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| dpressed Posted on 22/07/2010 22:35 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message | Report Message |
| Name me a cricketer who bowled and kept wicket in the same over of a championship game | |
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| donnylad Posted on 23/07/2010 08:59 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| Without time to check - (AC?) Smith of Warwickshire? | |
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| Boycs_Panama_Hat Posted on 23/07/2010 09:53 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| the problem now is that when the joke bowlers come on, its invariably a keeper bowling slow lobs to get a declaration. therefore it could be one of many as in recent times I can recall Nixon, Foster, Pothas (against us I think this season) all doing it. I know David Bairstow used to like to bowl in the nets and in the odd tour game or festival match and I think he even had some success. To keep and bowl in the same over presumably occurred when there was an injury to another bowler and the keeper finished the over. Nowadays any bowler (other than the one at the other end) can finish the over but in olden days it had to be someone who had not already bowled and therefore the keeper may have performed this role? All irrelevant stuff as its not got me any nearer the answer so as a guess based on the above I will offer David Bairstow. | |
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| dpressed Posted on 23/07/2010 10:05 Dpressed's Quiz | Edited On: 23/07/2010 10:06 Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| Sorry, but you are both wrong. It wasn't 'joke' bowling ... and what's more it was the bowler taking over from the keeper, not the other way round. Hint 2 .. the incident happened at Headingley this century. And the cricketer in question is still playing, although for a different county. | |
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| Boycs_Panama_Hat Posted on 23/07/2010 12:15 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| I recall ian Botham finishing his last game keeping wicket for durham v the Aussies but he does not fit in with rest of your clue! As for the directory of ex Yorkshire bowlers now still playing elsewhere - the list is long! Middlebrook, Batty, Sidebottom, Kirby, Dawson, Lucas, Stiff, but then it could have been for the opposition of course. As I doubt fast bowlers would keep wicket, I will guess at Middlebrook | |
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| dpressed Posted on 23/07/2010 12:19 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| Sorry BPH .. but I only said the incident happened at Headingle. btw whilst it wasn't 'joke' bowling the gent in question is better known as a batsman. | |
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| C350 Posted on 23/07/2010 22:09 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| Could it be Bilal Shafayat? | |
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| dpressed Posted on 23/07/2010 22:22 Dpressed's Quiz | Edited On: 23/07/2010 22:27 Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| Yes it could be Shafayat. In a very far reaching incident the Nothants keeper broke a finger dropping a catch off Bilal. The keeper had to go off, so Shafyat donned the pads for the last ball of the over, which was bowled by Brown. As a result of the injury Mattheus Wessels (son of coach Keplet Wessels) took over as the Northants keeper ... which meant that the original keeper in the Yorks match lost his place ..... the name of this cricketer ... Gerard Brophy !! | |
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| dpressed Posted on 23/07/2010 22:26 Dpressed's Quiz | Edited On: 23/07/2010 22:27 Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| Not sure if I've this one on here .. but I'll try. Name two Yorkshiremen who took hat tricks in games over a single Bank Holiday weekend but were both on the losing team. The first was in a championship match .. the 2nd in a 1 day game. | |
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| ForwardDefensive Posted on 23/07/2010 22:33 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| Bilal Shafayat - that's jogged a memory. Yorks v Northants, 2005, Brophy (playing for them) injured. Checked Cricket Archive and Bilal had bowled in the innings, so if he took over from Brophy, that may be it. He bowled 1.5 overs, so he could have been the actual bowler when Gerard was injured, taking over the gloves and not completing the over in progress. Bilal's yer uncle. Final answer. | |
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| dpressed Posted on 23/07/2010 22:38 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| ^^^ Please see my earlier post ... you are correct !! | |
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| ForwardDefensive Posted on 23/07/2010 22:45 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| Much simultaneous posting! I was present at a Test Match some 40-odd years ago when an omni-talented Yorkshireman took over behind the stumps and - naturally - performed to the manner born. Supplementary question. Name the Yorkshireman and the selected injured keeper, the venue and England's opponents. | |
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| C350 Posted on 24/07/2010 15:07 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| This must surely be the legendary Brian Close? I'm attempting to check now and sort out the other parts of the question. Will have a look at dpressed's Q too. | |
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| ForwardDefensive Posted on 24/07/2010 17:17 Dpressed's Quiz | Edited On: 24/07/2010 17:19 Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| Yes. it was Close - of course. Even knowing that, I'm not sure how you would find out the rest of the answer. He only kept wicket for a short while, and this tends not to get recorded in match stats, any more than the identity of a 12th man. However, I'll leave it up here for a while in case someone gets it - then tell us how, please. I did discover that Closey has a 1st class stumping to his name. Can anyone supply the details of that, then? As for dpressed question, I've no idea how to research that either. So I'll resort to guesswork: Craig White? | |
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| dpressed Posted on 24/07/2010 18:50 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| Fd has got part of my question right ... but is still missing the other bowler ... & where the deed happened. | |
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| ForwardDefensive Posted on 24/07/2010 20:20 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| Got it, and very lucky to do so. Armed with the knowledge that Craig White was correct, I googled 'Craig White hat trick' and got a report on Hoggy's relegation-saving hat-trick at Hove, "...the first since Craig White's at Gloucester in May 1998." So, it's Archdeacon Meadow, where Craig got Alleyne, Ball and Lewis, but Yorkshire lost by 300 runs. And I was there, for part of the game, the 2nd day when our batting collapsed, apart from night-watchman Hutchison. Not one of our finest hours. Then (I now discover) in the 40-over game that followed, Yorks exile Mike Smith got Parker, Hamilton and Sidebottom, but his team also lost, though only by 9 runs. Brilliant question, dpressed. Did you remember because you were there? | |
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| dpressed Posted on 25/07/2010 10:32 Dpressed's Quiz | Edited On: 25/07/2010 11:49 Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| Well done FD ... & yes I was there. Thankfully the weather was warm & dry. When Glous batted a young Hoggy dropped a catch that helped their first innings. In our first innings Hutch came in a night watchmam and just blocked. The visiting Yorkies were rather glad that Glouc didn't enforce the follow on as the game would have been over in 3 days. As it was we did have some play on the 4th morning. One interesting memory is watching the Yorkshire players walking round the ground to the mobile burger bar to buy bacon sandwiches. The manual scoreboard was opperated by the school children Because it was a Bank Holiday the one day game was held on the Monday. | |
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| ForwardDefensive Posted on 26/07/2010 09:45 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| I don't think anyone is going to get my question - as I said, I don't know how you would begin. It was Close taking over from Jim Parks at the Oval in 1963 against W Indies. The game was also notable for F S Trueman suffering a rare injury, turning an ankle in a big hole; no repairing of footmarks in those days. I remember a hypnotist offering his services. Fred said he ought to hypnotise the W Indies batsmen. Kanhai batted brilliantly and they won by 8 wickets. I won a bet with a Surrey fan, that Trueman would score more runs than Lock. Easy money! | |
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| C350 Posted on 27/07/2010 13:23 Dpressed's Quiz | Email Message To A Friend | Reply To Message |
| Good question, FD. I could picture Close taking over as keeper, but just couldn't remember who it was from. Frankly, they'd have been better off not picking Parks at all. I recall the fourth test against Australia a year or so later, where Simpson scored 311 and Lawry got a ton, both dropped by Parks when they were about 20 or so. Binks was better by a mile. As for how you'd go about finding the answer, well, I did, and I can tell you how. I began at cricketarchive, but no help there, but it was in my mind that I'd seen a picture of Close keeping wicket for England and I was going to look in some of my books, starting with Close's numerous autobiographies and biographies. But I didn't do that straight away as I was off to Lord's for the CB40 game. I had a look this morning and there in Alan Hill's biography, "Brian Close Cricket's Lionheart" is the picture, between pages 176 and 177, showing Close "...deputising for the injured Jim Parks against the West Indies at the Oval in 1963." Phil Sharpe is at first slip and the interesting this about Close ( standing up) is that his head is low, just above bail level, and his hands are also low, about 8" off the ground and the batsman has hit the ball, whereas a lot of keepers tend to 'come up' prematurely. Not the Legendary One, though! | |
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