Finals

Powerplay

24 Feb, 2016In the inaugural Asia cup match between India and Bangladesh, Indian bowlers pulled off a great performance, the performance mainly became famous from the point of view of a statistical significance. What significance ?

4 bowlers had the same economy out of 5, Sir Jadeja is always different!

Vishal Malhotra, an Engineer from Delhi quit his job at Accenture and enrolled at

Balaji Acting school. He has worked in an ad with SRK, has a cameo appearance in

Ragini MMS 2. However, it was his connection with the cricket that made him famous.

What made him popular ?

The guy from the mauka-mauka ad

During the 2-day span of 30th Nov 2015 and 1st Dec 2015, Umar Akmal attained an unbelievable and almost unbreakable record in the cricketing circles. What record ?

He became the only cricketer to be dismissed thrice in a period of 24 hours.

30th Nov 2015 - England vs Pakistan T20-he got out in the Pak innings as well as the Super over

1st Dec 2015 - Played BPL match and got dismissed

Who is blanked out in this meme?

‘Southern Stars’ and ‘White Ferns’ are the nicknames of which cricketing teams?

Australia and New Zealand women’s cricket teams

M S Dhoni - Sushant Singh RajputMohammad Azharuddin - ?

Emraan Hashmi - portrays Azhar in the biopic

8. The test between SA vs NZ on April 19, 2006 was the 100th one for Stephen Fleming, Shaun Pollock and Jacques Kallis. It took place in a quite appropriately named city. Where was this test played?

SuperSport Park , Centurion

Two legendary players have played 408 international matches together for their country. However, they were never involved in a single partnership! Who are they?

Sanath Jayasuriya and Muttiah Muralitharan

Quotes, conversations, visuals

The makers of it say that it does not give any special advantage and the laws of the game have been adhered to. “There are restrictions on what you can and can’t use. CA would assume that all players are using equipment that complies with the laws of cricket, and if that’s case, there should be no issue.” CA head of cricket operations Sean Cary said.What is being talked about?

Chris Gayle’s Golden coated bat (used in BBL 2016)

SledgingMark Waugh : Look who it is. mate, what are you doing here ? There’s no way you are

good enough to play for England.

James Ormond : Maybe not, but at the least, I am the best player --------------- ?

“I don’t know what the ICC is thinking. It’s just uncalled for. We need this in a sport that people are running away from, especially 50-over cricket. I loved the exchange. It is ridiculous what the end result is. We are all entertainers. That to me was one of the highlights of the World Cup. I want to meet him. I’ll pay the fine.”Identify the context and the speaker.

Brian Lara supporting Wahab Riaz

Video on Funny runout in IPL. Who was the batsman

Amit MishraVideo link here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvflHgmFdMg

An excerpt from ‘Playing It My Way’“It’s one of those strange things, but for some reason sometimes a batsman just does

not like the sight of a particular bowler. In my case, I was never comfortable facing X,

who got me out on a number of occasions with his medium pace. Even when I was in

control against the likes of Allan Donald, X would somehow get the better of me and I’

d get out to him in the most unexpected ways.”

Identify X.

Hansie Cronje

“It was more of a Nike thing to be quite honest. It was a Nike campaign they had because I met some of the Indian players and I had just spent some time in India so they presented the shirt to me. I support South Africa, and everybody knows that. The idea wasn’t to spark any fire and I’m sorry if it did that.”Whose words ?

Roger Federer

During a chat Imran told Allan Border “AB, give me Sunil Gavaskar and B.S.

Chandrashekhar from India, we will beat Australia.”

In a shocking reply, Allan Border said “Imran, just give me ____ ______ from Pakistan

and we will beat the whole world.”

This reply created a massive furore and Border was forced to apologize.

What is blanked out ?

Imran, just give me two umpires from Pakistan,

and we will beat the whole world.

Video of Joginder Sharma’s last ball. Q : who was at the non striker side?

Mohammad Asif

T20 Section

In the first match of the CPL 2014, Sunil Narine bowled one of the most economical spells in T20 : 4-1-3-0. Continuing his misery in bowling in the next match, Narine achieved a unique feat, which is deemed almost improbable to be achieved again. What feat?

He bowled a maiden in a Super over!!! : 1-1-0-1

Who is being talked about ?

Put funda and connect2012 - Yeh IPL hain boss

2013 - Jumping Japaang …

2014 - Come on Bulawa aaya hain

2015 - ?

2015 - Ye hain India ka tyohaar! (IPL taglines)

Players X and Y featured in the finals of both the Big Bash League and the Pakistan Super League in 2016. In both the games they played for different sides. On both the occasions, X ended up on the winning side!Identify X and Y.

X - Andre RussellY - Kevin Pietersen

What is being described here?

Chris Lynn’s catch against RCB

ECB did not allow central-contract English players to play in the IPL-1. Hence, apart from Dimitri Mascarenhas who was signed up by the Rajasthan Royals, this former Surrey League cricketer was the only Brit to feature in the first IPL, through the auctions. Who ?

Richard Madley - the auctioneer

Long Visual Connect

+36/-18

+30/-15

+24/-12

+18/-9

+12/-6

+6/0

Trophy names in Bilateral series1. Frank Worrell : Aus vs WI2. Basil D’Oliveira : SA vs ENG3. Chappell - Hadlee : Aus vs NZ4. Warne - Muralitharan : Aus vs SL5. Border - Gavaskar : Aus vs India6. Mahatma Gandhi - Nelson Mandela : India vs SA

Super over

In an accident, a kid lost his three toes and was recovering in the hospital. He was constantly asking for a meet with Stephen Fleming, then, captain of the NZ and the kid’s hero. The kid was inspired after meeting him, continued playing cricket and grew to be one of the well known cricketers of New Zealand. Who ?

Martin Guptill

After the nail-biting finish against the Bangladesh in World T20 2016, during his interview, the man of the match Ashwin said :“I actually gave him a cheeky idea to try and ------- . I know we might have got a bit of flak, but why not! ?”What was the ‘cheeky’ idea that he was referring to ?

Mankading

Which cricketer came in as a night watchman and scored a test double century, the only time he batted at No.3 ?

Jason Gillespie

“The obsession soon turned into hysteria. Every time I went in to bat, I was supposed to get to the landmark. Believe me, I wanted to get it out of the way. Gradually it was starting to play on my mind. Everywhere I went, people were talking about it. While it was touching to see the affection, at times it became quite unbearable. It was difficult to cope up with all the words of sympathy and reassurance and the looks on people’s faces day after day”. What landmark is being talked about?

Sachin on his 100th 100

The idea was conceived by Rajiv Rao, who is also the mind behind the story lines and the name. This became popular since IPL 2009 and has remained to have a huge fan following. What idea?

Vodafone zoozoo

Ian Chappell once quoted : 75% of the earth is covered by water, and the rest by ----- ?

Jonty Rhodes