The Wisden Quiz, 2010

All the answers to the following questions can be found in Wisden 2010. The winner will receive a collection of books with a recommended retail price of over £330: the three new volumes of The Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Wisden on the Ashes, Whitaker’s Almanack 2011, Schott’s Almanack 2011, and a leatherbound limited-edition copy of The Wisden Anthology 1978–2006. Five runners-up will receive a year’s subscription to The Wisden Cricketer magazine.

1. Who during 2009 became only the second batsman to score more than 200 runs in his first Test match, yet finish on the losing side?

2. In which country was interest in cricket aroused by mention of it in the local edition of Playboy?

3. Who once took nine for 23 the day after watching Gone With the Wind?

4. Whose hat was blown off on National Wind Day, delaying play?

5. Where were original copies of the first four Wisdens (1864–1867) discovered in 2009?

6. Which current first-class player was born in Mesopotamia?

7. Who obtained Don Bradman’s autograph 56 years after he asked for it?

8. Which team were coached by a passenger?

9. Who invented a middle name when he joined the MCC cricket staff, as he thought an extra initial might come in useful at Lord’s?

10. Against whom did Jordan Price take a hat-trick?

11. Who made his first-class debut in a match between the two counties for which his father played?

12. Who took 13 wickets in a first-class match twice in a month – and finished on the losing side both times?


Please send your answers – which should include the page numbers where they are to be found – together with your name, postal address, phone number and email address to Wisden Quiz (SKS), PO Box 230, Plymouth PL1 2ZR or by email to Quiz@wisden.com

Only one entry per person. In the event of a tie, there will be a draw to establish the prize-winners, whose names will be announced on this website in January 2011, along with the answers. In all matters concerning this quiz, the editor’s decision is final; no correspondence will be entered into.

Click here for the questions and answers for the Wisden Quiz 2009