The Line & Length Monday XI - answers below

Hello again. Sachin Tendulkar has failed to score the 77 runs he needed this Test to pass Brian Lara as cricket's top run-scorer, although no doubt he will get the runs soon, so the theme for this week's quiz is people who have held various records, welcome or not. Click on the link at the bottom for the answers.

Question 1 The highest Test innings score, as any schoolboy knows, is Brian Lara's 400 against England. Lara also scored 375 against the same opponents, but name the four other men to have scored more than 350 in an innings.

Question 2 Until Don Bradman came along, which England batsman had the highest end-of-career batting average?

Question 3 Which Pakistan batsman holds the record for the most catches by a substitute fielder in a Test innings, taking four against Bangladesh in 2001?

Question 4 Which Australia all-rounder of the 1920s still holds the record for the most catches in a Test series (15 in the 1920-21 Ashes)?

Question 5 Which India spin bowler has taken the most caught-and-bowled wickets (34)?

Question 6 What is the most prolific bowler-batsman wicket-taking combination? The second most prolific, with 18 dismissals, is Alec Bedser dismissing Arthur Morris.

Question 7 And what is the most prolific bowler-fielder combination? Second place in this list is "Caught Gilchrist Bowled McGrath"

Question 8 Tendulkar is the leading run-scorer in one-day internationals, with 16,361. Name the six other men to have made more than 10,000 runs.

Question 9 Which Sri Lanka batsman has made the most ducks in one-day internationals, with 31?

Question 10 Which Pakistan batsman holds the no-doubt short-lived record as the leading run-scorer in Twenty20 internationals?

Question 11 And finally which South African, who has spent time playing county cricket in England, has taken the most wickets in all Twenty20 matches?

Congratulations to Johno for getting all the answers right. I could have sworn No 3 and 4 would fox you.

Answer 1 Matthew Hayden (380), Mahela Jayawardene (374), Garry Sobers (365), Len Hutton (364)
Answer 2 Herbert Sutcliffe
Answer 3 Younus Khan
Answer 4 Jack Gregory
Answer 5 Anil Kumble
Answer 6 McGrath and Atherton
Answer 7 Caught Marsh Bowled Lillee
Answer 8 Rahul Dravid, Sanath Jayasuriya, Sourav Ganguly, Ricky Ponting, Inzamam Ul Haq, Brian Lara
Answer 9 Jayasuriya
Answer 10 Misbah-ul-Haq
Answer 11 Tyron Henderson

Comments

[Venkat]

Hey people... I am very sure it ain't Jayasuriya in the list of 350+. His highest is 340. The other player is the Sri Lankan Captain Mahela Jayawardene.

[Patrick Kidd]

Four and four-fifths right, John. Good start. One reader has sent in a full 11/11 already but I'm not going to publish it yet on the grounds that he either cheated by looking up the answers or is far too much of an anorak to play! (Sorry, Johno, but surely Q4 should have caught you out. You'll be declared the winner tomorrow once others have had a chance to guess)

[johno]

1. Hayden, Sobers, Jayawardene, Len Hutton
2. Herbert Sutcliffe
3. Younis Khan
4. Jack Gregory
5. Kumble
6. McGrath and Atherton
7. Caught Marsh Bowled Lillee
8. Dravid, Jayasuriya, Ganguly, Ponting, Inzamam Ul Haq, Brian Lara
9. Jayasuriya
10. Misbah-ul-Haq
11. T Henderson

[smale25]

Well, nearly 8 months have gone by since India toured Australia. At that time, I had recommended that the result of the Syndey Test (Dt. Jan 2 - 6, 2008) be declared null and void on technical grounds. My arguments for this action had been posted on various forums including The Guardian and The Times.

Now, I want to record here that the game of spin and smokescreens thrown by the Australian media has well and truly begun. I have just finished hearing Ian Chappell's Match Analysis that the Australians were ahead of the game fully until the half-way stage in the just-concluded Bangalore test. This is patently untrue. The Australians had given the game away right on the first day. They had scored at a meagerly rate of 2.86 in their first innings. The score at the end of the first day was 254/4. Zaheer Khan has done commendable service to India by openly commenting about the Australians' below-par play.

[Johnmc]

I'm sure these are getting harder

1) Hayden, Sobers, Hutton and Jayasuriya
2) Jack Hobbs
3) Shahid Afridi
4)
5) Anil Kumble
6) McGrath to Atherton
7) Warne and Mark Waugh
8) Jayasuriya, Lara, Ponting, Gilchrist, Ganguly, Dravid
9) Jayasuriya (my answer to everything it seems)
10) Shoaib Malik
11) Tyrone Henderson (the only one I can say with real conviction)