England's longest serving captain
Slightly embarrassingly (alright, very embarrassingly) the quiz team I was in last night called "The Cricketers" couldn't get the following question right:
Who is England's longest serving cricket captain?
Check back in a day or two for the answer.
10 comments:
As a regular pub quizzer, I reckon that's a pretty good question and one that would prompt quite some discussion / arguing.
My initial thought would be a certain M A Atherton.
Without giving away if you are right, it amazed me what a short period of time the longest serving captain was captain for! I was expecting it to be a dozen years or more!
Atherton was my first shout, but I seem to remember Nasser Hussain breaking it, unless that was most wins.
Is the definition the time between first Test and last Test or the number of Tests?
Longest: Wally Hammond
Most tests: Michael Atherton
I don't remember it being specified how "longest serving" was defined, but it was Mike Atherton. I am assuming therefore it was by most Tests! Which makes me feel less stupid as I was thinking about who in my lifetime had captained for a decade or more....when in fact they probably play treble the amound of games per year now than they used to.
Still, "the cricketers" got this question wrong at the quiz and there's no getting away from that!
I had assumed that you were representing a pub called The Cricketers not pretending to be a group that might actually know something about the game (-:
Excellent - I feel better for getting that right - 1 point for the Belles !
Parki - please don't make it worse! I am ashamed enough. I notice that Pete who was my team mate and who I know reads this blog has kept remarkably quiet and not commented at all!
That's because I thought the answer was Chris Cowdrey. PV
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