Daily Ashes Quiz: Centuries for nought

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Hello, welcome to the TMS Ashes Daily Quiz. I am Andy Zaltzman, Test match special statistician, and I will be part of the team bringing you ball by ball coverage of the men's Ashes on five Sports Extra and BBC sounds over the next couple of months throughout what promises to be an absolutely gripping series. Every weekday morning on the Ashes Daily Quiz, I will set you a question if if you listened to the TMS quiz in the summer. Welcome back if you didn't. Welcome to a quiz which tests not so much your knowledge as your ability to take a well constructed guess or a wild stab in the dark at a statistic or fact. To spice things up a bit, we have a new scoring system for the Ashes. The closer you are to the correct answer, the more runs you score. If you're way off, you're out. I'll explain each question, scoring system each den you can keep, tally if you want, through each week. And look, let's get this out there, no cheating, please. You're umpiring and scoring yourselves essentially here. So if you want to claim to have smashed every single question out of the park for six, that's on you. And no looking things up either. That's my job. So, to start with, for our first question, we'll begin with some beginnings. Obviously, it's very important to start well on a challenging tour. And harrowingly awful starts to Ash's series in Australia can feel like just a natural part of the rhythm of life for English cricket fans. Of recent vintage. My question for you to guess at today is this. This will be the 37th Men's Ashes Series in Australia. How many times in the previous 36 have Australia reached 100 for naught in their first innings of a home Ashes series? How many century opening stands have Australia had in the first innings of the first test of Ashes series in Australia? The scoring system for this one, if you get it exactly right, you've started the series with a six within two either side four. If you're within four either side, I'll give you two runs within eight either side, you've nudged it for a single. If you're wrong by more than 12, you're out. Otherwise it's a dot ball. So good luck with that question. How many opening stands have Australia had in the first innings of the first tests of home Ashes series? I'll give you the answer and another question tomorrow. Do follow ball by ball coverage of every test from the Men's Ashes with TMS on BBC Sounds to listen live whenever you want, just scroll through the live radio dial at the top of BBC Sounds and tap on 5 Sports Extra or ask your smart speaker as politely as you want to play five Sports Extra.

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