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ON 201 1 WOLLASTON CRICKET CLUB NEW YEAR QUIZ How much do you know about your own club? Try the questions below to find out. For the answers keep scrolling down this page.
1) Which year was the Third team formed?
2) Who are the two famous cricketers shown below?
3) How many times has our First team won division one? And what year (or years)?
4) What's the most consecutive seasons anyone has captained Wollaston?
5) Who was that captain?
6) How many First team Club Numbers have been allocated.
7) Name the players and the year featured in the photograph below.
8) When did we relocate to our present ground?
9) Where was our previous ground?
10) Name the two cricketers below
11) Which county hosts our Third team?
12) Name the four Wollaston players to go on to play for Northamptonshire before WW2 ?
13) What is Wollaston First team's highest and lowest recorded scores?
14) What was the name of the ex- England Test player who visited Wollaston CC to advise on the laying of our first artificial pitch? He played in the 1970-71 Ashes series and took the last Australian wicket at Sydney to win the series.
15) Originally the pitches at Wollaston played east to west. What year did they change to north to south and why?
16) What is our Second team's highest and lowest recorded scores?
17) Name the players and year for the photograph below
18) Which cricketer played for Wollaston before going on play three Test matches and four ODI's for England?
19) Who has hit the most Third team sixes and how many?
20) How many First team centuries have been scored?
How did you do? For the answers scroll down the page
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1) Which year was the Third team formed? 2010
2) Who are the two famous cricketers shown below?
Chris Perry and David Graveney (ex England selector)
3) How many times has our First team won division one? And what years (or year)? Five times 1959 1960 1961 1974 2007
4) What's the most consecutive seasons anyone has captained Wollaston? 36 years on the trot!
5) Who was that captain? H.J. Lucy
6) How many First team Club Numbers have been allocated. 205
7) Name the players and the year featured in the photograph below
Paul Bates David Clarkson Simon Driver Lewis Bates Mark Gibbs John Pike Andy Kowal Steve Musgrave Neal Perry Liam Bates Jimmy Hart Chris Perry (captain) Matthew Jones James Cowell Mark Carter 2011
8) When did we relocate to our present ground? 1922
9) Where was our previous ground? Wollaston Hall (now Scott Bader)
10) Name the two cricketers below
JJ Coutts & Nick Mosey 2015
11) Which county hosts our Third team? Buckinghamshire
12) Name the four Wollaston players to go on to play for Northamptonshire before WW2 ? Vern Murdin Reg Partridge Ben Bellamy and Cyril Perkins
13) What is Wollaston First team's highest and lowest recorded scores? 332 for 8 v Weekley Warkton 2021 26 all out v Overstone 1972
14) What was the name of the ex- England Test player who visited Wollaston CC to advise on the laying of our first artificial pitch? He played in the 1970-71 Ashes series and took the last Australian wicket at Sydney to win the series. Derek Underwood in 1985
15) Originally the pitches at Wollaston played east to west. What year did they change to north to south and why? 1985 To accommodate the Wollaston by-pass
16) What is our Second team's highest and lowest recorded scores? 318 for 6 v Heyford 2016 9 all out v Irthlingborough 1963
17) Name the players and year for the photograph below
Ben Pegg Andrew Silsby Nick Dawson Rex Boddington Marcus Gross Alex Melia Dave Ekins Craig Boddington Harry Broome James Pegg David Ward David Pegg Nathan Richards 2012
18) Which cricketer played for Wollaston before going on play three Test matches and four ODI's for England? Olly Stone
19) Who has hit the most Third team sixes and how many? Craig Boddington 79
20) How many First team centuries have been scored? 40
END OF QUIZ
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