Short BBC podcast episode (Daily Ashes Quiz) hosted by Andy Zaltzman (TMS Statistician). The episode includes multiple ad reads and a recap of the previous quiz (how many times a team scored 4+ runs per over in Tests to the end of the 20th century — answer: 6), then poses a new historical stats question: over the 20 Ashes trips to Australia from 1901–1987 (the first three Tests played in each series, 60 matches total), how many wins did England have? The host promises the answer in the next episode and encourages subscriptions to TMS on BBC Sounds.
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Hello, welcome to the Test Match Special Daily Ashes Quiz with me, Andy Zaltzman, TMS Statistician. Every weekday during the current Ashes series, I am posing an Ashes related stats question for you to have a guess at for the rest of the week. You can hear it exclusively on Beat BBC Sounds. We'll start with Friday's answer. For the third match in a row this series, Australia scored at more than four runs per over in Adelaide. England did so in all five tests in 2023 plus, for what it's worth, in Perth, the question was in all men's England v Australia tests to the end of the 20th century, 296 of them. How many times did one of the teams score at four runs per over or faster? And the answer was was only six. England did it twice, both in 1985 at the Headingley and Edgbaston tests and Australia did it four times, all of them in England, twice in 1921, once in 1934 and once in 1997. It's happened 35 more times since the start of this millennium, including, as I said, Australia in all three tests this series. For our scoring system, if you got it bang on and said six you can have six. Anything else below 10 you can have four. If you're below 20 you can have two. Below 30 you can have a single. But if you said 60 or more. You are out. Today's question after the Adelaide defeat, England's record in their last 10 trips to Australia since 1990 in the first three Tests of series is now brace yourselves. Played 30, won one, drawn four, lost 25. But over the previous 20 Ashes trips to Australia from 1901 to 1987 in the first three Tests played in those 20 series, so 60 matches, how many wins did England have? Pedant Alert I'm including the fourth test in 1970-71 because the third test was abandoned without a ball being bowled. So we're counting the first three Tests played in that series. So 60 matches. How many wins did England have in the first three Tests of Ashes series in Australia from 1901 to 1987? I'll have the answer for you tomorrow. Plus another question TestMatch Special is bringing you daily podcasts throughout the Men's 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 settings.
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