Somerset Cricket Quiz – Answers 121 – 141

THE UMPIRES LIST OF 1987
121 Name the two umpires on the 1987 list who played for Somerset when under 17 years of age?121 J. H. Harris and Alan Whitehead.
122 Which umpire was educated at Taunton School but never played for Somerset?122 John Jameson of Warwickshie.
123 Who is the umpire who played for Somerset and whose nickname is “Buckets”?123 A. A. Jones (possible uncomplimentary reference to his fielding!).
124 Which umpire has a one in four chance of standing in a match where one of his former teams is involved?124 A. A. Jones who played with Sussex, Somerset, Middlesex and Glamorgan.
125 Which umpire attended Backwell Secondary Modern School in Nailsea?125 Mervyn Kitchen, formerly with Somerset.
126 Can you name the two brothers on the umpires list in 1987?126 Ken and Roy Palmer.
127 Did they have anything else in common127 Both played for Somerset.
128 Which of them was born within the county?128 Neither of them. Ken was born at Winchester and his younger brother Roy at Devizes
129 In what country did Ken Palmer play his only Test match?129 In South Africa in the tour of 1965.
130 Who is the senior umpire on the panel?130 Peter Wight (Somerset).
131When was he first appointed?131 In 1966.
132 How many brothers did he have and how many were Test cricketers?132 He had three brothers of whom G. L. Wight played for West Indies while H. A. Wight and N. Wight both played for British Guiana.
THE YEAR 1966
133 What was unusual about the championship matches of 1966?133 Some of them had an experimental first-innings limitation of 65 overs.
134 In this season Somerset first played competitive Sunday cricket. Where and against whom?134 At Ilford against Essex on May 15.
135 Who was the bowler who returned figures against Notts. at Trent Bridge 17.2-14-10-7?135 Peter Robinson.
136 What significance did the match against Glamorgan at Cardiff on August 13, 1966, have?136 It was the last county championship match to be played at Cardiff Arms Park.
137 What record did Roy Virgin set during the season?137 He took 42 catches, constituting a county record.
138 Who was the amateur who in his first season and at the age of 19 took 76 wickets but could never play regularly because he became a tea-planter in Ceylon?138 W. T. Greswell who in a span of twenty years appeared regularly in only three seasons.
139 Who was the Somerset batsman who was picked for England, never got an innings and was never selected again for a Test?139 J. C. W. MacBryan – against South Africa in 1924 at Old Trafford
140 Which Somerset cricketer spent much of World War One as an interned prisoner of war in Holland?140 J. C. W. MacBryan.
141 If Arthur Wellard had played for his native county which badge would have been on his cap?141 The Invicta of Kent.