• 21 questions in the PRELIMS

• 1 point for every correct answer

• Inbuilt tiebreakers in the form of ‘*’s and ‘**’

• Keep away your phones

ALL THE BEST!

ANSWERS

* (01) FITB

The Soldier

If I should die, think only this of me;     That there's some ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 

That is for ever England. There shall be    In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;  A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware.

- Rupert Brooke

(02) What has just happened?

*(03) Whose name has been edited?

* * (04) With 8/15, this cricketer has the best bowling figures in List A matches, followed by Chaminda Vaas’s 8/19. He played only 10 ODIs for India, where he did reasonably well, but was dropped later and never picked again. He made his test debut, which remained his only test, against Australia at Wankhede in 2001.

Who is he?

(05) Ian Chappell remembers pressing X for details of what he did when not playing cricket, eventually receiving the reply,

"Ian, I'm a bloody Y!"

Id X and Y

"Ian, I'm a bloody prince!"

*(06) Id the cricketer

* * (07) She is considered one of the greatest woman cricketers of all time. In the St.Kilda Test against England in 1957-58, she became the first cricketer, male or female, to score a century and take a 10-wicket haul in the same test. Imran Khan and Ian Botham emulated that record years later.

Name her.

(08) He was an Australian bowler who played only 5 tests, between 1950-51, where he picked 21 wickets with a best of 6/27 in an innings. However, his name had come back to public memory in 2008 for a particular reason.

Name him and put funda.(0.5 x 2)

(09) This famous cricketer’s complete name is Syed X Y Kirmani. However, he was known only by his middle-names X Y, and had no relation with the Indian wicket-keeper.

Who is this famous cricketer?

(10) W.G. Grace has a best bowling figure in a FC innings of 10/49. However, the list of bowlers who have picked up all-10 wickets in an innings does not include his name, along with two others. The reason for the exclusion is the same for all the 3.

What is the reason for this exclusion?

* (11) The title of which memoir was, in a sense, a response to a Rudyard Kipling quote, "What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?"

** (12) Who is the only cricketer to have scored a quadruple century in Minor Cricket, a triple century in FC cricket, a double century in Test cricket and a century in List A cricket?

(13) Who was the MoM in this match?

(14) Who has the highest score on First Class debut, and what is the score? (0.5 x 2)

(15) Id him

(16) (i) What was unique about the mode of dismissal of both Mahela Jayawardene and Marvan Atapattu, in the 2nd Test of the Asian Test Championship 2001/02, at the SSC Colombo, against Bangladesh? [0.5]

(ii) Which Bangladeshi cricketer made a world record in this same test, and what was the record? [0.25 x 2]

* (17) He was one of the most gifted pioneering athletes of India. He not only represented India in cricket and tennis, but was also proficient in field hockey, soccer, table tennis, chess, and polo. He was nicknamed "Rainbow ____" because of his expertise in these seven sports. He represented India at the Davis Cup in 1924 and 1925, and also at Wimbledon for five years and in 1926 reached the quarter finals in doubles. He was one of the first Indians to compete as a tennis player at the 1924 Olympics. He scored the first every century in the Ranji Trophy in the inaugural season and was the treasurer of the Indian team on their tour of England in 1936 and also played in several matches. He was also on the team in the unofficial Test match series against the Australians led by Jack Ryder. Name this legend.

(18) Who is missing from this exhaustive list and what is the connection? (0.5 x 2)

** (19) Talking of long careers, 8 cricketers who played in the 1996 WC also played in the 2011 edition. They are: Sachin Tendulkar, Jacques Kallis, Ricky Ponting, Muttiah Murlitharan, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, X, Y and Z. [X and Y are from the same team]

Id X, Y, Z.

[0.25 for X, Y, Z each, and bonus 0.25 for getting all 3 correct]

* (20) Id this cricketer, who has the highest FC batting avg.

(21) He is one of the narrators who features in the documentary Fire in Babylon, although he is not a cricketer. Id him