The Line & Length Monday XI quiz - plus answers

You've been agonising over our first Line & Length weekly quiz for two days, so below are the answers. If you got them all right, give yourself a pat on the back and allow a slightly smug expression to cross your face.

Question 1: Who was England's leading bowler in terms of wickets during this summer's Test series against New Zealand? A: Jimmy Anderson; B: Ryan Sidebottom; C; Monty Panesar

Question 2: How many Test matches in their history have New Zealand won in England? A: 2; B: 4; C: 6

Question 3: Who is the leading run-scorer in Test matches so far this year? A: Graeme Smith; B: Andrew Strauss; C: Virender Sehwag

Question 4: Who is the leading run-scorer in Test matches so far this century? A: Matthew Hayden; B: Ricky Ponting; C; Sachin Tendulkar

Question 5: Who has taken the most one-day wickets in county cricket this season? A: Stephen Harmison; B: Tim Bresnan; C: Yasir Arafat

Question 6: Jimmy Anderson's seven for 43 against New Zealand this weekend was the third best innings analysis in England this season, who has the best? A: Shane Bond; B: James Tomlinson; C: Mark Davies

Question 7: Which bowler's autobiography is titled My Turn To Spin? A: Shaun Udal; B: Monty Panesar; C: Robert Croft

Question 8: How many one-day internationals have Bangladesh won against the eight big Test-playing countries (not including Zimbabwe)? A: 4; B: 5; C: 6

Question 9: Geoffrey Boycott made his highest Test score on this day in 1967 and was promptly dropped for batting too slowly. What was the score? A: 207*; B; 246*; c: 281*

Question 10: Staying with Boycott, in 1977 Boycs scored his 100th first-class hundred in a Test match against Australia. Who is the only other man to reach 100 centuries in a Test? A: Don Bradman; B: Zaheer Abbas; C: Viv Richards

Question 11: Finally, what event stunned the cricketing world on this day 25 years ago? A: Ian Botham hit 30 runs off one over; B: Geoff Boycott scored 50 before lunch; C: Zimbabwe beat Australia in a World Cup ODI

If you need a bit of a clue, you might find some of the answers here in our Times Archive

Click below for the answers.

1: (A) Anderson took 19 wickets, Sidebottom 17 and Panesar 9.

2: (B) Four. Headingley 1983; Trent Bridge 1986 and Lord's and the Oval in 1999.

3: (A) Smith by some distance, with 810 runs. Strauss has 540 and Sehwag 658.

4: (A) Hayden by a whisker, with 7,714 runs. Ponting is second with 7,632. Tendulkar, with 5,366, is only tenth.

5: (C) Arafat has taken 22, Harmison and Bresnan have each taken 15.

6: (B) Tomlinson took eight for 46 for Hampshire against Somerset. Bond and Davies each have seven-wicket hauls.

7: (A) Udal

8: (C) It's six: Pakistan in 1999, India 2005, Australia 2005, Sri Lanka 2006, India 2007 and South Africa 2007.

9: (B) 246 not out against India at Headingley.

10: (B) Zaheer Abbas, for Pakistan against India at Lahore.

11: (C) Zimbabwe won by 13 runs at Trent Bridge.

Comments

[Johnmc]

7/11 Must try harder