This document outlines the rules and questions for a cricket quiz on the social media platform Reddit. It contains 20 multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank questions about cricket players, matches, controversies, and terminology. Questions 11-15 follow a specific theme that participants can earn additional points for guessing. The quiz includes safety slides between questions and covers topics throughout cricket history from the 1990s to present day.

1. Cricket Quiz
u/offie_doosra

2. Rules
• 20 questions in total
• +10/-5 on Pounce
• +10 on Bounce
• Questions 11-15 are theme based.
• Guessing the theme (+20/+15/+10)
• After Question 12 (+20)
• After Question 13 (+15)
• After Question 14 (+10)
• No googling allowed :D
• Quiz Master is GOD

3. 0. Warm
up/Toss - Put
Funda

4. Safety Slide

5. Covid Scare –
No saliva for
shining balls

6. 1. Put Funda
(ID the match)

7. Safety Slide

8. (Answer Slide)
• Nathan Lyon (3rd in the list of most
runs given in an innings by Aus).
• Ind vs Aus 2011 Chepauk test
(Dhoni 224)

9. 2. Put Funda

10. Safety Slide

11. (Answer Slide)

12. 3. How is X associated with cricket?
A brand sponsoring a sports team is nothing new,
neither is getting a free T shirt with a box of beer!
This is a story of a successful marketing strategy of a
local brewing company X, making national headlines
and in some sense influencing the way cricket was
being watched. X’s merchandise saw a very steep rise
in popularity. Gradually stadiums started filling up
with X’s Jerseys; Players were excited , the
commentators wouldn’t stop talking about X, and the
country’s bookie agency even started offering odds
for it. How is X associated with cricket and why is it so
popular?

13. Safety Slide

15. 4. Song about whom?
“----- ------ is over the hill
Came second to Sonny Bill
He’ll only pick a fight with men in a wig
When he opens his gob
We think he’s a knooooob
With Root our captain we’ll take the urn home”

16. Safety Slide

17. 4. (Answer Slide)
“Davie Warner is over the hill
Came second to Sonny Bill
He’ll only pick a fight with men in a wig
When he opens his gob
We think he’s a knooooob
With Root our captain we’ll take the urn home”
• David Warner by Barmy Army
In response to Warner’s jibes against Ben Stokes’ recent drunken altercation back
home and Candice Warner’s past with Sonny Bill (Aus rugby star).

18. (Answer Slide)
David Warner by Barmy Army
In response to Warner’s jibes against Ben Stokes’ recent drunken altercation
back home and Candice Warner’s past with Sonny Bill (Aus rugby star).

19. 5. Put funda (contd next slide)
This was a historic match with a lot of
firsts. Some of them being,
• First test match for Ireland against
England
• Debut for Ireland at Lords
One such firsts, attracted a lot of hate
from the cricketing world. What are we
talking about?

20. 5. Put funda (contd)

21. Safety Slide

22. (Answer Slide)

23. 6. Put funda
Talks began in late 2000s, even after a whole decade, this feature is not fully in place
across many cricketing nations. Encountered a lot of roadblocks, especially from
purists. History is as follows,
• England Women vs Australia Women, ODI, 2009
• Guyana vs Trinidad & Tobago, 4-day, 2010
• Durham vs MCC, 4 day, 2010
• Zarai Taraqiati Bank Ltd vs Pakistan International Airlines, 4 day, 2011
• South Africa and Bangladesh, somet
• ime 2012 and 2013
• Sheffield Shield, Australia 2014 (full round)

24. Safety Slide

25. (Answer Slide) Pink Ball Games

26. 7. FITB the stunning resume

27. Safety Slide

28. (Answer Slide)
• Barmy Army Award for International
Player of the Year in 2017 and 2018.

29. 8. Connect (Non-exhaustive list)
• VVS Laxman - 134
• Harbhajan Singh – 103
• Ishanth Sharma – 97
• Zaheer Khan – 92
• Syed Kirmani – 88

30. Safety Slide

31. (Answer Slide)
Most-capped Indian Test cricketers to have never captained the team
even once.

32. 9. What am I talking about?
Babita Malkani, was responsible for the creation of something in 2009, which
was the year of its first appearance, that has since then been created/designed
by McCan Bespoke twice. It can be described as white in colour with gold
braiding, designed to make it appear striking.
What’s this creation of theirs, although not used on the cricket field, was seen
once again in 2017 in only its third appearance?

33. Safety Slide

34. (Answer Slide)
ICC Champions Trophy Winner Jacket

35. 10. BLM – ID the international cricketer
"Cricket is rife with racism. The issue you have in cricket is, the people running
the game don't care about black people in it. Black people are not important to
the structure of English cricket.
"If you look around English cricket at the moment, where the important
decisions are made, name one black man in those positions? You're talking the
Andrew Strauss or Ashley Giles roles. Which black man has ever had the
opportunity to make the big decisions on English cricket? Not one.
"Then scale down. Look at England head coaches. When has there been a
black head coach? Never. Any black captains [in county cricket]? Yours truly for
about six games [for Leicestershire]. The guy who replaced me got to do it for
the whole season and lost every game.

36. Safety Slide

37. (Answer Slide)
England’s opening batsman – Michael Carberry

38. Theme Round
• 5 Questions (+10/0/-5) around a single
theme
• Correct theme (very specific theme)
• <3 questions (+20)
• <4 questions (+15)
• <5 questions (+10)
• No guessing for theme after 5th question

39. 11. ID X and context
X, an umpire, slightly different from his collegues saw himself as an authority figure
out in the middle, empowered to decide fortunes of cricket and the cricketers. His first
book was authoritatively titled “The Decision Maker”. X believed in his interpretations
of rules as well as the extent of his jurisdiction, and many felt his views were distorted
on both counts.
A large part of the cricketing world, media and public especially from subcontinent had
cast severe disapproving looks at his high-handed supervision and virtually forced him
into retirement. Following this, X immediately released another book calling it “In the
Best Interests of the Game”, a title that seems to underline his self-satisfied
arrogance.
Who are we talking about and why were the subcontinent fans in particular furious?

40. Safety Slide

41. 11. (Answer Slide)
X - Darrell Hair
Infamously known for issuing a
total of 7 no-balls within 3 overs
of Muralitharan’s spell vs Aus in
1995, owing to throwing.

42. It was a very memorable match for X for multiple reasons,
• X was adjudged the Man Of the Match
• X achieved a unique milestone as shown in the picture.
• X was one short of another significant milestone after this game. Although he achieved it in the very next game.
• Last game for X in this venue.
Picture below is a snippet from cricinfo describing the memorable moment quite popularly referred to as, “A classic X
dismissal”.
X Y
X
Y Y
Y X
12. ID X, Y and context

43. Safety Slide

44. X – Shane Warne
Y – Andrew Strauss
Context – Shane Warne 700th wicket. Finished with 999 international wickets after this
game. First bowler to reach 1000 international wickets after the next game.
12. (Answer Slide)

45. 13. ID X and put
funda
Then Aus captain Steve Waugh
was quoted saying that X
caught all attention during a
Sheffield shield game where X
broke Damien Martyn’s arm.
Week later X received the
Baggy Green and made an
iconic debut joining the elite
club of scalping 5 wickets on
debut. ID X and put funda on
his debut.

46. Safety Slide

47. 13. (Answer Slide)
Brett Lee - 5fer on debut against India

48. 14. ID stadium and some
funda (next slide too)

49. 14. ID stadium (contd)

50. Safety Slide

51. 14. (Answer Slide)
Hagley Oval, Christchurch

52. 15. Connect & ID X, Y, Z
• 1992 – India, X
• 1994 – New Zealand, Y
• 1995 – England, X
• 1996 – India, Y
• 1998 – West Indies, Y
• 1999 – England, Y
• 2000 – Sri Lanka, Y
• 2002 – Pakistan, Y
• 2003 – West Indies, Y
• 2004 – England, Y
• 2006 – India, Y
• 2007 – West Indies, Y
• 2009 – England, Y
• 2010 – India, Y
• 2011 – Sri Lanka, Y
• 2013 – India, Y
• 2014 – West Indies, X
• 2015 – England, X
• 2016 – Sri Lanka, X
• 2017 – Zimbabwe, X
• 2018 – Pakistan, Z
• 2019 – England, Z
• 2020 - ______ , Z
• #X – 6
• #Y – 14
• #Z - 3

53. Safety Slide

54. 15. (Answer Slide)
Boxing Day tests tradition
(THEME) in SA
X - St George’s Park, PE
Y – Kingsmead, Durban
Z – SuperSport Park, Centurian

55. 11-15 Theme Answers
Theme – Boxing Day Tests
11. Darell Hair-Muralitharan, @ MCG (Boxing Day test - 1995)
12. Shane Warne 700 wickets, @ MCG (Boxing Day test – 2006)
13. Brett Lett 5fer debut, @ MCG (Boxing Day test – 1999)
14. Hagley Oval, Christchurch, (Boxing Day test venue in NZ)
15. Boxing day test tradition in South Africa.

56. 16. But why?
Robin Jackman heads to a plane after
being deported from Guyana in
February 1981, three days after
joining the England squad as a
replacement for the injured Bob
Willis. The Guyana Test was cancelled
and for a time the whole tour was in
doubt as Barbados also opposed
Jackman's inclusion. But diplomacy
prevailed and Jackman, 35, made his
Test debut at Bridgetown taking five
wickets in the match.

57. Safety Slide

58. (Answer Slide)
• The Caribbean nations boycotted South Africa because of apartheid practice.
They deported him because he had stayed in South Africa.
• Robin Jackman’s wife was South African and had 11 years of coaching
experience in SA.

59. 17. Put generic funda
• What is this?

60. Safety Slide

61. (Answer Slide)
• Official christmas cards designed for players of
MCC (England) and officials to sned it during the
series down-under.

62. 18. ID specific context
• "A celebrity and a cricketer like X should know the consequences of hurting
the religious sentiments of people. He should have known the consequences
of doing such ads," Justice AN Venugopal Gowda said in his oral observation,
earlier.
• "I haven't received any remuneration/goodwill or money for the news article or
for usage of my picture. Neither have I posed for the picture," X was quoted as
saying in the report.
• The SC finally quashed this case. What are we talking about here?

63. Safety Slide

64. (Answer Slide)
• Case filed by a social activist on MS
Dhoni for hurting religious
sentiments by posing as Lord Vishnu
gilding all sorts of items in hand.

65. 19. What controversy are we talking about?
• X, one of the brand ambassadors of popular liquor brand Y, appeared in its ad
in 2006, without _____. This hurt the feelings of orthodox members in a
particular community and led to anti-X protests with his effigies being burnt. A
specific religious body demanded apology from X and asked the brand to
withdraw the ad.
• X issued a public apology and the issue was quashed, but has always
remained a piece of attracted (positive and negative) throughout his career.
• Who and what controversy are we talking about?

66. Safety Slide

67. 19. What controversy are we talking about?
• X – Harbhajan Singh
• Y – Royal Stag
• Harbhajan acted in the ad without his turban and this provoked protests from
the orthodox sikh community.

68. 20. Connect and FITB (15 points)

69. Safety Slide

70. 20. Connect and FITB (15 points)

71. Thank You