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The Australian Men’s Test Cricket team has had 47 Test captains since Dave Gregory was Australia’s first captain in the first test match v England in Melbourne in March 1877.

Only 2 of the 47 captains were born in Queensland and played first class cricket for Queensland.

Can you name the 2 players?

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CricConnect Crossword - 18 March 2024

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Can you name the wicket keepers who have played first class cricket (Sheffield Shield) for NSW since the start of the 1970-71 cricket season?

We have the following wicket keepers and keen to see if we have missed any.

Greg Dyer
Phil Emery
Matthew Gilkes
Craig Glassock
Brad Haddin
Baxter Holt
Jay Lenton
David Moore
Peter Nevill
Ray Phillips
Nathan Pilon
Steve Rixon
Daniel Smith
Brian Taber
Kerry Thompson

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Can you name the wicket keepers who have played first class cricket (Sheffield Shield) for Queensland since the start of the 1970-71 cricket season?

We have the following wicket keepers and keen to see if we have missed any.

Peter Anderson
John Bell
Peter Drinnen
Gavin Fitness
Chris Hartley
Ian Healy
John Maclean
Jimmy Peirson
Ray Phillips
Wade Seccombe

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First class cricket families in Australia.

Here’s a list we’ve compiled of the father and sons/daughters who have played first class cricket in Australia.

We may well have missed a few more so please if you know of other father and sons/daughters who've played first class cricket in Australian please share in the answers below.


Geoff Marsh - father (WA)
Shaun Marsh and Mitchell Marsh - sons (WA)

Peter Faulkner - father (Tasmania)
James Faulkner - son (Tasmania)

Sam Trimble - father (Qld)
Glenn Trimble - son (Qld)

Terry MacGill - father (WA)
Stuart MacGill - son (WA and NSW)

Ian Brayshaw - father (WA)
James Brayshaw - son (WA and Sth A)

Rod Marsh - father (WA)
Dan Marsh - son (Sth A and Tas)

Norm O’Neill - father (NSW)
Mark O’Neill - son (WA and NSW)

Alec Marks - father (NSW)
Neil Marks - son (NSW)

James Sutherland - father (Vic)
Will Sutherland - son and Annabelle Sutherland - daughter (Vic)

Craig McDermott - father (Qld)
Alistair McDermott - son (Qld) and Ben McDermott - son (Qld and Tas)

Darren Lehmann - father (Sth A and VIC)
Jake Lehmann - son (Sth A)

Wayne Broad - father (Qld)
Ryan Broad - son (Qld)

Steve Nikitaras - father (NSW and WA)
Blake Nikitaras - son (NSW)

Ned Gregory – father (NSW)
Syd Gregory – son (NSW)

Trevor Laughlin- father (Vic)
Ben Laughlin - son (Qld and Tas)

Richard Stobo - father (NSW)
Charlie Stobo - son (NSW and WA)

John Rogers - father (NSW)
Chris Rogers - son (WA and VIC)

Bruce Doolan - father (Tas)
Alex Doolan - son (Tas)

Len Maddocks - father ((Tas and VIC)
Ian Maddocks - son (Vic)

Bob Blewett - father (Sth A)
Greg Blewett - son (Sth A)

Jeff Hammond - father (Sth A)
Ashley Hammond - son (Sth A)

Dean Sayers - father (Sth A)
Chadd Sayers - son (Sth A)

Murray Goodwin - father (WA)
Jayden Goodwin - son (WA)

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Queensland and NSW are playing the last Sheffield Shield game of the 2023-24 season with NSW still a chance to make the final.

Over the years there's been many first class cricketers who have played for both Queensland NSW,

Here's our list of players so far. If you know of others please let us know.

Allan Border
Peter Clifford
Peter Forrest
Nathan Hauritz
Scott Henry
Usman Khawaja
Ray Phillips
Len Richardson
Greg Rowell
Gurinder Sandhu
Peter Taylor
Jeff Thomson
Shane Watson
Dirk Wellham

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CricConnect Crossword - 8 March 2024

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Can you name 6 Australian Test batters since 1980 who’ve hit a 6 to bring up their first test century?

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Who was the fielder with a direct hit, effected the run out of Ian Meckiff to produce the first tied test match in the history of test cricket. It was the first test of the 1960-61 series between Australia and West Indies in Brisbane?

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Who was the Australian Test wicket keeper when Steve Waugh made his Test debut?

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I made my first class debut in 1952/53 and played for 2 states in Australia

60 first class hundreds
passed 50 in 37 innings in Test Cricket for Australia
took 349 first class wickets
took 383 catches in first class cricket


Who am I?

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Who was the last Australian Men's Test Cricketer to score a century on debut?

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In the 1997 Ashes series in England, Australia retained the Ashes by winning 3 tests, England won 2 tests and a test was drawn.

In the 6 tests Australia only used 7 batters in their top 6.

5 batters played all 6 tests whilst 2 batters played 3 tests each.

Can you name the 7 batters?

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Who was the first Australian cricketer to play Sheffield Shield cricket for 3 different states?

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Since 2000, 10 Australia test cricketers made their the test debut whilst playing first class cricket for South Australia.

Can you name the 10 players?

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In the 6th test of the 1981 Ashes series between Australian and England at The Oval, Dirk Wellham, Australian Test Player 314, scored a century on debut.

Wellham scored 103 in Australia’s 2nd innings.

Since then, 8 Australian test cricketers have scored a century on debut. Can you name the 8?

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Who opened the batting for Australia v India in the first test of the 1977-78 series. It was Australia’s first test match after players had been banned for signing with World Series Cricket and Bob Simpson was recalled as the Australian Test captain at the age of 41.

Australian went into the first test with 6 debutants – David Ogilvie, Paul Hibbert, Peter Toohey, Steve Rixon, Tony Mann and Wayne Clark

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Who was the batter Australian fast bowler Craig McDermott dismissed to take his first wicket in Test Cricket?

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Who was the England batter who was run out by Kim Hughes for 99 when he took off for a quick single for what would’ve been his first test hundred?

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Who was the Australian International bowler who took a wicket on the last ball they bowled in Test cricket as well as the last ball they bowled on one day internationals in Australia?

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