KQA Cricket Quiz 2015 Prelims

Well Of Course PrelimsKQA Cricket Quiz 2015

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Rules

Teams of 4 or less

30 Questions

First five questions are *ed

In case of ties even after counting stars, we will become ICC andshun out who we feel are associates and include only “strongteams”….

…. Just kidding, we do a straight sudden death starting from the lastquestion

Put Your Hands Together….

Take Your Guard

1.

It all started with Paul Taylor, a man from Sydney.

“I was overcome with sadness, and I was also knowing that therewere a whole lot of cricketers feeling the same way. How do weconvey our emotions? So I took a photo and placed it on ___X___with the ___Y___. It was just a simple thing to say, this is a sad day,this is how I am feeling.”

Many people picked up the idea from Paul Taylor and this wasrepeated around the world.

Identify Y.

2.

Plain and simple, identify

3.

Where, quite appropriately named city, did Jacques Kallis, ShaunPollock and Stephen Fleming play their 100th test?

4.

This is Joseph “Reds” Perreira, a radiocommentator and sports administrator inthe Caribbean. He has covered over 145tests, 300 ODI’s. But his primary claim tofame is that he broke a story that wasbreaking news before breaking newsbecame a fad and tore the Caribbeanregion apart.

He broke the story after enquiring aboutAmerican Airlines flights from Port-of-Spain to Miami, via Barbados.

What story?

5.

The first was by Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad against NewZealand. The next was in 1981-82 by Gundappa Viswanath andYashpal Sharma against England. Who were the third and definitelythe most famous instance in Indian cricket?

6.

Benjamin question of the quiz.

Emmanuel Benjamin was actually the second Indian to do it, whenhe played in 1981-82. Who is often erroneously credited as beingthe only Indian when he did it in the 1960’s? And what is beingspoken about?

7.

Identify X. What list is this? How is the instance of X unique to thislist?

Sl. No. Batsman Score For Against Venue Date

1 Russell Endean 3 South Africa England Newlands, Cape Town 01-Jan-57

2 X 29 Australia Pakistan WACA, Perth 24-Mar-79

3 Mohsin Khan 58 Pakistan Australia National Stadium, Karachi 22-Sep-82

4 Desmond Haynes 55 West Indies India Wankhede Stadium, Bombay 24-Nov-83

5 Graham Gooch 133 England Australia Old Trafford, Manchester 03-Jun-93

6 Steve Waugh 47 Australia India MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 18-Mar-01

7 Michael Vaughan 64 England India M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore 19-Dec-01

8.

Pakistan forward Kallimullah Khan, won the 1984 Olympic goldmedal. In his long career, whom did he consider the greatestgoalkeeper that he ever faced?

The man in question “just happened” to be a keeper at all sportsthat he played – cricket, hockey and football. He continued to playbehind stumps until his late thirties and decided to give up, whenhe got injured and stopped enjoying keeping.

9.

For sometime on twitter, during the first one day between Australiaand Pakistan in 2014, the term “Backwad Alam” trended. BasicallyFawad Alam did something that was commonly associated withwhat Geoffrey Boycott did.

What?

10.

Identify the cricket team

11.

In 1983, West Indies toured India with the intention of humiliatingthe World Champion side in all formats. India after having donereasonably well on day 1 of the first test in Kanpur, were obliteratedby Malcolm Marshall on day 2. He first scored 92 and then bowledone of the fastest spells in India to leave India reeling at 34/5.

What was the memorable headline penned by Rajan Bala todescribe the carnage?

12.

Who is receiving his Executive MBA degree? The ceremony wasorganized specifically for him, given his busy international schedule.

13.

Identify

14.

What in Australia, gets its nickname because it originates in aneighboring town and brings welcome relief from hightemperatures during the summer?

15.

What happened because of this?

16.

On his first class debut (His onlygame) after beating his outsideedge several times, anexasperated bowled exclaimed,“For Christ’s sake X, you musthave been f**king adopted”.

X, ended up being the blacksheep of the family, by notplaying test cricket unlike hisbrothers. X?

17.

For the preview of the 1977-78 series between Pakistan andEngland, what did Wisden label the following players as?

18.

What upset has been attributed to the fact that the much fanciedopponents took a tour round the local Guinness Factory the nightbefore and might have suffered some after effects?

19.

Highest scores achieved by Karnataka Batsmen

• KL Rahul – 337

• Karun Nair - 328

• X – 283

• Y – 270

• Arjun Raja – 267

• Z – 264*

• Karthik Jeshwant – 259*

• Z - 257

X is named after a quite often underrated English giant. Y did it in atest match, Z is the only wicketkeeper to have 2 scores of 250+ inIndian cricket. Id all 3

20.

Lalit Modi envisioned a city based league way back in the 1990'swhen he was working to get ESPN into India. In 1996 thanks to thehype generated by the world cup, he decided to pitch his idea tothe BCCI. His league was based on the ODI game and he hadincluded traditional cricket cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai,Chennai etc. However to get support from a former president ofBCCI, he told him even his city can have a franchise.

After the president's untimely death a cricket ground, in anothercity, that had regularly staged ODI's has been renamed after him.Who is the president and what was the franchise included?

21.

Identify this domestic smasher, who was born 15 years too soon forthe T20 revolution.

22.

India were touring Australia. There was a match scheduled atAdelaide, and manager Pankaj Gupta had asked the Mayor of theAdelaide whether X could be at the ground during the match.

X, who had shifted base to Adelaide from Sydney, had neverwitnessed Y playing and impressed with his play commentedsomething. This was to be a famous meeting between X and Y, onlyknown meeting between them.

Identify X and Y and the famous comment made famous in Indianschool books.

23.

Allan Donald was to resume international cricket for South Africa asthey were taking on England. The county decided to replace thefast bowler with another “fast” bowler. Just days before hisdeparture, the other “fast” bowler got injured and therefore couldnot take part in the county championships.

The county decided to hire a batsman instead and it led to all sortsof history being created. Identify the other bowler and the batsmanwho replaced him.

24.

Whose voice?

Who was dismissed?

25.

Identify the cricketer on the left – basically the subject of this comicbook

26.

He got his nickname, that he hated, due to the fact that in his firstmajor game in 1975, he smashed an assortment of good spinnersfor 7 sixes and scored a quick-fire hundred. He was out for 110made only in 113 minutes.

Old timers immediately recalled a path-breaking hundred byanother person nearly 50 years earlier, who had similarly smashedan assortment of good bowlers for sixes and this ensured that Indiawas taken seriously as a cricket team.

Who got his nickname from whom?

27.

The story goes that the two brothers decided to toss a coin todecide who would remain a fast bowler and who would try spin,after they agreed that both couldn’t be fast bowlers.

X won and became a cornerstone for the international attackwhereas Y became an off spinner, but was confined to domesticcricket. After cricket, the brothers got together and opened astationary shop which was quite successful. Neither married andthe brothers lived together. Identify X and Y.

28.

This 1980 match at the Gadaffi Stadium was petering to a draw soPakistan’s keeper Taslim Arif, who played 6 tests and 2 ODI’s,decided to bowl with X as keeper.

Arif took his sole international wicket in that innings.

X did not do any monkey business as a keeper and got his onlyinternational stumping. He got Y stumped off Azhar Khan (whichincidentally was also Azhar’s only wicket)

Y despite being grumpy, had a good match, and did something inthat game which is the only instance in the history of tests.

Identify X, Y and what Y achieved

29.

X was on the verge of equalling a record at Y's hometown. Theirteam needed 3 wickets to win and Y took 2 of them. Y then decidedto bowl badly to ensure X equals the record which he did. X laterbroke the record in the next game and retired after one more test.

Few years later, Y was on the verge of another record and this timeit was Z's responsibility to bowl badly so that Y can achieve therecord. Z famously did that and Y confessed later, if he hadn’tbroken the record, it would have been really difficult to ask Z tobowl another over badly.

Identify X, Y, Z and the 2 records involved.

30.

X announced his retirement at the end of 2014. Although not allthat successful at the international level, he is the only player tohave been involved in a 400 run partnership in FC cricket, 300 runpartnership in List A and 200 run partnership in T20.

Y opened the batting in 2 tests with X in a series against Sri Lanka in2006/07. They were a long list of opening pairs that were beingtried out during that period. Thanks to their surnames, the openingpair were part of some jokes.

Identify the opening pair

Time for Answers

1.

It all started with Paul Taylor, a man from Sydney.

“I was overcome with sadness, and I was also knowing that therewere a whole lot of cricketers feeling the same way. How do weconvey our emotions? So I took a photo and placed it on ___X___with the ___Y___. It was just a simple thing to say, this is a sad day,this is how I am feeling.”

Many people picked up the idea from Paul Taylor and this wasrepeated around the world.

Identify Y.

#PutYourBatsOut

2.

Plain and simple, identify

Ajinkhya Rahane

3.

Where, quite appropriately named city, did Jacques Kallis, ShaunPollock and Stephen Fleming play their 100th test?

Supersport Park, Centurion

4.

This is Joseph “Reds” Perreira, a radiocommentator and sports administrator inthe Caribbean. He has covered over 145tests, 300 ODI’s. But his primary claim tofame is that he broke a story that wasbreaking news before breaking newsbecame a fad and tore the Caribbeanregion apart.

He broke the story after enquiring aboutAmerican Airlines flights from Port-of-Spain to Miami, via Barbados.

What story?

West Indies rebel tour of South Africa

5.

The first was by Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad against NewZealand. The next was in 1981-82 by Gundappa Viswanath andYashpal Sharma against England. Who were the third and definitelythe most famous instance in Indian cricket?

Batting an entire day without losing a wicket

6.

Benjamin question of the quiz.

Emmanuel Benjamin was actually the second Indian to do it, whenhe played in 1981-82. Who is often erroneously credited as beingthe only Indian when he did it in the 1960’s? And what is beingspoken about?

Indians playing Sheffield Cricket

Rusi Surti played for Queensland during the 60’s.

Emmanuel Benjamin played for Tasmania in 1981-82

7.

Identify X. What list is this? How is the instance of X unique to thislist?

Sl. No. Batsman Score For Against Venue Date

1 Russell Endean 3 South Africa England Newlands, Cape Town 01-Jan-57

2 X 29 Australia Pakistan WACA, Perth 24-Mar-79

3 Mohsin Khan 58 Pakistan Australia National Stadium, Karachi 22-Sep-82

4 Desmond Haynes 55 West Indies India Wankhede Stadium, Bombay 24-Nov-83

5 Graham Gooch 133 England Australia Old Trafford, Manchester 03-Jun-93

6 Steve Waugh 47 Australia India MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 18-Mar-01

7 Michael Vaughan 64 England India M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore 19-Dec-01

3 Pointer

X – Andrew Hilditch

List - Handling the ball dismissals in Tests

Uniqueness – Only non-striker to dismissed handling the ball

8.

Pakistan forward Kallimullah Khan, won the 1984 Olympic goldmedal. In his long career, whom did he consider the greatestgoalkeeper that he ever faced?

The man in question “just happened” to be a keeper at all sportsthat he played – cricket, hockey and football. He continued to playbehind stumps until his late thirties and decided to give up, whenhe got injured and stopped enjoying keeping.

Dave Houghton

9.

For sometime on twitter, during the first one day between Australiaand Pakistan in 2014, the term “Backwad Alam” trended. BasicallyFawad Alam did something that was commonly associated withwhat Geoffrey Boycott did.

What?

Bowling with cap backwards

Geoff Boycott famously did it during his bowling stints in the 1979World Cup

10.

Identify the cricket team

Vatican Cricket Team

They call themselves St. Peters XI.

This is a Peter question

We can see the St. Peter’s Basilica in the background

11.

In 1983, West Indies toured India with the intention of humiliatingthe World Champion side in all formats. India after having donereasonably well on day 1 of the first test in Kanpur, were obliteratedby Malcolm Marshall on day 2. He first scored 92 and then bowledone of the fastest spells in India to leave India reeling at 34/5.

What was the memorable headline penned by Rajan Bala todescribe the carnage?

Marshall Law declared at Kanpur

12.

Who is receiving his Executive MBA degree? The ceremony wasorganized specifically for him, given his busy international schedule.

Misbah Ul-Haq

13.

Identify

Moeen Ali

14.

What in Australia, gets its nickname because it originates in aneighboring town and brings welcome relief from hightemperatures during the summer?

Fremantle Doctor

15.

What happened because of this?

Devon Malcolm 9/57

After being hit on the head by the bouncer from Fannie De Villiers,the South African fielders started sledging him. Devon told thefielders – “You guys are f***ing history” and then proceeded tobowl one of the most aggressive spells of fast bowling to take 9wickets

16.

On his first class debut (His onlygame) after beating his outsideedge several times, anexasperated bowled exclaimed,“For Christ’s sake X, you musthave been f**king adopted”.

X, ended up being the blacksheep of the family, by notplaying test cricket unlike hisbrothers. X?

Dean Waugh

A fourth brother Daniel Waugh, did not play first class cricket

17.

For the preview of the 1977-78 series between Pakistan andEngland, what did Wisden label the following players as?

Packerstanis

18.

What upset has been attributed to the fact that the much fanciedopponents took a tour round the local Guinness Factory the nightbefore and might have suffered some after effects?

West Indies all out for 25

19.

Highest scores achieved by Karnataka Batsmen

• KL Rahul – 337

• Karun Nair - 328

• X – 283

• Y – 270

• Arjun Raja – 267

• Z – 264*

• Karthik Jeshwant – 259*

• Z - 257

X is named after a quite often underrated English giant. Y did it in atest match, Z is the only wicketkeeper to have 2 scores of 250+ inIndian cricket. Id all 3

Jai Karnataka

X – Barrington Rowland

Y – Rahul Dravid

Z – CM Gautam

20.

Lalit Modi envisioned a city based league way back in the 1990'swhen he was working to get ESPN into India. In 1996 thanks to thehype generated by the world cup, he decided to pitch his idea tothe BCCI. His league was based on the ODI game and he hadincluded traditional cricket cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai,Chennai etc. However to get support from a former president ofBCCI, he told him even his city can have a franchise.

After the president's untimely death a cricket ground, in anothercity, that had regularly staged ODI's has been renamed after him.Who is the president and what was the franchise included?

Madhavrao Scindia, Gwalior

21.

Identify this domestic smasher, who was born 15 years too soon forthe T20 revolution.

Atul Bedade

22.

India were touring Australia. There was a match scheduled atAdelaide, and manager Pankaj Gupta had asked the Mayor of theAdelaide whether X could be at the ground during the match.

X, who had shifted base to Adelaide from Sydney, had neverwitnessed Y playing and impressed with his play commentedsomething. This was to be a famous meeting between X and Y, onlyknown meeting between them.

Identify X and Y and the famous comment made famous in Indianschool books.

Dhyan Chand, Don Bradman

“You score goals, like I score runs”

23.

Allan Donald was to resume international cricket for South Africa asthey were taking on England. The county decided to replace thefast bowler with another “fast” bowler. Just days before hisdeparture, the other “fast” bowler got injured and therefore couldnot take part in the county championships.

The county decided to hire a batsman instead and it led to all sortsof history being created. Identify the other bowler and the batsmanwho replaced him.

Manoj Prabhakar, Brian Lara

24.

Whose voice?

Who was dismissed?

John Arlott, Derek Randall

25.

Identify the cricketer on the left – basically the subject of this comicbook

Shapoor Zadran

26.

He got his nickname, that he hated, due to the fact that in his firstmajor game in 1975, he smashed an assortment of good spinnersfor 7 sixes and scored a quick-fire hundred. He was out for 110made only in 113 minutes.

Old timers immediately recalled a path-breaking hundred byanother person nearly 50 years earlier, who had similarly smashedan assortment of good bowlers for sixes and this ensured that Indiawas taken seriously as a cricket team.

Who got his nickname from whom?

Dilip Vengsarkar, CK Nayudu

Here Dilip Vengsarkar is receiving the CK Nayudu lifetimeachievement award.

CK Nayudu smashed 153 against MCC in 1926, an innings thatpushed India’s case for test status

27.

The story goes that the two brothers decided to toss a coin todecide who would remain a fast bowler and who would try spin,after they agreed that both couldn’t be fast bowlers.

X won and became a cornerstone for the international attackwhereas Y became an off spinner, but was confined to domesticcricket. After cricket, the brothers got together and opened astationary shop which was quite successful. Neither married andthe brothers lived together. Identify X and Y.

Alec and Eric Bedser

28.

This 1980 match at the Gadaffi Stadium was petering to a draw soPakistan’s keeper Taslim Arif, who played 6 tests and 2 ODI’s,decided to bowl with X as keeper.

Arif took his sole international wicket in that innings.

X did not do any monkey business as a keeper and got his onlyinternational stumping. He got Y stumped off Azhar Khan (whichincidentally was also Azhar’s only wicket)

Y despite being grumpy, had a good match, and did something inthat game which is the only instance in the history of tests.

Identify X, Y and what Y achieved

3 pointer

X – Javed Miandad

Y – Alan Border

Only instance of 150 being scored a batsmen in each innings

29.

X was on the verge of equalling a record at Y's hometown. Theirteam needed 3 wickets to win and Y took 2 of them. Y then decidedto bowl badly to ensure X equals the record which he did. X laterbroke the record in the next game and retired after one more test.

Few years later, Y was on the verge of another record and this timeit was Z's responsibility to bowl badly so that Y can achieve therecord. Z famously did that and Y confessed later, if he hadn’tbroken the record, it would have been really difficult to ask Z tobowl another over badly.

Identify X, Y, Z and the 2 records involved.

5 pointer

X – Kapil Dev

Y – Anil Kumble

Z – Javagal Srinath

Record 1 – Most testwickets

Record 2 – 10 wickets inan innings

30.

X announced his retirement at the end of 2014. Although not allthat successful at the international level, he is the only player tohave been involved in a 400 run partnership in FC cricket, 300 runpartnership in List A and 200 run partnership in T20.

Y opened the batting in 2 tests with X in a series against Sri Lanka in2006/07. They were a long list of opening pairs that were beingtried out during that period. Thanks to their surnames, the openingpair were part of some jokes.

Identify the opening pair

Jamie How, Craig Cumming

The New Zealand Openers are Cumming and How!