The cricket at the Oscars quiz: Which Test cricketer was in Chariots of Fire?

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The USA’s rich cricketing heritage includes being one-half of the first “international” match, in 1844. C Aubrey Smith, the former England Test captain, founded the Hollywood Cricket Club less than a century after that, with PG Wodehouse, Boris Karloff, Clark Gable, and Errol Flynn among its members.

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The 20th century witnessed a decline of cricket in the USA. It was a mere coincidence that Don Bradman made his Test debut barely months before the first ever Academy Awards presentation was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. While Bradman visited the USA on a cricket tour, his foray in the world of films was restricted to an appearance as himself in The Flying Doctor, an unremarkable movie that did not win any major award.

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Bradman might not have had a great acting career, but the Academy Awards have had their ties with cricket over the years: how well do you know these connections?

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