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Hello, welcome to the TestMatch Special Daily Ashes Quiz with me, Andy Zaltzman, TMS, statistician,

and guardian of all the numbers relating to the Ashes every weekday.

During the current series,

I will have an Ashes-related question, which will hopefully intrigue and interest you. Mullet over,

take a guess and see how close you can get. The quiz is only available on BBC Sounds in the TMS

podcast feed. You'll get the answer to the previous day's question and that day's question.

You can also catch up on previous episodes on BBC Sounds. Let's start get the answer to the previous day's question and that day's question you can also catch up on previous episodes on BBC sounds let's start with the answer from Friday's question

after Mitchell Stark's superb tenfer in Perth. The question was regarding wickets taken by

left arm seamers in the ashes. Stark's tenfer was the first by an Australian in the

ashes since Shane

worn at the Oval in 2005, his fourth and final ashes tenfer, all other bowlers between them,

including Stark, have taken six Ashes tenures since the start of Warn's career. He was

quite good at bowling. It was the first by an Australian pace bowler since Craig McDermott in 1990 to 91. It was the first by any left arm bowler in the ashes since test match specials

Phil Tuffnell at the Oval in 1997 when he took a glorious 11 for 93. And of course, you can hear

toughers on our exclusive ball by ball commentary of every ball of the men's ashes available on five sports

extra and BBC sounds. My question was in the men's ashes since 1956, a total of 428 wickets

have now been taken by left-arm pace bowlers. How many of those were taken by Australians?

The correct answer was 376 to England's 52.

It is a curiosity of cricket how England have never had many left-arm-paced bowlers.

Ryan's sidebottom, the most effective of recent years, never played against Australia.

So our scoring system, the closer you get, the more runs you get.

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