Cricket Quiz Question for Today

First topic message reminder :

In two parts -

* Which former England captain celebrates his 53rd birthday today?; and

* the harder and more obscure part, what is the connection between his birth date and a certain Test number he reached?

Strauss?

Lumb?


Oh


Err sidebottom?

Not Sidebottom. Good guess, but I think his first international career was before the invention of T20s, and he only played a single Test (no ODIs) anyway. On the right track though, think current international...

Is it Boyd Rankin and this a trick question?

Plunkett

It is Plunkett ...fact checked in the absence of MFC.

Id love to claim glory but Id gone through pretty much the entire England squad before getting it. Didn't remember quite what a long break there was in his career, the poor mans Broad.