Quiz (sort of)
Neeran M. Karnik
Here's an interesting quiz question - this was originally posted on r.s.c.
by Nadeem Mohammed more than two years ago, so old-timers may recall the
answer.
In the first innings of a test match, only two balls have
been bowled by a bowler and the score board shows a total
of 12 runs with no extras. (No no-balls, no wides, etc.)
Both the batsmen have scored 6 runs apiece.
First of all, is this possible? If it is, how?
-- Neeran [Gopher] Karnik
David Quinlan
>From: kar...@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
>Subject: Quiz (sort of)
>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 00:10:57 GMT
>-- Neeran [Gopher] Karnik
OK...Here's an obscure answer.......
IST BALL: On playing a brilliant off drive :) through the field on a
slowish out field to the long boundry of the Adelaide Oval the batsman
complete three runs when the fielder realises he may concede a 5 all run.
Can't have that now can we. The fielder (let's just call him Crawley to
preserve his real identity) then helps the ball into the fence so as to only
concede 4 runs.
Oops!
The rule says if a fielder does that the batsmen retain the runs they have
made plus the four, a total of seven to the batsman's score.
Unfortunately the Waugh brothers were opening (selectors will try
anything to keep then in the side) and Umpire Parker calls Steve for one
short from square leg..... S.Waugh 6, M.Waugh 0,
2ND BALL: M.Waugh top edges Malcolm for 6.
Scoreboard 0/12 S.Waugh 6 M.Waugh 6 0.2 overs...
Well...you posted the question....
Dave
P.S Sorry about the unfortunate Ashes content but it seemed like a good idea
at the time....
Badrinarayanan Seshadri
* Here's an interesting quiz question - this was originally posted on r.s.c.
* by Nadeem Mohammed more than two years ago, so old-timers may recall the
* answer.
* In the first innings of a test match, only two balls have
* been bowled by a bowler and the score board shows a total
* of 12 runs with no extras. (No no-balls, no wides, etc.)
* Both the batsmen have scored 6 runs apiece.
* First of all, is this possible? If it is, how?
* -- Neeran [Gopher] Karnik
Don't remember seeing this but here is my answer. In
the first ball batsman-1 scores a single and an
overthrow from the fielder hits a helmet of some
fielder placed deliberately behind the wicket keeper
within the boundary. So he is awarded 5 more runs. I
quote the relevent law here (courtesy cricinfo):
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LAW 41.4. Fieldsman's Protective Helmets
Protective helmets, when not in use by members of the fielding
side, shall only be placed, if above the surface, on the ground
behind the Wicket-Keeper. In the event of the ball, when in
play, striking a helmet whilst in this position, five penalty
runs shall be awarded, as laid down in Law 41.1. and Note (a).
---------
The batsmen have crossed in the meantime. In the
second ball, the same thing happens or the batsman2
actually hits a 6.
--badri
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S.Badrinarayanan
Graduate Student
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
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Praim Sankar
1st ball to bat#1: he hits the ball and complete a single run. However,
the ball hits a helmet placed on the ground by a fieldsman, causing 5
penalty runs to be awarded to batsman #1 and to the score.
score: batsman # 1: 6
total 6
[ 4. Fieldsman's Protective Helmets
Protective helmets, when not in use by members of the
fielding side, shall only be placed, if above the surface, on the
ground behind the Wicket-Keeper. In the event of the ball, when
in play, striking a helmet whilst in this position, five penalty
runs shall be awarded, as laid down in Law 41.1. and Note (a).
NOTES
(a) Batsmen Changing Ends
The 5 runs referred to in 1. above are a penalty and
the Batsmen do not change ends solely by reason of this
penalty.
]
Batsman #2 is now the stricker and hits a six.
score : 12
each batsman now has 6
2 balls have been bowled.
Venkata Konda
I don't know if understood the question properly or not.
Anyway here is my answer.
Substituting for an injured bowler who has bowled 5 balls, the hero bowler
bowls the last ball of the over which is hit for a 6.
In his next over the second batsman facing our hero hits the first ball for another 6.
Trying to bowl the second ball of the current over, Hero injures himself :===)))
-Venkat
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Neeran M. Karnik
The newsfeed here has been reallllly erratic, which is why I haven't
followed up to the quiz till today. Anyway, the correct answers have
already been posted but here's a summary:
Solution 1:
Batsman 1 hits the first ball and takes 3 runs, after which an
overthrow results in 4 more runs - 7 in all. BUT, the umpire signals
one run short! So 6 runs to batsman 1 and now batsman 2 is on strike.
Of course, he can now score 6 runs off 1 ball in several different ways -
a sixer, getting overthrows, etc.
Solution 2:
The helmet rule is used here - batsman 1 hits the first ball for 1 run,
but the ball also hits the helmet kept on the ground - that's a penalty
of 5 runs. Again, we have 6 runs to batsman 1 and batsman 2 is now on
strike....
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| Neeran M. Karnik | Amol Muzumdar in first-class cricket: |
| Dept. of CompSci.| Mch Inng NO Runs HiS Avg. 100 50 0 |
| U of Minnesota | 14 24 5 1410 260* 74.21 4 9 1 |
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Shivanand Bhajekar
>Solution 2:
> The helmet rule is used here - batsman 1 hits the first ball for 1 run,
> but the ball also hits the helmet kept on the ground - that's a penalty
> of 5 runs. Again, we have 6 runs to batsman 1 and batsman 2 is now on
> strike....
Isn't "ball hitting the helmet" counted as extras? Can
somebody confirm?
--
shivanand
Ron Knight
against illegal fielding, and has the same penalty (see Law 41.4).
Law 41.1 describes how the penalty for illegal fielding is scored:
If the ball has been struck, the penalty shall be added to
the score of the Striker, but otherwise to the score of
byes, leg-byes, no balls or wides as the case may be.
Also, just to confirm that this solution to the quiz is correct,
the Note to Law 41 affirms that the 5 runs are a penalty, and the
Batsmen do not change ends because of the award of an odd number
of runs.
--
Ron Knight (r...@med.unc.edu)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
I can't speak for UNC-CH, and UNC-CH can't speak for me.
It's better for both of us.
Stephen Devaux
cricket. The answers are readily available in Wisden and other
references, so please don't look 'em up until you've taken the quiz.
"Remember, little boys and girls, the only person you'll be cheating is
yourself..."
1. Read thru questions 2 to 10. Now, what is the "theme" of this quiz?
2. Who is the only player to score five centuries in a single Test
series?
3. Who is the only player since World War II to score five first class
double centuries in one season?
4. Who is the only player to participate in two 500+ run
first class partnerships?
5. What player scored over 4000 Test runs, but hit only one Test sixer,
and that off a no ball?
6. Who is the only player with double figures both in Test wickets and
Test stumpings?
7. Who is the only player to twice score in the 190's not out against
England?
8. Who is the only player to score five Test centuries in a row?
9. Who is the only player to carry his bat through a completed innings
in a Test match in England, while also opening the bowling in both
England innings?
10. What player scored over 3500 Test runs, with only one duck?
Hope you enjoy.
Fraternally in cricket,
Steve the Bajan
Stephen Devaux
>
>In article <3i07k8$h...@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>, sde...@ix.netcom.com
(Stephen Devaux) writes:
>]>
>]> 8. Who is the only player to score five Test centuries in a row?
>
>
> I may be wrong, but shouldn't that be "four Test centuries in a
> row" ?
>
Nope. Sorry. Five.
> Syed
Stephen Devaux
almost didn't bother posting the answers. But, since someone out there
MIGHT have read it and wondered about the answers, here goes:
>
>The following is a little quiz based on both Test and first class
>cricket. The answers are readily available in Wisden and other
>references, so please don't look 'em up until you've taken the quiz.
>"Remember, little boys and girls, the only person you'll be cheating is
>yourself..."
>
>1. Read thru questions 2 to 10. Now, what is the "theme" of this quiz?
The three W's. The answers to the questions are either Walcott, Weekes
or Worrell (3 each).
>
>2. Who is the only player to score five centuries in a single Test
>series?
Clyde Walcott, 1955, vs. Australia. (Also, centuries in both innings of
2 Tests.)
>3. Who is the only player since World War II to score five first class
>double centuries in one season?
Everton Weekes, 1950, WI tour of England.
>
>4. Who is the only player to participate in two 500+ run
>first class partnerships?
Frank Worrell. Both unbroken. 502* for 4th wicket vs. Trinidad,
1944, with John Goddard (Worrell 308*, Goddard 218*), then 574* for 4th
wicket vs. Trinidad, 1946, with Clyde Walcott (Worrell 255*, Walcott
314*)
>5. What player scored over 4000 Test runs, but hit only one Test
sixer, and that off a no ball?
Everton Weekes. Three years ago, when I asked him about it in a bar in
Barbados, he smiled at me and said, "Son, remember, whatever you do in
life: Control!"
>6. Who is the only player with double figures both in Test wickets and
>Test stumpings?
Clyde Walcott, eleven of each, the wickets at a cost of 37.09.
>7. Who is the only player to twice score in the 190's not out against
>England?
Frank Worrell, who carried his bat at Nottingham in '57 for 191*, and
then scored 197* at Barbados in '60, when he shared in a partnership
with Sobers of 399 for the 4th wicket, but only scored 16 runs before
lunch on the final day and was left stranded when Alexander declared.
>8. Who is the only player to score five Test centuries in a row?
>
Everton Weekes. 141 in the 4th and final Test vs. England in '48, then
toured India in '48-'49, scoring 128, 194, 162 and 101 in his only
innings in the first 3 Tests. In the first innings of the 4th Test, he
was run out for 90.
>9. Who is the only player to carry his bat through a completed innings
>in a Test match in England, while also opening the bowling in both
>England innings?
>
Frank Worrell, in the Nottingham Test mentioned above.
>10. What player scored over 3500 Test runs, with only one duck?
>
Clyde Walcott, at Brisbane in 1950, lbw to Lindwall.
>Hope you enjoy.
(ed)