The Pink Report

The Pink Meanie Quiz

Time to test your Northern Districts cricket knowledge with a bunch of obscure questions that I’ve been collecting and saving up all summer. I’ll be secretly impressed if you get even one in four correct, the rest you can count as educational! Watch out for my trick questions, I don’t play fair. And just to prove that I really am a meanie, the answers are below but backwards so you can’t cheat-peek :)

1. Long before Herschelle Gibbs joined the Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights in the 2010/11 HRV Cup, he played a tour match against them for South Africa. Which season was that?

2. Which Knights players played against Herschelle on that occasion and also represented the Knights this summer? I’ll give you a clue: there are five of them.

3. Which ND player has a grandmother who was Taupo’s district mayor?

4. Northern Spirit allrounder Nicola Browne chalked up a career milestone in December. What was it?

5. How many of this season’s Knights have a twin?

6. Which domestic province does Pete McGlashan’s sister Sara represent?

7. A street in Warkworth is named after James and Hamish Marshall. Is it:
(a) Jamish Drive
(b) Marshall Avenue
(c) Twin Bats Road
(d) Marshy Street?

8. Hamilton thrashed Marlborough in March to claim the Hawke Cup chalice of provincial supremacy. Which team had Marlborough beaten to become the defender?

9. How many times did the Aces beat the Knights this season?

10. Against which team did Brad Wilson and BJ Watling set a Northern Districts versus allcomers first-class record opening partnership?

11. And how many runs was that record first wicket partnership worth?

12. On which ground did they post it?

13. Which of our 2010/11 overseas players also played in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup?

14. How many games did Kane Williamson play for the Knights this season?

15. Why is March 24, 2011 a significant date in Northern Districts cricket?

16. How many seasons of first-class cricket has Michael Parlane now played in New Zealand (for any team)?

17. Northern Districts Cricket CEO David Cooper represented which team in first-class cricket?

18. Which erstwhile rugby administrator is also the owner of Northern Districts cap number 117? Clue: he’s been a very successful CEO of both Wellington Rugby and Auckland Rugby.

19. Which cricket brand was Daniel Flynn’s bat sponsor this season? Was it:
(a) Nike
(b) Gray-Nicolls
(c) Gunn & Moore
(d) He didn’t have a bat sponsor this season.

20. Who took the most first-class wickets for the Knights this season?

21. How many first-class games has Joey Yovich played for ND now?

22. Which is the only team that finished below the Knights in all three comps this season?

23. How many overseas players represented the Knights this season?

24. Scott Styris wore pink in the HRV Cup for the first time this summer. What colour is he wearing in the IPL at the moment?

25. When 18-year-old Josef “Joe” Walker made his debut for the Knights in their final match of the season, he had to get a week off school. Which school does he attend?

THE PINK MEANIE ANSWERS

1. nosaes 40/3002 eht ni su tsniaga deyalp sbbiG ellehcsreH
2. sirytS ttocS ,llahsraM hsimaH ,llahsraM semaJ, egdirdlA emearG dna hcivoY yeoJ
3. nosmailliW enaK
4. DN rof hctam htderdnuH
5. (retsis) ttocS yeldarB ,(rehtorb) nosmailliW enaK :ruoF
llahsraM hsimaH dna llahsraM semaJ
6. !emityna su rof nac ehs tub ,stcirtsiD lartneC
7. pu siht gnikam ton m’I .evirD hsimaJ
8. yrtnuoC ogatO
9. puC VRH eht ni ecno dna dleihS teknulP eht ni ecno :eciwT
10. !!thgir meht devre ti dna sdriberiF notgnilleW ehT
11. (esrouc fo sdrawkcab) 472
12. ieragnahW ,lvaO mahboC
13. ailartsuA rof ,yessuH divaD
14. .s02ytnewT eerht dna reyad-eno eno :ruoF
(!kraP arukekuP ta deyalp neeb evah dluohs eh nokcer llits I dnA)
15. 142 ,erocs ssalc-tsrif reve tsehgih s’DN edam nnylF leinaD yad eht s’tI
16. .neeteniN
.acirfA htuoS ni nosaes eno deyalp osla eh wenk uoy fi tniop sunoB
17. stcirtsiD lartneC
18. etihW divaD
19. erooM & nnuG
20. (03) egdirdlA emearG naht erom owt ,(23) tluoB tnerT
21. eno dna derdnuh enO
22. !retteb hcum leef su ekam tn’seod ti tub sdriberiF notgnilleW ehT
23. ,llahsraM hsimaH, sbbiG ellehcsreH :eviF
egdoH darB dna yessuH divaD ,renraW divaD
24. .mih stius yllaer ti dna wolley nomeL
.hguoht ereht hturt elohw gnillet eb ton thgiM
25. wonk ll’uoy ,snmuloc ym gnidaer neeb ev’uoy fi dnA .hgiH ‘syoB notlimaH
!otohp maet eht ni seoJ owt htiw pu dne d’ew taht elbativeni saw ti

?sdrawkcab ellehcsreH lleps ot si ti drah woh aedi yna evah uoy oD .S.P
snotgnimal knip eht lla rof DN uoy knaht dnA
.(doof niarb nwonk llew a) nosaes eht revo
!zzuiq elttil ruo deyojne uoy epoH

Well done. Put your hands up in the air!