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da imperador bet： Steven Lynch05-Mar-2007
Anderson Cummins: West Indian in 1992, Canadian in 2007 © Getty Images
I had an interesting question the other day: apparently five playersfrom the 1992 World Cup are also playing in the 2007 one, who are they? Igot Lara, Tendulkar, Inzamam and Jayasuriya, but can’t find the fifth, whois it? asked Mark Wilson
The fifth one is not obvious: it’s Anderson Cummins, who playedfor the West Indies in 1992 and is now turning out for Canada. Cummins,who is now 40, made his official one-day debut for Canada in January 2007,more than 11 years after playing the last of his 63 one-day internationalsfor West Indies, which included most of the games at the 1991-92 World Cupin Australia and New Zealand.Will Anderson Cummins be the first man to play for two sides in theWorld Cup if he plays for Canada this year? asked Prasad Yavalkarfrom India
Assuming that AndersonCummins plays a match for Canada in the forthcoming tournament, hewill become only the second player to represent two different teams in theWorld Cup: Kepler Wesselsplayed for Australia in 1983, and for South Africa in 1991-92. GraemeHick, who played for England in 1991-92, 1995-96 and 1999, was in theZimbabwe squad for the 1983 World Cup, when he was only 17, but was rathersurprisingly not chosen in any of the matches, when Zimbabwe’s captain wasDuncan Fletcher.How many pairs of brothers have played for India in Tests? asked Bhiman from India
Seven pairs of brothers have won Test caps for India, starting in theirvery first Test, against England atLord’s in 1932, when the side included Wazir and Nazir Ali. In India’snext Test, in Bombay in 1933-34,Amar Singh played alongside his brother L. Ramji, and in the next Test, at Calcutta, CS Nayudu playedalongside his brother CK. Since then the brothers have been spaced outrather more: in the late 1950s/early 1960s there was Arvind and MadhavApte, Subhash and Baloo Gupte, and Kripal and Milkha Singh, while in the1970s Mohinder and Surinder Amarnath played together several times. TheAmarnaths have a good claim to being India’s foremost cricketing family,as their father Lala captained India, and scored their first Test century(in that Bombay match mentioned above). For a full list of related Testplayers from all countries, click here.Who called his autobiography Flying Stumps? asked DarrenWilcox from Canterbury
My first thought was that it was the former Lancashire and England fastbowler Brian Statham, but whenI had a look on the bookshelves it turned out that his 1961 book wasactually called Flying Bails. He’d been beaten by seven years tothe title Flying Stumps: that was written by the Australian fastbowler Ray Lindwall. Both bookswere published in the UK by Stanley Paul.I remember David Smith of Sussex scoring a century but not getting theMan-of-the-Match award in a NatWest final a few years ago. Has anyone elsemade a century in a Lord’s final but ended up missing out on the matchaward? asked George Parker from Brighton
Ray Lindwall’s Flying Stumps ©
David Smith made 124 for Sussex in the NatWest final in 1993, but ended up on thelosing side: Warwickshire won, and Asif Din, who also scored a century,picked up the Man-of-the-Match award. Sussex had made 321 in their 60overs, the sort of score that usually guaranteed victory back then – timeshave changed a little since, as Australia found out last week! The onlyother man to make a century in a domestic final at Lord’s but not carryoff the match award was Nick Knight, whose 118 failed to take Warwickshireto victory in the C&G Trophy final in2005: Sean Ervine won the award for his 104 for the winners,Hampshire.How does the Duckworth/Lewis system for rain-affected one-day matcheswork? asked Shabbir Khan from Karachi
To explain it properly would take rather more space than we have here -the official explanation runs to more than 3000 words. The simplifiedversion is that the method calculates the resources left (the number ofovers left and the number of wickets standing) to the side batting second,and adjusts the target accordingly. The full regulations for the systemcan be found on theofficial ICC website.And there’s an update to last week’s question about one-dayinternationals played in whites, from Vivek Srinivasan andothers
“The last one-day series played in whites was not the Texaco Trophy seriesin 1998, which was the last one played in whites in England. It was theIndia-Zimbabwe series in India in December 2000.”