Sports Trivia Game

[philippe]

He is talking about the footballworldcup

 

[ainwood]

Yes, he is. But his clue said (explicitly) that it was NOT football.

 

[MCdread]

The only professional player of the football team was not professional at football, but at cricket. That's I meant.

 

[Flatlander Fox]

Polymath got it...

I thought the only world cup was in soccer...

 

[polymath]

OK, the qestion is:
Who was the youngest ever seed at Wimbledon. (Male seed, I'm not sure about the ladies championship).

 

[andycapp]

Bromwich, or Boris Becker - I think.

 

[polymath]

nope (to save time I'll only respond to the correct answer from now on)

 

[duke o' york]

Well it can't be Brigitte Bardot so it must be the other BB - Bjorn Borg!

PS - I don't want a list of famous people whose names are alliterative with B, I have played "drink while you think" in the past and am rather good at it.

 

[polymath]

It was indeed the Iceborg - fire away!

 

[duke o' york]

Brian Lara holds the world record for the highest individual innings in Test cricket of 375 runs but where did he set this record?

 

[ainwood]

It was somewhere in the west-indies. Was it Barbados? (or are you actually wanting the name of the ground?)

 

[duke o' york]

Er, sorry about that. Name of the ground please.

 

[ainwood]

Kensington oval?

 

[duke o' york]

In the same way you did, I'll only announce when someone has won, but it's the Kennington Oval anyway.
Keep trying everyone.

 

[ainwood]

I assume you mean its not then Kensington Oval.

How 'bout St Johns?

Or Sabana Park?



(and they're the only other WI grounds I can remember )

 

[duke o' york]

It's St John's! You have the next question, although it seemed highly unlikely that anyone else would since they didn't bother to even guess.

 

[ainwood]

I remembered seeing it on TV when I was (a bit!) younger, so knew it was in the West-Indies. Didn't explicitly know the ground though. It was against England, wasn't it???


Anyway, to annoy the Americans ( ), I'll stick with the gentlemens' game:

Who was the youngest ever spin bowler to take 100 test wickets?

 

[andycapp]

Daniel Vettori?

 

[duke o' york]

I knew that one!
Too slow - in future if there are any more cricket questions, I'll have to remember not to take a lunch break!
Hmmm..... Kiwis asking questions about their sportsmen whereas I asked about England getting thrashed all over the park.

Oh yeah, about Lara, when he made the highest total in first class cricket, he had a contract with a British jeans company and they were going to release a new range with his total on. Does anyone reckon that Warwickshire were taking the piss by declaring when he was on 501, already famously trademarked?

 

[ainwood]

Originally posted by andycapp
Daniel Vettori?

Yep!

Originally posted by Duke o' York
Oh yeah, about Lara, when he made the highest total in first class cricket, he had a contract with a British jeans company and they were going to release a new range with his total on. Does anyone reckon that Warwickshire were taking the piss by declaring when he was on 501, already famously trademarked?

Good thing he wasn't being sponsored by M$