Vanjiya Utsav '15 - Bid Wicket Prelims cricket quiz

CRICKET QUIZ - ANSWERS

1. Tribute question

Colin Rowe, creative director of Stick Sports said, “We felt that the landscape had changed. It was there for comedic value, and when we first made Stick Cricket, no one had ever died from a head blow in professional cricket, so we felt justified to add it.”

“It’s sobering now and no longer funny, so we had a team meeting the day Phillip Hughes died and put plans to change the game with the very next update.”

What used to happen before this incident?

Batsman would be out hit wicket

2.

Identify this legend, who maybe isn’t as guilty as Maria Sharapova here.

Adam Gilchrist

3.

Perhaps the most unusual form of winning a cricket match, Kuwait beat Maldives in a group match of the 2014 Asian Games by this method.

Some examples of this form of victory in Indian domestic cricket have been the North vs East Zone clash in the Duleep Trophy of 2013, and a Plate semi-final in 2005 between Services and Himachal Pradesh.

What form of victory?

Coin Toss

4. Connect.

Hashim Amla

5.

This famous cricketer has played 384 ODIs for his country and has scored 7500+ runs.

These include 6 centuries and 36 half-centuries, along with various memorable performances.

His kamikaze style of plays has resulted in quite a funny result. He has played so many ODIs, and scored so many runs, but he has never played 100 or more balls in an innings, even for his 6 centuries. He played 94 balls for his highest score of 124.

Identify him.

Shahid Afridi

*6.

Identify this talented lady, who plays both cricket and football at international level for Australia.

Elysse Perry

7.

Simply give the year, in which this iconic match was played.

2006

8.

The 2002 NatWest Series final is a truly memorable match for Indian fans.

The image of Sourav Ganguly celebrating is unforgettable as India chased down 325, after being 146/5, with youngsters Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif bringing India home after the top order failed, and the latter picking up the Man of the Match award.

My question is, who won the Man of the Series in that tournament? He also scored a century in the final.

Marcus Trescothick

9.

There are only three cricketers who have scored a century and taken a 10-wicket haul in the same test match.

Two of them are Ian Botham and Imran Khan. Who is the third?

Shakib al Hasan

10.

It is safe to say that X is Y’s bunny. X has been dismissed by Y for a record 15 times, including 10 times in 2013, across all formats.

Identify X, the batsman and Y, the bowler.

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X – Mohammed Hafeez, Y – Dale Steyn

*11.

During the last day of the third India-Australia match in the most recent series, when RavindraJadeja came in to bowl, M S Dhoni was heard advising him, “______ _____ waali ball daal”.

Commentator Sunil Gavaskar got the hint and explained that the reference was to the popular serial and that the India captain was probably asking Jadeja to bowl a delivery that spins the other way.

Fill in the blanks.

Taarak Mehta

12.The 2005 Ashes is one of the most thrilling Test Series of all time and the 2nd match in the

series is one of the greatest matches of all time.Australia needed 282 in the 4th innings and the openers were looking steady before X

came and bowled the over of the series. He dismissed Langer and Ponting and consequently Australia had been reduced from 47/0 to 48/2. Blows were exchanged and at a point, England now needed two wickets on the fourth day, while Australia needed 107 runs for the victory.

Warne and Lee added 45 for the ninth wicket, before Warne trod on his own stumps after a full X ball and was out hit wicket. Y came in and supported Lee well, fending off aggressive bowling from X and Harmison, and Simon Jones dropped Y with 15 left to get. With Australia edging towards victory, preferring singles to risky boundaries, England were now bowling aggressive short balls at the tail-enders, hoping for short catches or to surprise the batsmen with a yorker.

With four runs needed to win, Lee drove Harmison's attempted yorker towards the boundary where it was fielded. The Australians crossed for a single, leaving three runs to win with the weaker batsman Y on strike. Harmison delivered another short ball, which Y fended and Jones took an athletic catch down the leg side. England appealed, and Y was given out caught by Bowden. However subsequent replays suggested that the ball contacted Y's glove while not in contact with the bat handle, rendering Bowden's decision technically incorrect.

England were nonetheless declared victors – if in almost the most narrow way possible –and the series was thus tied with three matches left.

Identify X and Y.

X – Andrew Flintoff, Y – Michael Kasprowicz

13. What is being described in the subsequent slides?

Chris Lynn’s wonder catch

14.

This stadium has seen only one Test match played, which was in 1990 and 5 ODIs, which includes one game between Australia and New Zealand in the 1987 World Cup.

The last international game played here was an India vs Australia ODI in 2007.

A famous stadium, situated 10 km away from the first one, was built in 1993, and since then this stadium has been out of use, until the ODI in 2007.

Which stadium/city am I talking about?

Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh

15.

X’s sister, Ann Grant captained her country’s hockey team to the gold medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

X himself captained his country in the 1983 World Cup, and looked all set for victory versus India, after reducing them to 17/5.

But it was in that game, that Y decided to play the innings of his life. He completed his century in 72 balls and ended up 175 n.o., hitting 16 fours and 6 sixes, and helped India reach 266/8 and win the match by 31 runs.

Identify X and Y.

X – Duncan Fletcher, Y – Kapil Dev

16.

He made his test debut vs Pakistan in 1989, which also happened to be Sachin Tendulkar’s test debut. Sadly, that remains his only cricketing claim to fame.

He is better known for his on-screen performances in films and TV shows. He made his debut in 2000 in the film Kurukshetra, and has featured in popular shows like ‘Ssshhhh...Koi Hai’ and ‘C.I.D. Special Bureau’ and also was a contestant in the first season of Bigg Boss.

Identify him.

Salil Ankola

17.Which edition of the World Cup? Who is the player

dismissed?

1999, Allan Donald

*18. Connect.

Lok Sabha MPs

• Mohammad Azharuddin

• Navjot Singh Sidhu

• Kirti Azad

• Chetan Chauhan

19.

Robert Muldoon, the New Zealand prime minister, said it was "the most disgusting incident I can recall in the history of cricket", adding "it was an act of true cowardice and I consider it appropriate that the Australian team were wearing yellow".

Even his Australian counterpart, Malcolm Fraser, said it was "contrary to the traditions of the game".

Keith Miller ,former Australian all-rounder went on to say, "Yesterday one-day cricket died, and Greg Chappell should be buried with it.“

What had just happened? (The year is 1981)

Underarm Bowling incident

20.

X represented Sri Lanka in international cricket between 1979 and 1988, making his debut in the 1979 ICC Trophy final against Canada.

He had the honor of being in the first Sri Lankan Test team in 1982, and top-scored in the first innings with 65.

He represented Sri Lanka in 21 test matches and 63 One Day Internationals and also captained Sri Lankan cricket team in two test matches and 13 ODIs.

His claim to fame, however is from his second cricketing stint. He became a match referee in 1993, and since then has refereed 77 Test matches and 169 ODIs, and thus he has officiated in many more international matches than he has played.

Identify him.

Ranjan Madugalle

*21.

He has been widely acknowledged as the greatest fast bowler of his generation and, according to his Wisden obituary, was "one of the rare fast bowlers in the game's long history to spread terror in opposition ranks by the mere mention of his name".

Timing technology was primitive in his day, but various tests indicated speeds of between 90 and 100 mph (140 to 160 km/ph).

He did from time to time inflict serious injuries on his opponents: Reg Sinfield of Gloucestershire, Patsy Hendren of Middlesex, and H.B. Cameron of South Africa were all carried unconscious from the field after being hit by high-speed deliveries. Many others suffered discomfort in the form of bruises and minor fractures.

He is immortalized in cricketing history for his role in probably in the most controversial test series of all time.

Name this fast bowler.

Harold Larwood

22.

In 1956, the 10-year old Richard Stokes was taken to Old Trafford by his father, a B-Division Surrey cricketer himself, to watch the ongoing Ashes.

In 1999, Stokes, then employed with KPMG Germany, had some free time while on a business trip to New Delhi.

He thereby became the only recorded person to have done what?

Witness Jim Laker and Anil Kumble’sten-wicket hauls live

*23.

In 2008, this team beat England by 10 wickets in a one-off T20 match, played in Antigua, in a match which goes down as one of the most infamous in recent history.

The playing XI was Chris Gayle, Andre Fletcher, R Sarwan, S Chanderpaul, S Joseph, K Pollard, Darren Sammy, S Benn, J Taylor, Dave Mohammed and Daren Powell.

What was the name of the team?

Stanford Superstars

24.

X and Y are the only two Bangladeshi bowlers to take a hat-trick in test cricket.

X took his vs Pakistan in 2003, in Peshawar, dismissing Shabbir Ahmed, Danish Kaneria and Umar Gul.

Y took his vs New Zealand in 2013, in Chittagong, dismissing Corey Anderson, BJ Watling and Doug Bracewell.

Identify both bowlers.

X – Alok Kapali, Y – Sohag Gazi

*25.

The first and last ODIs to be played at the Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium in Delhi featured India playing Australia and South Africa in 1984 and 1991, respectively.

There were 4 players, who played both the games. Three of them are Kapil Dev, Ravi Shastri and Dilip Vengsarkar.

Who is the fourth?

Kepler Wessels

26. Three word answer.

Sultans of Swing

• The band is Dire Straits. Sultans of Swing is a song by them.

• They are Sachin Tendulkar’s favourite band.

• Both Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis were together nicknamed ‘Sultans of Swing.’

27.

Mario Zagallo (1958/1962 and 1970) and Franz Beckenbauer (1974 and 1990) are the only two people to achieve this particular feat in football.

There is only one cricket equivalent to them, who achieved this feat in 1987 and 1999.

Identify him.

Geoff Marsh

Win the World Cup, both as a player and coach.

28.

The fruitfly was one of rather a lot of names applied to the big, brash Australian X - this one apparently arose from the fact that the fruitfly is Australia's most annoying pest, and X was a close second when in full sledging mode.

Especially early in his career, he was seen as a bit of a novelty act - but he eventually showed he was much more than that, finishing up with 212 Test wickets and more than 1000 runs, not bad for someone who, after three matches, hadn't actually scored a run at all.

Identify X.

Merv Hughes

29.

Simply identify.

Moeen Ali

30.

Only bowlers to take multiple test hattricks

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