I've actually been to Gros Islet. Not allowing Castries to cover for it - the height of cruelty, Jerry! (It's a different place, I know, but it's about nine kms away, and there's not much of a "city" break.) Fun quiz.
Great idea for a quiz. I might be tempted to split them by test playing nation, but not name the nation, so a colum or the like for each. Given there are nearly a hundred answers a little help/guidance is no bad thing.
Typing in Antigua brings up St. Johns, and a number of other Caribbean island names bring up their cricket cities, but Barbados doesn't bring up Bridgetown.
Interesting. I'd prefer if doing that wouldn't give the answer, but that's just me. I tried Castries and then gave up for St. Lucia and for other smaller West Indian nations. Too bad, since there were a few smaller ones to get. I've been to Gros Islet - one sleepy little burg. Hard to believe something of sporting consequence happened there! Of course, I first watched cricket in Kandy, and thus completely forgot and left off all Sri Lankan locations.
Reading some of the above comments, I'm a bit annoyed because I couldn't think of any towns or cities in countries which I knew had hosted test matches, but which would apparently have appeared had I just entered the countries themselves. Could you please amend the instructions accordingly?
Once upon a time it seemed like a good idea - some West Indies ground locations were a bit obscure! But it does make it inconsistent across the quiz, so the country names have just been removed as type-ins.
Chester-le-Street is a smallish (25,000) town at the centre of a triangle bounded by Newcastle, Sunderland and the City of Durham, and is about 10 km from each of them. It lies within the Metropolitan Area of Newcastle (called Tyneside-Wearside to be exact, pop 1.6 million). All the cricket stats name the Riverside Ground to be in Chester-le-Street. The odd name comes from a chester, a fortified camp from Roman times, and a street was indeed a Roman "street", or the main road, that ran through town.
A bit of a stretch, but OK. Chester-le-Street is in County Durham, and Newcastle is in the adjacent country of Tyne and Wear, but the drive between the two is close to continuously urban.
Not really. Name every big city in India, the UK, Ireland, South Africa and other nearby countries also colonized by the British, the Caribbean, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand, and a few cities in the UAE that are overwhelmingly Indian and I think you get more or less all of them. Pretty sure all of these places were at one point part of the British Empire. The game was invented in England and then exported to the rest of the empire.
That’s what I did. Don’t know much about cricket, apart from it being popular in the former British Empire countries, so I typed all cities I could think of in those countries. And I got 63 right!
Cricket arose in England around counties rather than cities, and the main team in the north-west of England is Lancashire, whose territory includes both Manchester and Liverpool (or rather it did - Lancashire used to be bigger than it is now). The Lancashire team chose to have their home in in Manchester rather than Liverpool, so that is where the big cricket stadium has existed in that part of England (Lancashire have played matches in Liverpool, but it was at a smaller ground not suited for big international matches).
It would be interesting if the answer also showed how many tests each city had hosted (from an educational viewpoint). May not be particularly practical though.
It doesn't seem fair that "East London" is not given with "London", since the test just ask for cities.
Also, the rest of the official capital tests in jetpunk allow "kingston" as a type-in for "kingstown" (st vincent). It'd be great to maintain consistency. :)
As a general principle, we invite quizzers to make their quiztaking a learning experience. Asking quizsetters to make quizzes easier simply means your learning experience will be weakened. Much better, here, to use this to learn a bit about the very different cities in Jamaica and St Vincent!
I hear you in the general case, Jerry, but I am going to push back at you on the Kingston-vs-Kingstown issue here.
I'm very well aware of the difference between the both of them... however as @rocamorar says, the convention here on Jetpunk (for better or for worse) is to give credit for both when either is entered.
Whether you agree with that or not (and I actually don't think I do myself) I'd argue that ignoring that convention is the worse sin, because people will enter one of them, assume that they've been given credit for both if/where it is due, and carry on. Like I just did now. I entered "Kingston," saw that only the one in Jamaica was given, and just figured "huh, I guess they never played a test match in Kingstown. I suppose the St. Vincent cricket oval must be in some other, adjacent, parish or something."
Not because I don't know about both cities, and not because I don't know they're spelled differently, but because I have certain expectations when I'm on this site.
Learn all about test cricket (and test matches) right here. It's kinda weird, I've been a cricket fan all my life, but have never wondered why international cricket matches have such a strange name.
Fun quiz, made my brain hurt by trying to remember the Indian subcontinent places though!
Also, the rest of the official capital tests in jetpunk allow "kingston" as a type-in for "kingstown" (st vincent). It'd be great to maintain consistency. :)
Interesting test, btw.
I'm very well aware of the difference between the both of them... however as @rocamorar says, the convention here on Jetpunk (for better or for worse) is to give credit for both when either is entered.
Whether you agree with that or not (and I actually don't think I do myself) I'd argue that ignoring that convention is the worse sin, because people will enter one of them, assume that they've been given credit for both if/where it is due, and carry on. Like I just did now. I entered "Kingston," saw that only the one in Jamaica was given, and just figured "huh, I guess they never played a test match in Kingstown. I suppose the St. Vincent cricket oval must be in some other, adjacent, parish or something."
Not because I don't know about both cities, and not because I don't know they're spelled differently, but because I have certain expectations when I'm on this site.
The ones I missed were mainly in India / Pakistan / Bangladesh.