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Rare Feats: Significant Individual Scores

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Rare Feats Significant Individual Scores game quiz
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1. Who was the first batsman to achieve a century in both innings of a Test match?
    George Headley
    Warren Bardsley
    Charles Bannerman
    Herb Sutcliffe


2. What was significant about the centuries (150 not out and 153 runs) that Alan Border scored against Pakistan in March 1980?
    He became the first batsman to score 150 runs in both innings of a Test match
    He set a new standard for the greatest aggregate of runs in a single Test match
    In the process, he briefly became the leading run-scorer in Test cricket
    He completed both innings with the aid of a runner


3. This batsman at the time was the oldest player to score a century in a Test match. He was 46 years and 82 days old. Who was this distinguished cricketer?
    Patsy Hendren
    Bob Simpson
    Frank Woolley
    Jack Hobbs


4. Was the 365 runs that Garfield Sobers scored against Pakistan in 1958, his first Test match century?
    Yes
    No


5. Which Englishman matched the centuries scored by Arthur Morris (Australia) in both innings of a Test in January 1947, with twin hundreds of his own in the same game?
    Wally Hammond
    Cyril Washbrook
    Len Hutton
    Denis Compton


6. Why was the hundred scored by Reg Duff (146 runs) in August 1905 in his last Test innings, called a 'bookend' century?
    He had also scored a century in his first Test innings
    He became the first opening batsman to be the last man dismissed in a completed Test innings
    It was his only Test hundred
    He was dismissed off the final ball of the Test match


7. What was unique about Lawrence Rowe's 214 runs against New Zealand in February 1972?
    It did not include any boundaries
    It was then the slowest recorded double hundred in Test cricket
    It was his second double hundred of the Test
    He was making his Test debut


8. Which of the following batsmen scored a century in their 100th Test match?
    Gordon Greenidge
    Colin Cowdrey
    All three did
    Alec Stewart


9. How many hundreds in a row did Everton Weekes score in 1948, to surpass the record for the most consecutive centuries scored in Test matches?
    6
    5
    7
    8


10. Has there ever been a case where brothers have each scored two centuries in the same Test match?
    Yes
    No


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