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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:20 pm
by steveseagull
I agree . . .

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:01 pm
by harry2
A really tricky question here. Unusually I really can offer no answer. Now defeated over your literary enquiry.

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:12 pm
by Istenem
looks like arthur conan doyle then ;)

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:25 pm
by steveseagull
It would indeed.
NEXT QUESTION :wink:
Is it Harry? I am unfamiliar with the writing style. I always thought that SirACD was a figment of Sherlock Holmes' imagination

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:34 pm
by harry2
I'll defer to Isty !

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:43 pm
by Istenem
not at all, it is all yours Harry. i didn't know it.

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:09 pm
by Istenem
okay sod it, i'll go.

i'm a huge fan of compound words: nightwatchman is a good one.

jason gillespie holds the world record innings with 201* but who is the top-scoring nightwatchman for England?

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:09 am
by harry2
I'll try Jack Russell.

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:47 am
by Istenem
more recent than him.

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:47 am
by Northern Monkey
Bit of a randon one- Dean Headley?

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:01 am
by steveseagull
I am going to take a punt at Alex Tudor?
I think he scored 99no in a test. How frustrating

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:03 am
by Istenem
Steve wins. it was alex tudor's 99* vs NZ in 1999

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:49 am
by steveseagull
Cheers.
Who is the only Nobel Prize winner to have played first-class cricket?





On a different note, if anyone is interested in cricket, the Lords ballot is now open for this Summers matches.

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:25 am
by harry 3
Is it Winston Churchill ?

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:35 am
by steveseagull
No, it isnt.

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