Turning the tables - Steven asks you
Steven Lynch sets you some questions for a change
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A His wallet
B His last will and testament
C His false teeth
D A lighted cigarette
A He played Championship cricket and league football on the same day
B He completed two centuries on the same day
C He scored a century and passed his umpiring exam
D He took a hat-trick and later hit the winning six
A An operation on his back
B His university exams
C His wedding
D Flying home to attend the birth of his first child
A He was knighted
B He was rushed to hospital with heart palpitations
C His taxi-driver took him to The Oval by mistake
D His team-mates elected him captain to mark his last Test
A All the victims were left-handers
B It was spread over three different overs
C All the victims were Antiguans
D It was the first Test hat-trick by someone with a moustache
A It was a stumping
B The batsman was his cousin
C It was the first dismissal to be confirmed by a TV replay
D It came from his first ball of the match, and he bowled 51 more overs without taking another one
A Milton Small
B Balfour Patterson
C Frank Worrell
D Nixon McLean
A The fumes from a barbecue made the players feel ill
B The smoke restricted the batsmen's vision
C The ball landed in the frying pan and was unusable
D The fielding team left the field for a snack
A Abu Dhabi
B Fiji
C Ireland
D Scotland
A He got lost and had to climb over the pavilion railings
B He ended up in the road behind the pavilion
C When he was out he absent-mindedly returned to the wrong room, and was jeered by the Aussies
D He went down too many stairs and ended up in the basement toilets
A Winston Benjamin
B Gareth Breese
C Anderson Cummins
D Phil Simmons
A He'd broken his fingers so often his doctor had ordered him to stop keeping wicket
B He was a wanted man in England
C He'd never kept wicket before
D He wasn't eligible for Australia as he was born in New Zealand
A He squared up to Bartlett and had to be hauled back by the umpires
B He was banned for arguing with the umpires
C He walked off the field and his innings was recorded as "retired out"
D He impersonated Bartlett's bowling action - and was no-balled for throwing himself
A She perished in the Titanic disaster
B She married Bligh
C She became the Governor of Queensland
D She became the first lady president of the Melbourne Cricket Club
A Geoff Boycott
B Bill Lawry
C Colin Cowdrey
D Garry Sobers
The Wisden Cricket Quiz Book is published by John Wisden & Co. on November 1, price £7.99. To order a copy through Cricshop, click here.
Steven Lynch is editor of Wisden Cricinfo. If you want to Ask Steven a question, e-mail him at asksteven@cricinfo.com. The most interesting questions will be answered each week in this column. Unfortunately, we can't usually enter into correspondence about individual queries. The usual Ask Steven column will resume on November 1.
1 C - His false teeth ("wrapped in a hanky", according to his obituary in Wisden 1988), as it was a spiteful pitch: the match, although in June, had been interrupted by snow. 2 A - He played county cricket (for Leicestershire v Derbyshire, scoring 51 not out and completing his century the next day; they clinched the Championship title during his innings) then nipped up the road to play for Doncaster Rovers against Brentford (they drew 1-1). 3 C - His wedding. He needn't have bothered: the ceremony was set for the fourth scheduled day of the match, at Wellington, and New Zealand won inside three days. 4 A - He was knighted (and appeared on the new electronic scoreboard as "Sir R. Hadlee", as there wasn't room for his full name). 5 B - It was spread over three different overs (last ball of one over, first ball of next to end the first innings, first ball of second innings). 6 B - The batsman was his cousin (New Zealand's John F. Reid). 7 D - Nixon McLean. 8 C - The ball landed in the frying pan and was unusable (Wisden says: "Daryll Cullinan hit a six into a frying pan ... it was about ten minutes before the ball was cool enough for the umpires to remove the grease. Even then, [the bowler] was unable to grip the ball and it had to be replaced"). 9 C - Ireland (Steve against Australia A in 1998, Mark two one-day games against Zimbabwe in 2000). 10 D - He went down too many stairs and ended up in the basement toilets. 11 C - Anderson Cummins. 12 C - He'd never kept wicket before (Wisden reported that "only when he had accepted the terms offered and joined the ship at Adelaide was the discovery made that he had never kept wicket in his life"). 13 D - He impersonated Bartlett's bowling action - and was no-balled for throwing himself. 14 B - She married Bligh (and, on his death, bequeathed the Ashes urn to MCC). 15 D - Garry Sobers.