Arthur Crabtree wrote:Probably some way to go though to be the oldest to play in the CC.
We used to do a pub quiz in Brighton back in the day where the winners got a stab at an impossibly hard question for a shot at a rolled over jackpot, which often went unclaimed for months on end and ended up being a very sizeable win. One week we won, and got the question 'what was the highest age of a county cricketer to the nearest 2 years'. Being the only cricket fan in the group, my friends rather bizarrely expected me to be able to know it off hand, and were not to happy when I didnt. I guessed Grace must have been around 60, so went for that and got it wrong.
Even to this day if I say anything about cricket to them, I hear one name in response along with 'you cost us two grand'....... Rev Reginald Moss, who was 57 (one bloody year off getting it right) when he played for Worcestershire v Gloucestershire in the 1920s. The story goes that he was a gifted cricketer who played for Oxford in his youth, but he was also a talented athlete in track and field, and turned down a cricketing career for one in athletics. When Worcestershire over 35 years later had a lot of unavailable players he was invited to play a CC game once again. He got out cheaply twice and was never picked again.
So Stevens has a long way to go.
Ironically, the only time cricket knowledge has come to my aid in a pub quiz was not exactly helpful either; at University we once drew a quiz against another team, and the tie breaker was 'to the nearest 1000, how many test runs did Sunil Gavasker score'. We were disqualified for cheating when I wrote 10,122 as the answer. Even in an era pre-Iphones the quiz master refused to believe any one on Earth could get the answer right, and gave the prize to the other team. We were permanently barred from entering the quiz again.