Christmas Quiz: Answers

Thanks to everyone who emailed me with their answers to the Christmas quiz. Hope you enjoyed it. The regular weekly quiz (not for prizes) resumes next Monday. If any of our most devout quizzers fancies setting some tough questions for their fellow blog-readers then drop me a line.

Answers to the Christmas quiz are below and many congratulations to Jatender Heer, Mohsin Ansari, Nathan Ley, Nilesh Jain and Murali Pathasarathy who win the prize of a year's subscription to The Wisden Cricketer for their accuracy and promptness in replying. I'll be in touch to get your addresses. Bad luck everyone else but thanks for entering.

Answer 1 Marcus Trescothick and Alastair Cook had their birthday on Christmas Day

Answer 2 So did Trescothick and Simon Jones of the 2005 Ashes team

Answer 3 AR Lewis (get him back on the telly) was the man who hit the winning runs on Christmas Day 1972

Answer 4 Australia and West Indies were the first Test teams to play on Christmas Day

Answer 5 Bradman was out first ball and could get down to his turkey early

Answer 6 Graeme Smith was this year's best batsman

Answer 7 Sehwag scored the year's only triple-hundred; there were double hundreds for Laxman, Gambhir, De Villiers, McKenzie and Smith

Answer 8 Shiv Chanderpaul averaged 101 in 2008. Winning in West Indies remains tough

Answer 9 Shaun Marsh had the IPL's orange cap

Answer 10 19 batsmen have scored more first-class hundreds than Ramprakash

Answer 11 The six bowlers to take more than 50 Test wickets were Steyn, Johnson, Harbhajan, Lee, Vettori and Ntini

Answer 12 Mitchell Johnson had the best innings figures, Jason Krejza the best match

Answer 13 Jacob Oram was the year's most economical bowler

Answer 14 Sohail Tanvir won the IPL's purple cap

Answer 15 Callum Thorp was Durham's final-match hero

Answer 16 Mark Boucher is the year's top keeper

Answer 17 Australia (Haddin and Gilchrist)

Answer 18 Haddin hit the highest hundred by a keeper (169)

Answer 19 Sangakkara was named as the ICC's Test wicketkeeper despite barely keeping in 2008

Answer 20 England's ten wicketkeepers since 2001 (designated keepers rather than stand-ins) are: Foster, Stewart, Jones, Read, Prior, Nixon, Ambrose, Mustard, Solanki and Trescothick. With Steve Davies set to be the 11th in 2009.

Answer 21 Bradman's cap

Answer 22 Overseas players came in in 1968 - not as one writer suggested, Graham Gooch

Answer 23 Score a hundred and take eight wickets in an innings

Answer 24 India refused visas to the South Africa rebel tourists

Answer 25 1900

Answer 26 The cable-knit woollen cricket jumper

Answer 27 India won the Lawyers World Cup

Answer 28 England won the Hong Kong Sixes this year

Answer 29 Scyld Berry is the new Editor of Wisden

Answer 30 Ravi Bopara was young player of the year

Answer 31 Kevin Pietersen to Yuvraj Singh

Answer 32 Paul Collingwood

Answer 33 Jerry Lewis

Answer 34 Darren Gough (surprisingly, someone suggested Anil Kumble)

Answer 35 Pietersen again

Answer 36 Allen Stanford, wealthy Texan

Answer 37 Haroon Lorgat, ICC chief exec

Answer 38 Giles Clarke, ECB chairman

Answer 39 Preity Zinta, Bollywood actress and IPL club owner

Answer 40 Reg Dickason, ECB security adviser