Multiple choice general knowledge sports

Who holds the record for highest individual score by a night watchman?

  1. Syed Kirmani

  2. Nasim-ul-Ghani

  3. Jason Gillespie

  4. Michael Holding
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Explanation

Jason Gillespie scored 201* (not out) batting as a night watchman against Bangladesh in Chittagong in 2006, the highest individual score by any night watchman in Test cricket history. A night watchman is a lower-order batsman sent in to protect specialist batsmen when a wicket falls near the end of a day's play.

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