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Audience
• Which team holds the record for most consecutive T20I wins?

• Afghanistan. 10 matches across 2016-17 season

List it
• List the Indian captains in all 11 U-19 world cups (1988 – known as
Youth World Cup, 1998-2016). 2006 has 2 captains. Name both. Total
12 names along with respective years
• 2 points for each name and year. Bonus 6 points for naming all 12

• 1988 - Myluahanan Senthilnathan (current coach at MRF pace foundation)
• 1998 - Amit Pagnis
• 2000 - Mohammad Kaif
• 2002 - Parthiv Patel
• 2004 - Ambati Rayudu
• 2006 - Cheteshwar Pujara / Rohit Sharma
• 2008 - Virat Kohli
• 2010 - Ashok Menaria
• 2012 - Unmukt Chand
• 2014 - Vijay Zol
• 2016 - Ishan Kishan

Audience: In a Tiananmen square like moment, this girl stood in
front of a hummer even as her handbag got crushed earlier this
year. Who is sitting in the hummer?

• In 2005, roughly around the same time as Rahul Dravid became the
Indian captain replacing Saurav Ganguly, this organization A made him
their brand ambassador. He replaced another sportsperson B. This
created a minor controversy with A terminating deal with B over an e-
mail. However, in 2008-09, A went through tough times and dropped
Dravid as brand ambassador. Recently, A has hired an Olympic
medalist C as their brand ambassador. Identify A,B and C
• For pounce, need all 3. For bounce, need 2 for 5 points and all 3 for
10 points

• A – Bank of Baroda
• B – Koneru Humpy
• C – PV Sindhu

• A few months back, Harsha Bhogle had tweeted a team list of his
playing days for Osmania University. The team included the likes of
Mohammad Azharuddin and Arshad Ayub. Who was the
wicketkeeper in that team, a man who shares his initials with a
Private Equity firm and a cricket team?

• Kiran Kumar Reddy, former CM of Andhra Pradesh

• John Brian "Jack" Iverson was a golfer and tennis player turned test
cricketer who had fought in the 2nd world war. He played 5 tests
between 1950 and 1951, had a batting average of 0.75 and a bowling
average of 15.23. He is credited with “inventing” what in cricket? For
what peculiar reason did he give up cricket?
• For pounce need both parts

• The bent finger action, precursor to the carom ball
• He had to look after his father’s business

• Post Iverson, John Gleeson became the pallbearer of the "bent-
finger" action, using two fingers: a bent middle finger and the thumb
pressing against the ball on both sides in an attempt to find a new
variety of bowling tricks. A quiet, reserved man, Gleeson rarely
socialized with his colleagues outside matches. In fact, he often took a
flight (if there was one available) immediately after the match. This
earned him the nickname CHO. What did CHO stand for? What did
Gleeson credit his strong fingers to?

• Cricket Hours Only
• Milking cows (he was the son of a dairy farmer)

• The 1988 Youth World Cup (which later became the U19 World Cup)
had hosts Australia winning the tournament comfortably. However,
only 2 from that squad went on to play test cricket. One of them was
Stuart Law, who played just 1 test and scored 54* in his only innings.
The other person played 19 tests and 50 ODIs. He also became a
widely discussed name in the Eastern part of India in the mid 1990s.
Who, and why widely discussed?

• Alan Mullaly
• Sourav Ganguly’s debut 100 at Lords’ was reached by hitting Mullaly
for a boundary

• When India toured Sri Lanka for 2 unofficial tests in 1973-74, this
person was Sunil Gavaskar’s opening partner, and he scored a 100
and a 50 and became Indian cricketer of the year. He also toured
England in 1974 and played one ODI, but was never picked for India
again. His son played FC cricket too, albeit briefly. However, his
greatest moment as someone involved with cricket came in 2008.
Who is this person and what was the 2008 moment?

• Gopal Bose
• He was the manager of the U19 side that was led by Virat Kohli and
won the 2008 world cup

• Pallavi Sharda, who hosted IPL in 2016 and acted in movies like Besharam
and Begum Jaan, made her Bollywood debut in the 2012 Kareena Kapoor
starrer Heroine. She played a Southern star. What was her name in the
movie?
• In Heroine, the two collaborated for the first time. Their collaboration
came back into the news earlier this year for a controversial reason. Who
are they? For pounce need both parts

Gayatri Reddy. Randeep Hooda played a cricketer in the movie.
Virender Sehwag trained him. The controversy earlier this year
was the Gurmehar Kaur controversy. Audience: in which movie
did Pallavi Sharda act with an international cricketer?

Only 2 wicketkeepers to achieve what feat?

• Only two wicket-keepers have removed their pads and taken hat-
tricks in first-class cricket: Probir Sen for Bengal against Orissa at
Cuttack in 1954-55 and Alan Smith for Warwickshire against Essex at
Clacton in 1965.

• What is the cricket connection of Egyptian tennis players Ahmed El
Mehelmy and Hisham Nasser?

They are the only tennis players who have played Davis Cup
singles matches against Asif Karim. Karim lost both matches

• This man has led a colorful life. He played FC cricket in 2 countries.
When he was called to play his last test, he was the only player in the
two squads who was not playing FC cricket anywhere. He incidentally
achieved his highest FC score in the last test. Twice- in his late 50s
and early 60s, he was charged with sexually abusing minors. This man
holds the record of highest FC runs without a century (only player
with more than 10,000 runs and no FC 100)
• However, whenever we hear his name, whatever be the topic of
discussion, we remember it for a particular “kabab me haddi”
achievement of his. Who?

• Graham Antony Richard (Tony) Lock

• What remarkable first did Ron Lovitt capture using “Long Tom”?

This photo – the first tied test at the Gabba in
1960. Lovitt was a photographer with “The Age”.
His camera was nicknamed “Long Tom”

• India’s sixth-ever Test (the Old Trafford Test of 1936) saw a particular
record which was unbroken till the Port-of-Spain Test of 2002. That
record has been equaled thrice after the Test in following 10 years.
What record?

• Most Ranji Trophy teams represented in a Test. The 1936 test saw
players from 9 different teams. 2002 Port of Spain test had players
from 10 Ranji Trophy teams.
• Karnataka (Rahul Dravid and Javagal Srinath), Mumbai (Sachin
Tendulkar), Hyderabad (VVS Laxman), Bengal (Sourav Ganguly),
Punjab (Harbhajan Singh), Railways (Sanjay Bangar), Orissa (SS Das),
Baroda (Zaheer Khan), Delhi (Ashish Nehra), and Haryana (Ajay Ratra)

Nehra-ji’s international captains. Inzamam was the
Asia captain in the 2005 Afro Asian Cup

At the Waverley Oval, this poem is written which is
dedicated to him
And though there's never a grave to tell,
Nor a cross to mark his fall,
Thank God! we know that he "batted well"
In the last great Game of all
Who is he and what is the significance of the last 2
lines? For pounce need both parts

• Norman Callaway
• Batted in only one FC innings: for New South Wales against
Queensland and scored 207. Enlisted in the WW1 and died without
playing another FC match. So, holds the record for the highest FC
average of 207

• A fairly popular model and cook, this person used to own his own
restaurant. A contemporary of Yuvraj Singh and Laxmi Ratan Shukla,
he rarely speaks about his cricketing achievements, despite having
represented his state with some distinction in U16 and U19 levels in
late 90s-early 2000s. His batch mates at Stephens speak of inter
University matches when he had taken 6 wickets for less than 100
runs against a strong Mumbai University team in a Rohinton Baria
trophy match, and a fighting 50 against a visiting Melbourne
University team in a friendly exhibition match. How did he achieve
long deserved stardom in 2016?
• One of his relatives is named after an Indian cricketer. Name the
relative. For pounce need both parts

Angad Bedi as Rajveer Singh in Pink. Half
brother Gavasinder Singh

Whose portrait, known as “The Croucher” for
his excellent ground fielding skills?

• George Deane played a first class match for Hampshire in 1848, and
was dismissed for a duck in both innings, on both occasions being
bowled by John Wisden. However, Deane is known to be the first FC
level cricketer to reach a landmark. What landmark?

Name her. Who is her well known father-in-law?
For pounce need both parts

• Ayesha Faridi
• Dilip Vengsarkar

• This autobiography title is an alleged sledge that was directed at the
author by a part time boxer whose first opponent was an American
named Richard Dawson. The author’s middle names are “la Bertram”,
which the author claims means “the best”. The author recently
described himself as a “man whore whose feats are at par with the
best gigolos”
• Name – the book, the author and the boxer. For pounce need all
parts. For bounce, 2 needed for 5 points

• Mind the Windows, Tino Best, Andrew Flintoff

• Wisden Book of the Year winners – Ed Smith (2005), Andrew Strauss
(2014) and Simon Jones (2016)

Mini Connect starts (20/-9). 6 points
throughout. For 2 parts, 3 points apiece
1. Ed Smith was the reviewer of the book that won the 2006 award (by
Gideon Haigh named “Ashes 2005”). Which cricket historian reviewed
his 2005 award winning book “On and off the field”?

15/-6, 3+3
2. In 1986, The MCC denied entry to a team to the Lords’ Pavilion
causing their captain to quip that the MCC should rename itself. What
name did the captain suggest? Who was the captain?

10/-3, 3+3
3. She is only the 3rd person in the world to head a national level Stock
Exchange. However, controversies related to selective data leak saw her
resign in 2016. Who is she and who replaced her?

5/0
4. Based on the recommendations by amicus curiae-senior
advocate Gopal Subramaniam who was investigating the issues of
financial irregularities and mismanagement in the Padmanabhaswamy
Temple, the Supreme Court of India issued an interim order on 24 April
2014 stating that this gentleman will supervise special audit of property
of temple. Who?

• Ramchandra Guha
• Diana Edulji and Male Chauvinist Pigs
• Chitra Ramakrishna and Vikram Limaye
• Vinod Rai
• Panel of administrators selected by Supreme Court to run BCCI

• A said about B – “Not to have seen the cinema of B means existing in
the world without seeing the sun or the moon”. At least 4 family
members of B had played first class cricket, most famous of them
being his grand uncle C, often compared to WG Grace himself
• Actresses D and E in different movies had the first name of A.
Cricketer F’s daughter’s first name is also same as A
• D has a number of cricket connections, including acting in a movie G
loosely based on cricketer H. E, too has a few cricket connections of
her own. She dated I, who has managed a few cricketers and is
related to one. E’s alleged biological mother (who vehemently denies
this) was married to a cricketer J
• ID A to J. 2 points per identification. Bonus 5 for getting all right

• A – Akira Kurosawa
• B – Satyajit Ray
• C – Saradaranjan Ray
• D – Anushka Sharma (audience 1: name the Indian cricketer she
allegedly dated in 2012)
• E – Sonakshi Sinha
• F – Ravichandran Ashwin
• G – Patiala House
• H – Monty Panesar
• I – Bunty Sajdeh (audience 2: name his cricketer relative)
• J – Mohsin Khan (audience 3: name Sonakshi’s alleged biological
mother)

Audience: Where would you find the ’268 Bar’ and the name is a
tribute to which cricketing achievement?

At the Oval, dedicated to Ali Brown’s knock of 268 – the highest in one
day/list A cricket

Connect the man on the left to the man
shaking hands with Pandit J. Nehru

• Governors of Bombay who also were first class cricketers - Colonel
George Robert Canning Harris (after whom Harris Shield is named)
and Raja Sir Maharaj Singh, the oldest FC debutante ever

• Which Indian test cricketer was Raja Sir Maharaj Singh’s Aide-de-camp
when he was Governor of Bombay between 1948 and 1952?
• Who, 44 years junior to the Raja, dismissed Raja Sir Maharaj Singh in
his only FC innings?

• Chaminda Vaas and X were fellow brand ambassadors of Sri Lankan
Ice Cream manufacturer “Elephant House” in the early 2000s. Vaas
was then rehabilitating from injury and he sought X’s help with his
run up. X suggested a few changes and Vaas lapped them up with
great effect, emerging as the top wicket taker in the 2003 World Cup.
Who is X?

Susanthika Jayasinghe, the 2000 Sydney
Olympics silver medalist in 200 m sprint

• In 1924-25 the MCC toured India and Ceylon- led by Maurice Tate,
they dominated and won almost every match they played. On the
way back they stopped at this place. Arthur Gilligan, the captain of
MCC was invited by Hubert Ashton (a former Essex cricketer and
Bristol Rovers footballer) to play a 2-day match with a local team. This
match later gained FC status. Defying Tate, Stuart Boyes and George
Geary, the local team etched out a draw. What was the venue of the
match, in the news in India earlier this year?

• Rangoon Gymkhana at Rangoon

What is the cricket connection?

James Stewart’s character in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ was called
George Bailey. A google image search for ‘George Bailey’ is this

• This person was the then managing editor of Hindustan Times. He
was passionate abut cricket, and HT sponsored the scoreboard at
Ferozeshah Kotla during his tenure. In June 1948, HT was in the
process of collaborating with Reuters for international news, for
which he had to be in London. At the same time, the Ashes was about
to begin, and news had spread that this would the last tour of
Bradman. The first test was to happen at Nottingham, and he could
not get a place to stay for the night. So he got his connections and
arranged to stay in a local jail (befittingly) for the night. Who was this
cricket crazy editor of the Hindustan Times?

• Devdas Gandhi, youngest son of Mohandas Gandhi

• Artist Aurora Zogoiby reproduced this scene on canvas. But while the
original kiss was nothing more than a peck on the cheek, in Aurora's
painting, it is transformed into a luscious lip lock, a Khajuraho-level
erotic embrace ogled by everyone around including “slavering
politicians“, “coolly observant scientists“, wise-cracking industrialists,
and the poor Common Man.
• This is newspaper report on a common man cartoon in 1995. Where
did Auora Zogoiby reproduce the kiss? Who was kissed?

• The Moor’s Last Sigh
• Abbas Ali Baig

• A match between BHU and CU was played in the grounds of Benares
Arts College. The tournament was Rohinton Baria Trophy, the dates
were 3-5 January, 1961. BHU won the match comfortably on the basis
of a 153 run first innings lead. However, in the second innings they
were reduced to 97/5 when BHU declared. An off spin bowler from
CU took 4 wickets for 25 runs. What was the surname of the off spin
bowler?

• Mitter. This was probably the inspiration for Pradosh C Mitter’s cricket
exploits in Benares against BHU as described in “Joy Baba Felunath”

• Murugesan Dickeshwashankar Thirushkamini is one of the most
educated Indian cricketers with an Mphil from Madras University. A
former Border-Gavaskar cricket scholar, Thirush Kamini is the
youngest ever to represent the Tamil Nadu senior team (at age 10)
• Thirush Kamini is the first Indian to achieve what distinction in 50
over World Cup cricket? Among all the active Indian cricketers who
have played at least two tests and scored at least 100 runs, what
record does Thirush Kamini hold?

• First Indian woman to score a World Cup 100
• Highest test average (cut off of 100 runs) – test average of 79

• X and Y were distant cousins. Y has a football tournament named
after him. X captained the Presidency College cricket team and was
the captain of the team that won the Bengal Inter Collegiate cricket
Championship in 1944. He had scored three double centuries and
1000 runs for three consecutive seasons and later played cricket for
the Indian Gymkhana FC while he was studying law in England.
Distant cousins of X and Y include Nobel laureates and union
ministers. However, we would know X and Y for completely different
reasons. Who are X and Y? Who is their Nobel laureate cousin Z?
• All parts needed for pounce. For bounce, 2 correct gets 5 points

• X – Siddhartha Shankar Ray
• Y – Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee
• Z – Amartya Sen

The only Muslim in Yogi Adityanath’s cabinet

A cartoon shows 2 “giants” (the batsman A and the wicketkeeper B) square off against each
other. B, a good friend of Alec Bedser, is an honorary lifetime umpire at Lords’. Who are A
and B? A was the brand ambassador of which organization when this match took place? All
parts needed for pounce. For bounce, 2 correct gets 5 points

• A – Don Bradman. B – Boris Karloff aka William Pratt
• Australian Dried Fruit Board had sponsored Don’s honeymoon in the
US in a bid to popularize cricket and promote their own business
interests in cricket

• Cricket has been played twice at the Asian Games: 2010 Guangzhou
and 2014 Incheon. In both the editions, the women’s version has seen
the same 3 teams finish 1st, 2nd and 4th respectively. Name all 3 teams
(at least 2 – with positions – for 5 points, for bounce need all 3)

• 1st – Pakistan
• 2nd – Bangladesh
• 4th – China
• Audience: who finished 3rd on the 2 occasions?

• Twins Cecelia and Isabel joined the Signal twin sisters from New
Zealand in representing their country together. Incidentally, their two
elder brothers, debuted in the same match but faced off against each
other. Their eldest brother has played List A cricket as well. Name
their father

• James Joyce, from the Joyce family of Ireland (Ed played for both
England and Ireland)

He inspired which character in popular culture? His
brother was the first to achieve what, something that
inspired Dr. BR Ambedkar? (for pounce need both parts)

• Palwankar Baloo inspired the character of Kachra in Lagaan
• How brother Palwankar Vittal became the first “untouchable” /
“Dalit” to be captain of the Hindu team by the Hindu Gymkhana Club
(read an article about him on Cricket Cacophony blog)

• Lt. Col. P. R. Godavarma Raja was a sports and tourism promoter and
administrator, pilot, sportsman and Sanskrit scholar. He started the
Kerala cricket association and was the first President between 1950
and 1963. GV Raja became the first person from Kerala to become an
office-holder of BCCI when he became its Vice President. However,
before he started the KCA, GV Raja founded the Trivandrum Tennis
Club to popularize Tennis in Kerala. Who did he invite to inaugurate
the same by playing an exhibition match in 1938?

• Bill Tilden, the defending Wimbledon Champion

• Nadeem Khan played 2 tests and 2 ODIs in an otherwise
unremarkable career for Pakistan. However, something he did in the
late 90s led to something that brought shame to this city. What?

• His throw from the deep led to run out of Sachin Tendulkar in the
Eden test in 1999. This led to riots and the match was finally played in
an empty stadium

• A is a cricketer who has played a single ODI for UAE in 2015, and also
a few FC and List A matches. His namesake A-Razvi also played cricket,
represented Hyderabad, captained the national team and is related to
2 other national team captains – one by birth, other by marriage.
• Two of A-Razvi’s’s cousins (son of one of the captains mentioned
above and father-in-law of the other) played club cricket. The son’s
namesake B made his List A debut earlier this year for team C. C made
their FC, List A and T20 debuts as late as 2015-16.
• C’s home ground is D. D is the ground where the national team
hosted their first ODI match and had 2 trivia loaded international
matches vs their arch rivals. ID A, B, C and D (for 5 points, 3 IDs are
needed, for 10 pounce, all 4)

• A – Asif Iqbal (and Asif Iqbal Rizvi). Audience: name the two related
cricket captains
• B – Nasir Ahmed (the other cousin is Imran Mirza)
• C – FATA province
• D – Jinnah Stadium (one match vs India was the ODI called off due to
Indira Gandhi’s death, other was the test where Sachin was hit on the
nose by Waqar)

Emmanuel Benjamin and the man in the picture
(often called “poor man’s Sobers”) are the only 2
Indians to do what?

• Play in the Sheffield Shield
• Ebrahim Benjamin and Rusi Surti

Simply describe what is happening

• The Masai Warriors playing in the Last Man Standing tournament at
Lords’ in 2013

• Sean Williams has been playing for Zimbabwe since 2005 having
played three 50 over world cups, was their captain in 2006 U-19 WC
and is married to a playball coach. His father and 2 brothers have also
been first class cricketers. However, the most famous sportsperson
from his family is his mother Patricia McKillop. What is her claim to
fame? Patricia was part of a team whose captain also came from a
sporting family. Who was the captain’s well known brother? (for
pounce need both parts)

• Joint top scorer in the 1980 Olympics women’ hockey competition
which Zimbabwe won. Patricia also played Golf at an amateur level
• The captain of that team was Ann Grant, Duncan Fletcher’s sister

• A and B are only 2 cricketers who have opened the bowling and taken
5 catches in the same innings. B bowled only 1 over and became
eligible for the record. B, along with 4 others, held the record for most
catches by a non-keeper in a test before it was broken by a
compatriot C. Recently, one of B’s former teammates D told on air
that they share the same nickname and messages meant for one
would often reach the other
• A’s record came in a test which will go down in the record books for a
completely different reason. For a seamer, A is second only to Sir
Richard Hadlee (along with Sir Ian Botham and Dale Steyn) in terms of
number of caught-and-bowled dismissals (A has 9, Hadlee has 10)
• Who are A, B, C and D? (for 5 points, at least 3 are needed, for
pounce, all 4)

• A – Darren Sammy (Audience: in which test did he open the bowling
and took 5 catches?
• B – Yajurvindra Singh
• C – Ajinkya Rahane
• D – Sunil Gavaskar (nickname: Sunny)

• When a navy cook Michael Angelow’s mom heard of it, she said –
“We are not that sort of family. He's in for a ticking-off from me when
he gets home”. He was offered money to repeat the same in
Wimbledon and a few other places. However, Angelow went back to
being a chef on board oil tankers for six years before leaving the
merchant navy. He has worked as a chef ever since and now lives in
Luton. What did Michael Angelow do?

Audience
The “A” ground was established in 1958 and has hosted Ranji matches
for Services, Delhi and Railways. The “B” ground was established has
hosted List A matches and domestic T20 matches. Which sports
complex? Who used to own the ground in the late 1970s-eary 1980s?

• Palam Ground Complex / Model Sports Complex
• Air India

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