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Worcestershire 372 for 5 (96 overs). Hick 80, Davies 15.
The cricket being somewhat pedestrian, with the batsmen firmly on top, a quiz question has just been circulated in the press box and, for a significant period of time, had the scribes stumped.
Which two Worcestershire batsmen scored centuries in this fixture at Edgbaston in 1983? (For one, it was his maiden century for Worcestershire).
Anyone who can supply the answer, without recourse to a reference book, wins a very special prize - a ticket stub from Walsall v Bristol Rovers on Tuesday April 15, 2008.
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Brian Halford - Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
Foster and Foster?
Instead of the ticket stub, how about a rebate on my membership fee?
Was one Neale?
Sheer guess - Tim Curtis and Dipak Patel
Nope! One was an international and the other had just been recruited from a southern county.
Good effort, Sorrento. Patel was the international. Half the ticket-stub is yours!
So was the other one David Smith ?
Nope, good try though. Have to say that this other one is a bit obscure. He eluded even the illustrious gentlemen from the Birmingham Post, Daily Telegraph, Times and Guardian until they were given some king-sized clues.
My first guess would have been Botham, but I think 1983 was too early, sure he left Somerset some time after the famous ashes, not right after. So I didn't say it first off, any good as a guess?
As for overseas players - Kapil Dev the erstwhile ICL chief?
No, this chap, an Englishman, was recruited from the county for whom Geoff Hurst played one first-class game.
In the end I could n't resist looking up the missing player. Obscure is right ! I thought that I had a good memory for cricketers but I would never have recalled this one if I live to be as old as Teddy Sheringham.
Aye - wonder if, to this day, he has to insist heatedly to his mates: "But I DID make a first-class century, I DID..."