Answers to part 2
11 Gary
Sobers was born with an extra finger on each hand.
12 The
first cricket world cup was in 1975.
13 The world record score in first class
cricket was 1107 all out by Victoria against New South Wales in December 1926.
14 The first cricketer to take 300 wickets
in Test cricket was Fred Trueman.
15 The only player to score a century and
take 10 or more wickets in the same Test Match was Ian Botham during the Golden Jubilee
Test in Feb 1980. He had 6-58 then scored 114 then had 7-48.
16 The only wicket-keeper to score 3000
runs and make 300 dismissals in Test cricket was Rodney Marsh in 1982 for Western
Australia against New Zealand.
17 The first fielder to hold 100 catches in
Test cricket was Wally Hammond.
18 The youngest player to captain a Test
side was Nawab of Pataudi Jr (later Mansur Ali Khan). He was 21 years, 77 days old
when he first led India against West Indies in 1962.
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