Unusual Cricketing Mix Trivia Quiz

Answer: Sailed a boat singlehandedly across theTasman Sea

In 2006, Lee released a duet with India'n diva Asha Bhosle titled "You're the One For Me" - and it reached no.2 in the charts in both South Africa and India! In 2008, he acted in the Bollywood film titled "Victory", as well as launching his own range of designer underwear. Quite an all rounder!

Answer: Llewellyn

Ironically, Collis played for Glamorgan, the only Welsh cricket county, in the 1970's - and probably had the most "Welsh" name in the whole squad!

Answer: Medicine

Although he began his medical studies in Bristol in 1867, it wasn't until 12 years later, in 1879, that he was finally awarded his LRCP by the University of Edinburgh. His lengthy qualification period was apparently the source of some mirth to his fellow cricketers!

Answer: The Umpires' trousers

Yes, he blamed the Umpires' trousers - the umpires wear black trousers for Test Matches, where a red ball is used, and due to the low, slingy bowling action of Sri Lankan paceman Lasith Malinga, the New Zealand batsmen claimed they were "losing" the ball against the background of the dark trousers.

Answer: Out at sea

The Brambles Sandbank on the Solent (the stretch of sea separating the Isle of Wight from the English mainland) appears just once a year, for an hour. In that hour, sailors from both sailing clubs disembark from their boats, and set up a game of cricket on the Sandbank.

They also lay out a bar for refreshment, which they call "The Brambles Inn", whack a ball about with a bat until the incoming tide covers the sandbank, then jump back on their boats, putting all their cricket gear away for another year.

Answer: After a West Indian bowler of Chinese descent

One version of the story goes something like this - the English batsman Walter Robbins was facing the West Indian spinner, Elliot "Puss" Achong (who was of Chinese descent) at a Test match in Manchester in 1933. Achong was a left arm spinner, and he bowled a ball out of the back of his hand which turned in the opposite way to which the batsmen expected it to spin. Robbins was stumped out by the West Indian keeper, and stormed back to the dressing room - his first words when he got there were "Would you believe it? Bowled out by a b****y Chinaman!" - and the expression stuck in cricketing folklore from that moment onwards!

Another version says it was Patsy Hendren, and not Robbins, who made the utterance after being bowled by Achong on the latter's debut in Port-au-Spain on the 1929-1920 MCC tour of the West Indies, whilst another version attrbutes the comment to Maurice Leyland (who also played against Achong on various occasions). Achong is the common bond in all of these stories, so he's obviously at the root of this piece of cricket folklore somewhere!

Answer: All of these mentioned

The Hollywood Cricket Club was formed in the early 1930's by ex England captain Aubrey Smith, who had been coaching cricket at UCLA with Boris Karloff - which is an interesting diversion from waiting tables in between acting roles. Over the following years, all of the actors and writers mentioned appeared for the team at various times.

Answer: King of Spain

A large stock of mugs were ordered to celebrate various English cricketers, bearing different monickers for each player. Ashley Giles' mugs should have borne the expression "King of Spin", but somehow, an extra "a" got added, and Ashley was forever known from that day onwards as a Castilian Monarch!

Answer: His moustache

If you haven't seen a picture of Merv Hughes' moustache, I urge you to do an image search just to see it - the finest specimen of upper lip hair in world sport, I'd contend! Why he felt he needed to insure it though, nobody has ever worked out - I mean, it's not as if a mustache is going to have much effect on someone's sporting performance - or are we all missing the point here somewhere?

Answer: Milan

The Milan Cricket and Football Club was set up to provide Englishmen working in Milan with the opportunity of playing their favourite sport. The name remained until 1939, when it was renamed Associazione Calcio Milan - or as the club is better known in world footballing terms, simply AC Milan.