Regular programming, i.e. post-match review of the third India-West Indies test, was interrupted briefly with the news that Rahul Dravid, now has thehighest test batting average for those who’ve made in excess of 7000 runs, conveniently of course casting aside the fact that a certain freak gent made 6996 runs at a fairly ridiculous batting average!

At the end of the St. Kitts test, Dravid averages 58.55. In addition, Dravid is 100 runs away from 9000 test runs and now only has the five gents of the 10,000 club ahead of him in the test runs list, having got to 8000 against Sri Lanka late last year.

While the temperature here in Melbourne is struggling harder than an English opening batsman to make it to double digits, and failing just as often, Australian cricketers have somewhat slipped from the limelight. Cricket is playing a distance second fiddle to the soccer (I know, I know…Football) World Cup in Germany and the Aussies are in the middle of a seven month layoff. So what have they been upto?

Shane Warne made a superstar appearance on a combined codes Footy Show (that’s AFL and Rugby league), live from Munich over the weekend. This before returning to Australia for what is now, reportedly “shoulder surgery”. Cricinfo is reporting this as a check up, but news reports here in Australia this morning say, it’s surgery.

For the last week or so, I have to say that the cricket on display hasn’t been well that exciting or riveting to a certain extent. I admit, Lara’s resistance in the second test was a treat to watch but the repeated pummeling received by the hapless and English and the bizarre tactics employed by the West Indian batsmen after passing 400 runs coupled with the euphoria surrounding the football World Cup has lead to cricket taking a back seat. During this period, I had the time so sit back and look at some of the aspects of the game today that are rather less related to cricket, but nonetheless, mildly interesting.

How many times has a batsman hit a bowler for 6 consecutive fours in an over?

Off the top of my head I can remember three:- Sandeep Patil off Bob Willis, Chris Gayle off Matthew Hoggard and recently Ramnaresh Sarwan off Munaf Patel. Interestingly, Willis was a really accomplished bowler and Hoggard as of now seems to be well on his way there. Munaf too has shown a lot of promise in his young career. Clearly being thrashed about once is not such a big deal, it seems.

The results are in folks! The first ever cricketing quotient test was a resounding success by all counts with twelve entries and two winners(?)! But the remarkable thing is the average score which was much more than what I had expected which is a commendable 5.25! In all fairness, I do agree this quiz was rather hard but I hope it got those brain cells ticking over! Wow, the readers of this blog do indeed have a rather high CQ (Cricketing Quotient)!