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POINT TO COVER A SOMEWHAT SERIOUS CRICKET QUIZ
JULY6TH, 2013. KOLKATA

Acknowledgements
Sreeram Iyer
Mayukh Ghosh
Kaushik Saha
Arunabha Sengupta
Avik Kumar Maitra
Kinshuk Biswas
Chayan Sen Gupta
Reetabrata Ghosh
Diptee Raut
Moumita 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 of
birthday wishes:
Andy Sandham
Wilton St Hill
Man Sood
Mark Benson
Tony Lewis
Makhaya Ntini

• 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 gotout at
leastonce. Division by zerodoes not count.

1. Shikhar Dhawan, 187.00
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?

2. Overarm bowling was legalised.

3. Why was
this reality
television
game show in
news in 2003?
Rememberthis is a cricketquiz. 

3. Phil Tufnell’s sudden retirement
Tufnell retired from
all forms of cricket to
take part in the
second season of the
show. He even
ended up winning it.

4. Cricket connection please.

4. Douglas Jardine. Hugo Weaving played
Douglas Jardine in the Bodyline series.

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)

Name
this
player
who
holds a
First-Class
world
record.

That was a star question anyway. 2
bonus points if you can get the full
name.

5*. IL Bula
The ‘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
scorersand statisticiansall around the world.

6. Identify all 4.
No part point
on this.

6. The Pollocks and the Cairns
The fathers and sons:
Peter and Shaun Pollock
Lance and Chris Cairns

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?

7. Chris Kuggleijn

8. Identify the missing cricketer.

8. Bhuvneshwar Kumar
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?

9. Spot a goatee
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?

10*. All ten wickets falling to playerswith 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 MitchellStarc six for
154 to become the third entry on the list.

11. Connect the two men.

11. VV Kumar watched Daag to see himself
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?

12. King George VI passed away.
The tragedy went on
to affect England in
more ways than one.

13. Connect the three legends.

13. Most Test wickets in each century
19th century:
Johnny Briggs, 118 wickets at 17.75
20th century:
Courtney Walsh, 492 wickets at 24.56
21st century:
Muttiah Muralitharan, 498 wickets at 21.23

14. Identify the captain of this side.
__________________
Howard Lee
Ben Nealon
Simon Holmes
Jamie Whitby Coles
Jon House
(captain)
Barry Hart
Neil Patrick
Alex Sutcliffe
Ray Eves
Chris England

14. Paul Blackthorne. He played Captain Russell
– who led the British in Lagaan.

15*. Watch this clip and name all the 4
cricketers whose names are being
mentioned.

15*. Vijay Merchant, Vijay
Hazare, Wasim Raja and Wasim Bari

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?

16. Mohammad Irfan’s
height
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?

17. Andrew Flintoff

18. Which cricket term was called a
‘tice’ till 1861 when the name was
changed?

18. A yorker.

19. What is happening
here?
(Apologiesfor
the quality of
the picture)

19. Tony Greig apologises for the infamous ‘Grovel’
statement.

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?

“Thefirst time I saw him battingwas when he came toBarbados
withhis school, FatimaCollege,for the annual international
schools tournament which I help organizeforthe Barbados
BoardofTourism, and which they havebeen kind enough to
name in my honour. I gota callfrom a friend of mine, former
____ and West Indies batsman Charlie Davis, asking me to come
and have a look at a boy he said wassomething special.”

20*. Beating The Field.
Foreword written by
Sir Garfield Sobers

21. Mohsin Khan

22. Whose career?
Hint: father was a
prolific Test player.

22. Rajdeep Sardesai

23. Identify the legend.

23. Gary Lineker

24. Why was Denis Compton’s name
being looked up in the Walt Disney
Studios employees’ list
in 1995?

24. Tim Rice thanked him at the Oscars.
When Tim Rice won the Academy Awards for Can you
feelthe love tonight? From Lion King he thanked
Compton, his childhood hero, during the awards.
A confused Disney employeethen looked up the
employeelist and famously came up with the words “We
don’t know who Denis Compton is. He doesn’t appear to
be of Disney Studios or have anything to do with them.”

25*. Long question warning:
AtSabina Park in 1991 therank tail-enderA, who had a zero
reputationof playing fast bowling, walked out as thenumber
11 to preventC from gettinga hat-trick.
As C ran in to bowl A pulled out and walked towardssquare-
leg to annoy C. A furious C almost yorked A and then
bouncedat A. A escapedas the ball lobbed in theair safely. A
scamperedfor a single to avoidC. (continuedon next slide)

Much to A's peril, the umpire said “Bad luck Mr A, it’s over.” A
wasnow up against the equally dangerous D atthe other end; he
heavedat the first ball, somehow connected,and manageda
single.
B,who had scored a hundred and was well-set,blocked out next
fivedeliveriesof D without attemptingto take the strike. At the
end of the overB walkedup and told A: "I just want to have
anotherlook at how you play C, buddy!"
A fuming C removedA almost immediately.IdentifyA, B, C, D.

25*. A: Mike Whitney, B: David Boon,
C: Patrick Patterson, D: Courtney Walsh

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.

26. Azhar Mahmood

27. In which format of the sport should
you ideally have a 20% probability of
getting out every ball?

27. Book-Cricket

28. What is this
civil engineer from
Trissur, Kerala
doing in a cricket
quiz?

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.

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?

29. She is Geoffrey Boycott’s mother!

30*. Listen to the song and name the
male actor on whom this song is being
picturised?

30*. Sunil Gavaskar. Film Savli Premachi.

• 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 Courcy
2. Mortimer Maglinne
3. Elconn Lynwall
4. Human
5. Chokshanada
6. Melbourne
7. Prabha Shanker
8. Samson
9. Charlie Griffith
10. Julius Garvey

•The names:
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1. Everton De Courcy Weekes
2. Frank Mortimer Maglinne
Worrell
3. Curtly Elconn Lynwall
Ambrose
4. Hendrik Human ‘Boeta’
Dippenaar
5. Kumar Chokshanada
Sangakkara
6. Xavier Melbourne
Marshall
7. Danish Prabha Shanker
Kaneria
8. Marvan Samson Atapattu
9. Kenneth Charlie Griffith
Benjamin
10. Darren Julius Garvey
Sammy

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• 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.
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CBK Beachcroft (c)
Arthur Birkett
John Symes
Frederick Cuming
Montagu Toller
Alfred Bowerman
Alfred Powlesland
William Donne
FW Christian
George Buckley
Francis Burchell
Harry Corner
Philip Tomalin (c)
Timothée Jordan
AJ Schneidau
Robert Horne
Henry Terry
F Roques
William Andersen
Douglas Robinson
William Atrill
W Browning
Arthur McEvoy
J Braid

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 origin
Born in Egypt
Played cricket for South
Africa and Zimbabwe
Currently 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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Pakistan
Hanif Mohammad
Alimuddin
Waqar Hasan
Maqsood Ahmed
Wazir Mohammad
Imtiaz Ahmed
Abdul Hafeez Kardar
Shujauddin
Fazal Mahmood
Mahmood Hussain
Khan Mohammad
India
Pankaj Roy
Pananmal Punjabi
Madhav Mantri
Vijay Manjrekar
Polly Umrigar
Gulabrai Ramchand
Dattu Phadkar
Vinoo Mankad
Naren Tamhane
Ghulam Ahmed
Subhash Gupte

• 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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•Wisden 1939
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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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•Rohan Kanhai’s falling sweep shot
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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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•Mark Taylor: he declared at 334 not out
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Audience
question

FINAL
•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?

FINAL
•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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• 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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•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
in his Test career.
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•Steve Waugh
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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?

•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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•Middle names again.
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1. Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangi
2. Maitland
3. Laxmanarsu
4. Bhalchandra
5. Charles Glyndwr
6. Gwyl
7. Logo
8. Willem
9. Edward Killeen
10. Ogonji

•The names:
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1. Heath Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangi
Davis
2. Glenn Maitland Turner
3. Motganhalli Laxmanarsu
Jaisimha
4. Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar
5. Stuart Charles Glyndwr
MacGill
6. Michael Gwyl
Bevan
7. Murphy Logo Su’A
8. Dale Willem Steyn
9. Michael Edward Killeen
Hussey
10. Steve Ogonji Tikolo

• 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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• X was a champion batsman born at the wrong place in the
wrong time. X is generally remembered for his innings at
Johannesburg in 1953-54 and is usually considered as one
of the greatest batsmen his country had ever produced.
X had suddenly vanished from the international scenario at
an age of almost 36 and everybody assumed that he had
retired. Then X suddenly made a comeback when X was
almost 42 and batted like there had been no gap in his
career and scored magnificent 151 – one of the greatest
innings Eden Gardens has ever seen – a few days
afterwards.
Identify X.

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• These four men were mentioned in one of the most
famous quotes in the history of the sport. Just
identify the speaker of the quote and its significance.

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.

• 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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•Malcolm Nash, again
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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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• When West Indies were bowled out by Ireland for 25
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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.

• 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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