Playfair Cricket Annual 2025 quiz

For those of you who like a challenge, I thought you might enjoy this quiz. All XI answers can be found in this year’s Annual. No prizes, so just for fun:

Who was the first cricketer born after 1 January 2000 to play first-class cricket in England?

Who is the county player with the highest first-class score of any current cricketer in the world?

Which bowler broke a record that had been held by W.G.Grace for more than 150 years during the summer of 2024?

Name the batter who, uniquely in County Championship history, scored four centuries in four innings

against the same opposition?

Only three current cricketers have scored 1000 runs in a season and taken 50 wickets in a season (though not in the same campaign). Name them all.

In 2024, James Bracey achieved a feat that no other player has done in some 63,000 first-class games. What was it?

Which player became the youngest ever in first-class cricket to complete the match double of scoring a century and taking five wickets in an innings?

Which two current bowlers have taken 50 wickets in an England season most often?

Who dismissed Joe Root, Kane Williamson and Jonny Bairstow, with more than 28,000 Test runs between them, in successive deliveries to complete their hat-trick?

Which future Test star was the inaugural winner of the Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year?

Which cricketer has three times made the same fifty-plus highest score for his country?