How Well Do You Know Cricket?
Test yourself or your friends with The Superior Cricket Watcher's Ashes Quiz Book
by Bernard Whimpress 
550 Questions with over 1000 Answers Now for the first time in instantly downloadable PDF format
An A to Z of cricket history covering all sorts of topics from Ashes to Zzzzz
The
exact origins of cricket are unknown, but it certainly dates back to
the 16th century. The name is thought to have originated from the
Anglo-Saxon word cricc, meaning a shepherd's staff. The first players
were the shepherds of south-east England, who used their crooks as bats
and the wicket gate and movable bail of the sheep pens as a target for
the bowlers.
The first Test match held in England was in 1880. In
1882 Australia's victory over England at the Oval inspired a journalist
to write a mock obituary notice of English cricket, in which he coined
the term the Ashes. The introduction of the six-ball over in England in
1900 aided higher scoring; bowlers countered the batting dominance by
the practice of swerve bowling (by fast bowlers), and the introduction
in the early 1900s of the ‘googly’, a style quickly adopted around the
world. In 1909 the Imperial Cricket Conference, renamed the
International Cricket Conference (ICC) in 1965 and the International
Cricket Council in 1989, was set up with England, Australia, and South
Africa as founder members; they were later joined by the West Indies,
New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, and Bangladesh.
 A sample of the questions you will face:
1. Which Australian off-spinner was plucked from Sydney
grade cricket to play in the Fifth Test against England in
1986-87 at the Sydney Cricket Ground and then took
eight wickets in his Test debut?
2. Who was the 26-year-old Australian medium-fast bowler
who took 5-37 in England’s first innings, and scored 41
and 11 in last-wicket stands of 81 and 64 at Adelaide Oval
in the Third Test of the 1894-95 series, but was then
dropped from the side and never reappeared in Test
cricket?
3. Who was the English spin bowler who was withdrawn from
the English touring party in 1958-59 after he criticised his
county captain and team-mates in newspaper articles?
4. Whose omission from the 1896 Australian touring side to
England caused the player to switch his allegiance to
Middlesex and English cricket where he went on to take
more first-class wickets than any other Australian bowler?
5. Which 22-year-old Australian pace bowler was recruited
from English league cricket into the Test side for the last
two Tests of the 1981 series when the touring side was
plagued with injuries?
6. Who was the 35-year-old Victorian left-hand opening
batsman who made his Test debut by replacing 34-year-old
Victorian left-hand opening batsman Bill Lawry in the
Australian side for the Seventh Test of the 1970-71 series?
7. Who was the 20-year-old Australian all-rounder chosen in
the Fourth Test of the Bodyline series on the basis of one
first-class innings for Victoria during the summer?
8. Who am I? I was a Gloucestershire left-arm orthodox
spinner who took 3278 wickets in my first-class career
but made my only Test appearance at Old Trafford in
1921?
9. Which English fast bowler who took 11 for 88 in his
side’s win at Headingley in 1961 was dropped two Tests
later at The Oval?
10. Which 41-year-old English batsman was flown to
Australia in 1974-75 and rushed straight into the Test
team against Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson on the
world’s fastest wicket at Perth?
PLUS 540 MORE!
One Warning:
The
questions refer to Anglo–Australian Test cricket only so don’t confuse
Allan Border’s 11,174 runs and Shane Warne’s 583 wickets in all Tests
with those against England.
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The
Ashes — First Test — Captains — Batting — Bowling — All-Rounders —
Wicket-keepers — Twelfth Men — Centenary Test — Umpires — Good
Beginnings, Bad Starts, Bad Endings — Don Bradman — Bodyline — Grounds
— One Test Wonders — Young and Old — Famous Games — Who Said That?
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