Wisden's quiz of the week (January 23-29)

Despite only making his T20 Blast debut in 2020, left-arm wrist-spinner Sam Wisniewski signed for Pune Devils in the Abu Dhabi T10 competition, which started this week. But what county does he play for?

Yorkshire

Middlesex

Durham

The 19-year-old, born in Huddersfield, will join county teammate Tom Kohler-Cadmore in the Devils’ squad and could come up against the likes of Chris Gayle, Alex Hales and Nicholas Pooran. Wisniewski has been used by England in the past to prepare to face India’s Kuldeep Yadav due to the similarity in their actions. Before last summer, Wisniewski hadn’t even made a second-team appearance for Yorkshire.

Rehan Butt played hockey for Pakistan at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. In fact, at London 2012 he scored Pakistan's goal in a 1-1 draw with Spain in their opening match of the tournament. His brother, Imran, could only manage 21 runs across his first two innings in Test cricket.

Former England Women’s head coach Mark Robinson was named Warwickshire head coach last week. What popular TV show did the Bears use to announce his arrival on their social media channels?

The Voice

The Masked Singer

Through The Keyhole

Robinson, who oversaw England Women’s 2017 World Cup win, replaces Jim Troughton in the top job at Edgbaston. It is not the first time the popular talent show has collided with cricket either. Who could forget legendary Aussie batsman Michael Bevan’s appearance on the Australian version of the programme whilst dressed as a hammerhead shark?

Queensland fast-bowler Mark Steketee received his maiden call-up to the Australia Test squad ahead of the series against South Africa. But which fast bowler is the state’s leading all-time wicket-taker?

Craig McDermott

Jeff Thompson

Michael Kasprowicz

Kasprowicz tops the wicket column for his home state with 441 wickets. Thompson (328 wickets) and McDermott (303 wickets) also performed admirably for the Sunshine State.

The toss for the third and final ODI between Afghanistan and Ireland in Abu Dhabi was delayed for an hour and 15 minutes on Tuesday, but for what reason?

The Ireland team bus broke down

Heavy fog meant motorways were closed and the teams were unable to travel to the ground

One of the umpires overslept

Ireland lost the ODI series 3-0 despite a pair of centuries from stalwart opener Paul Stirling

In Friday’s T20I against Pakistan, South Africa bowler Shabnim Ismail achieved which landmark milestone?

100 T20I wickets

Best T20I figures for South Africa

First T20I hat-trick for South Africa

Another milestone in a wonderful career for Ismail who moves on past the century mark in just 92 innings. The 32-year-old right-arm seamer made her international debut in 2007 and continues to be a stalwart in the side.

Nauman Ali became just the fourth Pakistani spinner to take a five-for on his Test debut. One of those to achieve the feat before him was the maverick all-rounder Shahid Afridi. What year did Afridi make his Test debut?

1997

1998

1999

It feels like the man known as ‘Boom Boom’ has been around international cricket forever by now. But he actually made his Test debut on 22 October 1998 against Australia, receiving cap number 153

Jack Leach now has more Test wickets in Sri Lanka (27) than any other English Test cricketer. Who is the only other bowler to have taken more than 20 Test wickets in Sri Lanka for England?

Graeme Swann

Monty Panesar

Ashley Giles

Giles was part of a remarkable winter in 2000/01 for an England side which was captained by Nasser Hussain and coached by Duncan Fletcher, containing series wins over Pakistan and Sri Lanka. His most memorable performance came in the third Test of that second series where Giles notched figures of 4-11 from just 9.1 overs to dismiss the hosts for just 81.

Cheteshwar Pujara celebrated his 33rd birthday this week. The batsman holds the Indian record for the most balls faced in a Test innings in his knock of 202 off 525 balls against Australia in 2017. How many boundaries did he hit in that innings?

The ‘second wall’, as he has been dubbed, batted for 11 hours in the third Test, a game that India could only draw after a fightback from the visitors in Ranchi. Not one known for his flashy strokeplay, his 21 boundaries all came along the floor in an innings that included no sixes.

Which nation announced their women’s team would be ending nearly two years of inactivity and would return to play competitive fixtures in February?

Thailand

Zimbabwe

Papua New Guinea

The Lady Chevrons are set to make their return to international cricket when they host Pakistan for three 50-over and two T20 matches in Harare. For safety reasons no fans will be permitted at the matches. It is the first time Zimbabwe women have played international cricket since May 2019.

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