Quiz! The runner in cricket – how well do you remember incidents involving the now-abolished rule?

Alfred Mynn, the “Lion of Kent”, was one of the greatest cricketers of the first half of the 19th century. While practising ahead of the South versus North game at Leicester in 1836, he was hit on the ankle by a ball. It “had swollen alarmingly, and a normal being would have withdrawn from the match,” but Mynn not only played but made an astonishing 125 not out.

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Mynn was rushed to a hospital. With an immobilised leg, Mynn could not step inside the stagecoach. His enormous frame had to be tied to the roof for the hundred-mile journey. He eventually returned to cricket two seasons later. Mynn’s hundred is significant, for the news of his valour got around. It encouraged batters to wear leg-guards (pads) more often. However, the hundred would almost certainly not have been possible had he not been allowed a runner, something that is not allowed in international cricket since 2011.

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Quiz! The runner in cricket – how well do you remember incidents involving the now-abolished rule?

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