This year's Remnants annual dinner was held in The Library at The Salisbury Arms on the evening of Friday, November 14, 2024, with sixteen Remnants and partners/supporters in attendance.

As is traditional, the focus was on the season just gone, which was the subject of the quiz.

(To see the answers simply highlight the region below the questions with your mouse by dragging the cursor across the screen with the left button held down.)

Numbers game

1. Which bowler had figures of 3/14 despite being listed in the averages as not having taken more than 2 wickets in an innings and how was this possible? (2 runs)

   Quentin Harmer, who decimated our middle order playing for NCI.

2. Who topped the bowling averages (given a qualification of 5 wickets) and what was their average? (2 runs)

   Martin Heginbotham with 5 wickets at 5.00.

3. How many balls did Joe White bowl at Cam Petrie in the internal game and how many runs did Cam score off them? (2 runs)

   22 off 8 balls.

4. How many deliveries did Neil Grover take to score 9 runs against Trinity College? (1 run)

   47 balls.

5. Who topped the season's batting averages and what was their average? (1 run)

   TK with 174 runs at 174.00.

6. What was Daniel Mortlock's season's bowling average (number of wickets and average) at the end of the internal game in June? (2 runs)

   12 wickets at 4.33.

7. How many times did we play NCI this season and how many times did we win? (2 runs)

   We played them four times and won three.

8. Name the five players who contributed to our 152-run opening partnership against Rahul's Rhinos? (5 run)

   Joe White, Temoor Khan, CJ Barrie, Qaiser Ahmed and Martin Heginbotham.

   Planning for retirement

9. Why did Simon Godsill retire while batting in the internal game? (1 run)

   To go dancing.

10. Which three players who first played for Remnants in the 1980s combined to finish off the internal game? (3 runs)

    Nick Johnson (debut: 1980) bowled the final over of the game to Paul Jordan (debut: 1985) and Faruk Kara (debut: 1988).

11. How did Julius Rix end his Remnants career i) with bat in hand and ii) with the ball? (2 runs)

    Julius first went to retirement with a six and then bowled the match-winning over.

    Start as you mean to go on

12. Who took wickets with the first two balls of his spell? (1 run)

    Vishal Vasanthkumar (against TK's Centaurs at Leckhampton).

13. Why wasn't Faruk Kara in the team for the first match of the season? (1 run)

    He deliberately didn't make himself available, presuming that the weather would be awful; it was in fact very nice.

14. What effect did nets have on Joe White's first ball of the season? (1 run)

    Presumably a bad one, as it was a chest-high full toss.

15. Who broke the club record for most fielding dismissals on debut and how many did he complete? (2 runs)

    Martin Heginbotham with three.

16. Who took 2/7 on Remnants debut against Grantchester and what was unusual about this? (2 run)

    David Ayliffe (Max's father), who wasn't wearing shoes.

    A bizarre collection of antiques and curios

17. Who batted for both sides? (1 run)

    Chris Badger, first for St Giles and then for Remnants (as we were short).

18. Who received a Level 1 warning for dissent? (1 run)

    Daniel Mortlock, who after a stumping appeal suggested the square-leg umpire had been "looking at the ground".

19. How did Pete Ames fail to complete a run out against NCI? (1 run)

    He took the throw from Saurav Dutta and hit the stumps with the ball, loudly enough for everyone to hear it but too softly to knock the bails off.

20. List all the tasks TK was undertaking simultaneously at the start of the Centaurs innings against us at Leckhampton. (4 runs)

    Umpiring; scoring; captaining; padded up.

21. How did TK fail to impress his visiting cousin? (1 run)

    Having told his cousin that he'd been playing lots of cricket and batting well, he then walked down the track to Iqtedar Alam second ball and was stumped by a mile.

22. Who told who to "suck my balls"? (2 runs)

    A fiesty female spectator at Parker's Piece gave this instruction to the two moronic pitch invaders.

Total: 40 runs.

There were no actual winners as everyone had kind of just discussed questions - but it was nice to revisit some of the more curious moments of the season.

The undeniable Champagne Moment of the season's was Julius Rix' retirement flourish (see above), but he was of course on the other side of the planet. So the award went to Max Ayliffe for his dismissal of our premier batter, JP Joubert, in the game against Trinity College High Table: Max had bowled off 24 yards and managed to get JP to overbalance playing a defensive shot, the ball cutting back to come between bat and pad. JP was unable to attend the dinner, otherwise he would have gotten the honour of presenting the award - but he was there in spirit.