Well Of Course – Edition 8ANNUAL KQA CRICKET QUIZ

SOHAN MAHESHWAR MANISH ACHUTH

Rounds

• Written Round 1

• Clockwise (18 questions)

• Written Round 2

• Anti-clockwise (18 questions)

Written Round 1

• 7 questions connected by a theme

• No points for getting the theme, but it will help you with the answers for the questions

• +10 for getting each question

• +10 bonus for everything

1

• He represented Baroda from 1999 to 2008 picking up 74 wickets in FC games at an average of 28.25. A foot injury stopped him from continuing to play at the FC level. Post retirement he coached various age group teams of Baroda and was one of the people responsible for the rise of the Pandya brothers.

• Identify him.

2

• He played 59 FC games taking 150 wickets, but peaked in the 2 seasons 84-85 and 85-86 taking nearly 50 wickets at an average of 24.

• His performance against the visiting Australians for India U-25 earned him an opportunity with the senior team. On his debut he bowled only 4 overs, but in his next game he picked Dean Jones, his only international wicket.

• He married a UK citizen and shifted base, and was back in news when he was part of an MCC team that took on Japan in 2014-15. Who?

3

• He became one of the many Pakistani cricketers who would populate the north Staffordshire league cricket scene in England in 2010. This after a long FC career which even included 2 test matches. He made his test debut in the same game as Saqlain Mushtaq. His stellar performances in the league gave him the nickname ‘Jazzy’. Who?

4

• He was part of both rebel tours by Australia to South Africa. He was the top scorer in the tests in 1986 and scored a total of 3 hundreds. In one of the tour games against Free State, he became one of the first international victims of Alan Donald.

• Before going on the rebel tour, he had a miserable time opening for Australia against West Indies. He came back into public conscience when he expressed an interest to become the selector of Australian cricket team in the mid 2000’s – a job he did not get.

• Who?

5

• Probably one of the most successful Double Internationals ever – played 23 tests for England and was even part of the 1950 FIFA World Cup squad for England.

• His most famous performance was at the Lords test in 1953 against Australia where in a six hour stand with Trevor Bailey, he enabled England to escape with a draw. But despite that, he was dropped for the final test where England famously regained the Ashes.

• He also had spells as manager of Halifax FC and Bradford City FC, where he laid the foundations of a promotion winning team. Who?

6

• Pakistan’s famous chase at Palakele in 2015 is seen as Younis Khan’s finest moment in a long and distinguished career. But Pakistan’s eventual target of 382 could have been a lot more, had it not been for a burst of this Pakistani bowler, who picked 5 of the last 6 wickets to fall and reduced Pakistan’s target. He has been criticized by Mickey Arthur of lacking pace, but over the course of a stop-start career of 9 matches, he has picked up 28 wickets. Who?

7

• On India’s tour to New Zealand in 1975-76, he played in a tour game for Northern Districts. India having declared their innings at 305/7 had reduced ND to 72/4. He then arrived and pasted a bowling attack of Chandra, Prasanna, Venkataraghavan and Madan Lal to score a 100. He made his test debut against India later.

• He died suddenly in 1989 at the age of 42, making him the second shortest lived New Zealand ODI player. Who?

Exchange Sheets

Theme

Cricketers with same name as more famous cricketers

1

• He represented Baroda from 1999 to 2008 picking up 74 wickets in FC games at an average of 28.25. A foot injury stopped him from continuing to play at the FC level. Post retirement he coached various age group teams of Baroda and was one of the people responsible for the rise of the Pandya brothers.

• Identify him.

A

• Irfan Pathan

2

• He played 59 FC games taking 150 wickets, but peaked in the 2 seasons 84-85 and 85-86 taking nearly 50 wickets at an average of 24.

• His performance against the visiting Australians for India U-25 earned him an opportunity with the senior team. On his debut he bowled only 4 overs, but in his next game he picked Dean Jones, his only international wicket.

• He married a UK citizen and shifted base, and was back in news when he was part of an MCC team that took on Japan in 2014-15. Who?

A

• Rudra Pratap Singh

3

• He became one of the many Pakistani cricketers who would populate the north Staffordshire league cricket scene in England in 2010. This after a long FC career which even included 2 test matches. He made his test debut in the same game as Saqlain Mushtaq. His stellar performances in the league gave him the nickname ‘Jazzy’. Who?

A

• Ijaz Ahmed

4

• He was part of both rebel tours by Australia to South Africa. He was the top scorer in the tests in 1986 and scored a total of 3 hundreds. In one of the tour games against Free State, he became one of the first international victims of Alan Donald.

• Before going on the rebel tour, he had a miserable time opening for Australia against West Indies. He came back into public conscience when he expressed an interest to become the selector of Australian cricket team in the mid 2000’s – a job he did not get.

• Who?

A

• Steve Smith

5

• Probably one of the most successful Double Internationals ever – played 23 tests for England and was even part of the 1950 FIFA World Cup squad for England.

• His most famous performance was at the Lords test in 1953 against Australia where in a six hour stand with Trevor Bailey, he enabled England to escape with a draw. But despite that, he was dropped for the final test where England famously regained the Ashes.

• He also had spells as manager of Halifax FC and Bradford City FC, where he laid the foundations of a promotion winning team. Who?

A

• Willie Watson

6

• Pakistan’s famous chase at Palakele in 2015 is famously seen as Younis Khan’s finest moment in a long and distinguished career. But Pakistan’s eventual target of 382 could have been a lot more, had it not been for a burst of this Pakistani bowler, who picked 5 of the last 6 wickets to fall and reduced Pakistan’s target. He has been criticized by Mickey Arthur of lacking pace, but over the course of a stop-start career of 9 matches, he has picked up 28 wickets. Who?

A

• Imran Khan

7

• On India’s tour to New Zealand in 1975-76, he played in a tour game for Northern Districts. India having declared their innings at 305/7 had reduced ND to 72/4. He then arrived and pasted a bowling attack of Chandra, Prasanna, Venkataraghavan and Madan Lal to score a 100. He made his test debut against India later.

• He died suddenly in 1989 at the age of 42, making him the second shortest lived New Zealand ODI player. Who?

A

• Andy Roberts

Audience Question

• Rajkumar Sharma played 9 first class games for Delhi. He was a right handed batsman and off spinner. He has other claims to fame, but we have all seen him photobombing in a famous photograph. Which famous photograph is this?

A

• Nehra Kohli photograph

Clockwise Round

• 18 questions

• 10 points on the bounce

• Using the Sai Ganesh pounce system – 8 pounces through out the quiz.

• +20 or -10 on pounce

1

• Charles Alcock was an early English sportsman and influential administrator. He was a major instigator in the development of cricket and football in the 19th

century. He is in fact considered the creator of FA cup.

• He witnessed some events late August evening and contributed to a magazine. Possibly, due to a lack of something provocative or evocative, it has largely been forgotten to something that happened in early September.

• What did Charles Alcock do that is largely forgotten today?

A

• He was the first to write an obituary of English Cricket. This was published on August 31, 1882 in Cricket: A weekly record of the game. The more famous obituary was published on September 2, 1882 in Sporting Times

2

• CR Rangachari made his debut against Australia at Adelaide and in his first test took the wickets of Neil Harvey, Keith Miller, Ray Lindwall and Ian Johnson.

• But Rangachari was a late addition to the team as a replacement for a 20 year old prodigy who couldn’t report to the training camp that took place before the tour. The prodigy would later go on to make his debut 4 years later.

• Who is the prodigy? Why couldn’t he report to the training camp?

A

• Fazal Mahmood

• He wasn’t able to reach India once he reached Pakistan

3

• In his debut first class game, he was out for 5 and 0. And then he was dropped. He was frustrated at the lack of opportunities and was looking for ways to make a comeback. Another team X, offered a spot on their team to him and he was really interested in that. A family member, who had played cricket, told him to be patient and that opportunities will come. Couple of years later, he returned to first class cricket, scored a hundred and the rest as they say is history.

• In a unique twist, this cricketer’s son ended up playing for X.

• Who is the cricketer? Identify X.

A

• Sunil Gavaskar

• (West) Bengal cricket team

4

• In the 1978 tour of India by West Indies, the 2nd test was held between Dec 15 to Dec 20, 1978 at Bangalore. Going into the last day, West Indies held a 266 run lead with 2 wickets in hand. And similar to what happened in Chennai in 2004, the last day was abandoned. This time not due to rain, but on police advice.

• So why was the game cancelled on the last day?

A

• Indira Gandhi’s arrest

5

• Pakistan’s tour of Australia in 1999 was highly anticipated. The first test in Brisbane saw Pakistan score 367 in the first innings. But then things fell apart, first Slater (169), Blewett (89), Mark Waugh (100), Gilchrist on debut with 81. But the icing on the cake was Shane Warne, who scored a rapid 86. He scored most of it with an unlikely ally as they put on 10th wicket partnership 0f 86 to take Australia’s score to 575. Pakistan responded with 281 in the 2nd innings and Australia duly completed a 10 wicket win to take a 1-0 lead in the series.

• Who was Shane Warne’s unlikely ally during the 10th wicket stand?

A

• Scott Muller

• Shane Warne apparently sledged Scott during a domestic game that Scott “Cant bowl and Cant field”. Later it was found that it was Joe the cameraman who said that.

6

• In 1904, BJT Bosanquet bamboozled the Aussies with his googlies as England reclaimed the Ashes. In the crowd was 21 year old grade cricketer X.

• As the 1905-06 season commenced, he invited his NSW teammate Alick Mackenzie to the SCG to try out his version of the googly, becoming the first Australian bowler to bowl one. He had a modest test career taking 46 wickets in 7 tests but he traveled the world playing cricket and detailed it all in a book aptly called ‘Googlies’.

• Also, due to his appearance he was given a nickname which was the name of another famous cricketer. (image)

• X and his nickname.

A

• Player – H.V. Hordern

• He was nicknamed ‘Ranji’ due to his dark complexion

7

• He played for his home team from 1980-81. Due to the presence of internationals, he got limited chances. He decided to move to another team in 1986-87 and played only one game the entire season. And his home team won the domestic championship for only the second time in history. He decided to come back to his home team for the next season, and promptly the other team also won the domestic championships for only the second time in their history. Interestingly after these wins, both teams haven’t won the domestic tournament again.

• This guy never won the domestic championships and couldn’t break into the national side. The closest he got to national colours was on an A tour to Netherlands at the age of 40. He finally retired in 2000-01.

• Who? Google him and chances are that you will get an actor of some repute as the first link.

A

• Kanwaljit Singh

8

• He got his nickname because as a child growing up he had a big mullet – a style that resembled something that was made wildly popular in the 60’s by the popular first lady at the time. His nickname is a corruption/short form of that.

• Who? What nickname?

A

• Darren Lehmann

• Boff from Bouffant which became Boofhead and finally Boof

9

• He was a promising all rounder – he was called the most talented teenaged professional that the county circuit had seen till that point. He had scored 4 centuries including a match winning one against Middlesex at Lords and had taken 81 wickets with his off-breaks and he was not yet 20 by then. But life had a different turn for him and a certain event in Thesseloniki changed his life.

• He suffered a setback there, but overcame that to participate in 48 test matches. Who? What happened in Thesseloniki?

A

• Frank Chester

• He lost his arm in WW1

10

• He considers batting out the first hour on a seaming Wankhade wicket as his greatest cricketing moment. He was asked to open after Bombay won the toss and remembers Sunil Gavaskar chiding his bowlers for not getting him out earlier. Who?

A

• Arvind Pujara

11

• In a memorable test match, the home team were up against it as the opposition had piled on more than 550 runs. The home team ended up on day 3 on 270/7 with still over 100 runs to avoid follow on. The home team captain was one of the not out batsman.

• He walked back into the dressing room furious and full of rage. He blasted his teammates with the choicest abuse about how they were playing rash ODI shots and not concentrating on preserving their wickets.

• The next morning, the captain played the first 3 balls all in the air and scored a whirlwind hundred that helped avoid follow on.

• Identify the captain and which test match is this?

A

• Kapil Dev

• Tied test

12

• X and Y both teenagers, were picked on the first day of trials for Lahore’s Government Islamia College cricket team. X primarily as a batsman, Y as a bowler. Y’s career was more smoother and reached the landmark of 100 tests in 2000. He retired from tests in 2002. X, made his ODI debut in 2000 in his hometown in which Y also played. X, made his test debut only in 2003 in Dhaka and eventually reached 100 tests in Newlands in 2016.

• Identify X and Y

A

• Aleem Dar

• Wasim Akram

13

• In 1984, Australia played a 5 match ODI series in India. Australia won the series 3-0 after 2 games were rained out. It was the only series that Australia won under the captaincy of Kim Hughes.

• In order to commemorate what event, was this ODI Series, rather incongruously organized?

A

• Golden Jubilee of the Ranji Trophy

14

• X had his worst figures in Australia and was reduced to bowling very defensive lines as the opposition piled on over 500 runs. In order to take his mind off the game, he and a teammate watched a movie and immediately were able to connect a character to a player for the opposition and felt that it could be used to mentally disintegrate the opposition player.

• The opposition player maintains that this didn’t affect him. But many feel that X had the wood over him. In games where X played, the opposition player averaged 25 and when he didn’t he averaged 41.

• What movie did X watch? Who is the player?

A

• Shane Warne watched American Pie with Michael Clarke and felt that the character Sherminator was Ian Bell.

15

• Barton Cricket Club is on Cricketfield Road. Frederick Alvah Miller once played for this club as a part of Torquay Cricket Club. He was the official scorer and later became the president of the club.

• A large oak tree in the club ground is named after Frederick’s daughter, who spent many a Saturday morning during the cricket season under the tree watching her dad play.

• She ensured her love for sport extended after her appointment with death. The funds for some tours of England Young Cricketers Club were not procured through some Caribbean Mystery but were provisioned in her will.

• Who is this lifelong cricket enthusiast?

A

• Agatha Christie

16

• In the epic 1996 Titan Cup Kumble Srinath partnership game, a slightly forgotten incident was Azhar getting run out after barging with the fielder and Mark Taylor not withdrawing the appeal. The crowd showed its displeasure after this by throwing bottles and rubbish.

• What did KSCA do post this game, in order to reduce similar incidents?

A

• Nets at the gallery stands in the Chinnaswamy Stadium. This prevents rubbish from being thrown into the ground.

17

• During the 1972 Ashes – X, Y, Paul Shehan, Greg Chappell, Ross Edwards decided to have a contest. “It really boiled down to X and Y, with Shehan a very distinct third. X and Y continued with their's but others gave up either during that tour itself or immediately afterwards” according to Ian Chappell.

• Who are X and Y? What is the contest? X and Y are famous even now due to the results of this contest.

A

• Dennis Lillie, Rod Marsh

• Grow a moustache

18

• The first time this makes its appearance was in an important 1987 World Cup game. Overwhelming favourite’s captain showcased it but his team lost. The next time it made its appearance was in the 1992 World Cup where the same 2 teams met, but this time the other team being the overwhelming favourite. The underdogs won this must win game and it made an appearance in every game after that.

• What is this I am talking about?

A

• The tiger T-shirt that was worn by Imran Khan. He wore it in the must win game against Australia in 1992 and wore it for every game after that. He wore it for the first time in the 1987 World Cup semi-final.

Abba Ke Zamane Mein

• 10 questions on classic photos

• 10 points per question (Part points wherever available)

• Bonus 10 for getting all right

1

• Man on the left, along with other still holds the record to the day - still holds this record for his country. Man on the right, was the closest to ever get to the Man on the left.

2

• Who laying the foundation for a project, that to this day, bears his name?

3

• The subject of this iconic photo in the book cover is also what has been blanked out. Identify.

4

• The batsman here has just played an in-swinging Yorker on to his leg stump. Who is the batsman? What is the significance of this delivery?

5

• The photo from 1956 shows a race for souvenir stumps after wicketkeeper Sam Guillen just affected a stumping to end the match.

• What historic occasion just took place?

• What was ironic about Sam Guillen’s participation here?

6

• Identify this man. You should find him in the vicinity.

7

• In Feb. 26, 1943: X, the youngest player to play first-class cricket makes his debut for Rajputana against Baroda in the Ranji semi-final. And top-scores with 13. He was 12 years and 73 days at the time. He went on to play 25 tests.

• The photo is from 11 years later X (on the left) comes out to bat with Y against Indian Gymkhana Club, May 4, 1954.

• X and Y

8

• What is happening here in this photo from 1980?

9

• Identify the bowler feeling exasperated that the wicketkeeper has made a mess of the catch

10

• Who leading his team to the pavilion after an extraordinary performance?

Exchange Sheets

1

• Man on the left, along with other still holds the record to the day - still holds this record for his country. Man on the right, was the closest to ever get to the Man on the left.

A

• Charles Bannerman

• Archie Jackson

2

• Who laying the foundation for a project, that to this day, bears his name?

A

• Lord Brabourne laying the foundation of the Brabourne stadium

3

• The subject of this iconic photo in the book cover is also what has been blanked out. Identify.

A

• Rohan Kanhai

4

• The batsman here has just played an in-swinging Yorker on to his leg stump. Who is the batsman? What is the significance of this delivery?

A

• Herbert Sutcliffe bowled by Mohammed Nissar

• India’s first test wicket

5

• The photo from 1956 shows a race for souvenir stumps after wicketkeeper Sam Guillen just affected a stumping to end the match.

• What historic occasion just took place?

• What was ironic about Sam Guillen’s participation here?

A

• New Zealand’s first test win against West Indies

• Sam Gullen used to play for West Indies. He played 5 tests and the only person to play for WI and NZ

6

• Identify this man. You should find him in the vicinity.

A

• M. Chinnaswamy

7

• In Feb. 26, 1943: X, the youngest player to play first-class cricket makes his debut for Rajputana against Baroda in the Ranji semi-final. And top-scores with 13. He was 12 years and 73 days at the time. He went on to play 25 tests.

• The photo is from 11 years later X (on the left) comes out to bat with Y against Indian Gymkhana Club, May 4, 1954.

• X and Y

A

• X – Alimuddin

• Y – Hanif Mohammed

8

• What is happening here in this photo from 1980?

A

• Gundappa Vishwanath asking Bob Taylor if he nicked it and then recalling him to the crease, during the Golden Jubilee test of 1980

9

• Identify the bowler feeling exasperated that the wicketkeeper has made a mess of the catch

A

• Kerry Packer

10

• Who leading his team to the pavilion after an extraordinary performance?

A

• Bob Massie

Audience Question

• When India won the world cup of April 2, 2011 they became the first team to achieve a quirky record with regards to all limited overs World Cup. The only other team that can achieve this record is West Indies if they win another ODI world cup. What quirky record is this?

A

• Win the world cup in 60 overs, 50 overs and 20 overs.

• West Indies have won the 60 overs and the 20 overs world cups

Anti Clockwise Round

• 18 questions

• 10 points on the bounce

• Using the Sai Ganesh pounce system – 8 pounces through out the quiz.

• +20 or -10 on pounce

1

• Much before the likes of Dennis Lillee and Glenn McGrath decided to impart their knowledge in India by becoming the chief coach at MRF Pace foundation, Leo O’Brien was among the first to do so. He played 5 tests, 2 in the bodyline series.

• Among other things post retirement, he was the first cricket coach at the National Institute of Sports, Patiala. His most famous protégé, played only 19 FC games in which he scored 658 runs and took 8 wickets. His protégé though was famous for his post playing career contributions.

• Who was Leo O’Brien’s most famous student in Patiala?

A

• Desh Prem Azad

• Famous as Kapil Dev’s coach

2

• The many reasons for X’s ‘odd behaviour’ are as follows

• He had an appendicitis issue which caused him a lot of pain leading him to say it is enough

• He was a professional and he would get paid the same irrespective of how he performed

• Identify X, who has a slightly disputed FC record that will never be broken and the ‘odd behaviour’

A

• Jack Hobbs

• Odd behaviour – his propensity to get out after scoring a 100

3

• Most long serving county cricketers till date, get either a benefit match or in some cases benefit season where all the money collected through attendance, selling memorabilia etc are given to the player.

• Where did Dennis Compton’s benefit match take place? Also identify the teams that took part. It involved a couple of sides that Compton has represented.

A

• Highbury

• Middlesex and Arsenal

4

• At tea, the message was “Jeet toh jaayenge, magar tum log marwaooge mujhe”/

• Before the last ball, the conversation was whether to bowl the slider or the googly. The fielder said slider, the bowler googly. Then the fielder said, bowl the googly but bowl it outside the off-stump. The bowler, stood at the top of his bowling mark, realized that the googly was not working and decided to bowl the slider. In the end, it didn’t matter after what the batsman did.

• What was this sequence about?

A

• Messages given to Yasir Shah before bowling the ball to Shanon Gabriel. This was Pakistan’s first ever series win in West Indies.

5

• During the third test against NZ, in Adelaide in 2015, the decision to field X as a replacement for the injured Mitchell Starc was a subject of some criticism. His performance was scrutinized by television commentators especially after a couple of fumbles in the field.

• At the end of the second day, Australia said they would not use him as a fielder any more and had drafted in South Australia's Sam Raphael for substitute duties.

• Who and why the controversy

• (Image in next slide)

A

• Grant Baldwin – Australian team therapist

• Both James Pattinson and Steven O'Keefe were released from the Test squad to play for their respective states. 3 local cricketers, none of whom have first-class experience, were available but the Australians were concerned the pressure of fielding in this Test may have been too much for inexperienced players. Hence they fielded Baldwin who had played second XI cricket for Victoria earlier.

6

• Percy Beames (on the right) was an Australian rules footballer and first-class cricketer at state level for Victoria. He later became a distinguished journalist, covering both sports for Melbourne's The Age until 1976.

• Something named after him saw a change where one of the four people below was replaced. Who replaced whom and why these four specifically? (images in next slide)

A

• The Percy Beames Bar at the MCG has a display which lists the best bowling and batting figures by an Australian and a visiting player. Recently Cook’s 244 replaced Viv Richards’ 208

7

• Australia entered the tied test with a make-shift opening pair and no stable one down batsman. Alan Border had 2 names and after some thought went with Dean Jones who made the position his own by scoring 210. The other name didn’t have a very long Australia career but played an important and often forgotten part in the Australia winning the world cup in 1987.

• Who could have been the no 3 in the tied test?

A

• Mike Veletta

• Scored 45 in 31 balls at the end of the Australian innings

8

• This video made the rounds sometime in 2016. Why?

A

• This was Ryan Campbell ODI debut for Australia. He made his T20 debut for Hong Kong ahead of the T20 World Cup qualifiers in India.

9

• What was the controversy when he came out to bat against Australia at Headingley in 2001?

A

• Karl Powers

• He basically is a prankster who managed to sneak into the England dressing room and came out to bat. He also snuck into Wimbledon Center Court and a Manchester United team photo earlier.

10

• Abdul Aziz during partition fled to Karachi and left his family behind. His son would go on to play 29 tests for India. Before leaving he helped his son make one fundamental change in his game. Post independence, he met his son only once - at Calcutta during the 1960-61 series against England, where his son took 8 wickets to help India beat England.

• Aziz would go on to help a famous cricketing family in Pakistan and would employ the same change that he did with his son with one of the family members.

• Who is Abdul Aziz’s son? And what was the change?

A

• Salim Durani

• Made him a left hander.

• Sadiq Mohammed, one of the Mohammed brothers, was a right hander and was made into a left hander on the insistence of Master Aziz

11

• The presence of X in the team helped Y become famous. X was not part of the team, but was selected for the tour. X had seen Y’s efforts in places like Vishakapatnam, Delhi and Lahli and was sure that Y will be up to the task. Y had started well (What he became famous for) and more than 45 minutes was able to reap the benefits. X was able to talk to the captain of Y’s earlier efforts and this helped Y achieve his fame.

• X, Y, What story?

A

• X – Virender Sehwag

• Y – Ishant Sharma

• Sehwag was Ishant’s Delhi captain and he knew that Ishant could bowl long spells. He asked Kumble to continue Ishant for a couple more overs. Kumble asked Ishant “Ek aur karega?” to which Ishant responded “Karoonga” and got the wicket of Ricky Ponting

12

• Name this guy who had an international team named after him. How did that happen?

A

• Tony Opatha

• The Sri Lankan rebel tour team of 1982 could not be called Sri Lanka. Hence they were called Arosa Sri Lanka.

• Arosa was made up the initials of Anthony Ralph Opatha, who was the manager of the rebel Sri Lankan team

13

• Bruce Reid, while bowling in a game in Pakistan, had fallen to his knees, hands outreached in supplication after another slips catch had been dropped from his bowling. What did teammate Tim May say to him to lighten the mood?

A

• ‘You are praying in the wrong direction’

14

• He like his uncle ended up playing the game at the highest level. Though inspired by the uncle, he has stated that one of his great misfortunes was not watching his uncle play. The uncle, though retired, was still playing amateur games, till he lost vision in an eye after a shooting accident. This was around the time, the nephew was born. Both scored 100's on their Ashes debuts.

• Identify both.

A

• Ranjitsinhji

• Duleepsinhji

15

• Sunette Viljoen played 1 test and 17 ODI’s for South Africa. Her test debut was against India in a team that featured Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami.

• She underwent a transformation opposite to the one done by Merchant de Lange and achieved something in 2016 that was last achieved in 1908 by a test cricketer.

• What did she achieve? What was the transformation?

A

• She won a silver in Javelin in Rio. Last test cricketer to win a medal was Jack McBryan in the 1908 Olympics.

• Merchant De Lange went from Javelin to bowling. She went from bowling to Javelin.

16

• X, unique in his own way among cricketers, was a solid and sturdy batsman, but a below average fielder. He once dropped a catch off Fred Trueman. Trueman remarked – “Kid yourself it’s Sunday _________... And you keep your hands together.” This was appropriate as it mocked his drop catch and also what made him unique among cricketers.

• Identify X.

A

• Reverend David Shepherd

• Only ordained minister to play test cricket.

17

• MCC during their tour of India in 1963-64, took on the Board President’s XI at the Central College grounds in Bangalore. The game was scheduled between January 3rd and January 5th (Friday to Sunday). The chief minister S. Nijlingappa, did something, in order to ensure maximum turnout for the game. [It was one of the first international teams to visit Bangalore].

• This was later cited when a group of HMT workers demanded something the following year for a landmark occasion. What was their demand?

A

• Holiday to celebrate the state formation day

• Nijlingappa had declared the Friday and Saturday of the game as a holiday. If a holiday can be declared for a cricket game, we must have a holiday for a momentous day as the Landmark quiz in Bangalore. :)

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• It has had many variations and for a long time in the 19th century was a tribute to the Melbourne Cricket Club.

• A new innovation was used in 1899 to show some semblance of national unity. It might not have stayed that way, had it not been for Victor Trumper and his extreme superstitious nature. He scored a hundred and Australia won at Lords. This meant that things never changed after that.

• What was initially a tribute to MCC but changed after Victor Trumper’s 100 and his superstitions?

A

• Baggygreen

• Initially Australia wore a variety of colors, but wore blue with red and white stripes - the colors of the Melbourne Cricket Club.

End of Day’s play

Tie Break

1

• Bangladesh and Australia were supposed to face each other in 2008 in Australia. Australia pushed that further to 2010 and finally Bangladesh played a test in Australia in 2010.

• What was the reason given for pushing the series?

A

• CA apparently didn’t want this series to be forgotten because of the Olympic Games

2

• He was one of the out of the blue selections for a dead rubber after his team had lost the series. He shared the surname with a batsman who set the domestic scene on fire and was expected to be called. But the batsman got the call up much later. He despite having played very few first class games, claimed 6-78 and helped his team to a surprise victory.

• He however played only 12 tests and his last was against India. He was replaced by someone else who went on to have a long career. Who is this?

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• Peter Taylor

• Mark Taylor was supposed to be selected. He was replaced by Shane Warne

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• X captained Y at the U-19 world cup. Y later captained X in the majority of X's international career. X later became a very reluctant captain post Y's retirement. Z, son of a former cricketer, was one among the many who were tried as Y's replacement post his retirement. Z, during the U-19 world cup, did not bat at the position that he did during his international career.

• Identify all.

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• X - Hashim Amla

• Y - Graeme Smith

• Z - Stephen Cook

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• Identify this man, one of 8 and the last before this feat was repeated in 2017.

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• Amin Lakhani

• 2 hat-tricks in a game. Achieved by Mitchell Starc

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• On one side you have this -May people respect youTrouble neglect youAngels protect youHeaven accept you

• On the other side -Being the best you can be is only possible if you desire to be a champion and your fear of failure is non-existent’

• What?

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• Ben Stokes tatoos