Newsletter Quiz

The first Test century at the WACA was scored by Englishman, Brian Luckhurst, who made 131 in the first Test ever played there in the 1970-71 season. Later in the same Test Greg Chappell made his debut Test century (108) helped by Ian Redpath who made his highest Test score (171). John Edrich made 115 notout in the English second innings. TCBC regular John Gleeson captured 3-68 off 32 overs in the second innings bowling his finger spun leg breaks.

URGENT City Volunteers Needed For Country Music Duties

The following are the City responsibilities for the Country Music Rosters. If you can assist, contact Deb Batley asap, 0488 024 567 bellanish@bigpond.com

SATURDAY 8/1/11
Boom Gates at Carters St Entrance
6:00 am - 9:00am (Dan, Paul & Kathy Lawrence)
9:00am - 12:00pm (Terry Skewes, Rod Pryor + need one more)
12:00pm - 6:00pm need at least three at all times but can be broken in three hour shift
6:00pm - 9:00pm (Terry Skewes, Deb Batley + need one more)

FRIDAY 14/01/11
Showers 6-00am-9-30am -2 people
4-00pm to 8-00pm- 2 two people
Canteen 7-00 to 9-30am -1 person.

Cooking of rolls- 1 person.

THURSDAY 20/01/11
Showers 6-00am - 9-30am -2 people
4-00pm to 8-00pm- 2 people
Canteen 7-00-9-30am – 1 person
Cooking of rolls -3 with assistance from your canteen assistance and in need 1 from the showers. 7-00am-9-00am
Camp Store any assistance welcome at night especially between 7-00am and 9-00/9-30pm if possible.

November Meeting

At the November meeting, the following matters were discussed and in some cases, decisions made.

• Claude pointed out that we have supplies of playing shirts and caps available. Anyone who needs these items should see him
• Exciting to see new sponsors coming on board in the area of targeted programs. Espresso Addami are sponsoring the pants of the first grade day/night strip and Monogram It the shirts. Additional sponsors are soon to be announced to cover the cost of the City dress shirts so that they will be free to players who have payed their fees in full . The first of these is Six Nines Imagery and the others will be announced within the week.
• Paul Fisher and Alison Callcott have done an excellent job in selecting the new club dress shirt and it was approved by the meeting
• President Terry Skewes praised the efforts of Chris Langston in running the club BBQ last Saturday night after breaking and dislocating his finger in first grade that afternoon and then spending a couple of hours at the A&E Dept of the hospital
• Phil Hood finalised the roster for putting and removing the covers at Riverside 1 during the Country Championships this week. If you are available, he could always use more helpers so ring Phil
• the meeting decided to form a "Future Committee" to look at setting some longer term goals for City United. Peter Langston, Claude Orenstein, Terry Skewes, Cory Callcott, Chris Langston and Richie O'Halloran were suggested as members of the committee. Everyone will have an input.
• as club members will be attending a BBQ at No.1 Oval on 11th December for the day/nighter, they are reminded to be a presence at the Tamworth City Bowling Club on the Friday night. We have a wonderfully supportive relationship which we all have a responsibility to protect.
• Captains will appoint someone to be responsible for handing our newsletters on the first day of each game. If you'd like the job, just tell the skipper.

Last Week's Newsletter Quiz

The reward lapsed last week when no one answered the question correctly. The last man to take a hatrick in Tests for England was Ryan Sidebottom, playing against New Zealand in March 2008. Steven Fleming, playing in his last Test, was the first man out.

The Cricket Tragics

For the latest on international cricket and the opportunity to pass your own comments, check out The Cricket Tragics Contributions from City luminaries such as Cory Callcott and Simon Hood in just the last few days on topics as diverse as restrictions on junior cricketers and the Aussie squad for the first Test of the Ashes in Brisbane next week.

A little known fact....

The first testicular guard (box) was used in cricket in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974.

It took 100 years for men to realise that their brains could also be important... this could not be true for City players. Could it?

Terry Skewes

CityQuiz

Thanks you one and all for a fun diversion. Congratulations to Deb Batley, who will be presented with her prize - a voucher for the State of Mind Melody & Lyrics Store, courtsey of the Quizmaster - at the Presentation Night on 17th April.

CityQuiz 53

Who are the four Test cricketers who have scored a double century and taken more than 200 wickets?

Wasim Akram, Ian Botham, Jason Gillespie & Gary Sobers

CityQuiz 52

Who is is the only non-Australian to hold the record for the highest Test score on an Australian ground and why is it most unusual?

RE Foster 287 at the SCG. He was on debut and ... (a point still available if you can complete what I need)
Okay, I'll take the other point. Foster's 287 is the highest score on debut in Test cricket.

CityQuiz 51

Who was the first bowler to take five wickets in an innings in a one-day international?

Dennis Lillee

CityQuiz 50

Who is the only Australian bowler to take a “pfeiffer” in his only Test match?

Mick Malone

CityQuiz49

(That's the biggest lead anyone has had in CityQuiz. Still plenty of time)

Which leg spin bowler has the highest Test batting average (minimum 30 Test innings)?

Don Bradman

CityQuiz 48

Apart from the fact he is the only Sri Lankan to achieve the feat, was else is unique about Demuni Zoysa's Test hatrick?

Zoysa's hatrick came with the first three deliveries of the Test against Zimbabwe

CityQuiz47

Everton Weekes holds the record for hundreds in consecutive Test innings – five. Who is the Australian batsman who scored four?

Jack Fingleton

CityQuiz46

Who was the first New Zealander to reach 200 Test wickets?

Clarrie Grimmett

CityQuiz45

Where and when was the first ball bowled in first-class cricket in Australia? (I’ll accept the year but must have an exact ground)

NTCA Ground, Launceston, 11th February, 1851, Tas vs Vic

CityQuiz44

Of overseas Test players (players who played their Test cricket for countries other than Australia), who took the most career Sheffield Shield/Pura Cup wickets?

Tony Lock

CityQuiz43

Which left arm Australian bowler is in the top ten list of all time best economy rates in one-day internationals (min of 2000 deliveries)?

Mike Whitney

City Quiz42

Which Australian cricketer has been 12th man the most times without ever playing a Test?

Jack Potter - 3 times

CityQuiz41

In 2005, Inside Sport and the Channel 9 Cricket Commentary Team selected the best six catches in one day internationals played in Australia since 1977. Who was the only overseas player in their selection?
Hint(23/3) 21:30: The Australians were Mark Waugh, Mark Taylor, Steve Waugh, Dean Jones & Andrew Symonds.
Further Hint(24/3) 17:00: It's a player from the sub-continent
Last Hint (24/3) 20:30: He's an Indian
CLOSING THIS ONE WHEN I GO TO BED.

The name you needed (and Rod had at a second attempt) was Rahul Dravid. It was a very sharp catch near the umpire at square leg. I'm for bed ... more tomorrow.

CityQuiz40

What do John Dyson, James Franklin, Wayne Larkins, Stuart MacGill and Andy Roberts have in common?

Hint: Andrew Hilditch
Further Hint: Glen McGrath & Norm O'Neill
Last Hint (23/3): You are looking for somewhere these guys all played (not at once!)
The question shuts at noon today.
I'm surprised someone did score on this one ... they all played for Sutherland DCC in the Sydney 1st Grade competition. 1 point to the Quizmaster again!

CityQuiz39

Bradman famously scored two triple centuries at Headingley, Leeds. Which left-hander has the next highest score of any cricketer representing Australia at the highest level possible on this ground?

Karen Rolton, 209 v England in 2001. It's all in the wording.

CityQuiz38

Who created this famous cartoon comment on the plight of the 1974-75 English touring team in Australia?

Paul Rigby

CityQuiz37

In the season of reunification 1979-80, Australia flogged England but the Poms refused to play for the Ashes. In the Perth match, three unusual things happened: one controversial, one twice as unlucky as normal and one a harmonic dismissal which commentators might wait a career for, yet miss. Name all three things.

Lillee batted with an aluminium bat; Boycott and Hughes both scored 99; Lillee c Willey, b Dilley.

City Quiz36

Which team won the first Australian domestic limited overs one-day competition?

New Zealand

CityQuiz35

Which is the only nation to host Test matches without ever playing a Test (excluding the nations of the West Indies)?

United Arab Emirates

CityQuiz34 - This question will close tomorrow at noon.

Of current Test bowlers, what two significant things do the two bowlers who have taken the most Test wickets against Australia have in common?
18/3/10 Hint - what is the chink in Warne's bowling record?
19/3/10 8:30am - Rod Pryor has found the right answer, so it's possible. The point is still available.

Okay, so the stunning and significant remaining thing Harbajan and Murali have in common is their failure to be successful in Australia. Both have stunning records whose sore thumb is Australia (just as Warne was a failure on the subcontinent). Well done Rod, who eventually worked it out. Not every question will be a simple Google job! I win a point for the first time.

CityQuiz33

Which keeper holds the record for the most career stumpings in Sheffield Shield/Pura Cup matches?

Charlie Walker

CityQuiz32

(Click to play)
Who is speaking and who is he speaking about? Harold "Dickie" Bird talking about Geoff Boycott

CityQuiz31

Who said, early in 1980 … “playing against a team with Ian Chappell as a captain turns a cricket match into gang warfare” … and what is strange about his statement? (answer both parts for the point)

The quote was from Mike Brearley. The unusual thing about it is that Brearley never played a Test match against a side captained by Ian Chappell.

City Quiz30

Which batsman, who in a long career was the best of his generation with the bat in all forms of cricket except Tests, had a first class batting average double his Test average but had a Test bowling average (one which is better than Alec Bedser, Shane Warne and Courtney Walsh) half his first class average and included match winning figures of 10fa?

Michael Bevan

CityQuiz29

What Chappelli era batsman was told he was dropped during a Test match and blazed a second inning century after Chappelli promoted him up the order and told him to "go out there and show the bastards."?

John Benaud - brother of Richie - who blazed 142 in the second innings of the 2nd Test against Pakistan at Melbourne in 1972-3 ... a kid from Bankstown by the name of Thomson debuted in the same game, took 0-110 and the press marked him "never play again".

CityQuiz28

Who was the Australian first class batsman who averaged 207.00 in first class cricket but was never selected for Austrlalia?

Norm Calloway, who played one game for NSW before enlisting in the First World War and being killed in action.

CityQuiz27

Who wrote, in 1947, of the recent ill feeling in the Ashes series of 1946-47 ...
"He was a good and shrewd leader but not a generous one. He could have made one or two gestures, particularly he should have ordered his fast men, Lindwall and Miller, to cut down the big crop of bumpers. It semed to me, however, that Bradman, when confronted by an MCC cap, could neither forget or forgive the bodyline tour."

Jack Fingleton

CityQuiz26

Three parts to this question, each worth a point and I'll accept part answers.

1. Name the five players pictured in this touring side who during their careers captained Australia (name all five for the point);

2. Name the touring side (destination & season)

3. What was the controversy surrounding this touring side?

Click on the picture to enlarge.

1. Benaud, Harvey, Jarman, Craig, Simpson

2. 1957-58 Tour of South Africa

3. Many thought that Neil Harvey should have been selected as captain over the younger and less experienced Ian Craig. Harvey missed out again twelve months later when Benaud got the job.

CityQuiz25

Langers is batting to save the first grade final against Norths at No.1 Oval. He goes to cut a ball from a spinner, gets a top edge and the ball goes straight up in the air. Just as the wicketkeeper is about to take the catch, he takes a second strike at the ball, hits it to point, where a fielder takes the catch. The fielder throws the ball in the air and a general appeal goes up.
What's the umpires decision and why?

The batsman on strike is out obstructing the field by preventing the keeper from taking the catch.

CityQuiz24

Which former Australia Test batsman also played international rugby for Australia?

CityQuiz23

Who was the first man to take 8 or more wickets in an innings of Test match?

George Lohmann 8-35, Aust v England 1987.

CityQuiz22

Who did Don Bradman pick to bat at No.3, when asked in the 1990's to select his greatest World XI of all time?

Don Bradman

We have a new leader - better get back in the game Cory. No more restrictions.

CityQuiz 21

Who is this Australian player who played his only Test match in the 1970's?

Former South Australian opener, Ashley Woodcook.

CityQuiz20

Can you name the former England fast bowler?
Chris Old

City Juniors

City United juniors capped a great season in junior club cricket and junior representative cricket with a well attended presentation night held at the Longyard Hotel on Saturday night. Hamish Batley, Pat Dwyer, Daniel Lawrence, Ryan Hansen, Simon Bellamy & Leo Steyn all attended, as well as Simon Hood who was the U/12 rep team coach.

Hamish Batley was runner up in the rep player of the year, taking 23 wickets @8.48 and scoring 281 runs @ 31.22 in the U/14 team. Daniel Lawrence took the bowling aggregate and average for the Under 16s and finished 4th in the rep player of the year award. Rep players earn points on the basis of runs scored and wickets and catches taken.

Thanks to Deb Batley for the information and to Nikki Hanson for the photos.

CityQuiz19

What two unique records does leg spinner Jimmy Matthews hold?

The only bowler to take a hatrick in both innings of the same match and the only bowler to take two hatricks on the same day of a Test.

CityQuiz18

Who (fieldsman - non wicketkeeper) has taken the most catches in a Test match on debut?

YAJURVINDRA SINGH (India) - 7 catches v England 1977

CityQuiz17

Who is the only player in world cricket to have a batting average more than 50 in Test and ODI cricket?

MIKE HUSSEY

CityQuiz16

Which international cricketer who has played cricket for two countries and first class cricket on three continents, retired from first class cricket having never played a Test so that he could further his career in international T20 and ODI cricket?

DIRK NANNES

CityQuiz15

It's the 1st Grade Final, 2011/12. City have made 243 on the Saturday and the Bective reply is at 9-242 as stumps approaches on the Sunday.

The second last over before stumps has been a tense one with Jones playing and missing several times. With the last delivery of the over, Jones takes a big swing, sends the ball high and wide to midwicket. The ball goes so high that the batsmen cross twice and are on their third run before City skipper Callcott takes the catch. The City boys immediate reaction to the catch is to celebrate, running round in circles and patting and hugging each other, ignoring everyone, including the umpires. Umpire Steve Lalor waits for several seconds and then calls "over"and moves to square leg.

After the call of "over", Jones and Everingham have punched gloves and raised their fists and run toward the gate at No.1, passing the celebrating City players and causing them to look back toward the umpires. Callcott calls to umpire Lalor, "howzat!".

Who fins the final, why and under what Law of cricket?

Tendulkar - Is He The Greatest?

See a good article on Sachin Tendulkar by following the link to The Cricket Tragics http://thecricketragics.blogspot.com

City United website stats at Friday 16th February. (Click to enlarge)

Basically, the home page of the site has averaged 499 hits per week since it commenced on 16/10/09. Bective East is the only other club with an "active" website, altough their activity is limited to very few weekly updates. They have been operating for a year longer and they average 217 hits a week (still very good for a sporting club).

Thanks for using our site and making it successful.

CityQuiz14

Who said "I remain a religious person to the delight of my parents. I pray every night before going to sleep; occasionally I pray for success on the field."
(See Comments for clues)

CityQuiz13

Who was the first wicket keeper to achieve 100 dismissals in Ashes Tests?

ROD MARSH - Chris Langston

CityQuiz12

If Dr Who could gather these post-WWII English players together, what would they have in common as an English Test team?

Andrew Strauss, Mike Breirley, Colin Cowdrey, Nasser Hussain, Tony Greig, Ted Dexter, Gerraint Jones, Gubby Allen, Freddy Brown, Derrick Pringle, Andy Caddick. Dermott Reeve 12th man.

NONE OF THEM WERE BORN IN ENGLAND - Jack Mitchell

CityQuiz11

The highest Test team score without a bye is over 700. Who was the frugal keeper?

TATENDA TAIBU (Zimbabwe) - Cory Callcott

CityQuiz10

Who is the most recent batsman to be given out handled the ball in Test cricket?

MICHAEL VAUGHAN - Cory Callcott

CityQuiz9

Three countries starting with the letter “N” have played international cricket. New Zealand is one of them. Who are the other two?

The NETHERLANDS & NAMIBIA - Michael Bellamy

CityQuiz8

Which young batsman - who had just scored a pair on debut, facing only ten balls in the process - was Ian Chappell talking about, when, in the post match press conference after Australia had won by an innings, he stunned the media by declaring, “oh he’s going to be a goodun’. He had to be a hell of a bat just to get near the ball he edged off Thommo in the second innings!”
GRAHAM GOOCH - Jack Mitchell

City Website - Hits of the Week

These stats are taken on Friday mornings for the preceding week.

CityQuiz7

Beside scoring 107 & 56, what is remarkable about Rodney Redmond’s debut Test for New Zealand against Pakistan in 1973?

It was first and last Test match. He retired from first class cricket soon after with eye problems. - Michael Bellamy

Answer by cicking on "Comments" below. Type in answer, then select "Name/URL" and type in name.

CityQuiz6

Name this international cricketer.

YOUNIS KHAN, Pakistan - Simon Hood

CityQuiz5

What's the highest score made in Test cricket on debut?

287 by RE FOSTER at the SCG, 11/12/1903 - Jack Mitchell

Website Stats

Click on the chart to the right to see stats on the average number of hits per week on the City United website.

CityQuiz4

Lango hails from the Sutherland Shire, in Sydney. Which former international cricketer is the fastest he has ever faced?

West Indian fast bowler, ANDY ROBERTS - Chris Langston

CityQuiz3

Who is the only Australian to twice score 400 in a first class innings?

BILL PONSFORD - Luke O'Connor

CityQuiz2

In the history of the Allan Border Medal presentations, across his career, who is the only cricketer to have won the Allan Border Medal, Test Player of the Year, Bradman Young Cricketer Award and would have won the ODI Cricketer of the Year but for a count back?

BRETT LEE - Cory Callcott

CityQuiz1

What one Test wonder for Australia first made his mark by quiting his job, driving to Adelaide and knocking on the door of the Cricket Academy and asking for a chance?

PAUL WILSON - Luke O'Connor

First in, best dressed but only one go per player. Answer by clicking on the "Comments", write your answer and add your name at the "Name/URL" button.