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Songs about Cricket

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Songs about Cricket game quiz
"A lot of wonderful songs are inspired by the crack of leather on willow, so let's see how you go at these."

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1. Paul Kelly remains Australia's godfather of cricket songwriting. In which of his song does he, as a child, pore over cricketing tomes?
    How to Make Gravy
    Dumb Things
    Other People's Houses
    Wisden's


2. In Kelly's encomium 'Bradman,' which of the following is not part of the plan that 'Captain Douglas' had?
    The Mulligrubber
    Leg Theory
    Body Line
    Stacked onside fields


3. In the Lucksmith's gem 'Victor Trumper,' in which old-fashioned fashion is Victor dismissed?
    Hit Wicket
    Handled Ball
    Stumped
    Mankadded


4. In the Lucksmith's gem 'Victor Trumper', how does the singer feel when Trumper goes out?
    Like tuberculotic gutters
    Like a boy who has killed a dove
    Like a dozen guineas
    Like the Demon Spofforth


5. Ruck Rover have a song about indoor cricket named after which aspect of fast medium bowling popular on subcontinental pitches?
    Leg Cutter
    Middle, Leg and Miandad's pad
    Googly
    Reverse Swing


6. Paul Kelly's 'Bradman': what did He do with Them in Kent.
    Murder
    Slaughter
    Assault
    Dance


7. The Mabels have particularly catholic sporting tastes. As for cricket, they have a song named for which aggressive tactic resurrected by the famously dull Mark Taylor?
    Joel Garner's Coaching
    A Sporting Declaration
    The Box Cutter
    Bat Pad


8. The Mabels have a song named for an aggressive tactic resurrected by the famously dull Mark Taylor: in this song, where does the singer's belle have her feet?
    On middle and off
    Up in his pavilion
    Over a yorker
    A hair's breadth short


9. Who is 'Avril' in the Ruck Rover song of the same name?
    Australia's finest women's spinner
    Don Bradman's illegitimate daughter
    Steve Waugh's long-suffering wife
    Phil Tufnel between the punk years and the England cap


10. Which of the following was never a custodian of the Australian cricket team's celebratory ode 'Under the Southern Cross We Stand'?
    Ricky 'Punter' Ponting
    Rod 'Bacchus' Marsh
    Greg 'Fat Cat' Ritchie
    David 'Keg with Legs' Boon


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Compiled Jun 28 12