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SPORTS QUIZ

BQC OPEN

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If the cricketers Anthony Allom, Paul Dunkels and Will Jefferson were amongst the contenders to this ‘lofty’ record, who currently holds it?

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Mohammad Irfan – Tallest ever cricketer

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Play video of Marchant de Lange Bowling

Video of Rory Delap throw in

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Javelin throwers at the school level – helped them develop their distinctive styles

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This basketballer was nicknamed X by his friends, because he had to bend his head whenever he had to walk through doorways.

When he bought a sprawling estate in the ultra-elite Bel-air neighbourhood in California, he named it Y , as a nod to his nickname X.

X and Y?

ANSWER

X = Big Dipper (Nickname of Wilt Chamberlain)

Y= Ursa Major

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Identify the cricketer in the picture.

He was one of the earliest proponents of a shot that we see so often in T20 cricket nowadays.

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Douglas Marillier of Zimbabwe

Scoop shot

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These two are the only exceptions to a rule with respect to awarding the ‘Wisden cricketer of the year” award. ID and what rule.

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Pelham Warner and Jack Hobbs – Only two cricketers to have received the honour twice

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List it – Need to use an updated screenshot

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List it – Top batting averages ever in test cricket

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Lignum vitae (literally “Tree of life” in Latin) is a trade wood, also called guayacan or guaiacum.

This wood was once very important for applications requiring a material with its extraordinary combination of strength, toughness and density.

It is also the national tree of the Bahamas and the Jamaican national flower.

For what specific purpose is this wood put to use in cricket?

ANSWER

Making heavy bails which are put to use in windy conditions

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This condition, which is most common among boxers, wrestlers, mixed martial artists and forwards in rugby union, occurs when the external portion of the ear suffers repeated blows, resulting in blood clots.

As a result, the outer ear becomes permanently swollen and deformed, resembling a _____________.

What is the common name of this condition? (________________ ear)

ANSWER

Cauliflower ear

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This Scottish sport involves the hurling of X as far as possible for distance and accuracy from atop a platform (usually a whisky barrel). X must be edible after landing

A split or burst X is immediately disqualified, as X must be fit to eat after landing. The sport requires subtle technique rather than brute force, as the hurl must result in a gentle landing.

The present World Record was set at 217 feet by Lorne Coltart at the Milngavie Highland Games on 11 June 2011,beating Allan Pettigrew's 180 feet record which had stood for over twenty years. However, the Australian cricket player Tom Moody was purported to have thrown over 230 feet in 1989.

ID the sport.

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Haggis Hurling

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Who was the 1986 Australian Open Men’s Tennis Champion?

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Nobody – Championships were not held in that year, as dates were changed

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To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first tied test, the then Australian Cricket Board named individual trophies for the 2000-01 test series between Australia and West Indies, after people who played a significant role in the tied game.

The trophies were :-

1. Batsman of the series

2. Bowler of the series

3. Fielder of the series

4. The outstanding performance of the series

Who were these named after?

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1. Batsman of the series – Sir Garfield Sobers

2. Bowler of the series – Alan Davidson

3. Fielder of the series – Joe Solomon

4. The outstanding performance of the series – Norman O’Neill

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Why does the Cricket Association of Bengal organize a blood donation drive on February 3rd every year?

ANSWER

To commemorate Frank Worrell donating blood to Nari Contractor, after Contractor was hit in the head by a Charlie Griffith bouncer

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Funda – Tsonga vs Raonic 2012 – Longest Olympic set

Federer vs Del Potro 2012 Olympics – longest three setter match ever in history

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Funda – Wladimir Klitschko, one of Ukraine’s first ever summer Olympics gold medallist. Sold his gold medal for a million dollars

Oksana Baiul – independent Ukraine’s first ever gold medallist in 1994 – Lillehammer winter games

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Funda – Javed Burki, Majid Khan – Two first cousins of Imran Khan also to captain Pakistan in international cricket

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Funda – Harry Hopman’s wife Nell Hall Hopman. Helped institute Fed cup.

Nell Hall was previously Harry’s mixed doubles partner – they won a few grand slams together

Wightman Cup can also be linked to this question

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Funda – Jaroslav Drobny – Ice Hockey player (like Ion Tiriac) for Czechoslovakia and also a former World No. 1. Left Czech to become Egyptian citizen. Till date only player to win Wimbledon with African citizenship

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Funda – Manuka Oval (name funda) in Canberra – hosts the annual PM XI game where team is selected by Aussie PM

In 1962–63 Sir Donald Bradman came out of retirement to play for the Prime Minister's XI against the MCC, it was the last time he ever played cricket and he was freakishly bowled by Brian Statham for 4, when he returned to the pavilion he told Robert Menzies "It wouldn't happen in a thousand years. Anyway that's my final appearance at the wicket."

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Funda – Day night test match cricket – 1997 Ranji Trophy final between Delhi and Mumbai held in Gwalior’s Roop Singh stadium was a day night game. Experiment by BCCI

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Funda – Spanish paralympics Basketball team – 2000cheats. Huge controversy

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Funda – Luke Pomersbach – international debut – was in a car park

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Funda – Sarah Taylor playing mixed cricket (with Men)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/9803115/Why-male-cricketers-will-thwart-Sarah-Taylors-sporting-dream.html

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Funda – British Open golf used to hand out a belt before the Claret jug came into being

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Funda – British Open golf used to hand out a belt before the Claret jug came into being

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Funda – Battle of the saints – school cricket rivalry in Sri Lanka

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Saints_(cricket)

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Funda – Battle of the saints – school cricket rivalry in Sri Lanka

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Saints_(cricket)

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Funda – Video – Tim Cahill goal celebration a tribute to Brett Lee (similar fist pumping)

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Funda – Spartathlon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartathlon

Related Yianni Kouros

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiannis_Kouros

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Funda – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_story

American sports term

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Funda – http://mentalfloss.com/article/31279/13-medal-worthy-olympic-stories

Like the last one – Japanese friendship

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Funda – Bradman’s only test wickets

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Funda – Athletes who won the medals because Jim Thorpe was disqualified

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Funda – Bobsled - The name of the sport appeared when competitors adopted the technique of bobbing back and forth inside the sled to increase its speed

Related – Primary difference between skeleton and luge (one is head first and the other is leg first)

Related – Women banned from Cresta sled track – because of a belief that excessive sledding caused breast cancer

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Funda – List of people – most test runs scored without hitting a 6. Jonathan Trott holds the record now I think

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Funda – Jim Laker took a 10 for Surrey against Aussies before repeating in test cricket

Laker was the first individual to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings, ten for 53 in the Australians' second innings of the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford in 1956 (the only other bowler to take all 10 wickets is Anil Kumble of India in 1999). Having also taken nine for 37 in the first innings, Laker's match bowling figures were nineteen for 90: no other bowler has taken more than seventeen wickets in a first-class match.[2] Laker was married to an Austrian national who did not know much about cricket. On the day of his achievement when he arrived home, his wife asked him, "Jim, did you do something good today?" after she had taken hundreds of congratulatory telephone calls.[3] Remarkably, Laker had also taken all ten wickets in an innings for Surrey against the same Australians earlier in the season, the first time a bowler had taken all ten against the Australians since Ted Barratt did so in 1878.[4]

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Funda – Malcom Nash

Nash is best known for being the unfortunate victim of Garry Sobers' six sixes in as many balls on 31 August 1968 while bowling slow left-arm.[1]The ball was sold by Christie's the auctioneers for £26,400 in November 2006[2] (even though there is some doubt as to whether it was actuallythe ball concerned). He was also hit for five sixes and a four by Lancashire batsman Frank Hayes.[3]

Malcolm Nash was pre-eminently a highly skilful manipulator of medium-pace seam bowling. A thoughtful and sensitive cricketer, he, too, helped out as captain for a couple of difficult seasons, though from a sense of duty rather than real enthusiasm for the post. It appealed to his astute cricket brain but not to his essentially amiable personality. He was never a bowler to settle for the slavishly defensive; but sought to attack and to outwit opposing batsmen. He is, as he ruefully accepts, best known for being hit for six sixes in a six-ball over by Garfield Sobers in 1968; and secondly for five sixes and a four, by Frank Hayes of Lancashire. It is less often remembered that he himself once hit four consecutive balls from Dennis Breakwell of Somerset for six. That memory is some balm for him. In 17 seasons he scored 7129 runs and held 148 catches but, most important, he took 993 wickets without, however, taking a hundred in any season.

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Funda – Chariots of fire centenary 2024 – Paris wants to bid for Olympics

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Funda – Navy SEALs want to recruit water polo players given their prowess in water

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Funda – Johnny Weismuller also won a medal in water polo

Related – Edwin Flack – Australia’s first olympian, medallist won medals in running and tennis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Flack

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Funda – Unique double of winning medals in long jump and triple jump (Men’s)

First in 1936 – Naoto Tajima – Bronze (Owens Gold and Long Silver in long jump – see photo). Tajima won gold in Triple Jump.

Will Claye became first man since Tajima to achieve the double in 2012

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Funda – Eggbeater kick – standard kick in water polo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggbeater_kick

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Funda – Boosting – doping in paralympics, where blood pressure is artificially raised

Boosting is a method of inducing autonomic dysreflexia with the intention of enhancing performance in sport. It can be used by an athlete with a spinal cord injury to increase their blood pressure and is performed by causing a painful stimulus in the lower part of the body. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) banned the practice in 1994, but many competitors with spinal injuries are still thought to be using it as a performance enhancer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosting_(doping)

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Funda – Deaflympics

The Deaflympics are held every 4 years, and are the longest running multi-sport event excluding the Olympics themselves.[2] The first games, held in Paris in 1924, were also the first ever international sporting event for athletes with a disability.[3] The event has been held every four years since, apart from a break for World War II, and an additional event, the Deaflympic Winter Games, was added in 1949.[4] The games began as a small gathering of 148 athletes from nine European nations competing in the International Silent Games in Paris, France, in 1924; now, they have grown into a global movement.[1]

Officially, the games were originally called the "International Games for the Deaf" from 1924 to 1965, but were sometimes referred to as the "International Silent Games". From 1966 to 1999 they were called the "World Games for the Deaf", and occasionally referred to as the "World Silent Games". From 2000, the games have been known by their current name "Deaflympics" (often mistakenly called the "Deaf Olympics").[4]

To qualify for the games, athletes must have a hearing loss of at least 55 db in their "better ear". Hearing aids, cochlear implants and the like are not allowed to be used in competition, to place all athletes on the same level.[4] Other examples of ways the games vary from hearing competitions are the manner in which they are officiated. To address the issue of Deaflympians not being able to be guided by sounds, certain sports use alternative methods of commencing the game. For example, the football referees wave a flag instead of blowing a whistle; on the track, races are started by using a light, instead of a starter pistol. It is also customary for spectators not to cheer or clap, but rather to wave – usually with both hands.

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Funda – Second guessing – term origin from baseball

The same back route was taken by the phrase 'second-guess'. The umpire in a baseball game used to be called, rather unkindly, 'the guesser'. People who were continually telling the guesser, the manager or the players what they were doing wrong were known as 'secondguessers' and were so defined in the Sporting News Record Book, 1937:

Secondguesser, one who is continually criticizing moves of players and manager.

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Funda – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarahumara_people

This American tribe is known for their long distance running

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Funda –Omar Sharif, the actor, was ranked amongst the best bridge players in the world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Sharif#Contract_bridge_career

Related note – Sachin Tendulkar’s father-in-law is a national bridge champion

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Funda – Bugboy – term origin

An apprentice jockey is known as a "bug boy" because the asterisk that follows the name in the program looks like a bug

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Funda – Bugboy – term origin

An apprentice jockey is known as a "bug boy" because the asterisk that follows the name in the program looks like a bug

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Funda – John Sparling 11 ball over

Trivia

At Auckland in the New Zealand v England Test match in February 1963, Sparling bowled an 11-ball over when the umpire, Dick Shortt, lost count of the number of balls he had bowled

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Funda – Thomas N’Kono

Italian legend Gianluigi Buffon, also a goalkeeper, declared he decided to play in that position after seeing N'Kono's performances at the 1990 World Cup. In addition, he named his son Thomas in the Cameroonian's honour.[9]

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Funda – Triple Tiara for fillies on the lines of Triple crown

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Funda – Galatasaray

The name Galatasaray comes from that of Galatasaray High School, which in turn takes its name from Galata Sarayı Enderûn-u Hümâyûn (Galata Palace Imperial School), the name of the original school founded on the site in 1481, and which in turn took its name from the nearby medieval Genoese citadel of Galata. Galatasaray translates directly as 'Galata Palace'.

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Funda – Bradman 299* and Hanif 499 runout

Both resulted from runouts. Can put fundae about non strikers

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Funda – CB Fry

Fry's achievements on the sporting field included representing England at both cricket and football, an F.A. Cup Final appearance for Southampton F.C. and equaling the then-world record for the long jump. He also reputedly turned down the throne of Albania

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Funda – 3Ws played together for the first time in the same test that Andy Ganteaume made his debut and scored a century

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Funda – Broomstick putter golf controversy

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Funda – Tom Maynard memorial match – between Surrey and Glamorgan (the two counties he played for)

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Funda – Hot air ballooning

Champagne

A common tradition among balloonists is to have a champagne toast upon landing. Legend has it that early French aeronauts carried champagne to appease angry or frightened spectators at the landing site.[12] A champagne toast is now often included in commercial sight-seeing flights.[5]

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Funda – Interesting facts about Wisden. 20 facts on cricinfo. Check out!

http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/243912.html

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Funda – Buck Divecha of Divecha stand fame in Wankhede

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Divecha

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Funda – Christmas tree – Drag Racing

The starting lights are called a christmas tree

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Funda – Bjorn Borg Premjit Lall longest tie breaker in history equalled later (20-18)

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Funda – Nalbandian beat Fed Nad and Djok in the same tournament in 2007

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Funda – Babe Didrickson – unique half gold half silver medal

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Funda – SA vs England – match had to stop because the English would miss their return boat otherwise

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Funda – Plumb lbw – term origin – Plumb line

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumb_line

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Funda – Ross Norman – squash player ended Jahangir Khan’s record

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Funda – Gunder Hagg – held the mile record till Roger Bannister broke it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunder_Hagg

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Funda – Jarmila Kratochvilova – longest standing world record – women’s 800 m

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarmila_Kratochv%C3%ADlov%C3%A1

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Funda – Bjorn Daehlie – most successful winter olympic champion of all time

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Funda – Gridiron football term origin

From Gridiron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridiron_(cooking)

Related – Pigskin term origin

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Funda – Wimbledon Court no. 2 graveyard of champions

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Funda – Lance Allread – first legally deaf player in NBA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Allred

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Funda – Barbados cricket buckle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados_Cricket_Buckle

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Funda – John Hastings – nicknamed the duke because his full name is John Wayne Hastings (after John Wayne’s role)

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Funda – St. Lawrence cricket ground Kent

Only four cricketers have cleared the tree to score a six: Arthur 'Jacko' Watson of Sussex in 1925, the West Indies' Learie Constantine (1928), Middlesex's Jim Smith (1939), and Carl Hooper (1992).

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Funda – Eden Gardens – the park from which the ground gets its name

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Funda – Andy Murray survived the Dunblane massacre

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Funda – Manipuri Pony – used for Polo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipuri_pony

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Funda – Bill Fergusson – creator of the cricket wagon wheel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ferguson_(cricket_scorer)

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Funda – TCQ – Bhausaheb Nimbalkar highest ranji score – 443*

Match was ended because opposition did not want to be party to highestever first class score (held by DG Bradman – 452)

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To his creditFunda – Bill Ponsford - Top scorer in highest first class scores – two quadruple centuries

Related – List of quadruple centurions