to take seven, eight and nine wickets in a Test innings |
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They took a wicket with the first ball of a Test at Lord's |
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They all took over after the appointed captain was injured, and won the series |
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| 18. |
Who is the only man to have played in both his country's first Test and their 100th? |
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Andy Flower |
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Arjuna Ranatunga |
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Heath Streak |
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WG Grace |
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| 19. |
Which team took part in only one of the first 2000 Test matches? |
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France |
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Barbados |
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The ICC World XI |
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Scotland |
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| 20. |
Who had a varied career in which he was a player, a captain, a team manager, a referee and an umpire in Test matches? |
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Jeff Crowe |
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John Hampshire |
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Ted Dexter |
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Srinivas Venkataraghavan |
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| 21. |
Who was the first man to umpire in 100 Tests? |
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David Shepherd |
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Steve Bucknor |
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Frank Chester |
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Dickie Bird |
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| 22. |
Who played a record 153 successive Test matches for his country? |
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David Gower |
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Mark Boucher |
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Sachin Tendulkar |
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Allan Border |
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| 23. |
Who became Muttiah Muralitharan's 800th and last Test wicket in July 2010? |
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Amit Mishra |
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VVS Laxman |
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Pragyan Ojha |
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Ishant Sharma |
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| 24. |
Who uniquely played in Test matches with three of his brothers? |
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Hanif Mohammad |
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WG Grace |
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Greg Chappell |
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Dayle Hadlee |
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| 25. |
Who was identified in Wisden 2003 as the man who had watched the most Test matches (more than 500)? |
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Henry Blofeld |
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Bill Frindall |
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Richie Benaud |
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EW Swanton |
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