IIM CalcuttaCRICKET QUIZ

2014

MAINS

POWERPLAYMIDDLE OVERSBATSMEN (5 Questions)BOWLERS (5 Questions)

WORLD CUPS (5 Questions)RECORDS (5 Questions)

IPL(5 Questions)ASHES (5 Questions)

SLOG OVERS-VC(1 small; 1 long)

BATSMEN

1. Whose torrid timeline?February 26, 2008 - X, while celebrating his team’s win broke the window of a locked toilet at a bar, severing the tendons in his right hand to rule him out of cricket for three months

May 11, 2009 - X’s manager says reports of his client having to be restrained by security guards in South Africa during the IPL, were "grossly exaggerated", but concedes his client

had been drinking

March 8, 2012 - X declares he will take an indefinite break from the game to work on personal issues after his being dropped from the national team.

November 3, 2012 - X returns to first-class cricket with scores of 117 and 174, set up a five-wicket win for his team, but finds himself cited for a breach of the players' code of conduct

March 27, 2013 - X is hospitalized and placed in an induced coma after being assaulted twice outside a bar

August 20, 2013 - X is banned for six months after failing a routine drug test while playing a

Ford Trophy match in March. He will be available to play after October 19, once the retrospective penalty ends.

SAFETY SLIDE

Jesse Ryder

2. Dubbed The Axeman for the way he chops down at the ball outside off stump, X’s technique was dominated by the

bottom hand. He was an exceptionally powerful square-cutter and good off his legs forcing through midwicket. He

could also up the tempo to suit the occasion. X was quick in the covers and once bowled medium-pacers with a round-

arm action. His calibre can be judged by the number of hundreds he's made against Australia - six.  Who is X?

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Ijaz Ahmed

3. Whose eulogy?X was the greatest batsman Australia had produced and its

most accomplished in the history of the game in any country. The solid qualities of Tyldesley and Hobbs, the

magnificent skill of Hill and Darling, even the wizardry of Ranjitsinhji, paled before a wonderful grace and orthodox poetry of motion that lifted batting to a standard that had

not entered into the dream of those who imagined they had seen all that cricket had to offer when Grace and

Shewsbury or those already mentioned had been at the wicket. He was a modest, good-living young man. His

courage in his illness was the natural revelation of the Christian character

SAFETY SLIDE

Victor Trumper

4. Identify the player?

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Mominul Haque

5. When he was unveiled as Sven-Goran Eriksson's surprise, unseen, choice for the World Cup, one thing never

in doubt about X was his sporting pedigree.X's father, Don, was quoted as saying: “Y is my dad's cousin

and we're quite a sporty family.“All of which was a surprise to Y who said “He's definitely

not a relative. In fact, I don't even know who he is. As far as I know, he has no family connection to me whatsoever. If I was his great-uncle then his grandfather would have to be my brother. I have a brother, Keith, but he doesn't have any

kids.”Identify X and Y

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X= Theo Walcott; Y= Sir Clyde Walcott

BOWLERS

1. In a first in ODI Cricket, two bowlers X and Chaminda Vaas went for more than 80+ runs v India in the 1999

World Cup. Who was the other bowler?

SAFETY SLIDE

Eric Upashantha

2. X was often subjected to good natured ridicule regarding his 24 ducks in 48 tests from his teammates and the

general public due to his feeble efforts. This went as far as a tie being manufactured featuring numerous ducks to

celebrate his world record. He is sometimes referred to as "The Duckman" and also launched a duck caller for

hunters on the back of his record. The duck callers were not very successful.

However he did have some batting prowess after all. He played his most important innings when he resolutely

hung on to save his side from a certain defeat. Sadly that was his last innings as well. Identify X.

SAFETY SLIDE

Danny Morrison

3.A wily right arm fast bowler, X took a hat trick in only his third one day international against Pakistan in 1996-97.

However, from there his performances tapered away quickly, to the extent that he did not again play at

international level and lost his place in the New South Wales XI within another 12 months. Identify X.

SAFETY SLIDE

Anthony Stuart

4. Fast-bowler would not be your first guess upon seeing X. Standing at just about 5’8” and not sturdily built, he gained propulsion from his unusually long arms and a speedy and rhythmical approach to the wicket. And he was fast. Sobers

considers him the fastest bowler he ever played with or against (that would include Wes Hall and Dennis Lillee)

and Pakistani great, Hanif Mohammad, admitted that facing X was at times terrifying.

He played for his national side between May 1957 and February 1958, and had a tumultuous relationship with

the authorities for the entire time. Due to his short fuse, he played his last match at age 24 finishing with  57 wickets at

26 .68 in 13 Tests

SAFETY SLIDE

Roy Gilchrist

5. X’s 637 wickets in Ranji Trophy is a record by a long way, Srinivas Venkataraghavan with 530 wickets being the next best. He took

more than 25 Ranji wickets in a season fifteen times, including in his last nine seasons. His team reached the Ranji semi-final thrice

during his time but lost on each occasion. Their first appearance in the final happened in the season after his retirement.

X is one of two non-Test cricketers, the other being Padmakar Shivalkar, who Sunil Gavaskar chose among his "idols" in his book by

the same name. "He is the one bowler whom I have really dreaded facing in my life," he wrote about X. "I have never been able to feel

comfortable against his left hand spinners and he has been one who, because of his flatter trajectory, has not given me the opportunity to

step down the track and drive."

SAFETY SLIDE

Rajinder Goel

RECORDS

1. Identify the blanked out portion

SAFETY SLIDE

2. Connect(Exhaustive)Younis Khan in January 2006- both v India

Mohammad Yousuf in November 2006-both v West Indies Kumar Sangakkara in June/July 2012- both v Pakistan

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190s in successive tests

3. There have been 29 centuries made by teenagers in test cricket. Who is the only teenager to score a test double

century?

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Javed Miandad; 206 against New Zealand in Karachi in 1976-77

4. Yorkshire and England left-arm spinner X was a peerless bowler who took 1956 wickets in 378 First Class matches. He has taken all 10 wickets in an innings twice and holds

the record for the best figures in an innings. Against Nottinghamshire in a home game in 1932, the wicket turned sticky and X rained hell on the visitors as they

crashed for 44-0 to 67 all out. He took 10-10 in 19.4 overs, 16 of which were maidens.

SAFETY SLIDE

Hedley Verity

5. The most number of wickets by a visiting bowler in Australia is a close run thing as both X and Y took 77 Test

wickets on Australian soil. But Z just pips them, having taken 78 wickets in 14 Tests in Australia. However Y's

came in only 12 matches, at the tremendous average of 17.83 (Z's average was 19.79, and X‘s 22.42)

Identify X, Y and Z

X=Sydney BarnesY=Richard Hadlee

Z= Curtley Ambrose

WORLD CUP

1. The East Africa cricket team was a cricket team representing X, Y, Z and W. Their first game was against a

South African Non-European team in 1958. East Africa appeared in the 1975 World Cup and

the 1979, 1982 and 1986 ICC Trophies. In the last two of these the X national team was also represented in its own

right, so that East Africa was effectively a Y/Z/W team.

SAFETY SLIDE

X= KenyaY=Uganda

Z=TanzaniaW=Zambia

2. In the 2002 under-19 World Cup, Australian Players Cameron White and Xavier Doherty won the best batsmen and best bowler awards, respectively. But the man of the series award was given to Y’s X for his 250 runs and 12

wickets. Identify Y and X.

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Y= Zimbabwe X=Tatenda Taibu

3. X’s 5 for 48 in the World Cup finals of A and Y’s 5 for 38 in the World cup finals of B are the only two instances in which a bowler has captured five wickets in the finals of

the World Cup in the ten editions played so far.Identify X and Y

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X=Gary Gilmour; A=1975Y=Joel Garner; B=1979

4. Identify X,Y and ZX was no mug with the ball, and Y was not particularly

known for his risk-taking daredevilry. Conventional wisdom had it that with his team comfortably placed, Y would face his opposite number's first ball with some

circumspection.Yet as the ball pitched around his off stump, something snapped in Y and he got down on his haunches - a not

inconsiderable feat - and effected a Z. Except it didn't quite come off. The ball hit his shoulder and flew up and behind to Greg Dyer, who was so surprised he almost dropped it.The innings subsequently faded into the November dusk

and Y’s team fell short by seven runs.

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X=Allan Border, Y=Mike Gatting, Z= Reverse Sweep

5. One of the possible reasons given behind this was the dismissal of all the X batsmen through catches.

In the two matches against West Indies and Z, across the 20 dismissals, there was only one wicket not falling to a

catch. That belonged to the captain Y. Against West Indies, nine men had been caught. Against Z all. It is rare for this

to happen — very, very rare.What is being talked about?

SAFETY SLIDE

Pakistan match-fixing allegations behind Woolmer’s death

ASHES

1. This Western Australian right-armer has an Ashes record that ranks right up there with the likes of Lillee and McGrath, with his performances in 1981 and 1989 still the

benchmarks for swing bowling in England.However, in a freak accident, he was disabled from playing

for over a year by a shoulder injury sustained on 13 November 1982 when he rashly tackled an English-

supporting ground invader at the WACA Ground in Perth.Who is this bowler?

SAFETY SLIDE

Terry Alderman

2. X grew up in Western Australia, and played for the Australian Under-19 side.  His best phase was when he

took 12 Australian wickets in four Ashes Tests including his career-best 5–105 at Brisbane Cricket Ground. In his

debut Test match X complained that Sachin Tendulkar was batting with a bat broader than the normal willow. 

Identify X

SAFETY SLIDE

Alan Mullally

3. X is the most famous match of the Botham’s Ashes, but there were a couple of unsung heroes as well apart from

Botham who had an indelible impact on the game. First, Y teamed up with Botham to add 117 in 80 minutes

when England’s innings looked in trouble. And then, Z skittled the Aussies out for 111 and a legend

was born.

Identify Y and Z

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Y=Graham DilleyZ=Bob Willis

4. Jiggery pokery, trickery chokery, __________________?Robbery! Muggery! Aussie skull duggery, out for a buggering duck.__________________, I might as well have been holding a childs balloon,Jiggery pokery, who was this nobody making me look a buffoon?

Like an accident prone babboon

Put funda

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Irish Band Duckworth Lewis’ Song about the “Ball of the Century”

5. Over the years the odd non-cricketer has attempted to break the record. There have been unconfirmed reports that former Olympic swimmer Neil Brooks beat it. On the recent Kangaroos tour several

rugby league players attempted it but fell pathetically short; Sydney Rooster Mick Croker top-scored with 36. The victorious English World Cup rugby squad is also rumoured to have had a

crack, with hulking centre Mike Tindall coming close to 50. “You can rest assured X’s record is still standing,”Tindall’s centre

partner, Will Greenwood, said later. “Tinds had a real go at it but we wanted to leave the Aussies with at least one title to hand on to.”

What record is being talked about?

SAFETY SLIDE

Boon’s record of drinking 52 cans of beer on the way to England in 1989

IPL

1. Which player, after auctioning his Kolkata Knight Riders helmet in 2008, said, “I think I will donate the

money to Mother Teresa or something like that.Whose statement?

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Shoaib Akhtar

2. Whose record for the highest Twenty20 score did Brendon McCullum break when he scored 158* against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the inaugural match in

2008?

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Cameron White

3. Umpire, X gave statements to a newspaper regarding Sreesanth’s on-field behavior during the slapgate

controversy involving Harbhajan Singh. As a result, the IPL governing council banned him for two matches, making it the first time an umpire was banned in the IPL. Name him.

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Amiesh Saheba

4. Among the bowlers who have claimed hat-tricks in the IPL, only one has not played an international match. Name

him.

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Ajit Chandila

5. Glenn McGrath, who was a permanent fixture for Delhi Daredevils in the first season, was on the bench

throughout the second season owing to the outstanding form of another overseas fast bowler. Who was it?

SAFETY SLIDE

Dirk Nannes