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Inspired by nothing in particular, I thought of a slightly different twist on a Cricket Trivia quiz.

I will give you a date and a name and you give me the question that it relates to.

For example:
Name: Brendan McCullum
Date: February 20, 2016

Answer: Who broke the record for the fastest Test hundred?

So....

Question 1:
Date: February 16, 2006
Name: Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Became West Indies captain?

Half a point.....there's a slightly fuller answer

went umpteen innings without being dismissed?

or batted for something daft like 16 hours without ever being dismissed

No.....Gingerfinch was closest.....it is to do with captaincy

Stood down as WI captain.

It includes the word 'first'

I may have cheated... This is Shiv's only game he didn't lose as captain, being a draw. So it's his first non-defeat.

You cheated, but did you get it right AC?

I'm going with windies first ever T20 captain. Loads of teams played their first in 2006, and Ganga was test captain by that stage

And that's the full point for Sussex.

It was the one and only time that Shiv captained the T20 side.

Sussex = 1pt
GF = 0.5

Q2.

Name: Gary Kirsten
Date: February 16, 1996

world record ODI score?

Gingerfinch wrote:world record ODI score?

Good shout. I think you got this, but if you don't I'm going with your answer with insurance.....highest world cup score

except that Guppy holds that honour now, I think

maybe the longest lasting world cup record score?