5. 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.
8. 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?
11. 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
17. 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
24. 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.
27. 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.
30. 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
33. 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."
40. 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
46. 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.
49. 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
52. 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.
55. 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.
58. 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
61. 4. Identify X,Y and Z
X 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.
64. 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?
68. 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?
71. 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
74. 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
77. 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
80. 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?
84. 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?
87. 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?
90. 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.
96. 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?
