Greenheart
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9 minutes? I know Nigel Spink was deliberately not given much notice about the possibility of playing.
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OhNoAPacer
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Greenheart
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England's cricketers had memorable victories over the West Indies in the 1st test away in 1990, and the 5th test at home in 1991. Alec Stewart did something specific in both matches, what was it?
Greenheart
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No, it wasn't that sort of achievement.
Greenheart
Member
No, it was something that only one person could do from either team.
Peterthegreat
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Keep wicket and bowl?
Ashley Hill
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At the same time?
Greenheart
Member
No to the above, it's something that only one person from the two teams can do in any game of cricket.
DaleCooper
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Scored the winning run.
Greenheart
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That's like hitting the stumps without the bails coming off, very close.
Peterthegreat
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At the crease for the winning run when it was an extra?
Greenheart
Member
Also very close but not right.
Donny Dave
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Took the winning catch in both matches?
Greenheart
Member
No sorry. It is about the conclusion of the match.
Greenheart
Member
I'll give this now as I'll be away for a bit: he was the not out non striker when the winning runs were scored (by good old lads Wayne Larkins and Ian Botham in comeback tests).
Open floor.
Open floor.
What considerably loved and long-enduring ribald ballad, is believed to have been thought up in a riotous evening in Paris just after World War I: chiefly (with the assistance of companions) by a bod who subsequently became a renowned playwright / director / actor, and was celebrated as a wit; the ballad being a parody of material popular at the time, by a versifier whose stuff was rumbustious in character, but basically "clean"? Just the name of the ballad will suffice as an answer; names of the "chief culprit" and / or the "parodied victim" in addition, would be nice.
Peterthegreat
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Mademoiselle from Armentières?
Gloster
Veteran Member
Eskimo Nell? Nöel Coward (author) and possibly Oscar Wilde as target?
I'm afraid not -- that one came to be, actually during World War I: I learn (just now !), the 1915 -- 16 creation of one Cecil H. Winter.
Correct -- the main perpetrator was indeed Coward -- however, the target was not Oscar; but the British / Canadian author and rhymester Robert W. Service, renowned chiefly for going-with-a-swing Kipling-esque verse, about stirring doings and (fairly mild) roguery in Canada's "Wild North-West" circa 1900.
To you, to perform the next "number" in the Malamute Saloon of Mr. Service's fantasy.
Gloster
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What did Thomas Austin do in October 1859 that has led to him being cursed by many thousands of his countrymen in the years since?
OhNoAPacer
Member
He supposedly introduced rabbits to Australia.
Gloster
Veteran Member
Indeed he did. He introduced twenty-four breeding rabbits (and, boy, have they bred) on his estate in Victoria as game for shooting parties. There had been a few rabbits kept by earlier settlers, but Austin’s two dozen are the ancestors of all the continent’s wild population.
To you to burrow out a new question.
OhNoAPacer
Member
What position was established in circa 1221?
OhNoAPacer
Member
Not that position, that has been around since the first century AD.
D6130
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Lord Lyon King at Arms?