Are you a fountain of knowledge when it comes to the performances of Nottinghamshire players in away Ashes series?

Find out by putting yourself to the test with a fiendish ten-question quiz on the relationship between the Green and Golds and the land down under!

Find the answers at the very bottom of the page.

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1) What name was given to the tactic deployed by England seamers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, at the behest of captain Douglas Jardine, during the 1932-33 Ashes tour?

A) Stumpline

B) Bodyline

C) Creaseline

2) England won an away Ashes for the first time in 24 years with a 3-1 triumph in 2010/11. At what venue did Graeme Swann claim 5/91 to tee up an innings win?

A) Adelaide Oval

B) The Gabba, Brisbane

C) Sydney Cricket Ground

3) The last time that England had emerged victorious on an Ashes tour before that was in 1986/87. Who hit three consecutive centuries as the Three Lions won the series 2-1?

A) Bruce French

B) Tim Robinson

C) Chris Broad

4) Conversely, the 2013-14 tour could hardly have gone worse for England. Who at least emerged with some credit by finishing as the tourists’ leading wicket-taker, with 21?

A) Graeme Swann

B) Stuart Broad

C) Samit Patel

5) Chris Read played his 15th and final Test match at the end of the 2006-07 Ashes, in Sydney. Whom did he stump for his last-ever wicketkeeping dismissal at Test level?

A) Shane Warne

B) Adam Gilchrist

C) Justin Langer

6) Although his side ended up on the wrong end of the series result, which future Nottinghamshire overseas claimed a hat-trick on day one of the Gabba Test in 2010?

A) James Pattinson

B) Moises Henriques

C) Peter Siddle

7) Stuart Broad and David Warner’s individual Ashes battle became one of the modern era’s most cinematic. How many times did Broad dismiss Warner in away Ashes Tests?

A) Five

B) Six

C) Seven

8) England thrashed Australia 5-1 in the 1978-79, their biggest margin of success in an away Ashes. At what venue did Derek Randall hit 150 to seal a 93-run England win?

A) Melbourne Cricket Ground

B) The WACA, Perth

C) Sydney Cricket Ground

9) Which Newstead-born opener made her England Test debut away to Australia in Adelaide in 1968, in the first of a three-match Women’s Ashes series, and scored a century?

A) Enid Bakewell

B) Rachael Heyhoe-Flint

C) Betty Belton

10) Who did Stuart Broad dismiss for his final Ashes wicket in Australia at the end of the 2021-22 series? Pleasingly, the same man was also his final Test wicket overall in 2023.

A) Usman Khawaja

B) Alex Carey

C) Pat Cummins

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Answers: 1) B, 2) A, 3) C, 4) B, 5) A, 6) C, 7) B, 8) C, 9) A, 10) B.