January 11, FMS, University of Delhi

42 Questions in a 7 by 6 grid. Points on bounce & pounce(equal on negative)-

Level 1- 10Level 2- 15Level 3- 20Level 4- 25Level 5- 30Level 6- 40

2 Pounces per topic! Life lines! You can evade a negative by dropping

a team member

Topic 1 2 3 4 5 6

Tests 10 15 20 25 30 40

FC Cricket 10 15 20 25 30 40

ODIs (WC Spl)

10 15 20 25 30 40

T20s 10 15 20 25 30 40

Grey 10 15 20 25 30 40

Misc 1 10 15 20 25 30 40

Misc 2 10 15 20 25 30 40

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He played two ODIs in 1985-86, against Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup, before working behind the scenes in the Bangladesh Cricket Board.

He also served as the Tournament director of the Under-19 World Cup in February and March 2004.

Raquibul Hassan's prospects of a lengthy Test career were shattered in March 1971, when Bangladesh's war of liberation began. The final day of his unofficial debut, against a touring Commonwealth XI, was abandoned when the crowd invaded the field and burnt down the stadium.

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Till date there has been only one instance of ‘this’ happening in Test Cricket. It remains the only occasion too. One of the 2 protagonists is shown here, who is the other/ what feat is being referred to?

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It's happened close to 90 times now, with the first instance by England in two of the matches in the 1893 Ashes, and the last time they managed it was in the Centenary Test at Melbourne in 1976-77. The most recent occasions are arguably the most notable though - in three Tests in Australia in 1984-85, West Indies achieved the same, thus becoming the only side other than England to have managed it.

The record for a match is 20, by England and Australia at Lord's in 1953.

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This cricketer was handicapped by an accident when a schoolboy which left him unable to fully move his right arm properly. His cricket career cut short due to the same, he remained unfazed though-representing his state in multiple sports.

He is best remembered by cricketing aficionados due to a certain first and another still-unique feat.

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Slow left-armer Joe Johnson of Yorkshire is best remembered for his performance in a match against Leicestershire in August 1939. What precisely did he do/ taking him tantalisingly close to a milestone which he, atleast theoretically had a shot at, till his death 72 years later, in 2011?

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Quite surprisingly, after 20 years of the initial development, the England touring team did this for the final time during the 1996-97 tour of New Zealand.

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In the North Zone vs West Zone Duleep Trophy final in 1990-91, on of Indian cricket’s most controversial incidents ensued:

Our protagonist and this one test wonder had been needling each other throughout a fractious final, but it was on the final afternoon that tempers finally snapped. North Zone were already assured of the title having amassed a huge 729 for 9 in their first innings, with _______'s 180 an integral performance. Thus apparently the revenge- “It was senseless, yet far from unprovoked,” wrote Wisden, as another beamer was aimed at _______’s head, he then followed up by uprooting a stump and chasing the stunned batsman all the way to the boundary. A crowd riot ensued, unsurprisingly, and both men were banned for their actions.

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Bombay started by scoring 651 (Sunil Gavaskar's uncle Madhav Mantri made 200, Vijay Merchant's brother Uday143, and Dattu Phadkar 131). Maharashtra replied with 407 (Manohar Datar 143, Madhusudan Rege 133). Bombay, with the first-innings lead that almost guaranteed them a place in the final, had no need for a challenging declaration, and eventually called a halt at 714 for 8 (Merchant added 156 and Phadkar 160). Actually it was quite a challenging declaration, as Maharashtra were left needing to score 959 to win! They made a pretty fair effort, reaching 604: Rege made 104 and SharadDeodhar 146. Bombay eventually won by 354 runs: their Test slow left-armer Keki Tarapore took 9 for 299 in the match, which featured a grand total of 2376 runs.

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This South African cricketer’s Wisdenobituary read: “One of the most extraordinary men ever to play Test cricket.” and further goes on to add, “statistics are absurd for such a man. On the cricketing front, he twice _________, something which has no other bowler has done again in first class cricket.”

There are certain statistics however that even Wisden could not tally. He climbed the Mount Kilimanjaro twice. Thrice he was busted down the rank and re-promoted during service in the British Army and apparently had blown up 6 tanks during his service in North Africa.

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A landscape consultant who moved to Kenya in the late 1950s, his World Cup career was a cameo in hindsight. He was 43 when his team was invited, thus eventually he played in just two matches, went wicketless in both, and sadly never played a List A match again.

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This cricketer started of his 1st

World Cup by scoring 62 runs and scalping 3 quick wickets against England in his 1st and 2nd

outings. Just after this edition, he joined

the MCC Young Cricketers Program and soon afterwards, scored a 38-ball century – the fastest in the history of MCC Young Cricketers.

We however remember him for something completely different, what would that be?

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Virender Sehwag launched the first five of India's innings in the 2011 World Cup by hitting the first ball for four. Never before or after has such a feat been achieved-in World Cup or all one-day international cricket.

The suffering bowlers were ShafiulIslam, Jimmy Anderson (a hard chance to Graeme Swann in the slips), Boyd Rankin, MudassarBukhari and Dale Steyn.

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With a first class career spanning almost 2 decades, he played illustriously for Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire until retiring towards the end of the last century.

His most famous international performance is however often lost, perhaps in the glory of someone who overshadowed his effort or possibly a different non-cricketing reason.

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1975- None 1979- Malcolm Marshall, Faoud

Bacchus, Larry Gomes 1983- Sunil Valson 1987- NONE 1992- NONE 1996- Chandana, Attapatu 1999-NONE 2003- Nathan Hauritz, Nathan

Bracken 2007- Mitchell Johnson 2011- NONE

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Although Nuwan Kulasekara and Bhuvaneshwar Kumar bowled the most economical spells in t20 in the international level, they did not bowl their full quota of 4 overs. The record stands out to be a miserly spell of bowling by this bowler who recorded figures of 4-1-3-0 in a domestic T20 competition. He upstaged himself in the very next match though, achieving something unique in T20 cricket.

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PLAYER MATCH VENUE YEAR

1 AHMED HAYAT

Faislabad Wolves vs. Karachi Dolphins

Lahore 2005

2 CHITANGA PERERA

Basnahira S vs. Wayamba Colombo (SSC)

2009

3 ADRIANBARATH

Pakistanis vs. Northants 2010

4 2013

5 DEVON THOMAS

Hawksbills v Amazon 2013

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The Last Man Stands Tournament is a unique tournament organised in 6 different countries, having a very different set of rules with each side comprising of just 8 players.

Usually a low key affair, the South Africa edition hogged the limelight during the 2013 edition of a remarkable invitation/inclusion. Such was the effect that ‘it’ was carried forward to the event in England.

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In a match of the ShaheedBenazir Bhutto Twenty20 memorial tournament in 2008, this Port Qasim pacer did something very rare and bizzare, a feat which promises to remain unmatched.

He later cited that he was suffering from a leg strain while the officials maintained physical and mental fatigue as a reason for the same.

He was asked to bowl and he sent down 10 successive no balls resulting in 10 free hits to the batsmen who scored 31 runs off them. He failed to bowl a single legal delivery with his bowling figures reading 0-0-31-0 (10 NB).

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The 2005 Wisden Almanackreported - with a barely concealed schoolboy grin -that police had raided a unique place in Temple Road, Mount Lavinia, which for the past 10 years had been catering to a specific group of people. An undercover cop had apparently cracked the case, thus jeopardizing the occupants and the ones associated with there.

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In 2007, Indian national Dr MdHaneef was accused of providing his second cousin, accused of being involved in plotting car bomb attacks in the UK, with a mobile phone SIM card and was subsequently arrested.

The protests that followed, questioned the country’s totalitarian state and used a particular cricketers actions in their protest (name blanked in photo).

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The 1998 book Save the Last Ball for Me by the workaday New Zealand seamer Chris Pringle would have been unremarkable, but for a chapter called “__________”, when he admitted carving up a ball with a bottletopduring a Test in Faisalabad in 1990, as New Zealand strongly suspected the Pakistan bowlers were doing something similar.

“One side was still shiny,” he wrote about his handiwork, but there were lots of grooves and lines and deep gouges on the other side. It was so obvious!” In that match Pringle took 11 for 152: in 13 other bottletop-free Tests he managed only 19, at an average of 65.

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Shem Ngoche, Jadhavji Bhimji, GurdeepSingh, Hamza Malik, Jimmy Kamande, James Ngoche, Alex Obanda, Eugene Ochieng, Nelson Odhiambo, Nehemiah Odhiambo, Lucas Oluoch, Elijah Otieno, Morris Ouma, Kennedy Owino and Emmanuel Bundi

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It was a song written by Dave Martins at a time when there was growing unrest between the Indian and African populations in Guyana with the former gaining political ascendency after the end of years of Military Dictatorship.

This is a heal the rift song involving 2 of the greatest cricketing sons of Guyana.

It goes like this:

We must play ___ and ____That's how we have to liveFor us to win this game,bannaGuyana must combine________ and ________This match is make or break, banna

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There are currently around 20 grounds that have held just one Test match. Some - like Bogra, Fatullah and Khulna in Bangladesh -may well have more in future.

But there are 11 that probably won't (defunct, mostly). Interestingly two of them come from the same city in India.

Where? And name the stadiums.

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A professional writer and occasional actor , he is best known for co-authoring a book on Gary Linekar and acting in a the famous comedy play “An Evening with Gary Linekar”, which was later made into a film. He later also made another comedy play by the name of “Breakfast with Johnny Wilkinson”. And published a comedy guide titled “How to Enjoy the World Cup” in 2014.

We in India, however remember him for a cricketing reason, what precisely?

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“The way they hit it, they're more than welcome to bat at the top of the order. I might have to slide down a few spots,” is what Aaron Finch, the T20 captain of the Australian Team had to say about them. During the 2014 Big Bash, MuttiahMuralitharan and Aaron Finch, playing for Melbourne Renegades, took time out to give them some cricketing lessons and they were pretty much impressed by their skills. Who was Aaron Finch talking about or whom did they actually train?

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Scorer of the 3rd fastest international hundred ever, this cricketer is also a prolific athlete, with the table detailing the swashbuckler’s prowess in track and field.

ID/ Who would this be?

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After ___1___ came into existence as an off shoot of ___2___ in 1924, a “Big Match” was initiated between the two with the aim of building relations between students of the two institutions and developing their cricket in the sporting arena.

Thus the first Battle of the Maroons was played between them in 1924. Much talked about over the years, it has seen a lot of superstars take the field-

___2___ has been represented by the likes of Arjuna Ranatunga, SidathWettimuny and Attapattu while ___1___ has been represented by MahelaJaywardene,Bandula Warnapura and Kumar Dharmasena.

Interestingly, ___1___ owes its name to a place in the Eastern part of India.

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Conceptualised by, current CEO of Fox Sports, David Hill, it initially horrified the cricketing folklore. It was thought of as “brash” coverage of the game; so much so that subsequently, broadcasters such as the United Kingdom's Channel 4, upon announcing that they would be covering the English cricket team in 1999, stated “there will be no ______” to avoid controversy. Since the turn of the milleniumthough, it has become a regular feature and is vividly seen.

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Sri Lanka Vs Pakistan, 29 March 2006 (took temporary retirement on 12th April) 2015 World Cup

MCC Spirit of cricket test Series, Australia vsPakistan, 2010 July (took retirement from test cricket after it)

West Indies vs Pakistan, 2011, 5 May (30th May)

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A true all-rounder, George Cakobau played international rugby as well as cricket for his native Fiji. During the final of his 4 FC appearances, he did something which was sparsely seen before and hasn’t been emulated afterwards either. What specifically did he do/what was he the last to do on a cricket field?

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