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Listed below are comments made by sirianblog between Monday, 8th December 2008 and Monday, 12th January 2009.

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Ask Bearders #184 09:09am on 12 Jan 2009 115/116 Lost Ball

When was the last time a ball was lost in a Test or ODI?

Has the penalty ever been significant in the outcome of a match?

Has a first class match ever been won by a team requiring more than six to win with the last ball ie 6 plus a penalty six?
Ask Bearders #184 8:16pm on 29 Dec 2008 Dale Steyn has just reached 150 wickets taken and seems to have an incredible strike rate and pretty good average too

Has anyone reached 150 wickets faster than him in terms of balls bowled? Also who has got to this landmark first in terms of fewest matches and who has got there while conceding the fewest runs

Who was quickest to 100 200 300 etc in each of these three criteria?
Ask Bearders #184 9:41pm on 28 Dec 2008 I notice that you often refer to the method or location of death of cricketers. Is this an interest?

What is the most unusual method of death for a first class cricketer? How many have been murdered?
Ask Bearders #184 9:36pm on 28 Dec 2008 re 21

I think this is more common than you might think. Kirmani and Parks

Clyde Walcott took 11 wickets made 11 stumpings and hit 15 centuries
Ask Bearders #183 7:17pm on 27 Dec 2008 re 152

I can see the note at the bottom of the scorecard but it still doesn't add up for me

If the WI won it after a superover why does it appear on Cricinfo as a tie (try searching for tied results and it will appear as does the previous tie between these teams resolved by a bowl off)? Presumably if it had been in a tournament the WI would have got the points and I'm assume they got their win bonus so the result must be a WI win surely
Ask Bearders #183 10:50am on 27 Dec 2008 Re 149

Surely it is like a soccer penalty shootout ie a result is determined but the runs/wickets (like goals) do not count in a player's stats.

But what was the result? Cricinfo shows it as a tie
Ask Bearders #183 8:26pm on 10 Dec 2008 Re 90 91

Robin Jackman took 1402 first class wickets retiring in 1982 and made his test debut in 1981 so it could be him
Ask Bearders #183 4:56pm on 09 Dec 2008 re 87

I think we've had a question a bit like this before. The highest I can find for sixes are:

Shoaib Akhtar 544 career runs - 22 sixes - 24.26% MA Holding 910 - 36 - 23.74% and AME Roberts 762 - 22 - 17.32%

But the winner is TG Southee 108 - 12 - 66.67%
Ask Bearders #183 7:35pm on 08 Dec 2008 I notice that Broad (Oakham) Patel (Worksop College) Cook (Bedford School) and Wright (Ratcliffe College) all went to minor public schools in the Midlands and are all 23 years old. Did they play against each other as schoolboys?
Ask Bearders #183 4:24pm on 08 Dec 2008 re 79 etc

Hi Porto Ian - yes I see your problem. This source is a bit confusing - eg Mullally, McCague and Jones shown as Australian though they were not born there. Adjusting for this (and trusting the rest of the info) I think the answer is as follows:

England test players by country of birth:

England 553
India 16
Wales 14
West Indies 11
Australia 10
SA 10
Scotland 8
Ireland 5
Other 13

Total 640

The others are Germany, Italy, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Peru, Northern Rhodesia, Hong Kong and New Zealand

Denmark next?

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