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Mumbai horror shocks England fans

I first heard the news, via a text message, as I stood on a busy platform at Cuttack railway station a little before midnight on Wednesday night.

It read simply: "Shooting at Leopold's"

As I've learnt during numerous trips to India nasty incidents do happen from time-to-time out here and, as I fell asleep on the train to Kolkata, guessed this was another of the sporadic bouts of violence that occassionally hit India's cities.

However, the early editions of Thursday's papers that greeted me on arrival at Kolkata's Howrah station quickly, soberingly and shockingly, showed the gruesome scale of the attack on Mumbai...

While England's players have spoken of their shock at seeing their usual hotel, the Taj, engulfed by flames and gunfire, it was two of the other scenes of the terrorist attack which left me reeling.

Leopold's cafe, not far from the Taj hotel, is one of the iconic venues to enjoy a cold beer in the city and was busy with England supporters each night during our last Test match here in March 2006.

The pictures of the scene of destruction there would have sent a chill down the spine of anyone who has ever enjoyed an evening there but for me it was the scenes from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus that really hit home.

Sat with my rucksack and the day's newspaper I'd spent hours sat on the station concourse waiting for various delayed trains to take me to various parts of India over the years.

So when I saw the blood smeered floor, abandoned luggage and learnt later of a death toll of nearly 50 I really did feel incredibly closer to the tragedy than the actual 1000 miles it was away.

It's very easy to let your imagination run wild in such situations but I was close to tears as I considered the very likely outcome had I been sitting there waiting for a train on Wednesday night.

With the siege at the Taj being continually broadcast on Indian television it was no surprise when, just a few hours later, it was announced the England team would be returning home to consider their participation on the tour for a few days.

But for the few supporters out here, like me in Kolkata en route to Guwahati, and the fans on trains or planes already committed to travelling to the venue for England's scheduled 6th ODI it is a different matter.

Of course, we all know some of the risks we are taking by following England overseas.

We were in India in December 2001 when the Indian Parliament was stormed by militants and just more than a month ago, Guwahati and surrounding towns were rocked by a number of explosions that killed 80 people.

But the sense of remoteness and randomness of those attacks seemed to have been replaced in part, if early reports were to be believed, by a systematic attack on Western visitors to the country.

So, as I sat on Kolkata's wonderful Maiden watching young cricketers hone their skills I did, for more than a fleeting moment, wonder if it was time to come home.

As the weekend has progressed though, Kolkata has continued almost completely as normal and once again it does feel like I am further away from those horrific scenes in Mumbai.

Now it's a case of sitting and waiting while England decide whether or not they want to return to play the Test series.

But for the supporters already out here, one way or another, the tour goes on.

Welcome to Ask Bearders, where Test Match Special statistician Bill "The Bearded Wonder" Frindall answers your questions on all things cricket.

Below are Bill's responses to some of your questions posed at the end of his last column and if you have a question for Bill, leave it at the end of this blog entry. Please do include your country of residence - Bill loves to hear where all his correspondents are posting from.

Bill isn't able to answer all of your questions, however. BBC Sport staff will choose a selection of them and send them to Bearders for him to answer.

Q. In Australia's recent Fourth Test in India, Jason Krejza had figures of 8 for 215. From 0 to 10 wickets taken, what are the worst figures in terms of runs conceded by any bowler in Test matches?
nickbungus

Bearders' Answer: Krejza's analysis has established a new record for the most expensive eight-wicket haul. The full list that you requested includes a few surprises:-
0-259 Khan Mohammad P v WI Kingston 1957-58
1-298 L.O.Fleetwood-Smith A v E The Oval 1938
2-247 Fazal Mahmood P v WI Kingston 1957-58
3-237 Saqlain Mushtaq P v SA Cape Town 2002-03
4-201 B.Lee A v I Sydney 2003-04
5-266 O.C.Scott WI v E Kingston 1929-30
6-226 B.S.Bedi I v E Lord's 1974
7-220 Kapil Dev I v P Faisalabad 1982-83
8-215 J.J.Krejza A v I Nagpur 2008-09
9-121 A.A.Mailey A v E Melbourne 1920-21
10- 74 A.Kumble I v P Delhi 1998-99

Q. In the recent Fourth Test between India and Australia, Jason Krejza went for 358 runs in the match - this can't be far off being a record!
SlowFatMikey

Bearders' Answer: Krejza's tally is the runner-up. Only West Indian leg-break bowler O.C. ('Tommy') Scott, with match figures of 9 for 374 at Kingston in 1929-30, has conceded more. The bulk of those runs were scored off him in the first innings when he returned the remarkable figures of 80.2 overs, 13 maidens, 266 runs and 5 wickets as England amassed 849 runs at the start of a timeless Test. Andy Sandham was chiefly responsible as he posted the first international triple century in what turned out to be his final Test.

Q. What is the lowest score made by a team winning a Test match by an innings - batting first and second?
sirianblog

Bearders' Answer: Both those lowest innings-winning totals were made on vicious 'sticky' pitches as they dried after heavy rain.
The lowest such first-innings score is 172 by England against Australia (81 and 70) at Manchester in 1888 when a record 18 (Australian) wickets fell before lunch on the second day in the shortest completed Test match in England - 6 hours 34 minutes. The tourists were compelled to follow on as the margin in 1888 was a mere 80 runs.
Australia's 153 against South Africa (36 and 45) at Melbourne in 1931-32 is the lowest to gain an innings victory batting second.

Q. I am sure that all three Chappell brothers played Test cricket for Australia together at some point. Has this feat been equalled or surpassed?
magnaMortonfan

Bearders' Answer: Oh, no, they didn't! In fact Trevor did not appear in the same Test as either of his brothers. His three appearances, all against England in 1981, were made after Ian had retired and when Greg was unavailable.
The three Grace brethren, E.M., G.F. and W.G., are alone in appearing for the same side in a Test match. They all made their debuts against Australia at The Oval in 1880 in the first Test to be staged in England.
Three Hearne brothers appeared in the Cape Town Test of March 1892 when Alec and George made their debuts for England and Frank appeared for South Africa after playing twice for England. Their cousin, John Thomas, also made his debut in that match.

Q. When one says 'a batsman was out without troubling the scorers', how much trouble does the batsman really cause?
Aaron van Geordieland

Bearders' Answer: Frequently I have publicly threatened to throttle any commentator who uses that hackneyed and erroneous expression. The fall of a wicket produces pressure points in any scoring system. If wickets fall in swift succession that pressure is dramatically increased.
The linear method I have designed for TMS commentaries involves three A4 sheets: the Ball-by-Ball Record of Play, the Innings Scorecard and the Cumulative Bowling Analyses. Only the first two are immediately affected by the fall of a wicket. First I stop the watch recording the length of his innings and zero it for the new batsman.
Record of Play: I enter 'W' in the dismissed batsman's column to show which ball took his wicket and the time of his dismissal on the next line of the 'time' column. I complete all totals in the 'End-of-Over' section and the outgoing batsman's balls and boundaries columns. Then I rule off that batsman's section and his column in the 'Totals' section. The new batsman's name is then entered on the next line of the batting column.
Innings Scorecard: I enter details of that batsman's dismissal (time out, minutes batted, how out, runs, fall-of-wicket, fours, sixes and balls faced) and his partnership details (runs, minutes and balls). Finally I add the new batsman's name and enter the time he went in.
In Test matches there would normally be a two-minute hiatus before play is resumed but it is far shorter in limited-overs games and virtually non-existent in the 20-over format.

Q. Gordon Greenidge scored 134 out of 211 for West Indies v England in the Third Test at Old Trafford in 1976. I think he actually scored 134 out of 192 runs scored while he was at the wicket, as he was ninth man out, after opening. I'll leave Bearders to do the maths but does this come very close to Bannerman's highest percentage of runs by one batsman out of a team's overall total, before Slater's innings?
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Bearders' Answer: Greenidge did indeed score 134 of his side's 211 runs in that innings - 63.5% of the total - and at the time only Charles Bannerman (67.35) had bettered it. Subsequently Michael Slater (66.6% in 1998-99) and V.V.S.Laxman (63.9% in 1999-2000) have demoted him to fourth place. Greenidge actually scored 134 out of 193-9 - 69.4%.

Q. In what year was the first Test match between Australia and England at Melbourne in March 1877 recognised as an official Test match? What would its designation have been until then?
aarongeordie

Bearders' Answer: Arranged at short notice following successful odds matches between James Lillywhite's team of English professionals and sides representing New South Wales and Victoria, the inaugural Test match was billed as 'A Grand Combined Melbourne and Sydney Eleven v James Lillywhite's Professional Touring Team'. It was the first match played on level terms (the same number of players on each side) by an English team abroad.
It's anointment as the first 'Test' match came initially at the hands of contemporary cricket historians/statisticians. In 1894 Melbourne's Clarence Percival Moody produced a 98-page publication entitled 'Australian Cricket and Cricketers 1856-1893/4'. It listed, with brief résumés, averages, records and curiosities, Australia's earliest intercolonial and international matches. Then, in 1895, John Nix Pentelow's 'England v. Australia - The Story of Test Matches' was published as Vol LXIV of Arrowsmith's Bristol Library. It included the full scores of the first 43 Anglo-Australian Tests (1877-95), together with match reports and a brief records section with full names and birthdates for most of players involved.

Q. When Ireland played England in Belfast in June 2006, brothers Dominic and Ed Joyce played against each other. Both were also making their limited-overs international debuts. Surely these are both firsts?
Irish75

Bearders' Answer: Probably the only comparable instance occurred at Cape Town in March 1892 when Alec and George Hearne made their debuts for England and their brother, Frank, appeared for the opposing South Africa team after playing twice for England.

Q. Sid Barnes and Don Bradman both scored 234 in the same innings for Australia against England at Sydney in 1946-47. Is this the joint highest score made by two batsmen in Tests? What about in all first-class cricket?
GeordieDom

Bearders' Answer: Their score of 234 is the highest jointly recorded in any first-class innings. Bradman dropped himself down the order because of a leg injury and gastric problems, joining Barnes, who had opened the batting, when he had scored 71 out of 159-4 in 244 minutes. Their partnership of 405 in 393 minutes remained the Test record for any wicket until 1990-91. Bradman was trapped lbw immediately after scoring 16 off an over from Denis Compton. Four minutes later, Barnes, after batting for 642 minutes, the longest innings for Australia until R.B.Simpson scored 311 in 762 minutes in 1964, gave a tame catch to mid-on at the same total (564). Later Barnes confessed to having thrown away his wicket so that he would finish with the same score as his captain.

Q. When was the option of taking the new ball after 80 overs introduced in Tests? What is the largest number of overs that a side has continued with the old ball?
Marcus (UK)

Bearders' Answer: Playing conditions governing the availability of a new ball have varied considerably even since the Second World War. The Ashes series of 1948 was played under an experimental law that allowed a new ball after only 55 overs. The limit had risen to 85 overs when I began my stint with Test Match Special in 1966. A lengthy trawl of my scoresheets has revealed that the 80-over edict was introduced in 1996.
The highest recorded number of overs for which the original ball has been retained in Test cricket is 177. Bereft of the services of two of his key bowlers (Malcolm Marshall and Michael Holding) and hampered by one of Wellington's notorious northerly winds in February 1987, West Indies captain Viv Richards countered with this tactic throughout New Zealand's second innings as they amassed 386 for five.

Q. If a batsman is stumped off a wide, how do you score it and how do you enter it in the book?
Mr J. Morrall

Bearders' Answer: I use my own A4 loose-leaf sheet scoring system. In the dismissed batsmen's space for that over, on the main scoresheet, I would enter a plus sign with a dot in the top left sector to denote the wide. Above that I would put a red 'W' denoting the fall of his wicket. On the innings scorecard I would record 'stumped off a wide' in the Notes on Dismissal section.

Q. What is the record for the most consecutive innings victories by a Test team?
Buzz1989

Bearders' Answer: An intriguing question with a messy answer - scant reward for much research. The answer is three and there have been 13 instances shared by seven countries: Australia (4 times); England, South Africa and India (twice); New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka (once). The most successive innings defeats is five and no prize for guessing that the victims have been Bangladesh (twice) and Zimbabwe (once).

Watching England in one-day internationals away from home is rarely easy but, after two heavy defeats in Rajkot and Indore, the next five games and the long hours spent between games on the train are starting to look tougher by the day.

But away from the cricket itself the first week of England's epic odyssey across the length and breadth of India has thrown up the usual array of the fantastic that tend to become the norm on a tour of this amazing country.

Take my TWO TV appearances for instance...

The first was relatively straightforward. The man from BBC News was so stunned that I had decided to follow KP's troops across the subcontinent in the delights of Indian Railways' Sleeper Class that he came down to film me at Ahmedabad railway station en route from Rajkot to Indore.

Taking a simple snap in India still often draws a sizable crowd so you can imagine the interest that was caused by a TV camera pointing at an Englishman slouched on some baggage destined for a faraway location!

My second appearance was far stranger and completely unexpected.

After a knock at my hotel door the night before England's opening game I was about to open up and tell the chai boy I didn't want another cup of his delicious tea when in burst five Rajkot police officers accompanied by a TV crew!

The hotel manager was with them apologising profusely and explained that they were searching all the rooms in the hotel.

I never got to the bottom of what they were searching for but whilst the entire contents of my rucksack were ignored my Dad's 60th birthday card enjoyed specific attention! What viewers would have made of a senior police inspector opening and closing the card to show an elephant playing a shot with a cricket bat goodness only knows!

Whilst the interest, or more importantly lack of, in India's Test series with Australia has been well documented this definitely hasn't been the case in this ODI Series so far.

In both Rajkot and Indore, and now in Kanpur, hotel beds right across the price spectrum have been increasingly tough to come by.

With many of the venues slated for this tour rarely seeing international cricket fans from all over the respective states have flooded to the cities to completely fill hotels that are already very busy coping with the start of India's traditional wedding season.

As the manager of my hotel in Indore succinctly put it: 'I wish the city suffered from cricket fever more often'!

Interest in the games hasn't stopped at the lack of hotel rooms of course.

Both games so far have been complete sell-outs with 32,000 packing into Indore's fantastic Maharani Usharaje Trust Cricket Ground and, supposedly, 18,000 squeezing into Rajkot's slightly less salubrious Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground.

Even in an empty ground the view afforded in Rajkot isn't what one would expect from an international cricket venue.

The bamboo canes and ropes used to hold up the temporary awnings combined with the permanent barbed wire topped metal fence make watching the cricket difficult enough.

But when you add a crowd who have cleverly adopted the 'one-person-out, four-people-in' technique during the first session of play to swell the actual attendance way above 20,000 then watching much of the game becomes virtually impossible.

Mind you, when you lose by a whopping 158 runs maybe that's no bad thing!

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An Intoxicating Celebration of English Beer and Drinking Culture

Cricket and beer, two topics I know NOTHING about!!

While the inhabitants of England are famed for their love of drink try not to match them, they drink at a fast pace and those on tour often fall foul to the odd hangover when overindulgence occurs. For a true slice of English culture however, there is no better way than to visit the local pub and sample the unique regional tipple.

The Barmy Army Skulks into Wellington Looking for BEER!

England won by 126 runs

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Phil Long's blog (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/phil_long/) makes depressing reading for any English cricket fan with the fifth day Seddon Park massacre still fresh in their memories... It seems that not only were the team under prepared, the supporters were also woefully lacking in basic self preservation:

"The sunburn to the shins and feet of one supporter (who shall remain nameless!) on that first day were so bad he had to be taken, hobbling, to A&E at a Hamilton hospital to have the burns dressed and then redressed on subsequent days."

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Submitted 2008-04-10 13:35:22

Drinking and socialising is a large part of the culture of England and a tour of the various historic pubs and breweries is the perfect way to sample this culture. Many may think that beer in England is purely warm flat liquid that only the locals would be mad enough to sample. This however is a common misconception; while on your tour it would be criminal to miss out on the fine ales, stouts and bitters. They may taste flat to the uneducated, but the acquiring of the taste for the beers of England will definitely add an aspect to your tour.

A pint of good beer is a thing to enjoy and savour, thankfully for those who appreciate the tipple there is such a wide and diverse base of beer types that the drinker is thrown in a 'Willy Wonka's Factory' of delight. On your tour you will see bitters and milds, porters and stouts whilst not forgetting the cider that makes the West Country so appealing. The drinks however should only form a small part of your pub tour of England, after all it is the location as much as the pint that makes a good drink.

The pubs of England are some of the oldest in the world and this history is evident as you sup on your tipple. The ale houses of England that you will see on your tour let the traveller step back in time to a simpler period where the roar of an open fire and the clink of glasses is one of the greatest delights in life and a must for the weary traveller. While chain pubs may be encroaching on the traditional pub market, do not fear; there are still plenty of historic pubs to quench your thirst.

All regions of England have a wealth of historic establishments that will amaze the tourist. While you are on your tour you will see names such as the Royal Oak, The Black Bull and Ye Olde Fighting Cocks; all giving some indication of the pub's heritage. It must be noted that these pubs have been at the heart of their communities for centuries and are still play a major part in modern communities. Nearly all villages will have a pub and stopping off while on your tour for a quick drink or even a spot of lunch can make the journey all the more enjoyable.

In terms of the beers you will see on your tour of England, they generally fall into five categories. The most numerous are the bitters or ales, this are generally very 'hoppy' and low in carbonation, an adjunct of the bitters are the 'mild beers' which are generally sweeter and usually darker in colour.

Dark colour however is dominated by the stouts; of course most have tried Guinness but there are ranges of stout that vary immensely from the taste of Ireland. Porter can be seen as a happy medium between stout and mild and has experienced resurgence in recent years. Cider is becoming evermore popular but for the true 'scrumpy', the West Country is the place to head, this apple based drink can be extremely strong so remember to drink responsibly

While the inhabitants of England are famed for their love of drink try not to match them, they drink at a fast pace and those on tour often fall foul to the odd hangover when overindulgence occurs. For a true slice of English culture however, there is no better way than to visit the local pub and sample the unique regional tipple.

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Spineless, gormless and pissed is this really a sober Britain?

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THE GREAT BIG BRITISH FAT CATS AND GREEDY SCANDAL

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1. check the ideal weight for your pet with your vet;
2. take action if your pet is heavier than its ideal weight by 15%.
3. check for a sagging stomach and bulging sides;
4. if you can't feel your pet's ribs, this may be a sign that they're overweight;
5. breathlessness and reluctance to take exercise are good indicators of an overweight pet.

OBESITY IN HOUSES
OF PARLIEMENT?

Heavyweight politicians, many of whom may have visited the "trough" of their free meal allowances a little to often, have refused to take the new "FAT PET" test. The general feeling among MPs is that; "A few tasty treats never did anyone any harm"!

"Throw me a BONE sometime", seems to be the reply from the Great British Public.

Gormless Gordon says;
"I eats, I drinks, I gets fat
and I falls over; I'm awright
JACK".

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Over feeding pets is very common and this headline makes the point by using a bit of humour.