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What are "Bush fire ODIs " ? Tintin 05:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Had never heard of it/them. There is nothing in CA or Wisden too about additional matches. Tintin 23:13, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Will. Much appreciated. I'm enjoying it and learning quite a bit about cricket in the 19th century at the moment. Best wishes. BlackJack | ^{talk page} 18:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Heya. It's Wayward Genius by Greg Growden. Chuck seemed mad as a cut snake and the section on his living rough is hard to read but recommended anyway. --Roisterer (talk) 02:15, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi WillE - I see you're going through the cricket nicknames list removing the unsourced. it's about time that happened, but it's worth storing the unsourced ones somewhere (e.g., a section of the talk page) in case sources can be found for the others - like this one, which you removed today (see bottom of page). Grutness...wha? 23:41, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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"Its highlights were two games against a Combined Australia XI, which later came to be recognised as the first Test Matches. By whom?" The matches are now universally recognised as Tests, but I don't know whether who first called them that is a question that can be answered. I think I remember reading that the term "Test match" originated in Australia some ten or fifteen years after this, but which writer or journalist first applied it retrospectively to the 1877 matches might be hard to pin down. The Imperial Cricket Conference wasn't founded until 1909, if I recall correctly, and only subsequent to that could there be said to be an official definition, even though the term had been in common use for several decades. JH (talk page) 09:02, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

JH, old chap! How the devil are you? I mourn the lack of activity in the quiz. :(

This question has bugged me for years. Someone suggested on the Ask Steven Facebook page that George Giffen was the driver behind the acceptance of a list of matches that he favoured. No idea if he drew it up. This would make an interesting research project. WillE (talk) 09:38, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there, I note on the talk page for the Defeat of Boudica you mention that Boudica is rumoured to be buried in Coggeshall. I'm certainly not seeking hard evidence for this but I have maintained the Coggeshall page over many years and would love to know any source/folklore for this claim. Any chance you could help? Pluke (talk) 07:55, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]