This quiz will test your knowledge on on cricketers in glasses.
In 1969/70, the South African team management brought in uncapped wicketkeeper Dennis Gamsy for the venerable Denis Lindsay for the first Test of the four-match series against Australia. Gamsy played two Tests, in which he made 39 runs and had five dismissals in a series South Africa swept 4-0: these also remained the men’s team’s last Tests before the exile.
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There was nothing unusual about Gamsy (though his family, who hailed from Lithuania, changed the surname from Gamscavatuus once they arrived in the new country): it was expected that the teen prodigy who had effected nine dismissals on first-class debut would keep wicket for the Test side one day. What makes him stand out is that he kept wicket in glasses, though that did not prevent him from doing a tidy job in a team that had bowlers of serious pace like Mike Procter and Peter Pollock and a quality spinner in John Traicos.
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This quiz will test your knowledge on Gamsy and his ilk – in other words, cricketers who played in glasses.
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