Drawing a blank on this. Give us a clue on the player's nationality, please.

Ed Barnard is the speaker at the Cricket Society event at Edgbaston tomorrow afternoon. It will be interesting to hear what he says about cricketer workload, bearing in mind that he played all 14 four-day games plus 15 T20 and eight 50 over matches this year.

Support for the PCA view here:
https://sportsgazette.co.uk/county-crickets-crossroads-quantity-over-quality-chosen-by-ecb/
The writer's credibility is not enhanced when he mentions a player that he calls George Garrot.

Thanks for the quiz, Highveld. Keep them coming; but not too difficult, to be kind to dumb clucks like me.

Yes

I think the World Cup 50 came from Freddie Coleman in a match where another Warwickshire man scored a hundred.

I can't get the answer to question 6, though M J K Smith played cricket and rugby for England; and Martin Donnelly played cricket for New Zealand and rugby for England.

England played an ODI v New Zealand in 1973 at Swansea - no idea why.

Thanks for this.
I'll start the answers off by naming Geoff Humpage and Jim Troughton for question one - not sure about a third.
And I think David Hemp for question 4.

Latest BBC update:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c80g988y892o

Article about Chris Woakes that makes the point expressed by several of us on here - he deserved better than the dismissive send-off that Rob Key gave him:
https://open.substack.com/pub/thecricketdrop/p/bonus-the-cricket-drop-farewell-the?r=3becy7&utm_medium=ios

90th birthday interview with ex-Bear Bob Barber:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025/10/01/bob-barber-interview-boycott/?WT.mc_id=e_DM697196&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_PrS_New&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_PrS_New20251002&utm_campaign=DM697196

Interesting story about Jacob Bethell here:
https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/how-joe-root-discovered-jacob-bethell-barbados-10282843/

The younger bowlers shouldn’t be short of advice, with “Pop” plus OH-D, Chris Rushworth and Keith Barker on hand.

The return of!
https://edgbaston.com/news/graeme-welch-to-join-warwickshire-as-new-bowling-coach/

Neil Manthorp describes a sorry state of affairs in South Africa:
https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/sport/cricket/2025-09-30-neil-manthorp-it-looks-like-sa-has-given-up-on-first-class-cricket/
He also makes some points relevant here:
"By not selecting the best available players and not doing anything to incentivise spectators, the message is clear: domestic first-class is an irritation, like unpleasant medicine. But until cricketers believe they can prepare adequately for Test cricket by practising in the nets, it is also critical medicine for the health of the greatest format of the game. Test cricket relies on its regular doses of first-class games. Administrators at the national and provincial levels must continue the effort to sweeten the medicine, however difficult that talk might be."

Another one who sadly didn't quite make it:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c62lk1myryvo
I interviewed him six years ago when he had just taken his first wicket against Somerset. He was sharing a flat with fellow university student Rob Yates at the time.

A great tribute to Chris Woakes from George Dobell in The Cricketer, which has the sub-heading: "Any team would be lucky to have him; he has been a credit to his family, his county and his country – and, really, what more can any of us achieve?"

paulbear wrote:

Yes, that sodding tree. Maybe that is why Kent, supposedly one of the original 'Big 6', never had a Test ground because who wants to see a Test where a scorching shot doesn't get to the boundary because of some huge lump of wood on the actual playing area.

An unkind description of Rob Key in his Kent playing days.

Back in 1911, there was a lot of criticism of Warwickshire's win. Supporters of Kent (who came second and did not have a fixture against Warwickshire that year) were adamant that, had the teams met, Kent would have won. This ignored the fact that Kent didn't play Warwickshire because they thought that Warwickshire were an inferior, provincial county.
There is a famous Punch cartoon that shows Shakespeare shaking the hand of Warwickshire captain Frank Foster who says (with a quote from Henry VI) "Tell Kent from me she hath lost," to which the bard replies with another quote: "Warwick, thou art worthy."
The editor of Wisden was keen to point out that under previous methods of scoring, Kent would have been top; and he said that "probably few cricketers would contend that Warwickshire had the best eleven of the year"; and "under all conditions Kent, no doubt, had the strongest side." He did acknowledge, rather condescendingly, that "it was a good thing that the Championship should have gone to one of the outside counties."