Daily Ashes Quiz: Average first innings winning scores

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More. Hello and welcome to the Test Match special Daily Ashes Quiz. I am Andy Zaltzman, TMS stats keeper and purveyor of 110% partially verifiable cricketing probable factivativeness. For the rest of the week you can get your Daily Ashes related stats poser exclusively on BBC Sounds A question not to test your trivial knowledge, but to see how close you can get to guessing a number that I've dug up for you. We'll start with Friday's answer. This question came after England's top four made a not particularly grand total of eight runs in the first innings of the MCG victory. Eight runs that proved crucial in the end. Sort of. The question was what was the average runs by England's top four per match in the first innings of Tests in Australia from 1990 up to and including this year's Adelaide Test? And the answer was 147, which is definitely more than 8. So for our scoring system, if you're within 5 either way you've hit a 6. If you're within 15 either way, 425 either way you can have 240 either way you've nudged a single into a big gap on the leg side, but if you're 70 or more out, so 77 and under or 217 and over, you have lost a wicket. I do hope you've been keeping score over the last month and a bit Today's question follows on neatly. England won at the MCG despite being bowled out for 110. That's the lowest first inning score in an England win in Australia since the 19th century. The question for you today is in England's 43 previous match wins in Australia from the start of the 20th century up to their most recent victory before this one. In other words, the fifth Test in 2010-11, what was England's average first inning score? So I want England's average first inning score in their 43 victories in Australia from the start of the 20th century up to the one before this week. I'll have the answer and another question for you tomorrow. Test Match Special is bringing you daily podcasts during Domains Ashes if you want to be notified as soon as a new episode drops, make sure you're subscribed to the TMS podcast on BBC Sounds and have push notifications turned on in your phone.

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