This document contains the answers to a cricket quiz with 30 questions. It provides the correct responses to multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank style questions about cricketers, teams, matches, and events from around the world of cricket. The questions cover topics ranging from player autobiographies and nicknames to statistical feats, controversies, and memorable quotes from commentators.

1. IIM Calcutta
CRICKET QUIZ
2014
ANSWERS
Ashish Verma | Ashish Kumar Joshi | Ankit Kumar Dugar

2. PRELIMS

3. • 30 Questions
• Star Marked Questions(multiples of 7)
will be used as tiebreakers
• Quizmasters’ decision final
• Advantage for Highest scorers in finals

4. 1. Which player released his autobiography in 2012
named “The Breaks are Off”?

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6. Graeme Swann

7. 2. Mark Waugh was the younger of the two Waugh twins
and was often overshadowed by Steve. As a result of this
he was dubbed X in reference to the 1979 conflict in X
which is known as ‘the forgotten war’.
What is X?

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9. Afghanistan

10. 3. X made a reputation for himself as a useful lower-order
batsman but predominantly as a left-arm spinner. X also
holds the unique distinction of having captained his
country in both representative cricket (ODIs)
and tennis (Davis Cup) competition. X retired from
international cricket following the 1999 World Cup in
England but was persuaded to return to add experience to
his team for the 2003 World Cup in South Africa. Who is X?

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12. Aasif Karim

13. 4. Identify

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15. Adam Hollioake

16. 5. X was a clean striker of the cricket ball and was thrust
into international cricket at the age of 20 after topping the
averages in the 1999 Busta Cup. But he soon gained a
reputation as a one-day slogger and was discarded from
the Test side after one game in New Zealand in 1999-2000,
and even then for a while struggled to retain a regular
place in the ODI side. His poor run of low scores, added to
his side’s nervous chopping and changing, led to him being
discarded even though he tried to make a brief comeback
in 2004-05.Finally he took a break in 2006-07 as he
looked to life beyond cricket.

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18. Ricardo Powell

19. 6. Give the names of the only four non-Englishmen in the
100 FC century club

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21. Sir Donald Bradman
Sir Vivian Richards
Zaheer Abbas
Glenn Turner

22. 7. Identify the gentleman

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24. C Aubrey Smith

25. 8. Identify this player whose performances resulted in one
of his team’s cult mantras "We need sixes, fours and X to
win"

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27. Roger Twose

28. 9. X believed Y's use of a Z as a batting aid was "unethical"
and gave him an extra edge in the contest with the
bowlers. In their words, he had broken the “spirit and
tradition of the game”.
But MCC rejected the opinion saying “This should not be
considered unfair. Similarly, it has never been considered
unfair for batsmen to use two grips on the bat handle.”
Identify Y and Z

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30. Y= Adam Gilchrist; Z=Squash ball

31. 10. Identify the two names

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33. Hansie Cronje; Pedro Collins

34. 11. X Received India's greatest sports honour award, the
Arjuna Award in 1983. She lost her four front teeth while
playing yet she dedicated herself to the game. She is said
to be the greatest Indian woman cricketer of all time.
She lashed out at BCCI in 2013 saying unlike the Pakistan
Cricket Board that offers its women players central
contract, the BCCI has not implemented it which is
shameful. X also said that the former BCCI president
Sharad Pawar was the only supporter of the women's
cricket and things turned out to be different once he left.
Identify X

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36. Diana Edulji

37. 12. Who “Mankading” whom?

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39. Kapil Dev; Peter Kirsten

40. 13. Regarding X, Tariq Azim, a senator and keen cricket
fan, said changing the name would mean turning away
from historical connections.
"He's become a baddy now but if you go down that path we
would have to change a lot of road names," he said.
Who is X?

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42. Renaming Gaddafi Stadium

43. *14. X was a much loved Australian fast bowler who was
Australia's most economical bowler in the 1992 World
Cup and in the same season took 17 wickets in three Tests
against India.
Since retiring from cricket, he has worked in the television
media and Nationally, he was the host of Y from 1996 until
1998, and was also extremely popular in India on AXN
network.

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45. X= Mike Whitney; Y= Who Dares Wins

46. 15. X was reputedly invented by Y. Y became so
enamoured with the delivery that at times he bowled it
almost as frequently as his usual stock delivery. The
great Don Bradman once remarked to Y that he must have
forgotten how to bowl his usual delivery, as he bowled so
many X. Ironically, Bradman was bowled shortly
thereafter at a memorial match by Y, who produced a
perfectly pitched stock ball that did just enough to remove
Bradman's off bail. "There y'are Don, I told you I could
bowl my stock delivery" was Y's alleged response. Identify
X and Y?

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48. X=Flipper; Y=Clarrie Grimmett

49. 16. There are ten instances of this in first class cricket.
Archie MacLaren was the first to do it. Only two players-
Bill Ponsford and X have done it twice. Below is the only
Indian who has achieved this feat.
What are we talking about?

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51. First Class Quadruple Centuries

52. 17. “It's a big surprise for me. Look at the ICC Future Tours
Programme for Test nations. It says that Test-playing
nations have to play bilateral series on home-and-away
basis, but for some reason X has not hosted Y at all since
1999. I don't know why X doesn't want to host Y. We've
hosted X quite a few times, and are more than willing to
host anybody in the future. I think ICC needs to look into this
matter very seriously. It's a question of why they haven't
and the answer is best known to them”
These are the words of a former cricketer from Y. Identify
X and Y

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54. X=India; Y=Bangladesh

55. 18. “I never heard his name and early morning my nephew
told me about his feat, and I sort of said the first news of
2014 is of my record being broken”
Who talking about what?

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57. Shahid Afridi responds to Corey Anderson breaking
his record for the fastest ODI century

58. 19. This game will be remembered for perhaps the most
glorious failure in the history of Test cricket. X proceeded
to treat Y’s attack as if they had been drafted in from the
local kindergarten. He briefly raised hopes of a jaw-
dropping, eye-popping win. In the end, Y, thanks to their
earlier all-round efforts, prevailed. But this was, and will
always be, X’s match.

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60. Nathan Astle’s 222 against England, Fastest Double
Century

61. 20. X fondly called `Fergie' after the famous West Indian
spin bowler Bill Ferguson, mesmerized the West Indians
on the mat wicket at Kanpur, where he took nine wickets
for 109. He was equally good on hard rock-like wickets
in West Indies, taking 27 wickets in the 1952-53 series
and 17 on the 1958 tour.
Sadly, his exit from the national team was ignominious.
Nari Contractor, former captain and close friend, while
re-counting events on that fateful day, said it was tragic
that X had retired after he had been falsely implicated in
a crime, during a Test match in New Delhi. In reality, it
was committed by another late cricketer in Delhi during
a Test. Identify X.

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63. Subhash Gupte

64. *21. Identify the cup?

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66. Morocco Cup

67. 22. During a chat Imran told Allan Border “AB, give me
Sunil Gavaskar and B.S. Chandra Shekhar from India, we
will beat Australia” In a shocking reply Allan Border said
“Imran, just give me X from Pakistan and we will beat the
whole world..”

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69. Two Umpires

70. 23. What is blanked out?

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72. Viv Richards

73. 24. Put funda

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75. Shiv Sena Pitch Digging Incident

76. 25. Perhaps the most celebrated cricketing feud of all –the X-Y
feud is said to have started in a bar during the 1977 Centenary
Test in Melbourne but, from there, details get murky. X has
claimed Y held a glass to his throat and threatened to cut him
from "ear to ear" (an allegation Y denies). Other versions of
events have Y either pushing or punching X off his chair, with
X then either fleeing the bar (Y’s version) or leaving calmly
(his own take on events). No matter the conjecture, the pair
plainly don't like each other and reportedly had to be pulled
apart in the Adelaide Oval car park after commentating (for
different broadcasters!) at a recent Ashes Test.
Identify X and Y

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78. X=Ian Chappell; Y=Ian Botham

79. 26. In domestic cricket in India, instead of DL method what
method is used to settle results of rain affected matches?
Identify X and Y

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81. The Jayadevan system (also known as VJD Method)

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84. Warne-Muralitharan trophy
Australia leads 3-0 and all these were the player
of series in those 3 series

85. *28. Connect
“There's Neil Harvey standing at leg slip with his legs wide apart,
waiting for a tickle”
On Ian Botham getting out hit wicket, trying to hurdle the
stumps- “He had failed to get his leg over" (a British slang term
meaning to have sex)
“The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey”

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87. Brian Johnston

88. 29. Identify the gentleman on the right

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90. Mohsin Khan

91. 30. Whose voice?

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93. AB de Villiers