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Identify the player and explain the rationale?
Mikhail Youzhny apologizing to audience for his poor performance
against David Ferrer in third round of 2012 French Open
England vs Australia, The Ashes - 3rd Test, Headingley, Leeds
Australia 1st innings: 401 for 9 dec
England 1st innings: 174 all out
England 2nd innings: 135 for 7
Ladbrokes, the bookmakers, offered odds of 500-1 on an England
victory. Two Australian players bet 15 pounds via their coach driver.
England ultimately scored 356 in their 2nd innings and dismissed
Australia for 111 to win by 18 runs.
Name the Aussie players who collected 7500 pounds on their team's
loss!!
Dennis Lillee & Rod Marsh
Identify the one (captain)ing the women?
Susan Polgar
Sofia, Susan, Judith
Some players from the ......... Cross Wesleyan Chapel
Cricket team together to discuss how to keep fit during
the winter months. Prominent amongst them were Jack
Hughes, Frederick Matthews, Walter Price and William
Scattergood. They saw a football game being played on a
meadow close by and decided it was the perfect solution.
Founded in 1874, the new club football team played its
first match against Aston Brook St Mary's Rugby team.
Name the club thus formed.
Who’s missing and what’s the exclusive connect?
Cedric Mourier : “….. You serve like me. If you serve like me, you
put it in the box. That’s it”
X: “Call the supervisor. Ask him about it”
Cedric: “That’s the coach you should ask.”
X: “I ask him. I want to kill him…Normally I cannot give up for
match for good reason just because I can not serve. How many
double-faults?”
Cedric: “I don’t know. I can tell you at the end of the match but too
many.”
X: “What can I do?”
Cedric: “Try your best”
Identify X who had been fined $2,000 for lack of effort in a match a
week earlier.
In which domestic derby, would you find fans
mainly waving either the Irish flag or the
Union Jack?
Old Firm Derby
(Celtics vs Rangers)
What is the umpire signaling about?
Commencement of the ‘Last Hour’ of the match
Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille!!
Four non-English cricketers have scored 100 first
class centuries. One being Sir Donald Bradman,
name the other three.
ZAHEER ABBAS VIV RICHARDS GLENN TURNER
Di Canio was awarded FIFA Fair Play Award in 2001.
Paolo Di Canio is present coach of
Swintown Town F.C.
(FIFA World Cup 1990 – Holland vs Germany)
Identify the protagonists.
Rudi Völler & Frank Rijkaard
English footballer Stanley Matthews holds the distinction
of being the only player to have been knighted while still
playing.
The Maharaj of Vizianagram was knighted during his test
cricket playing days (which he returned after India’s
independence in 1947).
Who is the other cricketer to have this unique distinction
of being knighted while still playing test cricket?
What's common between a Sunday League game
between Peterborough North End and Royal Mail
AYL officiated by Andy Wain in 2005 and
another Sunday League game between
Southampton Arms and Hurstbourne Tarrant
British Legion referred by Melvin Sylvester in
1998?
Both the referees Red Card-ed themselves after
incidents during the matches
Connect them with a football context.
Aaron Ramsey Curse
How do we better know them?
Magical Magyars (Golden Team)
Identify the encircled.
CLAYTON LAMBERT
Hunted the Swiss Big Bird, speared the Catalan
Torner before putting it across the Maryland
Pistol.. Fun at Haven ended with the Rabbit Split.
Explain the funda.
Paes at 1998 Pilot Pen International
A division of Fast Retailing Co. Ltd., the clothing retail
chain X was restructured as a separate wholly owned
subsidiary in Nov’ 2005. Spread in over a dozen
countries, X aims to be the world’s largest ‘Speciality-
store of Private-label Apparel (SPA)’ by the year 2020.
Headquartered in Tokyo, X has also furnished uniforms
for Japanese athletes at the Summer Olympics.
What am I referring to?
What’s so exclusive about these four?
Gimmick!! Eh… Name the team.
If Nirupama Vaidyanathan was the first, Sania
Mirza third, then who’s second.
Shikha Oberoi
BUNNY AUSTIN YVON PETRA
They faced off in the 1937 French Open Quarterfinals which Austin
won.. But, what is their lasting legacy on tennis courts?
First & Last!!!
Having announced his retirement plans before the start
of English series, he called it a day after 98 tests. On
asked why he did not complete 100 tests, he remarked
“… But at that point I had had enough. I wanted to give
100 percent all the time. But when I could not to do it
anymore, it got to a point when I needed a change in life,
I decided to end my career. I never played for personal
milestones”
Identify this living legend.
CURTLY AMBROSE
A former Lathe operator was put to trial for stabbing a
world class athlete in a case that attracted unprecedented
attention of media and general people alike. The accused
admitted his guilt in court and many a witnesses
confirmed his crime. The defense lawyers did try their
bit to get him off the hook though!
In her ruling, for what period did Judge Elke
Bosse send him to prison?
NONE for immediate effect. Just 2-years suspended jail term.
Monica Seles stabbed by Gunther Parche at 1993 Citizen’s Cup in Hamburg
Born in a small English town of Bideford, he made a
century in his debut match against the Oxford University.
This 5'10" batsman played for Gloucestershire scoring over
10,000 first class runs. Awarded an MBE from the British
Empire, he was given a standing ovation from the crowd at
the Oval in his last international match. He succumbed to
cancer in 2009 but not before having written his names in
the heart of players and fans all across the world.
Name this highly respected gentleman.
DAVID SHEPHERD
OPEN QUESTION
A batsman plays a ball and misses; the wicket
keeper also misses it and the ball hits the wicket
keeper’s helmet which was behind the stumps and
rolls over across the boundary line. (The batsmen
do not attempt a bye)
How many runs are credited to the batting team?
5 runs as penalty
Connect these to a sporting rivalry
Kıtalar Arası Derbi (Intercontinental Derby)
Galatasaray vs Fenerbahçe
The Bosporus Strait separates the parts of
Istanbul to which these teams belong.
The image is of Galatasaray coach Graeme
Souness who planted the flag in the middle
of Fenerbahce ground after Galatasaray
defeated Fenerbahce to win Turkish title in
1996.
Identify this game which is described as a bastion
of humility", with player names absent from
jerseys and a player's number decided by his
position on the field.
Combining the skills of lacrosse, hockey and
basketball, it is often claimed by fans as the 'fastest
game on grass'.
HURLING
Billy Midwinter holds the distinction of
being the first player to take 5 wickets in
a test match. A right arm medium pace
bowler, he also holds a unique place in
cricket history that has not been
emulated in over 135 years.
What unique distinction?
Only cricketer to have played for Australia and
England in Test Matches against each other
Which cricketer with 7422 runs under his name is
sometimes referred to as ‘The Keg on Legs’?
He once consumed 52 cans of beer on a flight to London.
Share the story please
After England defeated Argentina in their 1966
World Cup Quarterfinal match, English coach
Alf Ramsey spotted one of his players exchanging
jerseys with an Argentine, he stepped in and
snatched the jersey away.
Identify
Miguel Nadal,
Rafa’s Uncle
“I'm still going to hit my 20 or 30 aces if I'm mentally
OK. It doesn't matter about the balls. They can put water
balls out there or whatever they want. You can't slow the
game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast. If you
want slow tennis, go to the French. You will see plenty of
slow tennis. Don't come here to watch if you want slow
tennis.”
Who said this after his win against Jonathan Stark in
second round at Wimbledon?
Also the wicketkeeper for Middlesex, Leslie started out
as right back for Arsenal. He went on to become a
mainstay in Arsenal center half and also scored the
equaliser in FA Cup final in 1949-50.
He also won the 1947 County Championship with
Middlesex completing a rare double. In his benefit
match, he was alas! run out by his own brother. Name his
brother.
Dennis Compton
LESLIE COMPTONDENIS COMPTON
This 18.75 inch diameter trophy depicts the figure of
Sophrosyne in its center, seated on a chest with a lamp in
her right hand and a jug in her left, with various attributes
such as a sickle, fork and caduceus around her. The four
reserves on the boss of the dish each contain a classical
god, together with elements. The reserves around the rim
show Minerva presiding over the seven liberal arts:
astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, music, rhetoric, dialectic
and grammar, each with relevant attribute.
What am I referring to?
Venus Rosewater Dish