This document contains 20 multiple choice questions about cricket. It tests knowledge of famous cricketers and their careers, records, incidents and statistics from matches and tournaments. For each question, the correct answer is provided that identifies a player, team, match or other detail referenced in the question.

1. CRICKET MERI JAAN!
AMAN SINHA
CSE 3RD YEAR

2. Q1.
• Connect the Following
players.
Adding one player to the
list will make it
exhaustive. Name him!
Pics in next Slide

4. A.
• Missing Cricketer- Lance Klusner
They all were the Man of the tournaments
in World Cups.
Martin Crowe-1992
Sanath Jayasuria-1996
Lance Klusner-1999
Sachin Tendulkar-2003
Glenn Mcgrath-2007
Yuvraj Singh-2011

5. Q2.
• Identify.
Why is he very
famous among
Indians?

6. A.
• Travis Dowlin
Dhoni's only One day
international wicket.

7. Q3.
• "Honestly. I got out to X more than anyone. When we
played South Africa he always got me out more than
Allan Donald or Shaun Pollock. It wasn't that I couldn't
pick him it's just that the ball seemed to go straight to a
fielder.I was going great guns in Durban one year and
played some big shots against Donald and Pollock. X
came on and I flicked his first ball straight to leg-slip. I
never knew what to do with him"
- Sachin Tendulkar
Identify X.

8. A.
• Hansie Cronje

9. Q4.
• Beginning his career for Yorkshire in 1898 as a slow left
arm bowler who was a useful batsman, X quickly
established a reputation as one of the best slow bowlers
in the world. However, by the First World War he had
developed his batting skills to the extent that he was
regarded as one of the leading batsmen in England.
He played throughout the 1920s as an all-rounder before
retiring after the 1930 cricket season. His first
appearance for England was in 1899 and he played
regularly in Tests until 1921. Recalled to the team in the
final Ashes Test of 1926 aged 48, X played a significant
part in winning the match for England who thus regained
the Ashes for the first time since 1912. He ended his
Test career in the West Indies in April 1930.

10. A.
• Wilfred Rhodes
He holds the world records both for the
most appearances made in first-class
cricket (1,110 matches), and for the most
wickets taken (4,204). He completed the
double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in
an English cricket season a record 16
times.
Retired at an age of 52, oldest to do so.

11. Q5.
• Full Name: Nanik X Bharadwaj
• Born: Kapurthala, Punjab
• Major Teams:
India,Gujarat,Hindus,Maharajah of
Patiala's XI, Railways, UP
• Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
• Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium
• ID this Famous Indian Captain

12. A.
LALA AMARNATH

13. Q6.
• When Virender Sehwag was dismissed for 175 in the
opening match of the world cup 2011 against
Bangladesh, Ravi Shastri in the commentary box said to
Sunil Gavaskar, "The last time someone made 175 in a
world cup game we were still playing." Which innings
was he referring to? (Batsman, opposition, year)

14. A.
• Kapil Dev
Zimbabwe
1983

15. Q7.
• This is one of the most famous incident of sledging.
Ormond was involved in a notable piece of sledging,
when in a test match against Australia in 2001, X asked
him, "Mate what are you doing here? There's no way you
are good enough to play for England."
Ormand replied back "May be not, but at least I am the
best in my Family".
Give me X.

16. A.
Mark Waugh
Ormond was referring to him and his
brother Steve Waugh.

17. Q8.
• 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

18. A.
• Imran Khan

19. Q9.
• He was a compact batsman – and a competent off break
bowler – with a defense that was hard to breach. He led Ruia
college with distinction at the inter-college level and was
almost selected for the Bombay University team.
• He played Kanga league ‘B’ division for Young Comrades and
graduated to ‘A’ division for Jolly cricketers. He was good
enough to play against the likes of Gavaskar and Vengsarkar
in the Kanga A division. He now travels to San Francisco every
July for coaching assignments.
• But he is most famous for a close association with another
cricketer. Who?

20. A.
• Ajit Tendulkar

21. Q10.
• Complete the list and tell what is this all
about!
• EAS Prasanna (twice) – 1973-74, 1977-78
• Brijesh Patel – 1982-83
• Anil Kumble – 1995-96
• Rahul Dravid – 1997-98
• Sunil Joshi – 1998-99
• X- 2013-14

22. A.
• R Vinay Kumar
• They are the only 6 captains that led
Karnataka to lift Ranji Trophy.
Karnataka has won 7.

23. Q11.
• X is a retired South African cricketer. He was also
chosen as the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in
2003.Xwas also a very useful hard-hitting batsman,
whose style bears some resemblance to his famous
uncle on occasions. He had a Test average of over 30
and ODI average above 25.He has the lowest (best)
economy rate of any bowler to have taken 300 ODI
wickets.In June 2007 he represented an Africa XI in an
ODI game against an Asia XI in Bangalore. Playing as a
specialist batsman, X scored 130 from number 7 in the
batting order, the highest ever score by an ODI batsman
in that position at that time.

24. A.
• Shaun Pollock

25. Q12.
On typing Which Cricketer's name in the search bar, will Google return
these images?

26. A.
• George Bailey
James Stewart's characater in the movie
"It's a wonderfull life" was called George
Bailey.

27. Q13.
• Immediately after the 2008 IPL, BCCI
selected an India A team captained by
Jayadev Shah , which included players
like Pujara and star IPL performers like
Swapnil Asnodkar and Rajat Bhatia. They
were going on a tour and were playing an
International team consisting of former
international cricketers like Jonty Rhodes,
Adam Bacher and Rolan Lefebvre. Which
Country?

28. A.
• Israel
• On their 60th Anniversary, comprising of
Jewish cricketers from all around the
world.

29. Q14.
• Connect the following
three images to an
incident that has
happened only once
in International
Cricket.

30. A.
• Only instatce of 3 bowlers being used to
finish an over.
Cricinfo says,"M Dillon was replaced by
CEL Stuart after 2 balls of his over due to
groin injury. Stuart was withdrawn from the
bowling crease for the remainder of the
innings after bowling two beamers in his
first three balls.CH Gayle bowled the final
3 balls of the over"

31. Q15.
• Cricinfo's 'Most runs in a single ground'
record list is led by Ricky Ponting- 3467
runs at the MCG, Second is Mahela
Jayawardene with 3218 runs at the
Sinhalese Sports Club, Columbo. The top
20 has only two Indians- one scoring 1778
runs while the other one scored 1660
runs, both on the same ground. one of
them is Sachin.
Identify the other player and the ground.

32. A.
• Player- Md. Azharuddin
• Venue- Sharjah

33. Q16
• Y Venugopal Rao shot into fame after
scoring 228 in South Zone's successful
chase of 501 in the Duleep Trophy in
2004. A forgotten fact is that X scored a
100 in each of the innings of the match.
One of the only 11 people who have done
so in a Duleep trophy game. X made his
international debut later and established
himself as a big match winner.

34. A.
• Kevin Pieterson
• BCCI experimented with the format of the
Duleep Trophy by calling an English Team
to participate. That Team included KP,
Sajid Mahmood and Simon Jones.

35. Q17.
• In 1996, England hosted an U-15 world
cup. India emerged champions with a
team consisting of future internationals like
Reetinder Sodhi and Mohammad Kaif.
• In the semis, India defeated a South
African team. Only one member of that
team graduated to play test cricket and
continues to play international cricket even
today. Identify him.

36. A.
• Jonathan Trott

37. Q18.
• X attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir School, where
he was a schoolmate of future cricketing star Sachin
Tendulkar. Like Tendulkar, he was coached by
Ramakant Achrekar. When Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli
shared in a then-record 664-run partnership for their
school in a Harris Shield match, he was on the same
team and was due to bat next.On his first-class debut for
Bombay, he scored 260 against Haryana at Faridabad in
a Ranji Trophy match in the 1993–94 season. This was a
record for any player on their debut in first-class cricket.
X was named as the vice-captain of the Indian U-19
cricket team for their tour of England in 1994. He was
regarded as one of the country's finest prospects and
was labelled the "new Tendulkar".He also played for the
India A side in the 1994–95 season alongside Rahul
Dravid and Sourav Ganguly.

38. A.
• Amol Muzumdar

39. Q19.
• X started his cricket career as a teenager at Mahinda College,
Galle, where Major G. W. S. de Silva was his first cricket coach.
Then he crossed over to Ananda College, Colombo, where he was
subsequently coached by P. W. Perera. Making his Test debut in
November 1990 just after his 20th birthday, his first six innings
yielded five ducks and a 1.After this difficult start in his first three
matches, he did not score above 29 in his next 11 innings, before
hitting his first Test century in his 10th match, against India, seven
years after his debut. He has 22 Test-match career ducks and 4
pairs (two ducks in a single match), both records for a top-order
batsman.A report prepared by Cricinfo in late 2005 showed that
since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the second
highest number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the
seventh highest success rate.
Who is X?

40. A.
• Marvan Atapattu

41. Q20.
• Connect.
(Exhaustive)

42. A.
• They are the only players who have batted
at all the 11 positions in international
cricket.
Abdul Razzak has done it in ODI's while
the rest in Tests.

43. THANK YOU!!