The document describes a cricket quiz to be held on 20 January 2019 hosted by Pravar Joshi. It provides details on the structure of the prelims round, which will have 20 multiple choice questions with the top 6 teams qualifying for the next round. It also notes that hints may be provided if no team objects. The rest of the document consists of the 20 questions and their answers.

1. Spandan 2019
Presents
THE CRICKET QUIZ
Hosted by-Pravar Joshi
20 January 2019 LHB 308 11 AM
Time to Test your cricketing ego

2. About the prelims
 There are 20 questions, each carrying 1 point.
 Top 6 teams will qualify for the next round.
 5 questions are star marked. In case of a tie-break
situation, the team with more number of star marked
questions answered correctly will qualify for the next
round.
 Hints will only be provided(in some questions) if no team
objects to giving hints.

3. This stadium has hosted 2 ODI matches. India
lost to Zimbabwe in one of those matches
while defeated West Indies in the other.
Zaheer Khan made the Indian record of
scoring most runs in a single over in one-
dayers at this venue.
Which stadium in Rajasthan is this?
1.

4. Zebra, racoon have a special place in the
world of cricket. Which other animal is also a
part of this list?
2*.

5. In June 2018, BCCI named her as the Best
Women's International Cricketer.
In December 2018, ICC awarded her with the
Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the best
female cricketer of the year.
She was also named the ODI Player of the
Year by the ICC at the same time.
Oh My God-Who is she???
3.

6. 4.
Delhi
Daredevils
Kings XI
Punjab
Mumbai
Indians
Royal
Challengers
Bangalore
Gujarat
Lions
Kolkata
Knight
Riders
Following is the list of the IPL teams in order
in which this Indian player has played. Who is
he?

7. Danielle Nicole Wyatt (born 22 April 1991), is
an English international cricketer and plays
for the England women's team. She made her
debut for the England women's team against
Indian women's team in Mumbai on 1 March
2010.
On April 4 2014, she did a very comical and
stupid thing which was related to a very
famous Indian cricketer who was playing
against England at that time.
What did she do?
5*.

8. Utterly…butterly…delicious!!
What is this Amul ad talking about?
6.

9. Jim Laker
Terry Alderman
Rodney Hogg
Terry Alderman
Shane Warne
Sir Alec Bedser
Dennis Lillee
Maurice Tate
Mitchell Johnson
These are the starting entries of which elite
list of players?
7.

10. 8.
Who is the bowler in this clipping??
(atleast his surname)

11. The innovation was conceived by Bronte
EcKermann, an Australian mechanical
industrial designer.
It was first tried out in a club game in
Adelaide. Once Cricket Australia was
convinced about using it, it was decided that
it would be used in the 2012 edition of the
Big Bash League in Australia.
What innovation?
9.

12. "It is a very spiritual country, very forward-
thinking nation. I really like that
combination. You have to have a good
balance of life. With the name like India, she
will have the best of both worlds and that
sort of balance.“
Who is this cricketer who named his daughter
‘India’?
10*.

13. This incident was one of the first publicised
'doctoring' (using unfair means to enhance
the swing or seam abilities) of the cricket
ball by a bowler, when it was alleged ‘Y’
rubbed ‘X’ onto one side of the ball so it
would swing better.
Identify X and Y.
11.

14. Identify the person on the right.
12.

15. According to ‘X’, “We loved him(‘Y’) from
the minute we saw his approach and
enthusiasm. There was a bit of ‘boy wonder’
in him so we gave him a longer leash than
most, but his lack of discipline was a problem
because it sometimes led the younger guys
down the wrong path.”
X called Y ‘Rockstar’ and they were in the
same IPL team(Rajasthan Royals) in 2008.
Identify X and Y.
13.

16. The following is an image of the Pink Day Test
match hosted at this stadium in the memory
of the wife of a player who is native to the
city in which this stadium is. Identify the
player and the stadium.
14.

17. He is a world cup winner.
He has the record for playing the most
number of ODI innings before being dismissed
for a duck.
He is in the ICC list of elite umpires.
Who is he?
15.

18. "When I was batting, there were
some_______ on the crease, so I chucked one
off the wicket," he said. "When I played the
next ball there were again some _______on
the wicket. So obviously there was someone
throwing it on the wicket, which I didn't
like.”
This incident took place in India tour of
England 2007.
Fill in the blanks.
16.

19. Edgbaston 2011 – X drops Alastair Cook – Cook
scores 294
Sydney 2012 – X drops Y – Y scores 329*
Wellington 2014 – X drops Brendon McCullum
and he scores 302.
Identify X and Y.
17.

20. What is the name of the tactics that this
picture is showing?
18.

21. He was the first person to have been called
‘The little master’.
He has played the longest test innings when
played for 16 hours.
He is known to have played the slowest test
innings when he scored 20 off 223 balls at a
strike rate of 8.97.
Whom are we talking about?
19*
.

22. As absurd as it might sound when reading for
the very first time, a Pakistani batsman has
pulled out of the series against South Africa
citing reasons of a very strange thing. This is
a very recent news.
Name the batsman and the strange thing.
20*
.

23. ANSWERS

24. This stadium has hosted 2 ODI matches. India
lost to Zimbabwe in one of those matches
while defeated West Indies in the other.
Zaheer Khan made the Indian record of
scoring most runs in a single over in one-
dayers at this venue.
Which stadium in Rajasthan is this?
1.

25. Barkatullah Khan Stadium, Jodhpur

26. Zebra, racoon have a special place in the
world of cricket. Which other animal is also a
part of this list?
2*.

27. Elephant

28. In June 2018, BCCI named her as the Best
Women's International Cricketer.
In December 2018, ICC awarded her with the
Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the best
female cricketer of the year.
She was also named the ODI Player of the
Year by the ICC at the same time.
Oh My God-Who is she???
3.

29. Smriti Mandhana

30. 4.
Delhi
Daredevils
Kings XI
Punjab
Mumbai
Indians
Royal
Challengers
Bangalore
Gujarat
Lions
Kolkata
Knight
Riders
Following is the list of the IPL teams in order
in which this Indian player has played. Who is
he?

31. Dinesh Kartik

32. Danielle Nicole Wyatt (born 22 April 1991), is
an English international cricketer and plays
for the England women's team. She made her
debut for the England women's team against
Indian women's team in Mumbai on 1 March
2010.
On April 4 2014, she did a very comical and
stupid thing which was related to a very
famous Indian cricketer who was playing
against England at that time.
What did she do?
5*.

34. Utterly…butterly…delicious!!
What is this Amul ad talking about?
6.

35. Rishab Pant-Tim Paine’s kids’
babysitter!!

36. Jim Laker
Terry Alderman
Rodney Hogg
Terry Alderman
Shane Warne
Sir Alec Bedser
Dennis Lillee
Maurice Tate
Mitchell Johnson
These are the starting entries of which elite
list of players?
7.

37. Most wickets in an Ashes series

38. 8.
Who is the bowler in this clipping??
(atleast his surname)

39. Trevor Chappell

40. The innovation was conceived by Bronte
EcKermann, an Australian mechanical
industrial designer.
It was first tried out in a club game in
Adelaide. Once Cricket Australia was
convinced about using it, it was decided that
it would be used in the 2012 edition of the
Big Bash League in Australia.
What innovation?
9.

41. LED Stumps

42. "It is a very spiritual country, very forward-
thinking nation. I really like that
combination. You have to have a good
balance of life. With the name like India, she
will have the best of both worlds and that
sort of balance.“
Who is this cricketer who named his daughter
‘India’?
10*.

43. Jonty Rhodes

44. This incident was one of the first publicised
'doctoring' (using unfair means to enhance
the swing or seam abilities) of the cricket
ball by a bowler, when it was alleged ‘Y’
rubbed ‘X’ onto one side of the ball so it
would swing better.
Identify X and Y.
11.

45. X: Vaseline
Y: John Lever

46. Identify the person on the right.
12.

47. Sudhir Gautam or Sudhir Chaudhary

48. According to ‘X’, “We loved him(‘Y’) from
the minute we saw his approach and
enthusiasm. There was a bit of ‘boy wonder’
in him so we gave him a longer leash than
most, but his lack of discipline was a problem
because it sometimes led the younger guys
down the wrong path.”
X called Y ‘Rockstar’ and they were in the
same IPL team(Rajasthan Royals) in 2008.
Identify X and Y.
13.

49. X: Shane Warne
Y: Ravindra Jadeja

50. The following is an image of the Pink Day Test
match hosted at this stadium in the memory
of the wife of a player who is native to the
city in which this stadium is. Identify the
player and the stadium.
14.

51. Player: Glen McGrath
Stadium: SCG

52. He is a world cup winner.
He has the record for playing the most
number of ODI innings before being dismissed
for a duck.
He is in the ICC list of elite umpires.
Who is he?
15.

53. Kumar Dharmasena

54. "When I was batting, there were
some_______ on the crease, so I chucked one
off the wicket," he said. "When I played the
next ball there were again some _______on
the wicket. So obviously there was someone
throwing it on the wicket, which I didn't
like.”
This incident took place in India tour of
England 2007.
Fill in the blanks.
16.

55. Jelly beans

56. Edgbaston 2011 – X drops Alastair Cook – Cook
scores 294
Sydney 2012 – X drops Y – Y scores 329*
Wellington 2014 – X drops Brendon McCullum
and he scores 302.
Identify X and Y.
17.

57. X: Ishant Sharma
Y: Michael Clarke

58. What is the name of the tactics that this
picture is showing?
18.

59. Bodyline tactics.

60. He was the first person to have been called
‘The little master’.
He has played the longest test innings when
played for 16 hours.
He is known to have played the slowest test
innings when he scored 20 off 223 balls at a
strike rate of 8.97.
Whom are we talking about?
19*
.

61. Hanif Mohammad

62. As absurd as it might sound when reading for
the very first time, a Pakistani batsman has
pulled out of the series against South Africa
citing reasons of a very strange thing. This is
a very recent news.
Name the batsman and the strange thing.
20*
.

63. Batsman: Haris Sohail
Reason: He was under spell of black
magic!