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POINT TO COVER A SOMEWHAT SERIOUS CRICKET QUIZ
JULY 6TH, 2013. KOLKATA
Acknowledgements
Sreeram IyerMayukh GhoshKaushik SahaArunabha SenguptaAvik Kumar Maitra
Kinshuk BiswasChayan Sen GuptaReetabrata Ghosh
Diptee RautMoumita Sen
A lot of books, new and old newspapers, websites, and almanacs
Birthday wishes
We would like to set off by wishing the following Test cricketers(and a lot of others beyond the Test world) the warmest ofbirthday wishes:
Andy SandhamWilton St HillMan Sood
Mark BensonTony Lewis
Makhaya Ntini
Let’s get going now
• 30 QUESTIONS
• 1 point for each correct answers, NO NEGATIVE point.
Part points are quiz-master’s prerogative
• * Questions 5, 10 onwards to be used to resolve ties,
if needed
• All mobiles, PDAs etc. to be switched off PLEASE
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1. A sitter to start with. Who has the highest batting average in Test cricket?
Note: of course, this is among batsmen who have got out at least once. Division by zero does not count.
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1. Shikhar Dhawan, 187.00POINT TO COVER
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You surely did not write Andy Ganteaume!
2. Cricket historians typically refer to 1864 as the starting point of modern cricket. What happened that year?
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2. Overarm bowling was legalised.POINT TO COVER
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3. Why was this reality television game show in news in 2003?
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Remember this is a cricket quiz.
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Tufnell retired from all forms of cricket to take part in the second season of the show. He even ended up winning it.
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4. Douglas Jardine. Hugo Weaving played Douglas Jardine in the Bodyline series.
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5*. Since The Don had arrived on the scenario, the people of several countries have been referred to as The Bradman of that country. This man, possibly the greatest batsman his country has produced, has been referred to as the same despite playing only a handful of matches. (career statistics on next slide)
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Name this player who holds a First-Class world record.
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That was a star question anyway. 2 bonus points if you can get the full name.
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5*. IL BulaThe ‘Fijian Bradman’ Ilikena Lasarusa Talebulamainavaleniveivakabulaimainakulalakebalau – the man with the longest surname among First-Class cricketers.He is typically referred to as IL Bula for the benefit of scorers and statisticians all around the world.
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6. Identify all 4. No part point on this.
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6. The Pollocks and the CairnsThe fathers and sons:Peter and Shaun PollockLance and Chris Cairns
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7. He played two Tests and 16 ODIs, but his claim to fame was the catch of Arun Lal that gave Richard Hadlee his record-breaking 374th wicket.His middle name was Mary. Who is the player?
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7. Chris Kuggleijn
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8. Identify the missing cricketer.POINT TO COVER
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Paul-Jean Bakker, Kevan James, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are the only ones to bowl Sachin Tendulkar for a duck in a First-Class match outside Tests.
9. Abdul Qadir was dropped early in his career. However, Imran Khan brought him back for the 1982 series against England – on the condition that Qadir would have to change his appearance a bit. What change?
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Imran thought that the goatee would enhance his image as a ‘mystery spinner’ in front of the British media.
10*. Players A and B held a record individually till the 2012-13 season when C and D combined to equal their feat. The four players are shown in the next slide. Name D and the record?
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10*. All ten wickets falling to players with the same first name.Jim Laker and Anil Kumble were the only ones on the list with their ten-wicket hauls till very recently.Against South Africa at WACA last season Mitchell Johnson took four for 110 and Mitchell Starc six for 154 to become the third entry on the list.
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VV Kumar picked up five wickets in an innings and seven wickets in a match on his debut Test. Desperate to see himself bowling he entered Wellington Cinema to catch himself in action in the newsreel preceding Dilip Kumar’s Daag.
12. India’s first ever Test win came in February 1952 at Madras. Though the fourth day (February 9) was considered the rest day for the Test, it was later decided to reschedule the rest day on the second day (February 6). Why?
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12. King George VI passed away.POINT TO COVER
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The tragedy went on to affect England in more ways than one.
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19th century:Johnny Briggs, 118 wickets at 17.7520th century:Courtney Walsh, 492 wickets at 24.5621st century:Muttiah Muralitharan, 498 wickets at 21.23
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__________________ Howard LeeBen NealonSimon HolmesJamie Whitby ColesJon House
(captain)
Barry HartNeil Patrick
Alex SutcliffeRay Eves
Chris England
14. Paul Blackthorne. He played Captain Russell – who led the British in Lagaan.
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15*. Watch this clip and name all the 4 cricketers whose names are being mentioned.
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15*. Vijay Merchant, Vijay Hazare, Wasim Raja and Wasim Bari
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16. In the India-Pakistan ODI on January 3, 2013 at Kolkata about 850 seats were cordoned out ensuring that no spectator was allowed to sit there. Why were the seats cordoned?
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16. Mohammad Irfan’s height
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The sight-screen had to be raised because of the 7’1” Mohammad Irfan. As a result several seats behind the sight-screens became unusable.
17. Whose boxing career?
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18. Which cricket term was called a ‘tice’ till 1861 when the name was changed?
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19. What is happening here?(Apologies for the quality of the picture)
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20*. The lines in the next slide is actually the first paragraph of the foreword of the autobiography of a great, written by another. Name of the book? Who has written the foreword?
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“The first time I saw him batting was when he came to Barbados with his school, Fatima College, for the annual international schools tournament which I help organize for the Barbados Board of Tourism, and which they have been kind enough to name in my honour. I got a call from a friend of mine, former ____ and West Indies batsman Charlie Davis, asking me to come and have a look at a boy he said was something special.”
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20*. Beating The Field. Foreword written by Sir Garfield Sobers
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22. Rajdeep Sardesai
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24. Why was Denis Compton’s name being looked up in the Walt Disney Studios employees’ listin 1995?
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25*. Long question warning:At Sabina Park in 1991 the rank tail-ender A, who had a zero reputation of playing fast bowling, walked out as the number 11 to prevent C from getting a hat-trick.As C ran in to bowl A pulled out and walked towards square-leg to annoy C. A furious C almost yorked A and then bounced at A. A escaped as the ball lobbed in the air safely. A scampered for a single to avoid C. (continued on next slide)
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Much to A's peril, the umpire said “Bad luck Mr A, it’s over.” A was now up against the equally dangerous D at the other end; he heaved at the first ball, somehow connected, and managed a single.B, who had scored a hundred and was well-set, blocked out next five deliveries of D without attempting to take the strike. At the end of the over B walked up and told A: "I just want to have another look at how you play C, buddy!"A fuming C removed A almost immediately. Identify A, B, C, D.
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25*. A: Mike Whitney, B: David Boon,C: Patrick Patterson, D: Courtney Walsh
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26. Identify this cricketer whose career had a strange bias towards the South African attack at their prime.The career break-up is provided on the next slide.
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26. Azhar Mahmood
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27. In which format of the sport should you ideally have a 20% probability of getting out every ball?
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28. What is this civil engineer from Trissur, Kerala doing in a cricket quiz?
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28. V Jayadevan, devised the Jayadevan system, also known as the VJD method, an alternative method for calculating target scores in interrupted one-day and Twenty20 cricket matches.
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29. Jane Speight (1915 - 1978), the wife of a colliery worker from Shropshire, did not play any kind of organized cricket, and nor was she famous in her lifetime. However, after a couple of decades after her death, her cricketing talents came into limelight. How?
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29. She is Geoffrey Boycott’s mother!
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30*. Listen to the song and name the male actor on whom this song is being picturised?
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30*. Sunil Gavaskar. Film Savli Premachi.
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• Written round
• 10 questions
• 2 points for each correct answers
• 5 bonus points for getting all 10 correct
• All mobiles, PDAs etc. to be switched off
PLEASE
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• Identify these international cricketers from
their middle names.
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1. De Courcy2. Mortimer Maglinne3. Elconn Lynwall4. Human5. Chokshanada
6. Melbourne
7. Prabha Shanker8. Samson
9. Charlie Griffith10. Julius Garvey
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• The names:
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1. Everton De Courcy Weekes2. Frank Mortimer Maglinne
Worrell3. Curtly Elconn Lynwall
Ambrose4. Hendrik Human ‘Boeta’
Dippenaar5. Kumar Chokshanada
Sangakkara
6. Xavier Melbourne Marshall
7. Danish Prabha Shanker Kaneria
8. Marvan Samson Atapattu9. Kenneth Charlie Griffith
Benjamin10. Darren Julius Garvey
Sammy
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• Clockwise Infinite Bounce: 20 Questions
• Flat Scoring: 10 points, part points are quiz-master’s prerogative
• 2 questions for team in case of it being not answered
• Born in Philadelphia in 1862 John
Borland Thayer had a career
spanning only seven First-Class
matches. He was also a director of
the Pennsylvania Railways. What
did he become the only First-Class
cricketer to do in 1912?
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He was the only First-Class cricketer to have
died on board The Titanic.
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• Identify the following 12-a-side teams.POINT TO COVER
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CBK Beachcroft (c)Arthur BirkettJohn SymesFrederick CumingMontagu TollerAlfred BowermanAlfred PowleslandWilliam DonneFW ChristianGeorge BuckleyFrancis BurchellHarry Corner
Philip Tomalin (c)Timothée Jordan
AJ SchneidauRobert Horne
Henry TerryF Roques
William AndersenDouglas Robinson
William AtrillW Browning
Arthur McEvoyJ Braid
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The squads for the only cricket match at
Olympics between England and France at
Vincennes, August 1900
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•London, 1964. Neville Cardus and Jack Fingleton were returning
from a dinner in Soho on an evening during a Test at The Oval.
Their taxi got stopped in the theatre crowd. When an impatient
pedestrian patted the taxi with his umbrella, the taxi-driver
jumped out and punched the man. To calm him down,
Fingleton, somewhat circumspect of the outcome, went on to
praise the driver’s action. The driver replied, “I’ve been
watching that __________ bat all day at The Oval. I’m in no
mood to put up with any more bloody nonsense.”
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• Bill Lawry
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• Name the cricketer who connects these five
countries.
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•John Traicos
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Greek originBorn in EgyptPlayed cricket for South Africa and ZimbabweCurrently lives in Australia
• Fill in the blanks (no part points):
The following knock-knock joke was in vogue after India
won the World Cup Twenty20 in 2007:
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
__________.
__________ who?
__________ five runs.
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• Misbah
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Knock knock.Who’s there?Misbah.Misbah who?Misbah (mis’ bah’) five runs.
• This country defeated a touring MCC side containing the likes of Pelham Warner and Gubby Allen in 1926-27. The header of the match is provided here. A portion of the scorecard is on the next slide. Name the country that has been blacked out.
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• Argentina
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• On the unofficial tour to India in
1935-36 Ron Oxenham topped the
Australian bowling averages with
75 wickets at an absurd average of
7.40. There was a joke regarding
why he was so successful against
the Indians. What was the joke?
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•Oxen and ham
It was joked that since Hindus are not
supposed to eat beef and Muslims are not
supposed to eat pork, Oxenham was found
‘distasteful’ by batsmen of both religions.
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•Caribbean Netherlands, one of the
Leeward Islands, is a part of the West
Indies, has a unique distinction among all
Test-playing nations.
What?
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• It is the only Test-playing nation where they
drive to the right of the road – the exact
opposite of what they do in England and almost
all Commonwealth countries.
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• Connect the two players.
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• Best identical figures in each innings – batting and
bowling.
Duleep Mendis had scored 105 in each innings against India
at Madras in 1982-83 – the highest identical score in a Test.
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar has taken 6 for 52 in each innings
against Australia at Melbourne in 1977-78 – the best
identical figures in a Test.
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•What happened next?
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• Sultan Zarawani was hit on the head. The UAE
captain, walked out to bat against Allan Donald
in a sun hat. Pat Symcox heated up Donald with
the words “Al, this guy’s asking for it,” and the
inevitable happened: Donald hit him on the
head, knocking the sunhat off.
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• Though he did not play international cricket, two of
his brothers did, and so did two of his sons. He,
however, is the most remembered in his family after
an incident in the 1980s. Identify the person.
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• Shakoor Rana
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His brothers Azmat and Shafaqat played for Pakistan, as did his sons Mansoor and Maqsood.
finger wagging incident with Mike Gatting in 1987 (similar incident in 1984 with Jeremy Conney, New Zealand captain)
• Who said the following, and on what topic?
“In the 2007-08 summer I saw the Russell Crowe film
American Gangster where this policeman character
is hung out to dry by his colleagues when he won't
play by their code of keeping the money they find.
On _____, I felt isolated in the same way – silently
accused of betraying the team.”
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• Adam Gilchrist on walking
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•When West Indies visited England in 1980 their tour match against Essex was the first match to be played under lights in England.The officials wanted to change the laws so that the boundaries hit square of the wicket would be counted as two because of the short distance – but eventually decided against it.Essex lent their mobile score-box because the scoreboard at the ground was not equipped to handle a cricket match.Just name the venue.
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• Stamford Bridge
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Two days after this match Chelsea and Wrexham played out a very dull 2-2 draw at the same ground. The bored crowd kept shouting "We want cricket!" in the dying moments of the match.
• What was the title of the Wisden article that the text
below is a part of?
“Daryll Cullinan hit a six into a (omitted intentionally).
It was about ten minutes before the ball was cool
enough for the umpires to remove the grease. Even
then, the bowler [Roger Telemachus] was unable to
grip the ball and it had to be replaced.”
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• Fried Calamari Stopped Play
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•Just watch the dismissal and identify
the bowler.
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•Zoe Goss
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•Cricketers have had surnames of various lengths and
ethnicities. Only one man, though, has the letters of
the word CRICKET inside his surname. Name him.
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• Marcus Trescothick
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•The international record for this is four – held by three sets of people. The Test record is also four – held by one of these sets.X was in the squad for the first Test in Pakistan at Dacca in 1954-55. He was eventually named the 12th man. Had X played the Test the record of four mentioned above would have stretched to five.Identify both X and the record. The 22 players from the Test are named on the next slide.
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Hanif MohammadAlimuddin
Waqar HasanMaqsood Ahmed
Wazir MohammadImtiaz Ahmed
Abdul Hafeez KardarShujauddin
Fazal MahmoodMahmood HussainKhan Mohammad
IndiaPankaj Roy
Pananmal Punjabi
Madhav Mantri
Vijay Manjrekar
Polly Umrigar
Gulabrai Ramchand
Dattu Phadkar
Vinoo Mankad
Naren Tamhane
Ghulam Ahmed
Subhash Gupte
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• Raees Mohammad; had he played here five brothers would have played international cricket
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The eldest of the illustrious Mohammad brothers, Raees never got to play a Test; the closest he got to a Test cap was being 12th man in this Test.The four Mohammad brothers (Hanif, Wazir, Mushtaq, and Sadiq) had played Test cricket (two of them played in this very Test), which is a record; they are also tied with the Ranatungas and the Ngoches in all international cricket.Had Raees played at Dacca the record for most brothers playing international cricket would have extended to five.
•When EW Swanton was captured as a Prisoner of War in 1939 by the Japanese he had a book on him. The book became so popular with the other Prisoner of War that it was used like a library book and had to be booked days in advance.The book was stamped ‘not subversive’ by the guards; it became so battered that it had to be rebound by rice glue. The book remains in the Lord’s Museum since Swanton’s death in 2000.What book was this?
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•On the first Test his debut tour, Sunil Gavaskar (he missed the Test himself) saw Garry Sobers taking a blinder in the slips to dismiss Kenia Jayantilal.He got excited and told his neighbour Eknath Solkar – “Wow! All I want to do now is to see _____ ________ _______ _____ ____ and it doesn’t matter if I play on this trip or not.”Fill in the blanks.
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•Aamer Sohail was bowling: he bowled one down the leg-side, X edged it, but Moin Khan dropped X.Nine runs later, with two balls to go, Sohail packed the leg-side with fielders and started darting on the leg-stump. X played the penultimate ball to Ijaz Ahmed at mid-wicket but could not manage a run.Desperate for a run X tried to hit the last ball to Ijaz’s left, but the fielder had already anticipated it and there was no run. The batting side declared overnight. Identify X.
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•After a thunderstorm drenched The Oval in 1968 the umpires had decided to call play off unless the outfield had dried up sufficiently on time – an event that seemed almost impossible given the limited manual infrastructure. Play, however, resumed on time. How?
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•The spectators volunteered to clean the ground themselves. Hundreds of spectators, mostly children, used brooms and mops to clean the ground under the supervision of the groundsmen. Derek Underwood won the Test for England with five minutes to spare levelling the Ashes for England.
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FINAL•X was a Nobel Laureate who passed away in 2008. X was a Chairman of the Gaieties Cricket Club; when X passed away in 1997 a memorial cricket match was played between Gaieties Cricket Club and Lord’s Taverners at Lord’s on September 23, 2009.X is most remembered in the world of cricket for his iconic quote: “I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God created on earth: certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.”Identify X.
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•Harold Pinter
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• Anti-clockwise Infinite Bounce: 20 Questions
• Flat Scoring: 10 points, part points are quiz-master’s prerogative
• 2 questions for team in case of it being not answered
• A and B have uniquely achieved something.
C is the only one to be believed to have witnessed
both A and B achieve their feat.
C had also
passed away a
few days back.
Identify A, B, C.
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•A: Malcolm Nash
B: Tilak Raj
C: Dicky Rutnagur
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Rutnagur is believed to be the only person to have witnessed both Garry Sobers and Ravi Shastri’s six sixes.
• Robin Waters was a wicket-
keeper who played for Bengal
in the 1960s. However, he is
usually remembered more in
Indian cricket for an off-field
incident on July 1, 1961. What
am I talking about?
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• Pataudi’s injury. He was driving the car that had
met with an accident resulting in the damage of
one of Tiger Pataudi’s eyes.
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•The next slide contains a family tree of a
certain dynasty that we have all come
across while studying history at school.
How is the family connected to Indian
cricket?
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• BCCI was founded at Roshanara Club
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The Roshanara Club was named after Shah Jahan’s fourth child, who was buried at Roshanara Bagh, just outside the club. It is here that BCCI was founded in December 1928. It still hosts the occasional Ranji Trophy match.
• Name the missing person on the list.
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• Ravindra Jadeja, only batsmen to have scored
three First-Class triple-hundreds.
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• Whose name has been blacked out?
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•Johnny Douglas
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John William Henry Tyler (JWHT) Douglas – often referred to as “Johnny Won’t Hit Today” by the Australian crowd because of his initials – the first Test captain to win an Olympic Gold.
•Neville Cardus was apparently a great friend of this
champion leg-spinner, and claimed in a London club that
he could read his googly from his leg-break.
A tennis ball was acquired. The bowler, followed by a
group from the club, bowled at Piccadilly Circus while
Cardus acted as the wicket-keeper. Cardus misinterpreted
the ball as a leg-break and moved towards his left, but the
googly went towards Leicester Square. Identify the bowler.
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• Arthur Mailey
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• Between Ian Healy’s Test debut and Adam
Gilchrist’s last Test only one other person has
kept wickets for Australia. Name him.
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•Phil Emery. Emery
played a single Test
at Lahore in 1994-95
when Healy had
fractured his left
thumb.
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• What do the red and blue lines represent?
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• Innings played and runs scored by Chris Martin
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•Ashley Giles had ordered coffee mugs and other
memorabilia with the words ‘King of Spin’ on it to
be printed during his testimonial year for
Warwickshire. However, a printing error made Giles
an unanimous target of jokes and earned him a
cruel nickname.
What exactly was printed on the them?
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• King of Spain
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•This Queensland cricketer caught
Alec Stewart and Angus Fraser in
the Brisbane Test of 1990-91 as a
substitute fielder. He later went
on to play for Netherlands in the
1996 World Cup.
Identify the player.
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•Peter Cantrell.
Cantrell played all five matches Netherlands had
played in the 1996 World Cup and reached
double-figures in each of them. He also picked
up the wickets of Chris Cairns, Ijaz Ahmed, and
Hansie Cronje with his off-breaks.
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• The Uttar Pradesh fast-medium
bowler Ashish Winston Zaidi
had been considered as a
contender for the national side,
especially in the 1990s. What
unusual nickname (in jest, of
course) did he earn as a result
of his secular-sounding name?
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• Amar Akbar Anthony
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Intikhab Alam removed Colin McDonald with his first ball in
Test cricket in the Karachi Test of 1958-59. However, this Test is remembered by cricket fans around the world as something that had happened only once in the history of Test cricket. What?
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• Dwight Eisenhower was present at the ground
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Eisenhower remains the only USA President to have watched a Test match at the ground.
•Who has the highest batting average in Tests for
Australia?
Had this been Bradman we would not have asked
it, correct?
This gentleman averaged 102.50 with the bat, and
has been resting safely at the top for quite some
time now.
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• Albert Trott
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Trott had scored 38 not out, 72 not out, 85 not out, 10, and 0 – giving him an average of 102.50. However, he shifted to England thereafter and played two Tests for them. He scored 23 from four innings – which brought his average down to 38.00.
• Watch this clip and tell me what happened next?
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• Here’s the answer. ‘In ode’ to Greg Chappell’s famous ‘run’ of ducks.
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• Which person connects the two?
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• Amitabh Bachchan. He had provided the background voice for Lagaan and was on the judges’ panel with
Fanie de Villiers at the Miss World Contest of 1995.
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•This is probably for the first time that the lady on the
next slide is making an appearance in the Kolkata cricket
quiz fraternity.
She was the topic of a story that ran in the Wisden
almanac of 2004, which was also the first time that an
audio version of the Bible of Cricket had been launched.
What was the story?
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• She was the subject of a cricket challenge.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones owns a property in Swansea where she visits occasionally; her residence is located next to the Mumbles Cricket Club, who has offered a hefty amount to anyone who could hit the ball into her compound and then retrieve it.
•In the anthology The Best Ever Australian Sports
Writing there is a section on articles about Victor
Trumper and Don Bradman. It is titled The D__ and
the D___.
The second D-word is, of course, Don. What is the
first D-word – the one that had been used to
describe Trumper?
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• Dove
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In 10 for 66 and All That Arthur Mailey had famously lamented “I felt like a boy who had killed a dove” after dismissing Trumper.
•The champion England wicket-keeper Godrey Evans took
up another job elsewhere as a cricket expert after his
retirement. However, a decision on Evans’ behalf in the
early 1980s made his company lose £15,000, causing him
and the Director of his organisation, Ron Pollard, in a lot of
embarrassment.
The company had not encountered financial a loss of this
magnitude since 1894. What was Evans’ error?
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• Evans decided the 500:1 stakes for Headingley
1981
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• Which test match is this clip from ?
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• 1963, West indies vs. England at Lords where Cowdrey had famously walked out to bat with his left arm in a plaster
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• Written round
• 10 questions
• 2 points for each correct answers
• 5 bonus points for getting all 10 correct
• All mobiles, PDAs etc. to be switched off
PLEASE
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• Middle names again.
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1. Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangi2. Maitland3. Laxmanarsu4. Bhalchandra5. Charles Glyndwr
6. Gwyl
7. Logo8. Willem
9. Edward Killeen10. Ogonji
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• The names:
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1. Heath Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangi Davis
2. Glenn Maitland Turner3. Motganhalli Laxmanarsu
Jaisimha4. Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar5. Stuart Charles Glyndwr
MacGill
6. Michael Gwyl Bevan
7. Murphy Logo Su’A8. Dale Willem Steyn
9. Michael Edward Killeen Hussey
10. Steve Ogonji Tikolo
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• Clockwise Infinite Bounce: 20 Questions
• Flat Scoring: 10 points, part points are quiz-master’s prerogative
• 2 questions for team in case of it being not answered
•While working for BBC Test Match Special Brian Johnston
obviously received a lot of fan mail.
One day he was surprised to find out a letter from Ken
Barrington’s mother. She had complained to ‘Johnners’ on
the grounds that he had accused her of carelessness and
ignoring her son on air.
What was the statement Johnston had made while
commentating?
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• “Ken Barrington completes an excellent century
though he was dropped when he was two.”
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For once Johnston was left speechless.
•The legendary Clarrie Grimmett is
usually credited with the invention of
the flipper. However, with time the
batsmen around the world could
decipher his flipper easily as
Grimmett’s fingers made an audible
flick while bowling.
How did Grimmett solve this problem?
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•He flicked the fingers of his left-hand audibly
when he did not bowl the flipper.
As a foxed Jack Fingleton told his mate, “Why,
you old fox, Grum, I do believe you bowled a leg
break with your right hand and flicked the
fingers of your left!”
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•Identify the cricketer whose business card reads
Millennium 2000 No 3 Sportsman From All sports (The
Sunday Times England News Survey)
Pride Of Performance
Life Membership from MCC
Ryder Medal From Australia
Life Achievement Gold Medal Award
Founder of Cricket Academy For Boys And Girls
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• Abdul Qadir
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• Connect:
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• Only bowlers to have dismissed Dravid,
Tendulkar, Laxman, and Ganguly in the same
Test innings
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• Identify this cricketer who has etched his name in the history of Indian cricket forever despite doing nothing.
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• Sunil Valson
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Some names need no explanation
•James Southerton of Surrey retired out
playing against MCC at The Oval in 1970.
Why did he decide to retire?
A scorecard of the innings is
on the next slide.
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• He thought he was out.
Southerton cut a ball to WG Grace. Grace caught it
on the bounce and did not appeal, and neither did
he try to celebrate.
Southerton thought he was out but nobody
agreed to him. As a result he decided to retire out.
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•This cricketer was standing at short-leg on his Test debut when his captain asked him to bowl. He forgot to take off his shin-pad off before bowling but took a wicket with his fourth ball in Test cricket.Back home his legendary father was listening to radio while driving. He got so emotional (or, as a few skeptics say, so surprised) that he got distracted, drove down a one-way street, and was stopped by the police.On hearing his story and upon recognizing him the police let him go without a fine.Identify the father and the son, both of whom went on to captain their country.
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• Colin and Chris Cowdrey
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• A scene from Asterix and the Magic Carpet. Just give the words that have been blacked out.
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• “Owzat!” “Not out, I’m afraid.”
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• Why did Steve Waugh give Brett Lee the nickname ‘Oswald’?
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• He was listed below Shane Lee and Ian Harvey in the Australian batting-order.
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•The following trophies in Indian domestic cricket used to be very hard-contested till they were discontinued in 2002.Why were they discontinued?- Devraj Puri Trophy- M D Sounderrajan Trophy- Mona Mitter Memorial Challenge- Talim Shield- Mewar Trophy
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• The regional first round of Ranji Trophy was eliminated.
Prior to 2002 the Ranji Trophy first round was played on a regional basis, one
group per region. The top team from each group was awarded the following
prizes each season:
• Devraj Puri Trophy: The North Zone champion
• M D Sounderrajan Trophy: The South Zone champion
• Mona Mitter Memorial Challenge: The East Zone champion
• Talim Shield: The West Zone champion
• Mewar Trophy: The Central Zone champion
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•The Oval Test of the 1902 Ashes – famous for Gilbert Jessop’s fourth-innings 104 and George Hirst’s “we’ll get ‘em in singles” – is considered as one of the greatest ever.An author, present at the ground on the eventful final day of the Test, had to leave early for work, and ended up missing all the action.He shortly decided to give up his bank job and supposedly take up writing so that he could watch as much cricket as he wanted to.Who is this legendary author?
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• Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
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•He played against a touring Kenya side for in 1999-2000 and against touring Ireland and Canada sides in 2010-11. Other than that his cricket was mostly restricted to Kanga League, Liverpool League, and the Dr DY Patil T20 Cup. He is yet to play First-Class cricket. A couple of months back he created a record in the history of Indian Premier League. Name the player.
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• Pravin Tambe, the oldest IPL debutant
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• Who is missing from the list and why?
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• Mohammad Amir. Wisden Cricketers of the Year
2011. Amir was named one of them but was
stripped of the award on being
found guilty of spot-fixing. Scyld
Berry, the Wisden editor, said
before the case that he was open
to re-enter Amir if he was found innocent.
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•X is a large town and Borough in West Kent, England, South-East of Central London by road. X came into being as a spa in Georgian times and had its heyday as a tourist resort under Beau Nash when the spring attracted visitors.Though X's popularity waned with the advent of sea bathing the town remains popular and derives about 30% of its income from the tourist industry. In the United Kingdom X has a reputation as being the archetypal conservative "Middle England" town, a stereotype that is typified by the fictional letter-writer "Disgusted of X".Despite its general anonymity X holds a significant place in the history of Indian cricket. Identify X.
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• Tunbridge Wells
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•The annual SA Premiere Masters Invitation XI cricket match between Australia XI and Rest of the World is held every year in the vineyards of Chateau Tanunda in Barossa Valley. The 2007 match, played on November 23, witnessed six sixes in an over by Vinod Kambli. More significantly, however, the match got two gentlemen in action together after a long time. The last time they had been on a cricket ground together was in a historic Test played 21 years before this match. Identify the two men.
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• Vikram Raju and Dara Dotiwala
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•Everyone remembers this catch.
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•The 17-year old bowler, however, became only the second person (after Ian Harvey) to take a wicket with his first ball in World Cup cricket. Provide his full name (no points for telling the surname).
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•Malachi Jones
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•The person is known in USA as the author of The Black
Jacobins which focuses on the leadership of Toussaint
L'Ouverture, who was born a slave but
rose to prominence by adopting the
French Renaissance ideals.
The author also wrote one of the most
talked-about books in the world of cricket.
What is the name of the ‘cricket book’?
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•Beyond a Boundary
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•Tom Cartwright was an English all-rounder who played
five Tests for England and had a 25-year long First-Class
career. He was selected for a tour in the
1960s from which he pulled out because
of an injury. This withdrawal resulted in
one of the most significant incidents in
the history of sport.
What?
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• Cartwright was replaced by Basil D’Oliveira. South Africa had objected to his inclusion, which resulted in their ban for over two decades.
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• Identify X, where
is to
is the same as
is to
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• Gideon Haigh
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• Why were the old-timers present at New Road turn nostalgic on July 23, 2004 when they witnessed these two gentlemen put up 127 runs for the second wicket for Middlesex against Worcestershire?
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•Their grandfathers use to put on century partnerships quite frequently. Len Hutton and Denis Compton had batted together 29 times, adding 1,605 runs together at 61.73 with six century stands.The old-timers were, as expected, happy to see the grandsons Ben and Nick put on a century partnership.
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Audience question
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FINAL•John Arlott’s last lines on BBC Test Match Special. The Master had signed off during the English Centenary Test at Lord’s in 1980 with the words “Nine runs off the over, 28 Boycott, 15 Gower, 69 for two and after Trevor Bailey it will be Christopher Martin-Jenkins” in his usual matter-of-fact nonchalant tone.Play was stopped and players and spectators applauded in unison when the announcement was made at the ground.
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• Anti-clockwise Infinite Bounce: 20 Questions
• Flat Scoring: 10 points, part points are quiz-master’s prerogative
• 2 questions for team in case of it being not answered
•We all know of Garry Sobers’ six sixes in an over
against Malcolm Nash at Swansea in 1968.
When Lancashire toured Glamorgan in 1977 Frank
Hayes fell two short of Sobers’ target (he hit 6, 4, 6, 6,
6, 6) in an over, once again at Swansea. At that time
this was second on the list of maximum runs scored off
an over with six legitimate balls. Who was the bowler.
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He seemed to have a knack for this.
• Fill in the blanks.
Sabina Park, 1972. West Indian Fast bowler Uton Dowe was
hit brutally by Keith Stackpole, and Rohan Kanhai, the
captain, took him off and sent him to deep fine-leg for the
rest of the day.
When nothing seemed to work Kanhai decided to bring
Dowe back. A voice in the crowd roared: “Hey Kanhai, you
not heard de eleventh commandment: ___ ___ ___ ___”.
“““____.”
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• Dowe shalt not bowl
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• In which city do you come across this place?
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• Wellington, New Zealand
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• From which historical innings are these bowling
figures taken?
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•This question dates back to the era where personal
collectible scorecards were in vogue among
spectators during matches.
In the 1950 match between MCC and Surrey there
was a sudden announcement: “For FJ Titmus on
your scorecard please read Titmus, FJ.”
Why?
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•Titmus was a professional
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The amateurs were the only ones who were allowed to have their initials before their surnames.
•Connect:
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•Cricketers who have changed religion during their
careers.
Kripal Singh became a Christian from a Sikh
Yousuf Youhana became a Muslim from a Christian
Wayne Parnell became a Muslim from a Christian
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•Monte Lynch was a somewhat average First-Class
cricketer who played three ODIs for England against West
Indies in 1988.
There runs a popular joke that Lynch
was selected because the England
captain, who was on the selection
committee, read a letter erroneously
on a slip of paper. What had happened?
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• Mike Gatting had read LYNCH for LUNCH
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When a selector passed Gatting a slip of paper asking “Shall we have Lynch?” or something similar the captain responded with a hearty “Yes!”
•This tail-ender topped the batting charts for
Australia on their tour to England in 1953. He had
remained unbeaten in 16 innings out of 17, and
had scored 102 runs to give him the grand average
of 102.00. He later attributed it to “a lot of
application, concentration, and dedication”, and
added that “class always tells”. Who?
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• Bill Johnston
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•The famous Indian umpire Madhav Gothoskar once went
for an umpiring training in Nairobi. He found that the
cricketers never abused each other during matches due to
a specific reason.
He wanted this to be implemented
everywhere to stop foul language
being used on a cricket ground.
What was the remedy Gothoskar suggested?
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• Female umpires
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•At Headingley in 1984, Malcolm Marshall famously came out to bat with a broken arm; he batted one-handed, hit a four, and helped Larry Gomes reach a hundred – before picking up 7 for 53.In the next Test at Old Trafford, however, there was an encore. A batsman’s arm was broken by Winston Davis, but he emerged with his hand in a sling under his sweater; he helped Allan Lamb to get a hundred.Name this unsung Hampshire hero whose career ended with that Test.
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• Paul Terry
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•There was something unusual about a certain dismissal in the fifth Ashes Test of 1936-37 at Melbourne.The scorecard and the particular dismissal are highlighted in the next slide.What was unusual about this dismissal (at least as per as the knowledge of the quizmasters)?
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• All three were killed in World War II
Pilot Officer Ken Farnes died in an accident while
flying over Oxfordshire in 1941.
Sergeant-Observer Ross Gregory was killed on
active service in Assam in 1942.
Captain Headly Verity died from wounds from a
battle in Sicily in 1943.
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•Identify this lady and connect her to Bengal cricket, Milan (Italy)and Sussex.
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•Susan Longfield, a model and the daughter of TC
Longfield – the first captain to lead Bengal to a Ranji
Trophy victory.
Born in Milan, Italy, her husband went on to be a
Sussex legend, and played 62 Tests for England, leading
in 30 of them. He went by the name of Ted Dexter.
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•Connect the following
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•11th bowlers used in a Test innings
Arthur Shrewsbury, 3-2-2-0 vs Australia, The Oval, 1884
Graham Yallop, 3-0-15-0 vs Pakistan, Faislabad, 1979-80
Ajay Ratra, 1-0-1-0 vs West Indies, St John’s, 2002
Herschelle Gibbs, 1-0-4-0 vs West Indies, St John’s,
2005
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• Watch this devastating batting display
tarnishing the super aggressive field placement
by the opposition. I just want the film.
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• In the 1982 Lord’s Test, the trio of David Gower,
Allan Lamb, and Robin Jackman did something
on the third night ignoring a commonly
followed superstition. All three of them were
struck by the (supposed to) outcome of the
superstition the next day. What did they do?
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• They had duck for dinner and all three of them scored ducks next day.
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• West Indies verses South Africa, Port of Spain,
April 2005. Brain Lara scored 196 out of 347,
thereby missing the opportunity to topple Wally
Hammond in number of double centuries (which
he did by end of his career). Had this been 2000,
Brain would have scored a double century. How?
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• A change in rule did cut short the century. In 2000,
if a ball hit a helmet, it would result in 5 runs for
the batsman. In 2005, the run was counted as
extras under penalties. Lara hit a shot which
ricocheted off a helmet (probably Boucher's) and
WI got 5 runs. Had the rule not changed, Lara
would have crossed 200!
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•In an interview given to The Daily News at Perth, a
touring Indian cricketer once said “In Calcutta they
call all babies ______. The name just stuck to me.
In fact, I am not 18 as some seem to think; I am
20.”
Who was this cricketer who holds a unique world
record?
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• Probir ‘Khokan’ Sen, only wicket keeper to have stumped Sir Donald Bradman
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•Though never in the league of the
illustrious twins Dean Waugh was
good enough to play domestic
cricket for New South Wales and
South Australia.
He is, however, often referred
(rather jokingly) to as ‘Korea’. Why?
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• The Forgotten War (Waugh)
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• Song from Jagjit & Chitra Singh album Someone
Somewhere which they had released in the memory
of their son Vivek who had died on July 28, 1990
while at the wheel of a Maurti Gypsy, which
rammed into a stationary BEST van which was
repairing the lights which had been shut. His friend
who was in the same car however survived. Who?
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• Sairaj Bahutule
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•A Twenty20 match was played in April 2009 en route A between
two teams called B and C. The match was to commemorate an
achievement by B and C on May 29, 1953 at A. C won the toss,
batted first, and scored 152 for 5. David Kirtley top-scored with
45. B were bowled out for 116. Charlie Campbell won the Man
of the Match award with 3 for 23.
B and C were both named among Time’s 100 most influential
people of the 20th century. Identify A, B, C.
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• A: Mount Everest, B: Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, C: Sir Edmund Hillary. The match was played at the base camp of Mount Everest.
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