Zimbabwe Cricket Photo Quiz

[Ming]

Yep, there's some interesting info on that website (will post about that separately).

Admire MArodza has also served as an umpire.

Scores:

SCORES:
zimfan1: 31
CrimsonAvenger: 28
eugene: 22
Dr_Situ(ZimFanatic): 20
PSR: 15
brmtaylor.com admin, foreignfield: 14
Train Driver: 12
andy24, sloandog, andrewn9: 8
alan132: 7
dylan: 6
maehara, mdm, aydee: 5
Rayzer, Detective RDS, cock: 4
baiju029, gargamel, Ming: 3
Conant, hhm, Flower power, totoro, Horo, Jemisi: 2
zimdan, Boundary, betterdays, jamthala, auszim, pearl, takleg, PieChucker, Tom91: 1

[foreignfield]

264. Now the gentleman in action here, a former test cricketer, is not a Zimbabwean but is linked in a unique way to cricket in Zim. Who is he and what is the connection?

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[andrewn9]

Is it John Hampshire, former coach of the Zimbabwe national team?

[foreignfield]

Is it John Hampshire, former coach of the Zimbabwe national team?

Well spotted, it is indeed John Hampshire, the Yorkshire stalwart, and I have to shamefacedly admit that I did not remember him ever coaching Zimbabwe. I thought John Hampshire only worked as an umpire after his playing days

The conncetion I was looking for was a bit more far-flung: Playing for Leicestershire on their tour of Zimbabwe in early 1981, John Hampshire became the first batsmen to score a FC ton against a side representing Zimbabwe. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/S ... 41026.html

Impressively Zimbabwe only conceded their first ever ton in their sixth match. Mike Gatting had come close earlier in that season when he was dismissed for 99 on Middlesex' tour of the country. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/S ... 40675.html

For Zimbabwe two batsmen reached 100 at the first time of asking, but it's difficult to tell from the scorecard who got there first, Robin Brown or Thomas Dunk. Can someone shed a light on that question? http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/S ... 40654.html

Scores
zimfan1: 31
CrimsonAvenger: 28
eugene: 22
Dr_Situ(ZimFanatic): 20
PSR: 15
brmtaylor.com admin, foreignfield: 14
Train Driver: 12
andrewn9: 9
andy24, sloandog: 8
alan132: 7
dylan: 6
maehara, mdm, aydee: 5
Rayzer, Detective RDS, cock: 4
baiju029, gargamel, Ming: 3
Conant, hhm, Flower power, totoro, Horo, Jemisi: 2
zimdan, Boundary, betterdays, jamthala, auszim, pearl, takleg, PieChucker, Tom91: 1

[Ming]

...intriguing photo. Who are the others?

[foreignfield]

...intriguing photo. Who are the others?

If the date given on Cricinfo is correct one should be Lonsdale Skinner, Surrey's Guyanese wk, and the other ... John Edrich?

[Train Driver]

Definitely not John Edrich, my guess would be off spinner Pat Pocock

[aydee]

Definitely not John Edrich, my guess would be off spinner Pat Pocock

It does look like Pocock, agreed.

[foreignfield]

Definitely not John Edrich, my guess would be off spinner Pat Pocock

It does look like Pocock, agreed.

Yeah, looking at it again it must be Pocock. It looks like a spinner bowling to JH, that would be Inthikab Alam, the Pakistani legspinner, if it wasn't Alan Butcher sending down his slow left-armers (to get another Zim reference in )

http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/S ... 35426.html

[CrimsonAvenger]

265. A simple one. Who is this?

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