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Cricket Quiz Finals
Quiz Club, IIT Jodhpur Quiz Master: Gaurav Shastri
Round A - Written Round (8 questions) Round B - Infinite Pounce Clockwise (20 questions) Round C - Long Visual Connect (LVC)Round D - Differential Scoring (8 questions)Round E - Infinite Pounce Anti Clockwise (20 questions)Round F - Rapid Fire (6 Questions per team)
(Partial Scoring wherever applicable)
This was displayed during live broadcast of The Third Ashes Test of 2013.
Name the two players.
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In a Career spanning over 30 years, X scored nearly 40,000 Runs with a highest score of 267*. He scored 58 Centuries and 197 Half-Centuries. That is not all, he also managed to take 4206 Wickets and 287 Five Wicket Hauls. If this isn’t enough, he tops this with his fielding record of 765 catches.
Y, another player from England, finished his First-Class career with 61,760 runs at 50.70. He scored 199 hundreds & 273 fifties in First-Class cricket. His name got featured in the movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ as the answer to the 1 Crore question on the show.
Id both the Legends.
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The concept of X was introduced in 2005, in which each team can have one player who had to be named before the toss and can be brought at any stage of the game. X is different from 12th man, he can bowl, bat, field and can do wicket keeping unlike 12th man. This change was criticized by the captains as the team who wins toss gets the greater advantage. In 2006 after protest by the players, this rule was withdrawn by the ICC.
Y, an Udaipur born cricketer was the First ever X in the ODI cricket. He came in to replace Simon Jones against Australia.
Id X & Y.
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The first ever official test match commenced on 15 March 1877, between AUS and ENG at the MCG, Melbourne. X had the honour of facing the first ball ever bowled in Test cricket and scoring the first ever run in Test cricket. In the same Match, he also went on to score the First Hundred in Test Cricket scoring 165 runs. Australia was bowled out for a meagre total of 245. X scored 67.34% of total runs and still after 138 years of cricket holds the world record for that.Y, recently came close to break X’s record but got out after scoring 94 and West Indies were bowled out for 148. Y’s Brother Z is currently part of the team in T20 World Cup 2016. In IPL Auction 2016, Z was sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 4.2 crore.
A4 Id X & Z.
This is a picture of highest cricket match ever been played.
It was at Mt. Everest Base camp at height of 5,165 m.
Team X played against Team Y.
Id X & Y.
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❖ X❖ Srinivas Venkataraghavan❖ Bhagwat Chandrasekhar ❖ Y
The ‘Indian spin quartet’ is the collective name given to the Indian spin bowlers of the 1960s and 70s. Between them, they played 231 Test matches, taking 853 wickets, with 43 fifers. They were one of the most deadly combinations in world cricket, especially on the dusty sub-continental pitches.
Id X & Y.
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X was a keen cricketer, he played 10 first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He also played for the amateur cricket team the Allahakbarries alongside authors J. M. Barrie and A. A. Milne. He was an occasional bowler and took just one first-class wicket and that too of the greatest English batsman of the era . X was knighted in the year 1902.
William Y was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire and MCC between 1873 and 1886. Y is also said to have umpired in the first non- first class game featuring X. X had a respect for Y and considered him as a brotherly figure. And hence, in some sense later made ‘popular’ association with Y.
Id X & Y.
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X in an interview said that he was always interested to record music right from the time when he was a junior cricketer.“The same way I put out my all on the field, is the same thing I will be doing to my music career because sky’s the limit. I can balance both careers”Under the name ‘Dre russ’, last year he released two hip hop singles - ‘Sweat Whine’ and ‘Sweetheart’ - onto the music charts.
Another Player Y’s World Cup Anthem, is currently taking the Internet by storm. The lyrics of the song hails cricketers like Brian Lara, Sir Vivian Richards, Malcolm Marshall and Y himself as champions. The song also refers to sportspersons from other fields such as Usain Bolt and Serena Williams, and political figures like Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama.
Id X & Y.[Audio]
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(+10, 0)
This was displayed during live broadcast of The Third Ashes Test of 2013.
Name the two players.
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Alastair Cook & Michael Clarke
In a Career spanning over 30 years, X scored nearly 40,000 Runs with a highest score of 267*. He scored 58 Centuries and 197 Half-Centuries. That is not all, he also managed to take 4206 Wickets and 287 Five Wicket Hauls. If this isn’t enough, he tops this with his fielding record of 765 catches.
Y, another player from England, finished his First-Class career with 61,760 runs at 50.70. He scored 199 hundreds & 273 fifties in First-Class cricket. His name got featured in the movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ as the answer to the 1 Crore question on the show.
Id both the Legends.
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X: Wilfred Rhodes; Y: Sir Jack Hobbs
The concept of X was introduced in 2005, in which each team can have one player who had to be named before the toss and can be brought at any stage of the game. X is different from 12th man, he can bowl, bat, field and can do wicket keeping unlike 12th man. This change was criticized by the captains as the team who wins toss gets the greater advantage. In 2006 after protest by the players, this rule was withdrawn by the ICC.
Y, an Udaipur born cricketer was the First ever X in the ODI cricket. He came in to replace Simon Jones against Australia.
Id X & Y.
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The first ever official test match commenced on 15 March 1877, between AUS and ENG at the MCG, Melbourne. X had the honour of facing the first ball ever bowled in Test cricket and scoring the first ever run in Test cricket. In the same Match, he also went on to score the First Hundred in Test Cricket scoring 165 runs. Australia was bowled out for a meagre total of 245. X scored 67.34% of total runs and still after 138 years of cricket holds the world record for that.Y, recently came close to break X’s record but got out after scoring 94 and West Indies were bowled out for 148. Y’s Brother Z is currently part of the team in T20 World Cup 2016. In IPL Auction 2016, Z was sold to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 4.2 crore.
A4 Id X & Z.
X: Charles BannermanY: Kraigg BrathwaiteZ: Carlos Brathwaite
This is a picture of highest cricket match ever been played.
It was at Mt. Everest Base camp at height of 5,165 m.
Team X played against Team Y.
Id X & Y.
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Team Tenzing vs Team Hillary
❖ X❖ Srinivas Venkataraghavan❖ Bhagwat Chandrasekhar ❖ Y
The ‘Indian spin quartet’ is the collective name given to the Indian spin bowlers of the 1960s and 70s. Between them, they played 231 Test matches, taking 853 wickets, with 43 fifers. They were one of the most deadly combinations in world cricket, especially on the dusty sub-continental pitches.
Id X & Y.
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Erapalli Prasanna & Bishan Singh Bedi
X was a keen cricketer, he played 10 first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He also played for the amateur cricket team the Allahakbarries alongside authors J. M. Barrie and A. A. Milne. He was an occasional bowler and took just one first-class wicket and that too of the greatest English batsman of the era . X was knighted in the year 1902.
William Y was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire and MCC between 1873 and 1886. Y is also said to have umpired in the first non- first class game featuring X. X had a respect for Y and considered him as a brotherly figure. And hence, in some sense later made ‘popular’ association with Y.
Id X & Y.
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X: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Y: Mycroft
X in an interview said that he was always interested to record music right from the time when he was a junior cricketer.“The same way I put out my all on the field, is the same thing I will be doing to my music career because sky’s the limit. I can balance both careers”Under the name ‘Dre russ’, last year he released two hip hop singles - ‘Sweat Whine’ and ‘Sweetheart’ - onto the music charts.
Another Player Y’s World Cup Anthem, is currently taking the Internet by storm. The lyrics of the song hails cricketers like Brian Lara, Sir Vivian Richards, Malcolm Marshall and Y himself as champions. The song also refers to sportspersons from other fields such as Usain Bolt and Serena Williams, and political figures like Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama.
Id X & Y.[Audio]
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X had lost 3 of his toes in an accident when he was just 14-year-old, when forklift truck had drove over him. He had said that it was the worst pain he's ever felt in his life. When X was in the hospital, his father had asked Jeff Crowe if a New Zealand player could visit him (to make his soon feel better). Stephen Fleming, the then New Zealand captain, visited him at the hospital the next day.
X was seen pointing two fingers to Mcmillan in the match against West Indies in WC’15 as he became only the second batsman after Craig Mcmillan to hit the top of the roof at the Westpac Stadium, Wellington.
Who?
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During the 2011 World Cup, X tweeted this before the India vs England match:
“Looking forward to the game between India and England today ... should be a cracker.. My prediction a tie!”
Both team scored 338 which resulted in a Tie and equally shared points.
Soon after the thriller, X posted another tweet in which he said:“Before u think there was something untoward re prediction of a tie, thought it was going to be a cracker - tie was tongue in cheek - but right.”
Who is this “Paul Octopus” of Cricket?
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X was a tactic used by a team Y against the opposition Z in a particular series.
Y’s captain insisted that the tactic was legitimate and called it “Leg Theory” but it was widely disparaged by its opponents, who dubbed it X.
Although Y decisively won the series, X caused such a furore in Z that diplomats had to intervene to prevent serious harm to Y-Z relations, and the laws of cricket eventually changed to curtail the number of leg side fielders.
Some of Z’s players wanted to use X in retaliation, but their captain flatly refused & famously told Y’s manager, “There are 2 teams out here. One is playing cricket, the other is making no attempt to do so.”
Id X.
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Bodyline
B4 Connect!!
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Got Out Obstructing the Field in ODIs
An organised group of supporters:1) Australia: The Fanatics2) New Zealand: The Beige Brigade3) India: The Bharat Army4) England: ___ _____ ____
The name was given by Australian media as they never stopped chanting for England, irrespective of the side’s good or bad performances.(Literal Meaning : Mad or Crazy)
In most of the English grounds, fixed areas are reserved for them.
FITB.
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Identify the incident.
Team X decided to do something ‘unsportsmanlike’ in order to win the match against team Y.
Y’s PM described it as : “Most disgusting incident I can recall in the history of cricket. It was an act of true cowardice.”
Even X's PM called the act “contrary to the traditions of game.” At the end of the match, a batsman was not out on 102 & his innings has been called “the most overlooked century of all time.”
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Underarm bowling incident of 1981New Zealand required a 6 off last ball to tie the match.
Australian captain, Greg Chappell, instructed brother, Trevor Chappell, to deliver the last ball underarm, along the ground.
This action was legal at that time, but nevertheless seen as being against the spirit of cricketing fair play.
This player has hit only 4 one-day international centuries in his career till now & first 3 of his centuries have been the three fastest one-day international centuries for his country.
100 of 46 balls against Pakistan.
100 of 61 balls against Sri Lanka.
100 of 66 balls against New Zealand.
Identify the player.
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Jos Buttler
This object (11 cm in height), made of terracotta, is kept at The MCC Museum at Lord’s. From October 2006 to January 2007, it formed the centerpiece of the MCC’s Exhibition, which visited several museums & attracted over 105,000 visitors & it remains the last time that the object left The MCC Museum. The reason that this object isn’t let out of the museum too often is due to its fragility.
Identify the Object.
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Ashes Urn
In 2001 Stuart Robertson was working as the marketing manager of the England and Wales Cricket Board. While international cricket was buoyant, the county game was in steep decline. Crowds were sparse and it was his job to do something about it. He is credited for inventing what in Cricket?
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Inventor of Twenty20 cricket
Who is the
subject here?
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The ComBat was a cricket bat and the subject of a controversy that occurred at the WACA cricket ground in Perth in December 1979.
Australia were playing England in the first Test, and were in trouble at the end of the first day, at a score of 232/8 with X not out. When the second day of play began, X emerged onto the field carrying not the traditional willow bat, but a cricket bat made from some other material. X decided to use it in the Test match as a marketing stunt, and at that point, there were no rules against using such a bat. English captain Mike Brearley complained to umpires that the metallic bat was damaging the soft, leather cricket ball. X threw his ComBat away in anger towards the pavilion when asked to change the bat.
Id X.
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Dennis Lillee
Night Watchman’s job is to occupy the crease until the “stumps” and so protect other capable batsman from losing wicket near the end of the day’s play.
However, Australia’s night watchman X piled up an unbeaten 201 in a Test match against Bangladesh in 2006. Quite surprisingly, it was his last test match.
He set the world record (on his 31st birthday) for the highest individual score by a night watchman.
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Jason Gillespie
Name of this Wonder Boy?
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Pranav Dhanawade
What number comes at the 80th place?
1 : 18.00 2 : 09.50 3 : 32.66 4 : 52.50 ......79 : 101.3980 : ??
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99.94 : Don Bradman’s Average
A South African t20 specialist player X, playing only his 2nd international match, mesmerized New Zealand at Seddon Park in Hamilton on 19 February 2012 with a 45 ball century.
He still holds the record for the fastest t20 in International Cricket.
He was immediately signed by Mumbai Indians in 2012 season of the IPL and played only 6 matches without any success.
Id him.
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Richard Levi
X is nicknamed as “Matara Mauler”. He holds the record for scoring the most runs in a test innings against India.He is second on the list of highest score by an individual against India in ODIs.
X ran for public office at the 2010 general elections of his country and was elected to the parliament from his native District.
Id X?
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About an incident involving X, Mel Mclaughlin said:‘You don't expect to get that sort of answer and it's a little bit disappointing. I don't really want to be the subject of such conversations, I am just going about my business and doing my job, but it's definitely a good thing people are talking. We want equality... I've always felt, in my career, nothing but respect.’
Neroli Meadows commented about X : 'He's done it before, he's done it to me, he's done it to several women,' told ABC Grandstand. 'He does this constantly. He is a creep, he has creepy behaviour,' she added
Who is X and what incident?
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Name the Game.
This is the newest cricket PC game and overall the best game for all platforms. It was named by Lazygamer, “the best cricket game of this generation.”
Named after an Australian cricketer, the game was developed by Big Ant studios. There are a number of gameplay options including a career mode, custom matches, and online multiplayer. In the career mode, users create a cricket player and follow him throughout a 20 year career. There is also Cricket Academy, which allows players to create and edit teams, players, and competitions. The game offers excellent controls over the players as well as very realistic ball physics.
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Don Bradman Cricket 14
During India’s Tour of England in 2007, The test arena at Trent Bridge in Nottingham was ignited after the tiny nugget of a confectionery item appeared at the short leg fielding position - infuriating India's tail-end batsman Zaheer Khan . Zak swished the item away and started shouting and waving his bat at England's Kevin Pietersen, who he clearly blamed for placing the offending item on the pitch. Zak later took five wickets in 2nd innings & put India on a victory seat.
“I didn't know exactly where they were coming from, and maybe I picked the wrong one, but they definitely came from a fielder and I just felt it was insulting. When I go out on to the cricket field I am serious. This is a Test match we are playing. It definitely inspired me to do well.”
This incident is named what item?
[Video]
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The Jelly Bean Incident
Some hat-tricks are particularly extraordinary. Many of us remember first over hattrick by Chaminda Vaas (ODI), Irfan Pathan (Tests) and by Malinga (4 in 4) . But this one by X is quite special. X has a unique distinction of taking a hat-trick spread across three overs and two innings! At the WACA, Perth in 1988-89, he completed a hat-trick spread across three separate overs, two innings, and two different days. He got rid of Curtly Ambrose caught behind with the last ball of his over and ended West Indies’ first innings in his next over, by removing Patrick Patterson on the very first ball; and then in the second innings after more than a day, completed his hat-trick by trapping Gordon Greenidge lbw on the first ball of West Indies’ second innings.X was perhaps one of the best at the art of sledging and was popular for his big moustache. The popularity was such that it was rumored that he has insured it for £200,000 which later on he claimed to be a false hoax. He was also offered 25,000 pounds to shave off his moustache; an offer that he clearly declined.Who is this Aussie Pacer?
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Merv Hughes
+80/-30
+65/-25
+50/-20
+40/-15
+30/-10
+20/0
Ram Slam T20 Teams (South Africa)
Correct:1 - 2 Teams: +20 3 - 5 Teams: +15 6 - 8 Teams: +10
Wrong: - 5
Cricket Team of which nation?
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Whose name ishidden?
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Identify X.
X was born on 31st May, 1946 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. He was the part of the game in 128 Test matches & also in 181 One Day Internationals. X, before being involved in cricket, was a football player, a high school mathematics teacher and a sports coach. He was also seen on the field in a Football World Cup Qualifier Match. He also played as a goalkeeper in Jamaican parish leagues in the 1960s.
Nicknamed ‘Slow Death’, X was awarded the Order of Jamaica, Commander Class, for “outstanding services in the field of sports”.
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It is an urban legend among cricketers that X can somehow confuse thermal-imaging technology. However, there is no scientific basis for the rumour. In fact, according to men involved with the actual science behind the technology the reality is actually opposite.
Chinmaya Joshi, a junior undergraduate student involved in a UDRS-related project by the MIT Media Lab says, “the impact of the ball on the bat would have been even more pronounced, if X was indeed applied on the bat which was also shown by BBG Sports, the Australian company that pioneered the snickometer system”
Y sent out his infamous controversial tweet in 2011, “Has X on the outside edge saved the day for Laxman?”
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Shahid Afridi was flown in to play for the Pakistan team to Nairobi in 1996 and didn’t have a proper bat. That’s when Waqar Younis gave Young Debutant Afridi a bat which was gifted to him by X.
Waqar thought it could prove lucky as it belonged to a great player.
Afridi hit 11 sixes and 6 boundaries with the bat and scored a 37-ball century against Sri Lanka which was the then fastest ODI century.
Id X?
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A 'Golden' Duck is the one in which a batsman is out for nought on the first ball he faces.
What Cricketing term is used to describe this kind of duck?
● A dismissal (usually run out) without facing a delivery, or ● A dismissal (for zero) off the first ball of a team’s innings
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A score of X, regarded as unlucky in Australian cricket and is referred to as ‘Devil’s Number’. According to Australian superstition, batsmen have a tendency to be dismissed for this score. The superstition is thought to originate from the fact that X is __ runs short of a century.
Similarly score of 100+X, 200+X and so on are also considered unlucky.
Id X.
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X are projectiles that are built with a small pyrotechnic charge in their base. Ignited by the burning powder, the pyrotechnic composition burns very brightly, making the projectile trajectory visible to the naked eye during daylight, and very bright during nighttime firing. This enables to make aiming corrections without observing the impact of the rounds fired and without using the sights of the weapon.
Id X and the person with whom you will associate this object to?
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Correct:1 - 2 Teams: +20 3 - 5 Teams: +15 6 - 8 Teams: +10
Wrong: - 5
Cricket Team of which nation?
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Vatican City (St. Peter's XI)
Whose name ishidden?
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Identify X.
X was born on 31st May, 1946 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. He was the part of the game in 128 Test matches & also in 181 One Day Internationals. X, before being involved in cricket, was a football player, a high school mathematics teacher and a sports coach. He was also seen on the field in a Football World Cup Qualifier Match. He also played as a goalkeeper in Jamaican parish leagues in the 1960s.
Nicknamed ‘Slow Death’, X was awarded the Order of Jamaica, Commander Class, for “outstanding services in the field of sports”.
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It is an urban legend among cricketers that X can somehow confuse thermal-imaging technology. However, there is no scientific basis for the rumour. In fact, according to men involved with the actual science behind the technology the reality is actually opposite.
Chinmaya Joshi, a junior undergraduate student involved in a UDRS-related project by the MIT Media Lab says, “the impact of the ball on the bat would have been even more pronounced, if X was indeed applied on the bat which was also shown by BBG Sports, the Australian company that pioneered the snickometer system”
Y sent out his infamous controversial tweet in 2011, “Has X on the outside edge saved the day for Laxman?”
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Shahid Afridi was flown in to play for the Pakistan team to Nairobi in 1996 and didn’t have a proper bat. That’s when Waqar Younis gave Young Debutant Afridi a bat which was gifted to him by X.
Waqar thought it could prove lucky as it belonged to a great player.
Afridi hit 11 sixes and 6 boundaries with the bat and scored a 37-ball century against Sri Lanka which was the then fastest ODI century.
Id X?
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Sachin Tendulkar
A 'Golden' Duck is the one in which a batsman is out for nought on the first ball he faces.
What Cricketing term is used to describe this kind of duck?
● A dismissal (usually run out) without facing a delivery, or ● A dismissal (for zero) off the first ball of a team's innings
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Diamond/Platinum Duck
A score of X, regarded as unlucky in Australian cricket and is referred to as ‘Devil’s Number’. According to Australian superstition, batsmen have a tendency to be dismissed for this score. The superstition is thought to originate from the fact that X is __ runs short of a century.
Similarly score of 100+X, 200+X and so on are also considered unlucky.
Id X.
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X are projectiles that are built with a small pyrotechnic charge in their base. Ignited by the burning powder, the pyrotechnic composition burns very brightly, making the projectile trajectory visible to the naked eye during daylight, and very bright during nighttime firing. This enables to make aiming corrections without observing the impact of the rounds fired and without using the sights of the weapon.
Id X and the person with whom you will associate this object to?
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That went like a ‘Tracer Bullet’ to the fence
___________ Stadium, is a cricket ground in India.
The ground has flood lights and has hosted day-night encounters. It can hold 40,000 people. It was originally a hockey stadium named after a great Indian hockey player and brother of hockey legend Dhyan Chand. This stadium witnessed a historic event around six years ago.
Name the Stadium.
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Captain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior
Harsha Bhogle on the great batsman X :“Making his debut in Test cricket, X scored duck in both innings. They dropped him. More first-class cricket. More runs. Waiting for that elusive call. And after 21 months, he got a second chance. His scores: 0 in the first innings, 1 in the second. Dropped again, he went back to the grind. And scored tonnes of runs in first-class cricket. Runs that seemed inadequate to erase the painful memories of the Test failures. Well, seventeen months later, opportunity knocked yet again. His scores: 0 and 0. Phew! Back to the grind. Would the selectors ever give him another chance? They said he lacked big-match temperament. His technique wasn’t good enough at the highest level. Undaunted, X kept trying. Three years later, he got another chance.This time, he made runs. He came good. And in an illustrious career thereafter, X went on to score over 5000 runs for Sri Lanka. That included sixteen centuries and six double hundreds. And he went on to captain his country. All this despite taking over six years to score his second run in Test cricket. Wow! What a guy!”
Who is Harsha referring to here?
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“He took the lift whereas I took the staircase” - X
X reached the 1000 run milestone in test cricket in only 14 innings which is still the national record of least number of innings to reach 1000 runs in Tests.
In his short bradmanesque batting career that lasted only 21 innings, X averaged 54.20. X is the first person of his country to score two Test double-centuries in a row against two different opponents.
X’s poor shot selection, inability to change or develop his style, coupled with the lack of mental focus required to Test cricket, led to his downfall.
Id X.
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Name this Chinaman bowler from South Africa who is known to have the world’s most unorthodox bowling action which gave him a unique identity in the world of cricket.
Mike Gatting compared it to a “frog in a blender”
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Paul Adams
The first match of the inaugural 1975 world cup displayed one of the most controversial and bizarre innings of all time. The competition rules stated that if a group was tied, run-rate would be the deciding factor. X remained not out but had to face lot of criticism later.
X’s team Manager said after the match:“It was the most disgraceful and selfish performance I have ever seen… his excuse [to me] was, the wicket was too slow to play shots but that was a stupid thing to say after opponent team had scored 334”
Who is X and what was the Controversy?
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Sunil Gavaskar crawled to 36* off 174 balls with one four
_____ ____ ___ _____ is a phrase which commentators sometimes use to describe when the Batsman takes a few steps down the batting crease going towards the bowler and plays a shot. Australian Batsman Matthew Hayden was considered master of this art.
FITB.
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Shimmy Down the Ground
________ __ ___________ is a phrase used to describe an area on the cricket pitch: A narrow line on and just outside a batsman's off stump.
It was coined by Geoffrey Boycott and is derived from the opinion that this is the area in which a batsman struggles most to determine whether to play forward or back, or whether to leave the delivery. If a batsman leaves the ball, there's a chance the ball will turn inward and either bowl him or hit him with an increased chance of leg before wicket. If a batsman plays the ball, there's a chance the ball will go to the outside instead, leading to an outside edge that can be easily caught.
In football, it is commonly used to describe an area where a cross or pass in front of the goalkeeper and behind the last line of defence.
FITB.
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Corridor of Uncertainty
What is Warne doing here? (Funda Please!)
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Making of Warne - MuralitharanTrophy
X’s father named his son after his three most favourite cricketers M.L. Jaisimha, West Indian Batsman Rohan Kanhai and Gundappa Viswanath.X has played just 11 ODIs and interestingly, none of these ODIs have been played on the home soil.
X also played in the inaugral season of the ICL and post-retirement, has been seen on doing commentary in IPL and shows on Star Sports’ Star Power and NDTV’s sports show.
Id him.
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Rohan Jai Vishwa Gavaskar
Logo Of?
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What method is used for calculating target scores in rain affected matches in Indian domestic cricket? This method was adopted in now-defunct Indian Cricket League. BCCI had earlier decided that this method will be formally used in the fourth edition of Indian Premier League but it wasn't.
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Jayadevan/VJD Method
Identify the Tournament.
Indian Captain - Ajay Jadeja; Vice Captain - Anil kumble; Coach - Kris Srikkanth
Teams: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Australia, Zimbabwe, Canada, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Jamaica, Antigua & Barbuda etc.
Location: Malaysia
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1998 Commonwealth Games
During Sobers’ record breaking 365 against Pakistan, the inventor of ‘Reverse Sweep’, Hanif Mohammad was introduced into the attack with the hope that Sobers would lose concentration and give his wicket away as a non-regular bowler was in operation. However the 2nd ball of the over, Sobers hit a boundary thereby equalling Len Hutton’s record of 364. In order to distract Sobers further, Hanif tried something different for the rest of the over. Other notable instances: Hashan Tillakaratne’s last over against Kenya (World Cup 1996) , Akshay Karnewar (recently in Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 2016) and Kamindu Mendis ( ICC Under-19 World Cup 2016)
What had Hanif tried to do to prevent Sobers get the coveted single?
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Ambidextrous Bowling
Name the cricketer featured in
this comic book.
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Shapoor Zadran
In a triangular tournament in Australia with Zimbabwe, Australia and West Indies, Zimbabwe played their final match with Australia and X got a chance in the team. Zimbabwe needed 15 runs to win the match in the final over, which was to be bowled by Glenn McGrath. X moved across to the first and third balls he received from McGrath and scooped them over his shoulder to fine leg for boundaries, reviving hopes of an incredible Zimbabwe victory. But he was just unable to complete the job, and his team lost by two runs.
His two courageous and unorthodox boundary strokes made him famous as the inventor of Scoop shot, with the shot becoming known as the X shot or ramp shot.
In 2002 he “Xed" Zimbabwe to a famous win in India in an One Day International at Faridabad, India with 56 not out at the death, although this time he used the shot against Zaheer Khan.
Who is this Player?
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Douglas Marillier
X was an Australian media tycoon, owner of Channel Nine and was best known for founding World Series Cricket during late 1970s. At the time of his death in 2005, he was the richest man with A$6.5 billion and one of the most influential men in Australia.
He once famously said this to Australian cricketers during negotiations to put together World Series Cricket : “There is a little bit of the whore in all of us, gentlemen. The question is - what is your price?”
Id him.
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Kerry Packer
The famous English cricketer, Trevor Bailey, said that if X had not lost his eye he would have been ‘in the Bradman class’.
Colin Bland, a top-notch South African fielder of yesteryear, put X above Jonty Rhodes as a fielder.
Id X.
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Mansoor Ali Khan “Tiger” Pataudi ORNawab of Pataudi Junior
Ramnaresh Sarwan played the ball to square-leg and ran for a single. When he ran past the bowler X, to the surprise of many, X asked: “What does Brian Lara’s dick taste like?”
This was rather odd, coming from X. But, he did ask Sarwan the question; and Sarwan responded: “I don’t know. Ask your wife.”
Under normal circumstances, X would have accepted that he’d asked for it. While a little voice pleaded for him to ignore it, something just wouldn’t allow him to let the slur go unchallenged. X’s fingers were pointed at Sarwan, and the words that came out of his mouth were not exactly the kind you’d associate with the legend. “If you f**king mention my wife again, I’ll f**king rip your f**king throat out.”
Id X.
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Glenn McGrath
This definitely has to be one of the greatest innings in ODI cricket. They won the toss and elected to bat on a bouncy pitch at Tunbridge Wells and got off to a disastrous start, losing 5 wickets for 17 runs as the Zimbabwean bowlers led by Kevin Curran made full use of the helpful conditions. The irony of the whole effort was that was that the match was not covered live by BBC, the broadcasters of the tournament as they were on a strike that day and hence no video footage of the game is available. The ground was ruled as too small with ‘the two countries’ being deemed too ‘irrelevant’ for a camera crew to be sent to the match.
Whose monumental effort took the team out of trouble?
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Kapil Dev 175*(138)
There are total 11 ways in which a Batsman can get out in a Cricket match.
In International Cricket, no Batsman has ever got out in 2 of the 11 ways of dismissal.
Name both the ways of Dismissal.
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Hitting the Ball Twice & Timed Out
★ Who holds record for fastest 100 in ODI Cricket?
★ Who scored 22 runs in the final over of 2010 T20 WOrld Cup Semi Final and
won the match for his team?
★ Who scored most number of runs in 2007 T20 World Cup Final?
★ Which Bowler took first hat-trick in IPL?
★ Expand MCC.
★ Which City has hosted most number of ODI matches?
Set 1
★ Head coach of Afghanistan Cricket Team?
★ 'Bombay Duck' was nickname of?
★ Who scored the Most number of runs in 2015 World Cup Final?
★ Rahul Dravid's Wife first Name?
★ City where India scored 414 against Sri Lanka?
★ Spinner from Goa who played for CSK in IPL?
Set 2
★ How many runs Dhoni scored in 2011 World Cup Final?
★ Whose catch did Bermuda's Dwayne Leverock took in 2007 World Cup?
★ Who scored 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham in 1994?
★ Jos Buttler was selected by which franchise in IPL 2016?
★ Imran Tahir was born in which country?
★ Who hit 6 sixes in an over in 2007 ODI World Cup?
Set 3
★ Leading Wicket Taker in IPL?
★ Chris Gayle scored 175 against which IPL Franchise?
★ Who remained not out in the 1999 World Cup Semifinal Tied Match?
★ Mithali Raj was born in which city?
★ Name of Australia's Wicketkeeper in T20 World Cup 2016
★ The only cricketer to play Test for India & England?
Set 4
★ First man to Score 10000 runs in Test Cricket?
★ Which team surprised the world by beating Ireland in World Cup T20 2016?
★ Can a Test Match end in a tie?
★ Expand MRF
★ Runner Up of 1987 Cricket World Cup?
★ Shane Watson will Play for Which team in IPL 2016?
Set 5
★ Captain of Pakistan team in 1992 World Cup?
★ What is the middle name of Sourav Ganguly?
★ Which Indian cricketer died on the field in Bangladesh while playing for
Abahani Club?
★ Who will Captain Gujarat Lions in IPL 2016?
★ Which company was Title Sponsor of first three World Cups?
★ The Sheikh Zayed Stadium is in which country?
Set 6
★ Who took 19 wickets in a test match in 1956?
★ Rajasthan Royals's spinner who took a hat-trick and was involved in match
fixing?
★ What is the middle name of Rahul Dravid?
★ Man of the match of the 1983 World Cup Semi Final & Final?
★ How many runs Sachin scored in 2003 World Cup match against Pakistan?
★ Highest Wicket Taker in ODI World Cup Matches?
Set 7
★ Leading Run Scorer in IPL?
★ Sachin played county cricket for which team?
★ Harbhajan Singh's Wife Name?
★ Zimbabwean Player who scored 194* in ODI against Bangladesh?
★ Cricketing term for a batsman getting dismissed for a duck in 2 consecutive
innings
★ First captain of the Indian cricket team in Test matches?
Set 8
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