2015 Barefoot Cricket Quiz Finals

January 11, FMS, University of Delhi

 42 Questions in a 7 by 6 grid.
 Points on bounce & pounce(equal on negative)-
Level 1- 10
Level 2- 15
Level 3- 20
Level 4- 25
Level 5- 30
Level 6- 40
 2 Pounces per topic!
 Life lines!You can evade a negative by dropping
a team member

Topic 1 2 3 4 5 6
Tests 10 15 20 25 30 40
FC Cricket 10 15 20 25 30 40
ODIs (WC
Spl)
10 15 20 25 30 40
T20s 10 15 20 25 30 40
Grey 10 15 20 25 30 40
Misc 1 10 15 20 25 30 40
Misc 2 10 15 20 25 30 40

 He played two ODIs in 1985-
86, against Pakistan and Sri
Lanka in the Asia Cup, before
working behind the scenes in
the Bangladesh Cricket
Board.
 He also served as the
Tournament director of the
Under-19World Cup in
February and March 2004.

 Raquibul Hassan's
prospects of a lengthyTest
career were shattered in
March 1971, when
Bangladesh's war of
liberation began.The final
day of his unofficial debut,
against a touring
Commonwealth XI, was
abandoned when the
crowd invaded the field
and burnt down the
stadium.
HOME

 Till date there has been
only one instance of
‘this’ happening inTest
Cricket. It remains the
only occasion too. One
of the 2 protagonists is
shown here, who is the
other/ what feat is being
referred to?

 It's happened close to 90 times now, with the
first instance by England in two of the matches
in the 1893 Ashes, and the last time they
managed it was in the CentenaryTest at
Melbourne in 1976-77.The most recent
occasions are arguably the most notable though
- in threeTests in Australia in 1984-85, West
Indies achieved the same, thus becoming the
only side other than England to have managed
it.
 The record for a match is 20, by England and
Australia at Lord's in 1953.

 This cricketer was handicapped
by an accident when a
schoolboy which left him
unable to fully move his right
arm properly. His cricket career
cut short due to the same, he
remained unfazed though-
representing his state in
multiple sports.
 He is best remembered by
cricketing aficionados due to a
certain first and another still-
unique feat.

 Slow left-armer Joe
Johnson ofYorkshire is
best remembered for his
performance in a match
against Leicestershire in
August 1939.What
precisely did he do/ taking
him tantalisingly close to
a milestone which he,
atleast theoretically had a
shot at, till his death 72
years later, in 2011?

 Quite surprisingly, after 20 years of the initial
development, the England touring team did
this for the final time during the 1996-97 tour
of New Zealand.

 In the North Zone vsWest Zone DuleepTrophy
final in 1990-91, on of Indian cricket’s most
controversial incidents ensued:
Our protagonist and this one test wonder had
been needling each other throughout a
fractious final, but it was on the final
afternoon that tempers finally snapped. North
Zone were already assured of the title having
amassed a huge 729 for 9 in their first innings,
with _______'s 180 an integral performance.
Thus apparently the revenge- “It was
senseless, yet far from unprovoked,” wrote
Wisden, as another beamer was aimed at
_______’s head, he then followed up by
uprooting a stump and chasing the stunned
batsman all the way to the boundary. A crowd
riot ensued, unsurprisingly, and both men
were banned for their actions.

 Bombay started by scoring 651 (Sunil Gavaskar's uncle
Madhav Mantri made 200,Vijay Merchant's brother Uday
143, and Dattu Phadkar 131). Maharashtra replied with 407
(Manohar Datar 143, Madhusudan Rege 133). Bombay,
with the first-innings lead that almost guaranteed them a
place in the final, had no need for a challenging
declaration, and eventually called a halt at 714 for 8
(Merchant added 156 and Phadkar 160). Actually
it was quite a challenging declaration, as Maharashtra
were left needing to score 959 to win!They made a pretty
fair effort, reaching 604: Rege made 104 and Sharad
Deodhar 146. Bombay eventually won by 354 runs: their
Test slow left-armer KekiTarapore took 9 for 299 in the
match, which featured a grand total of 2376 runs.
HOME

 This SouthAfrican cricketer’sWisden
obituary read: “One of the most
extraordinary men ever to playTest
cricket.” and further goes on to add,
“statistics are absurd for such a man.
On the cricketing front, he twice
_________, something which has no
other bowler has done again in first
class cricket.”
 There are certain statistics however
that evenWisden could not tally. He
climbed the Mount Kilimanjaro twice.
Thrice he was busted down the rank
and re-promoted during service in the
British Army and apparently had
blown up 6 tanks during his service in
North Africa.

 A landscape consultant who
moved to Kenya in the late
1950s, his World Cup career
was a cameo in hindsight.
He was 43 when his team
was invited, thus eventually
he played in just two
matches, went wicketless in
both, and sadly never
played a List A match
again.

 This cricketer started of his 1st
World Cup by scoring 62 runs
and scalping 3 quick wickets
against England in his 1st and 2nd
outings.
 Just after this edition, he joined
the MCCYoung Cricketers
Program and soon afterwards,
scored a 38-ball century – the
fastest in the history of MCC
Young Cricketers.
 We however remember him for
something completely different,
what would that be?

 Virender Sehwag launched the first
five of India's innings in the 2011
World Cup by hitting the first ball
for four. Never before or after has
such a feat been achieved-inWorld
Cup or all one-day international
cricket.
 The suffering bowlers were Shafiul
Islam, Jimmy Anderson (a hard
chance to Graeme Swann in the
slips), Boyd Rankin, Mudassar
Bukhari and Dale Steyn.
HOME

 With a first class career spanning
almost 2 decades, he played
illustriously for Gloucestershire
and Northamptonshire until
retiring towards the end of the
last century.
 His most famous international
performance is however often
lost, perhaps in the glory of
someone who overshadowed his
effort or possibly a different
non-cricketing reason.

 1975- None
 1979- Malcolm Marshall, Faoud
Bacchus, Larry Gomes
 1983- SunilValson
 1987- NONE
 1992- NONE
 1996- Chandana, Attapatu
 1999-NONE
 2003- Nathan Hauritz, Nathan
Bracken
 2007- Mitchell Johnson
 2011- NONE HOME

 Although Nuwan Kulasekara and
Bhuvaneshwar Kumar bowled the most
economical spells in t20 in the international
level, they did not bowl their full quota of 4
overs.The record stands out to be a miserly
spell of bowling by this bowler who recorded
figures of 4-1-3-0 in a domesticT20
competition. He upstaged himself in the very
next match though, achieving something
unique inT20 cricket.

PLAYER MATCH VENUE YEAR
1 AHMED
HAYAT
Faislabad Wolves vs.
Karachi Dolphins
Lahore 2005
2 CHITANGA
PERERA
Basnahira S vs.Wayamba Colombo
(SSC)
2009
3 ADRIAN
BARATH
Pakistanis vs. Northants 2010
4 2013
5 DEVON
THOMAS
Hawksbills v Amazon 2013

 The Last Man Stands
Tournament is a unique
tournament organised in 6
different countries, having a very
different set of rules with each
side comprising of just 8 players.
 Usually a low key affair, the
South Africa edition hogged the
limelight during the 2013 edition
of a remarkable
invitation/inclusion. Such was
the effect that ‘it’ was carried
forward to the event in England.

 In a match of the Shaheed
Benazir BhuttoTwenty20
memorial tournament in 2008,
this Port Qasim pacer did
something very rare and
bizzare, a feat which promises
to remain unmatched.
 He later cited that he was
suffering from a leg strain
while the officials maintained
physical and mental fatigue as
a reason for the same.

 He was asked to bowl and he sent down 10
successive no balls resulting in 10 free hits to
the batsmen who scored 31 runs off them. He
failed to bowl a single legal delivery with his
bowling figures reading 0-0-31-0 (10 NB).
HOME

 The 2005 WisdenAlmanack
reported - with a barely
concealed schoolboy grin -
that police had raided a
unique place inTemple Road,
Mount Lavinia, which for the
past 10 years had been
catering to a specific group of
people.An undercover cop
had apparently cracked the
case, thus jeopardizing the
occupants and the ones
associated with there.

 In 2007, Indian national Dr Md
Haneef was accused of
providing his second cousin,
accused of being involved in
plotting car bomb attacks in the
UK, with a mobile phone SIM
card and was subsequently
arrested.
 The protests that followed,
questioned the country’s
totalitarian state and used a
particular cricketers actions in
their protest (name blanked in
photo).

 The 1998 book Save the Last Ball for
Me by the workaday New Zealand
seamer Chris Pringle would have been
unremarkable, but for a chapter called
“__________”, when he admitted
carving up a ball with a bottletop
during aTest in Faisalabad in 1990, as
New Zealand strongly suspected the
Pakistan bowlers were doing
something similar.
 “One side was still shiny,” he wrote
about his handiwork, but there were
lots of grooves and lines and deep
gouges on the other side. It was so
obvious!” In that match Pringle took 11
for 152: in 13 other bottletop-freeTests
he managed only 19, at an average of
65.

 Shem Ngoche, Jadhavji Bhimji, Gurdeep
Singh, Hamza Malik, Jimmy Kamande, James
Ngoche, Alex Obanda, Eugene Ochieng,
Nelson Odhiambo, NehemiahOdhiambo,
Lucas Oluoch, Elijah Otieno, Morris Ouma,
KennedyOwino and Emmanuel Bundi

 It was a song written by
Dave Martins at a time
when there was growing
unrest between the Indian
and African populations in
Guyana with the former
gaining political
ascendency after the end
of years of Military
Dictatorship.
 This is a heal the rift song
involving 2 of the greatest
cricketing sons of Guyana.
 It goes like this:
We must play ___ and ____
That's how we have to live
For us to win this game,banna
Guyana must combine
________ and ________
This match is make or break, banna

 There are currently around 20 grounds that
have held just oneTest match. Some - like
Bogra, Fatullah and Khulna in Bangladesh -
may well have more in future.
 But there are 11 that probably won't (defunct,
mostly). Interestingly two of them come from
the same city in India.
 Where?And name the stadiums.

 A professional writer and
occasional actor , he is best
known for co-authoring a book
on Gary Linekar and acting in a
the famous comedy play “An
Evening with Gary Linekar”,
which was later made into a
film. He later also made
another comedy play by the
name of “Breakfast with
JohnnyWilkinson”. And
published a comedy guide
titled “How to Enjoy the World
Cup” in 2014.
 We in India, however
remember him for a cricketing
reason, what precisely?

 “The way they hit it, they're more than welcome
to bat at the top of the order. I might have to
slide down a few spots,” is what Aaron Finch, the
T20 captain of the AustralianTeam had to say
about them. During the 2014 Big Bash, Muttiah
Muralitharan and Aaron Finch, playing for
Melbourne Renegades, took time out to give
them some cricketing lessons and they were
pretty much impressed by their skills.Who was
Aaron Finch talking about or whom did they
actually train?

 Scorer of the 3rd fastest
international hundred
ever, this cricketer is
also a prolific athlete,
with the table detailing
the swashbuckler’s
prowess in track and
field.
 ID/Who would this be?

 After ___1___ came into existence as an off shoot of ___2___ in 1924, a “Big
Match” was initiated between the two with the aim of building relations between
students of the two institutions and developing their cricket in the sporting
arena.
 Thus the first Battle of the Maroons was played between them in 1924.
 Much talked about over the years, it has seen a lot of superstars take the field-
___2___ has been represented by the likes of Arjuna Ranatunga, Sidath
Wettimuny and Attapattu while ___1___ has been represented by Mahela
Jaywardene,Bandula Warnapura and Kumar Dharmasena.
 Interestingly, ___1___ owes its name to a place in the Eastern part of India.

 Conceptualised by, currentCEO of
Fox Sports, David Hill, it initially
horrified the cricketing folklore. It
was thought of as “brash”
coverage of the game; so much so
that subsequently, broadcasters
such as the United
Kingdom's Channel 4, upon
announcing that they would be
covering the English cricket
team in 1999, stated “there will be
no ______” to avoid controversy.
Since the turn of the millenium
though, it has become a regular
feature and is vividly seen.

 Sri LankaVs Pakistan, 29
March 2006 (took
temporary retirement on
12th April) 2015 World Cup
 MCC Spirit of cricket test
Series, Australia vs
Pakistan, 2010 July (took
retirement from test cricket
after it)
 West Indies vs Pakistan,
2011, 5 May (30th May)
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 A true all-rounder, George
Cakobau played international
rugby as well as cricket for his
native Fiji. During the final of
his 4 FC appearances, he did
something which was sparsely
seen before and hasn’t been
emulated afterwards either.
What specifically did he
do/what was he the last to do
on a cricket field?

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