Test Cricket in the 1960s Trivia Quiz

Answer: Frank Worrell (WI)

The West Indies captain Frank Worrell scored 65 in both West Indies innings. Gary Sobers scored 132 and 14 and Norm O'Neill scored 181 and 26. Alan Davidson became the first player in Test cricket to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a Test match. He made 44 and 80 and took 11 wickets for the match.
Quite a few other players scored 50 runs or more in one innings being from Australia (Simpson, MacDonald, Benaud) and from the West Indies (Solomon, Alexander, Hall, Kanhai).

Answer: 12

There were a total of 12 making their Test debuts. Five from New Zealand (Bartlett, Barton, Cameron, Dick and Motz) and from South Africa there were seven (Barlow, Bland, Bromfield, Elgie, Lawrence, P. Pollock and Walter).
South Africa won this match by 30 runs and of the debutants Peter Pollock made the most impact by taking 9 wickets for the match.

Answer: Nari Contractor

Nari Contractor lead India to their first series win against England in 1961-1962 winning the series 2-0. He had previously lead India to a 5 match drawn series against Pakistan in 1960-1961.
Gulabrai Ramchand lead India to their first series win against Australia on home soil in 1959-1960. Nawab of Pataudi Jr. captained India to their first ever overseas series victory, which was against New Zealand in 1967-1968. Ajit Wadekar captained India to their first-ever winning Test series in the West Indies and England in 1971.

Answer: David Allen

David Allen (1935-2014) defended those final two deliveries to draw the match and he finished the innings 4 no. Colin Cowdrey (1932-2000) had his arm broken while batting earlier in the day and came out to bat after the ninth wicket had fallen. He finished with 19 no. Dereck Shackleton (1924-2007) had been run out for 4 on the 4th ball of that last over. Fred Trueman (1931-2006) had been out for nought and the 7th wicket to fall.

Answer: Ken Barrington (ENG)

Ken Barrington (1930-1981) during this period played in 78 Tests for a total of 6,397 runs at an average of 59.78 with a top score of 256. During his career he played a total of 82 Tests, 6,807 runs, average 58.67.
Colin Cowdrey (1932-2000) played 67 Tests, 4,788 runs, average 48,85 and top score of 182 during this same period. His career statistics are; 114 Tests, 7,624 runs, average 44.06.
Bill Lawry played 62 Tests, 4,717 runs, average 49.65 and top score of 210. His career statistics are: 67 Tests, 5,234 runs, average 47.15.
Garfield Sobers played 51 Tests, 4,563 runs, average 60.03 and top score of 226. His career statistics are; 93 Tests, 8,032 runs, average 57.78 and his highest Test score is 365 no.

Answer: Geoffrey Griffin (SA)

Geoffrey Griffin (1939-2006) in his second and final Test match took his hat-trick at Lord's against England in June 1960. During this same Test match he was called for throwing by the two English umpires and never played Test cricket again. He retired from first class cricket at the age of 23. Wes Hall took his hat-trick against Pakistan in March 1959. Lindsay Kline (1934-2015) took his hat-trick against South Africa in January 1958. Peter Loader (1929-2011) took his three consecutive wickets against the West Indies in July 1957. Lance Gibbs achievement was against Australia in January 1961.

Answer: M.L. Jaisimha (IND)

L. M. Jaisimha (1939-1999) achieved this feat in the second Test against Australia in Calcutta. He batted late in the first day and was not out when the innings came to a close on the second day. He started his second innings late on the third day and batted all day on the fourth day and was out on the final day for 74. As you can imagine the match was drawn. Jaisimha played a total of 39 Tests for India scoring 2,056 runs with 3 centuries.
Geoffrey Boycott did also bat on all five days of a Test match against Australia at Trent Bridge in 1977.
Kim Hughes (AUS), Allan Lamb (ENG), Ravi Shastri (IND), Adrian Griffin (WI), Andrew Flintoff (ENG) and Alviro Petersen (SA) have also batted on all five days of a Test match.

Answer: Geoffrey Boycott (ENG)

Boycott made 246 in 573 minutes against India in 1967 at Headingley. He was dropped for "selfish batting". His inclusion in this Test had raised eyebrows as in his previous nine first class innings had only yielded 124 runs and that included a pair in county cricket.
Ken Barrington was also dropped after making 137 in 437 minutes against New Zealand in 1965. Hanif Mohammad made 337 in 970 minutes in 1957-58 against the West Indies and Jackie McGlew made 105 in 575 minutes in 1957-58 against Australia.
All of the above pales into significance when you consider Don Bradman made 334 in 383 minutes in the 3rd Test at Leeds in 1930.

Answer: Ian Chappell (AUS)

Ian Chappell scored the 1,000th Test century on this date. He eventually was out for 165, which ironically was the same score as Charles Bannerman (AUS) in the first ever Test match and the first Test century on the same ground in 1877. Ian Chappell also scored the 997th Test century. Bill Lawry scored the 996th, 998th and 1,001st Test centuries. Clive Lloyd scored the 999th Test century in the 1st Test match of the same series in Brisbane. Basil D'Oliveira scored the 995th Test century at The Oval against Australia in August 1968.

Answer: Zaheer Abbas (PAK)

Zaheer Abbas is regarded as one of the finest batsman to have played for Pakistan. He scored 4 double Test centuries and 108 first class centuries. He played for Gloucestershire in County cricket for 13 years and accumulated 34,843 first class runs in a career spanning 1968-1987. He was the first batsman to score three consecutive centuries in One Day Internationals in 1982-83. His 100th First Class century was scored in a Test match against India 1982-83.
Boycott, Lloyd and Barlow all played Test cricket wearing spectacles.