Can you name these cricketers all who have received a knighthood for services to cricket?

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Can you name these cricketers all who have received a knighthood for services to cricket?

Post by tiger76 » Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:02 pm

This should be easy for the cricket diehards on here, and if I'm not mistaken many of these played in the Lancs league back in their day..

I struggled with a lot of the West Indians, so only mustered 9/20.https://www.sporcle.com/games/gordon796 ... t=cricket

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Post by Steve1956 » Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:29 pm

I got 13 spent way to much time over the Ambrose one,😩I think a trip to the Glasgow memory clinic which is being advertised quite a lot on television here.....

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Post by ClaretTony » Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:38 pm

18

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Post by timshorts » Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:40 pm

They have one spelt wrong so that you don't get it with the correct spelling, and one I didn't recognise at all without his hat.
I knighted a few West indians that seem rather more deserving than the usual tory hangers on.

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Post by Claret Toni » Fri Sep 24, 2021 9:35 pm

Surprised to see Sir Learie Constantine not on the list, but perhaps his non-cricketing activities (politician, etc) earned him the knighthood.

...and then, of course, there's the absence of that fine English slow left arm bowler:




Sir Francis Drake

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Post by TheFamilyCat » Fri Sep 24, 2021 9:43 pm

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