Test your knowledge of the year’s cricket with our special end of year quiz.

Start with the openers and try and work your way through the team to reach the elusive number eleven before completing the extra few questions I added in after beginning this introduction.

Send your answers and entry fee of 25 euro to the usual address:-
Professor McSwiggle’s Amsterdam Fund, c/o the dog poo bin near the scoreboard, Sandy Bay, Larne.

Third prize is some old tinsel we forgot to put back in the attic.
Second prize is one of the seven DVD box-sets of the Ashes that I got for Christmas
The Grand First prize is the flashing lights we had outside on the house that were frankly so much bother putting up that we are not going to use them again anyway…Happy New Year, and as a belated Christmas gift the answer to 3 is indeed A). But you are on your own for the others!

1. What was Jimmy Repsold’s exact score against Cooke Collegians at Shaw’s Bridge?-
A) 0
B) 100
C) 119
D) 129

2. What was Martin Hawthorne’s exact score for Dunmurry 3rds against Larne 4ths?-
A) 0
B) 0
C) 0
D) 0

3. Including cup matches, how many different players represented Larne 4ths during their successful season?-
A) 36
B) 46
C) 56
D) 66

4. What caused First eleven captain Rab McClean to miss an early season match?-
A) He had to sit an exam in epistemology
B) He had to sit to sit an exam in home economics
C) He could not get out his bedroom door because of empty beer cans
D) He could not remember the way to Sandy Bay?

5. What activity was Craig Smith engaging in when he mysteriously disappeared during pre-season training?-
A) He was trying to swim the Inver River
B) He was trying to swim the Atlantic Ocean
C) He was trying to free hostages in Baghdad
D) He was trying to light his own farts

6. What was the key component of the Firsts’ successful fight against relegation?-
A) Human sacrifices
B) Voodoo magic
C) Wylie’s amazing coaching
D) Pure luck

7. Ann Charleston broke the world record in June for a woman watching cricket and not asking a stupid question. What did she eventually ask after a stunning five minutes of cricket viewing?-
A) “Ooh, who washes their trousers?”
B) “Why do they rub the ball on their whites?”
C) “Why does that man have black trousers on?”
D) “Who is winning?”

8. What was the worst decision that Ricky Ponting made this year?-
A) To field at Edgbaston
B) Not to declare behind at the Oval
C) To bat on and allow Hodge to reach his double century at Melbourne
D) To accept the invitation to captain Australia

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