Trivia question

[withdeanwombat]

Jim Parks.

Matt Prior.

 

[8ace]

No, not sure he got a test match century

Him and Woolley were both gueses as they both scored a lot of first class runs back in the day.

 

[Hiney]

Patsy Hendren
APF Chapman

 

[Gwylan]

Not Prior, Parks, Woolley or Chapman

As I said, double international, played for Yorkshire

 

[Brovion]

...and I don't think made double figures.

There was another Parker too - Charlie, who took over 3,200 wickets and, incredibly, only played once for England.

To be fair he wasn't always available when England needed him as his career as a jazz musician also took up a lot of his time.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Is the last one Hoppo?

 

[Gwylan]

To be fair he wasn't always available when England needed him as his career as a jazz musician also took up a lot of his time.

Yes and his hardline heroin addiction wouldn't have helped.

 

[Gwylan]

For those who wanted to know, the last one is Willie Watson (in 1953 when England won back the Ashes).

Next, I'll do Australians ....


... nah, not really

 

[Lady Whistledown]

For those who wanted to know, the last one is Willie Watson (in 1953 when England won back the Ashes).

Next, I'll do Australians ....


... nah, not really

Go on, I missed a go at this one.

Or is the list too long?

 

[Uncle Buck]

Are any of them Victorians?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Didn't four out of their top five score centuries at Lord's in 1993?

And the fifth (Mark Waugh?) got out for 99?

So that'd have been, what, Mark Taylor, Border, Steve Waugh and one other I think.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Are any of them Victorians?

No, but Big Merv Hughes is

 

[Uncle Buck]

Didn't four out of their top five score centuries at Lord's in 1993?

And the fifth (Mark Waugh?) got out for 99?

So that'd have been, what, Mark Taylor, Border, Steve Waugh and one other I think.

But are any of them Victorians? What about Warney, Big Merv or Simon O'Donnell?

 

[Uncle Buck]

No, but Big Merv Hughes is

He showed a lot of guts.

 

[Gwylan]

Go on, I missed a go at this one.

Or is the list too long?

OK then

It's much, much longer than the England list though

Let's say it's 27 (although it could be 26, as one wasn't an official Ashes test and it could be 28 as an Australian has scored a test century at Lord's but not against England).


Just for you Edna, supply the list of 27 Australians who have scored a century against England at Lord's

 

[Gwylan]

Didn't four out of their top five score centuries at Lord's in 1993?

And the fifth (Mark Waugh?) got out for 99?

So that'd have been, what, Mark Taylor, Border, Steve Waugh and one other I think.

Three of them did (I was there for the first day and very depressing it was)

Mark Taylor is right - that's 26 to go

(and Border and Steve Waugh are right too - but not in 1993 - that's 24 to go)

I'll say one thing: I'm a big cricket buff but I'd never even heard of one of the players who did it. I'd have guessed most of the rest though.

 

[Uncle Buck]

M.J. Clarke
M.E. Waugh
M.A. Taylor
M.J. Slater
D.C. Boon

 

[Uncle Buck]

S.R. Waugh
A.R. Border
G.M. Wood
K.J. Hughes
G.S. Chappell
W.M. Lawry: - Got him

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I'm going to take a gamble and go for Don Bradman

 

[Uncle Buck]

A.L. Hassett
K.R. Miller
A.R. Morris
W.A. Brown
D.G. Bradman
W.A. Brown