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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1350 on: June 28, 2013, 10:11:42 PM »
Quick quiz question whilst we wait for the Ashes to get under way.

At which ground did Frederick Spofforth return match figures of 14 for 37 for the Australians against an England XI?
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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1351 on: June 29, 2013, 12:06:34 AM »
Quote from: Steve Rose on June 28, 2013, 10:11:42 PM
Quick quiz question whilst we wait for the Ashes to get under way.

At which ground did Frederick Spofforth return match figures of 14 for 37 for the Australians against an England XI?

Blimey. I know he took fourteen wickets at The Oval in 1882 against England (been reading up on my Ashes history in preparation) but that was for a lot more than 37, Nope, dunno.
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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1352 on: June 29, 2013, 12:08:33 AM »
Quote from: Plumbutt Cooper on June 29, 2013, 12:06:34 AM
Quote from: Steve Rose on June 28, 2013, 10:11:42 PM
Quick quiz question whilst we wait for the Ashes to get under way.

At which ground did Frederick Spofforth return match figures of 14 for 37 for the Australians against an England XI?

Blimey. I know he took fourteen wickets at The Oval in 1882 against England (been reading up on my Ashes history in preparation) but that was for a lot more than 37, Nope, dunno.

Aston Lower Grounds?
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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1353 on: June 29, 2013, 08:14:19 AM »
Mr w is correct on may26 1884 - 7-34 and 7-3 .
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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1354 on: June 29, 2013, 09:04:11 AM »
It is indeed the Aston Lower Grounds, one of only two first class matches played on the old cricket ground.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1355 on: June 29, 2013, 11:14:44 AM »
That's what I call a low scoring game! Probably not a great wicket then?
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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1356 on: June 29, 2013, 02:02:42 PM »
Buffalo Bill must have fucked it up.
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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1357 on: June 29, 2013, 02:03:54 PM »
No, I'm talking shite. Just checked and that was three years afterwords.
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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1358 on: June 29, 2013, 03:06:04 PM »
Quote from: Plumbutt Cooper on June 29, 2013, 11:14:44 AM
That's what I call a low scoring game! Probably not a great wicket then?

I think the ground/wicket must have been fairly new. From what I could make out the land had been used by us before moving to Perry Barr, by Birchfield when they first started up and only shows as a cricket ground on maps from the early 1880s onwards.

Then again, maybe the English batsmen were crap.
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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1359 on: June 30, 2013, 10:35:49 AM »
Got to laugh at the Essex vs England toss, Bopara won and said 'it looks like a great pitch to put runs on the board, so we'll have a bowl.' It was very funny.
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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1360 on: June 30, 2013, 11:29:52 AM »
Cook gone for 18 to Tymal Mills bowling at 90 mph looks a prospect.
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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1361 on: June 30, 2013, 12:21:59 PM »
Oh shit, Root looks injured.
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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1362 on: June 30, 2013, 12:23:29 PM »
Hopefully just an impact injury.
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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1363 on: June 30, 2013, 12:28:30 PM »
Root gone for 41.
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Re: The Cricket Thread 2013
« Reply #1364 on: June 30, 2013, 01:45:18 PM »
Mills gets Trott, he looks a good bowler.
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