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QricketThe Cricket Quiz

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Prelim Round: 25 Questions7 *-marked questions are tie breakers. Top 6 teams make it to stage5 Rounds on stage

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Full Name: Nanik X Bharadwaj

Born: Kapurthala, Punjab

Major teams: India, Gujarat, Hindus, Maharajah of Patiala's XI, Railways, Uttar Pradesh

Batting style: Right-hand bat

Bowling style: Right-arm medium

ID this famous Indian captain.1.

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Connect to an organization.*

"Yet how paradoxical it is, and how delightful, that Bangalore, a city that has leapt to global prominence on the back of work outsourced by America, is now itself outsourcing from America outsourcing glamour, no less. " - This is an excerpt from a New York Times Op/Ed column. What exactly is being discussed ? 3.

It was the first tournament where the West Indies were unable to reach the final. The games were reduced from 60 to 50 overs per innings, the current standard, because of the shorter daylight hours on the subcontinent when compared to England.Which tournament are we talking about?4.

ID the advertiser

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6.I saw only two murders in the theatre, but ended up watching many more during the Ireland-England game

ID the speaker and the context.

7.What has been blanked out?

The IPL Kochi franchisee didnt want to use Kochis Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium as their home stadium. Which city were they going to use for IPL 4?

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What is so special about this cricket ground in Netherlands?9.

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In 1990, which English County changed its rules to take Sachin as their first overseas player?

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It was first regularly played in the 1970s by the Pakistani batsman Mushtaq Mohammad, though Mushtaq's brother Hanif Mohammad is sometimes credited as the inventor.Cricket coach Bob Woolmer has been credited with popularizing the stroke. Andy Flower of Zimbabwe was a prolific and proficient executor of this stroke. Damien Martyn of Australia has been said to have "the most brutal X in the game".However nowadays the finest stroke maker of X is England's batsman Eoin Morgan.Which stroke are we talking about?11.*

ID the vocalist & bassist of this band.12.

13.Victor Richardson vice-captained his team in the bodyline series. 3 of his grandsons went on to play cricket with 2 of them captaining their country. Who are the three guys we are talking about?*

14.Thehistory ofcricketbetween 1884 and 1889was one ofEnglishdominance over theAustralians. England won every tournament that was played. However, this period gave us the first use of the word X which the Press used in 1885. It has remained in common usage ever since.ID X.

In 1899, the Australian AE Trott became the first and yet the only person to have cleared the Lords Pavilion. X has been offered 1 million by Mongoose for using the Mongoose bat to repeat Trotts feat. ID X.15.

16.What was so special about this bat?

X ,all of 10 years, is an enthusiastic and determined youngster who thinks that cricket is the best game in the world. He loves playing Street Cricket and would do so 24X7 if he could. He idolizes his cricket heroes, their skills and character and dreams of playing in the ICC Cricket World Cup one day. Who is X?17.

Connect18.

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X was invented by Sonny Ramadhin, however this is disputed. Tony Greig gave X its name, with a little help from Moin Khan. In July 2009 in Australia, a summit held atCricket Australia's Centre for Excellence decided not to teach X to young cricketers. What is X?19.

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X tweeted this in response to a tweet by Y for a tournament Z.ID X,Y and Z.

The X brand was pioneered by Alec Cohen and Frank Sinclair in around mid-1941 in Australia. Together they began the X Manufacturing Company, so named because of its first site, in Little X Street, NSW. X won its first major contract in WW2, making GI kits for the US Government. Post war, X began to concentrate on plastic raincoats, rain trousers, souwesters and other types of rainhats. X is the most popular producer of cricket helmets.ID X.21.

X retired from international cricket at the end of the World Cup. He was asked to return to the captaincy by the President and on 18 January, he announced his decision to rejoin the team. Soon after returning to the captaincy, X led his team to another winning tour, before lifting the next World Cup for his country.ID X.22.*

ID the Cricket Ground.23.

This is the career stats of a player, before and after his selection for the 1983 World Cup Squad. Which player are we talking about?

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ID theadvertiser.*

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