Five Days in White Flannels
A trivia book on Test cricket
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On 20th August 1994, playing for England against South Africa at The Oval, he was hit on the helmet by a bouncer while batting against Fannie de Villiers. He was incensed by this, and hit back with his greatest spell of international bowling, ripping through the South African batting order to finish with figures of 9-57, at the time the sixth-best innings analysis in the history of Test cricket. It was also the best bowling analysis, in Test cricket, by an English fast bowler in the 20th century. Identify the fuming protagonist.
Klippel-Feil syndrome is a rare disorder caused by a failure in the normal segmentation of the cervical vertebrae during the early weeks of fetal development. The most common signs of the disorder are a short neck, low hairline at the back of the head, and restricted mobility of the upper spine. Identify the only Test cricketer diagnosed with such a disorder.
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About the Book
Five Days in White Flannels is a “quizzical” tribute to Test cricket, the holy grail of achievement on the cricket field. It is also a nostalgic journey that venerates the five-day duel between the bat and the ball partaken by men clad in cream clothing on an idyllic cricket ground, and is a far cry from the environs of other forms of cricket that now-a-days deliver instant gratification. This is a comprehensive trivia book that tickles the brain of the reader with numerous fascinating and intriguing factoids of Test cricket. The book takes the reader partly through some narratives, each of which is tagged with a trivial question and then, to add variety, the narratives are interspersed with fair share of regular trivial queries and few cryptic questions. In the pages of this book, you will find out: · The name of the cricketer who was referred to as ‘Test cricket’s village batsman’ · What a ‘Platinum Duck’ is · The name of the cricketer inflicted by Klippel-Feil syndrome · What a ‘Water-drip’ effect in cricket is · About the replica of the cricket ground that billionaire Paul Getty built on his estate · About the association of Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara & Alexei Kosygin with cricket
About the Author
Sailesh Radha graduated from NIT Warangal (India) with a degree in Electrical engineering, and later received advanced degrees in business, from the Darla Moore School of Business (Univ. of South Carolina), and in law & diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (Tufts university). His sports quiz columns have appeared in Deccan Herald, a daily publication from Bangalore, and the popular Indian sports fornightly of yesteryears Sports World. He is now vice president at CCM Investment Advisers LLC., handling economic and investment research and portfolio management. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina with his wife and their six-year-old son.