Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Play on..


Here is a numbers/stats crossword (not really crossword - it's a crossnumbers or whatever you call it)

Just a couple of things here

1. Could not use the symbol '/'. So a 5/30 is represented as 5.30 (the dot is necessary). Sorry to everyone who believes the sacrosanct representation of the average has been violated. Nothing I could do. Also if a team score is 75/5, it will be represented as 75.5

2. So wherever there is an average, there is likely to be a decimal (.)

3. The number of characters indicated in brackets will include the . (or /). So 45.6 is 4 characters

Otherwise the clues are more than enough I guess

Across

1. Mahmood's classic in Durban (3)

3. "You guys are history" (4)

5. Nobody helped defend a lower score (5)

6. Massie's debut overshadowed this classic (3)

7. Run aggregate and birthday (D-M-YY) the same (4)

9. X made 365, Y made 260, their stand was worth ? (3)

13. Most wickets in a calendar year (2)

14. Record series aggregate amidst ruins (3)

17. Best average among 200+ men in Tests (5)

18. Best match bowling in a defeat (6)

21. You start your career with 18 and 1, lose by a massive margin of X runs (3)

Down

1. "X and all that" (5)

2. Vinoo Mankad 1956, Waugh twins Jamaica 95, Tendulkar-Sidhu Sharjah 1996 (3)

3. He ended the series with X runs at 113.12 with 4 centuries (3)

4. Fractured hand, no problem (4)

5. Most economical ten-wicket haul (5)

7. Pair on debut but highest aggregate for his country (4)

8. Legendary stand between Don and the man who loathed him (3)

10. Nearly 42% of the team runs in the series but 3-0 loss (3)

11. The missing score in this game - 75, 127, _ , 276/5 (3)

12. Well. fill this one in - 286, 245, 300/9, ? (5)

15. Connects Graeme Pollock and Eden Gardens 2001 (3)

16. Connects Tendulkar-Azhar Cape Town and Nathan Astle (3)

19. 'FOT' and 'Bacchus' ended on the same number (3)

20. Stan the man (3)

Cheers

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