Oh! To Be The Very First Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1889

The award began in 1889 with the naming of "Six Great Bowlers of the Year", and continued with the naming of "Nine Great Batsmen of the Year" in 1890 and "Five Great Wicket-Keepers" in 1891. From then on it became mixture of all 3.

Answer: Clive Lloyd

Clive Lloyd lead the West Indies in 74 Tests (1974-1984) and was the first skipper to captain his country in 50 Tests. Nawab of Pataudi lead India in 40 Tests(1962 - 1975). Imran Khan lead Pakistan in 48 Tests(1982 - 1992) and Mike Atherton lead England in 54 Tests (1993 - 2001).
Other captains who have lead their countries in more 50 Tests or more are, Viv Richards (50),Stephen Fleming (80),Steve Waugh (57), Mark Taylor (50), Alan Border (93) and Ricky Ponting (77).

Answer: Ian & Greg Chappell (AUS)

Ian and Greg were the first to achieve this feat in the 5th Test at the Oval in 1972. They put on 201 for the 3rd wicket partnership with Ian finishing on 118 and Greg 113.
Ian & Greg also became the first brothers to each score centuries in both innings of the same Test, which occurred at Wellington in 1974.

Answer: All of the 11 Australians bowled in a Pakistan innings

Australia made 617 in their only innings and Pakistan finished the match 2/382 in their only innings. Chappell as captain had protested at the state of the wicket prior to the match commencing. He decided to protest to the authorities by bowling all of his fieldsmen including the wicket-keeper Rod Marsh, who bowled 10 overs.

Answer: The first teenager to score a double hundred

Miandad was 19 years and 140 days when he made 206 against New Zealand at Karachi. W.R. Endean (RSA) was the first to be given out handling the ball, against England in 1957. Len Hutton (ENG) was the first to be given out obstructing the field against South Africa in 1951.
Retired out is when a batsman does not have the umpires permission or the opposing captain's permission to resume his innings. This occurred to two batsmen from Sri Lanka against Bangladesh in a the same test match in 2001.

Answer: He personally bowled two consecutive overs

This was a three-day Test but as the first day was washed out it was reduced to a two-day Test. Late on the 2nd day the England captain declared his innings closed and walked off the ground. This was against the Laws of Cricket in a two-day Test. Armstrong had bowled the last over and when the English team returned to the field to continue their innings Armstrong bowled the first over at the resumption of play; thus bowling two consecutive overs in Test cricket.

This is also against the Laws of Cricket but nobody realised this at the time.

Answer: Wasim Akram (PAK)

Wasim Akram finished with 414 Test wickets and 502 ODI wickets. He also scored three Test centuries. Muttiah Muralitharan also achieved the feat of 400 wickets in both forms of cricket, but after Wasim Akram. McGrath and Warne did not achieve 400 ODI wickets. Of the four players mentioned above only Muralitharan did not achieve a Test hat-trick.

Answer: Fred Spoffoth (AUS)

Spoffoth took the first Test hat-trick at the MCG against England in January 1879 in only the 3rd Test match played. Matthews was the first player to take two hat-tricks in the same match. This was against South Africa in the 1912 Triangular Tournament at Old Trafford, Manchester. Allom was the first cricketer to take a hat-trick in his first test which was against New Zealand in 1930. Billy Bates took the 2nd Test hat-trick which was against Australia in 1983 also at the MCG like Spoffoth.

Answer: Peter Petherick

This hat-trick of Petherick's was taken in his first Test match which was against Pakistan at Lahore in 1976. Petherick only played five more tests for NZ. Hadlee and Cairns never took a hat-trick in Test cricket. Franklin was the second Kiwi to take a Test hat-trick which was against Bangladesh in 2004.

Answer: James Lillywhite

James Lillywhite only played in two Tests and they were those of 1877. Lord Harris was England's second captain in 1879 and Alfred Shaw the 3rd English captain in 1881-1882. W.G. Grace was the 9th England captain in 1888.