The Line & Length Monday XI: answers

Here are the answers to this week's Monday quiz (click below for them). And give yourself double points (or indeed double pints) if you were one of those who spotted the odd "deliberate error".

Question 1: Kevin Pietersen's 110 on Sunday was his sixth hundred in one-day internationals. How many of them have been made in England? A: 1; B: 3; C: 5

Question 2: Pietersen now averages more than 50 in one-day internationals, one of only three men in the history of the game to do so. Who, with an average of just over 40, is England's second-best one-day batsmen? A: Graeme Hick; B: Neil Fairbrother; C: Nick Knight

Question 3: England and New Zealand are remarkably well-matched in one-day cricket. After the first international on Sunday, what is the overall score? A: 30-30; B: 31-29 to England; C: 31-29 to New Zealand

Question 4: Jim Allenby became the first man to take four wickets in four balls in Twenty20 cricket, but how many Twenty20 wickets in total has the all-rounder taken in four years for Leicestershire? A: 15; B: 20; C: 25

Question 5: And how many times has a bowler taken four in four in List A one-day matches? A: Never; B: Twice; C: Three times

Question 6: Beau Casson, the chinaman bowler, has made his Test debut for Australia this week. What is his nickname? A: Peep; B: Buzz; C: Casino

Question 7: Pakistan beat India in the final of the Kitply Cup on Saturday, making 315 for three batting first. What is the record one-day team score between the countries? A: 356 for nine; B: 344 for eight; C: 330 for eight

Question 8: Which three English counties don't have any players connected to the Indian Cricket League? A: Kent, Middlesex and Somerset; B: Essex, Somerset and Middlesex; C: Essex, Middlesex and Durham

Question 9: Who has scored the only hundred so far (to Sunday) of this year's Twenty20 Cup? A: Justin Kemp; B: Greg Smith; C: Dwayne Smith

Question 10: Which cricketer captained England for the first time on this day in 1977? A: Geoff Boycott; B: Keith Fletcher; C: Mike Brearley

Question 11: What notable bowling feat did Arthur Gilligan, the England captain, achieve against South Africa on this day in 1924? A: He took his second hat-trick of the match; B: He had the figures of 10-10-0-0; C: He took six wickets for seven runs in 39 balls

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Answer 1: A, of his other five three have been in South Africa and two in West Indies; Answer 2: C, Nick Knight, taking a qualification of 20 innings. Dennis Amiss averaged 48 but played only 18 ODIs; Answer 3: C, England have a chance to draw within one today; Answer 4: A, now increased to 16 since the quiz was set; Answer 5: C, Alan Ward in 1970, Shaun Pollock in 1996 and Vasbert Drakes in 1999; Answer 6: B; Answer 7: A, by India in 2005; Answer 8: B; Answer 9: B, for Derbyshire against Yorkshire. Smith, with 224 runs in five innings, is leading the run-scoring table, too; Answer 10: C; Answer 11: C

Comments

[Andy Woollatt]

6 out of 10 - NOT BAD. I was only born in 1991 and some of these questions are quite a long time earlier.

[Humphrey B Bear]

Gday Pat,

Name the four legged predator who was controversially displaced as opening bowler from the Bankstown U21's by Len Pascoe, due to an off-field 'lack of pants' incident at the Rooty Hill RSL in November 1973.

A free scotch & honey for the first correct respondent.

Except Ann.

Yalumba Sparkling Cuvee 2006 for that wistful, gentle lass if she succeeds...

[Johnmc]

7/11 I'm beginning to notice a pattern. Can I have an extra mark for not pointing out Teacher's mistake?

[Patrick Kidd]

Top marks Adarsh. The penalty for doing this in a rush yesterday when I was on a deadline for something else. Dunce's hat firmly on. Question 5 was intended to read (and now does) List A one-day matches, rather than first-class.

Question 2 should perhaps have mentioned the minimum qualification of 20 innings, which is the standard qualification that Wisden uses, but papers rarely add that caveat. If we didn't use that qualification then Don Bradman would not be the man with the highest career average in Tests; that title would instead belong to Andy Ganteaume of West Indies, who made 112 in his only Test innings and never played again.

[Adarsh D]

I think question 5 does not have the correct answer among the options. Also question 2, unless there is a cutoff of 1000 runs or 20 innings

[Patrick Kidd]

Well spotted Suave and Vish. Yes, silly schoolboy slip there. Many apologies, now altered.

And welcome back, Ann. It's been a while.

[Ann]

Good stuff.

Now, can we have a nominations list for the next pillock of the month, please? I nominate the prats who consider a batsman who can hit sixes (KP, but you knew that, of course) 'unfair on the bowler' and 'not playing in the spirit of the game'.

Personally, they should take first, second and third place.

[Suave]

Pakistan beat New Zealand did they Patrick? Did you have a little bit too much sauce, drowning your sorrows (as did i), after Dirty Dirk turned over the Eagles in three balls?

[vish]

Pakistan & newzealand in the kitply
cup final ??im sure you meant india and you want to know the highest innings score between pakistan & india