| PETER WIGHT |
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| 142 What was Peter Wight’s highest career score? |
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| 143 Peter Wight set up a new record aggregate of 2316 runs the season of 1960. Who had previously held it? |
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| 144 How long did Peter Wight’s record last? |
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| 145 Where was Peter Wight’s birthplace? |
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| 146 What did he have in common with Bill Alley after retiral? |
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| THE SEVENTIES |
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| 147 Who was the first Somerset player to score 1000 runs for the county in the year of his first-class debut? |
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| 148 Which Somerset cricketer was one of Wisden’s Five Players of the Year in 1971? |
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| 149 Who was the Somerset bowler who returned Gillette Cup figures of 12-4-15-1 against Northumberland in 1977? |
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| 150 Who were the two batsmen who put on 251 against Surrey at Weston in 1977 for the fourth wicket? |
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| 151 Who went for 74 in eight overs (taking one wicket) against Kent in the John Player League in 1970 at Weston (Devonshire Road)? |
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| COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS |
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| 152 Which county has beaten Somerset on four occasions within a day in County championship matches? |
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| 153 What was unusual about the playing hours for county championship matches in the 1968 season? |
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| 154 What is the minimum number of championship matches scheduled in a season for Somerset since 1946? |
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| 155 And the maximum? |
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| 156 In which season did Somerset go through the championship unbeaten until the last match? |
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| TESTERS |
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| 157 Name two New Zealand Test players who have played for Somerset. |
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| 158 And two Indian Test players. |
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| 159 Four Australian Test players who have done likewise. |
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| 160 One of the Somerset players: N. S. Mitchell-Innes, M. Tremlett, H. W. Stephenson, K. Palmer is not a Test cricketer. Which one? |
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| 161 Has Somerset ever staged an international match? |
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| ENEMY DEEDS |
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| 162 Which Minor County did Somerset lose to in the Nat. West competition of 19877 |
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| 163 Who was the player who tell four runs short of making a double century in consecutive visits to Bath? |
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| 164 Who were the two Middlesex batsmen who had a stand of 424 against Somerset at Lord’s in 1948? |
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| 165 In season 1987 a player scored a century and took twelve wickets in the same match against Somerset. Who was he? |
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| 166 What is the highest individual score recorded against Somerset? |
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| HAROLD GIMBLETT |
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| 167 For which Minor County did Harold Gimblett play? |
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| 168 Which trophy was he awarded for his century against Essey at Frome in 1935? |
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| 169 From which Test did he withdraw because of a carbuncle on his neck? |
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| 170 How did he spend his war service? |
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| 171 With which public school was he associated as coach and groundsman? |
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| HOME AND AWAY |
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| 172 What was unusual about the fifth Test against the West Indies at Headingley in 1980 from the Somerset point of view? |
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| 173 Who was the Somerset player who became part of the first instance of brothers hitting a century in the same innings of a Test match? |
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| 174 Which player who was later to have a Somerset connection scored three centuries in three successive Tests in Australia in 1977-78? |
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| 175 Miles Coope and Johnny Lawrence both came from the same cricketing background. What was it? |
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| 176 Who was the Warwickshire bowler who did the hat-trick against Somerset at Taunton in May 1947? |
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| 177 The Somerset side of 1947 did the double against the champions. Who were the 1947 champions? |
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| 178 What was odd about the second innings bowling of Middlesex in the Taunton match that year? |
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| 179 In this match a Middlesex amateur got a century on his debut. Name? |
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| 180 Who scored a double century for Surrey at the Oval in July 1949? Two clues: an opener and left-handed. |
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| 181 What other Surrey player got a century in their 501 for three declared? |
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| MISCELLANEOUS |
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| 182 What was noteworthy about A. D. E. Rippon’s 119 against Essex at Leyton, 1919? |
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| 183 How many centuries did A. E. S. Rippon make for Somerset? |
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| 184 Who was the army officer who played very occasionally for Somerset but made 42 and 63 against Larwood at Taunton in 1928? |
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| 185 Who was the wicket-keeper who continued in club cricket until he was 80 and who had 416 victims for Somerset? |
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| 186 Who was the Somerset bowler who against Derbyshire at Frome in 1951 took seven for 23? |
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| 187 Name the Boer War soldier, later an Assistant District Commissioner in Southern Nigeria, who scored 122 out of 630 against Yorkshire at Leeds in 1901? |
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| 188 Who played for Middlesex and Surrey and later became Treasurer of the M.C.C, and President of Somerset? |
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| 189 On which Kent ground did J. R. Mason score 126 against Somerset and take 10 for 180 in 1904? |
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| 190 Who was the Test bowler who played chiefly for Surrey and London County but came to Somerset for a brief spell at the end of his illustrious career? |
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| 191 Who was the Yorkshire Player who took Martin Crowe apart during a Sunday League match at Middlesbrough in 1984? |
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| 192 Who dismissed Jack Hobbs in the only match he himself played for Somerset? |
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| 193 Name the Surrey batsman, known as “The Guv’nor”) who scored 357* against Somerset at The Oval in 1899? |
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| 194 What was the Surrey total in that match? |
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| 195 On which ground did Bill Alley score his 3000th run in September 1961? |
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| 196 Name the Keynsham batsman of the 1980s whose highest score for Somerset was 99*? |
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| 197 For what other sport is Clarence Park used? |
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| 198 And Bath? |
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| 199 For what other sport has the county ground at Taunton been used? |
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| 200 Can you name the Somerset skipper who was capped by Scotland in a Boys’ International golf match? |
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