KQA Cricket Quiz 2016 Finals

“Well Of Course” edition 6
Finals
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Agenda
• Written Round I
• Clockwise (18 questions)
• Written Round II
• Anti-clockwise (18 questions)
• List It

Written Round I
• Satish Acharya is a cartoonist from Kundapura. He typically covers a lot of
current affairs. Cricket is a prominent subject on which he has drawn.
• So 6 cartoons from Satish
• 10 points for each
• 10 bonus for getting all 6 right

1. 2 incidents referred here. Id both

2. Both want help playing whom?

3. Who does not want more Zimbabwe tests?

5. What mistake from 2011 is Dhoni trying to rectify in 2014?

6. Who suffering from “Doosra Umpire”?

Answer
• CSK walking out of hotel since they did not allow biriyani from Rayudu’s
house
• Dhoni refusing to give Rayudu strike in the only T20 in England in the 2014
series

Answer
• Younis Khan.
• After first test, when he scored a double hundred, he had said Zimbabwe
should be given more tests. They lost the 2nd test to Zimbabwe.

Clockwise
• 18 questions
• +10 on the bounce
• Using Sai Ganesh pounce system – 8 pounces through out the quiz. +20 or
nothing.

1.
• Identify this player who
has just achieved a feat
that only 3 others have
achieved so far. Photo
taken during day 1 of the
3rd test between England
and Australia in 1926.
• Also what feat has he
achieved?

Answer
• GC Mccartney
• Century before lunch on day 1
• Others – Victor Trumper, Don Bradman, Majid Khan

2.
• Kerry Packer was assembling players for WSC. He had two national sides –
Australia and West Indies. He decided to create a rest of the world side to
compete against them. The isolated South Africans were easily available. He
tried signing Graeme Pollock, but reservations were raised by stars Viv
Richards and Michael Holding.
• So why did Richards and Holding have a reservation against Pollock but not
against Barry Richards and Mike Procter, who were also from South Africa?

Answer
• Graeme Pollock had never played cricket outside of South Africa. This meant
that he had never played multi-racial cricket.
• Proctor and Richards had played county cricket before playing in the WSC.
West Indian cricketers had no objections to players who had played multi-
racial cricket.

3.
• It's 1982 and X wasn't supposed to play the game against Australia but Y
pulled out on the evening before the game as the team had just returned
from an England tour. X took the flight to Hyderabad on the morning of the
game and went straight to the ground.
• X, in only his second ODI, didn’t take any wickets in his first spell from the
pavilion end, he says. “But from the far end, when I came back, things
started to change.” He ended the game with 4-32 in 8 overs, creating history
along the way.
• He went on to play only 8 ODIs. The story goes that X was at a party with the
touring team. Y had wanted the team to leave early but X insisted that he
stay behind for more fun. And that was it. A miffed Y made up his mind and
had X dropped.
• X, Y and the feat achieved in that game?

Answer
• X - Jalal - ud – Din
• Y - Imran Khan
• First ever hat-trick in ODIs

4.
• The father was raised in present day Pakistan. He grew up as a Hindu in
abject poverty, but discovered he had a flair for the game. He was adopted
by the X family, a rich Muslim family. They never asked him to convert. He
later went back to present day India and became one of the early legends of
the game. His son (a first class cricketer) did not include this piece of
information in the biography of the father.
• The X family has many other connections to cricket. One of the members of
the family, caught the cricket world's attention in 1987 when he refused to
continue play until he received an unconditional apology.
• Identify the father and X

Answer
• Father – Lala Amarnath
• X – Rana family. Shakoor Rana made the Rana family famous in 1987

5.
• This bowler played all of 4 test
matches in his career. Things could
have gone very differently had this
dodgy decision gone his way though.
As it happened, Inzamam ul Haq and
Mushtaq Ahmed put on 57 runs for
the last wicket to take the home team
to a memorable victory. He is the
second highest wicket taker in the
Sheffield Shield/Pura Cup history
behind Clarrie Grimmett
• Who?

6.
• Colin Milburn played a couple of seasons of Sheffield cricket for Western
Australia. In a game against Queensland facing an attack that had 3
international bowlers, he smashed 243 while opening the batting including
scoring 181 runs between lunch and tea. He was particularly savage against
X (who had made his international debut a few years earlier), against whom
he scored 48 runs from 28 balls. Western Australia ended up with 615/5
declared and X ended up with figures of 0/124 from 21 overs.
• X sort of redeemed himself with the bat top scoring for Queensland with
scores of 77 and 49. Milburn sadly met with an accident the following year.
• Who is X?

7.
• Sir Herbert Baker, went to India in 1912 and worked with Lutyens. His work
in India included designing Secretariat Building, Parliament House and the
bungalows of members of parliament. He also designed the two Secretariat
buildings flanking Rajpath, leading up to Rashtrapathi Bhavan.
• But his most famous contribution to cricket was a gift in 1926, which was an
apology. The construction of a stand was delayed due to a general workers
strike. The stand bore his name till further redevelopment in 1996.
• What was Baker’s gift?

8.
• When he played in World Series Cricket, X was an instant hit on and off the
field. He was arguably the world's quickest bowler at the time, with an
angled run-up and round-arm slinging action, and he possessed one of the
most lethal bouncers.
• He was known for his legendary duels with fellow countryman Y. In 1977,
spurred on by the crowd, X attacked Y with a barrage of bouncers. After a
while Y looked at him and said, "Remember, I don't miss." X found himself at
the batting crease late next afternoon. True to his word, Y hit him first up.
The big man went down. What followed was an unforgettable passage of
play as Y gave it to him over and over. X retired hurt in the end and Y took
great delight in letting the crowd know what he thought of them.
• X never played international cricket but Y holds a certain distinction in his
country. X and Y?

Answer
• X – Garth Le Roux
• Y – Clive Rice

9.
• West Indies had been bowled out for 265. England though faced a charged up
Holding and were shot out for 122. On Day 3, Botham asked Jackman to bowl the
first over. Jackman broke down, sending down the first over with tears down his
cheeks.
• The gloomy mood was lifted by Geoff Boycott who was the on field captain for a
few minutes.
• “Jackman was in the middle of an impressive spell. The acting captain strode from
deep mid-off, halted Jackman as he was beginning a new over and asked for the
ball. He proceeded to mark out his own run, turned his cap around, rolled his
shoulders, swung his arms, and ran in. And then he stopped in his delivery stride,
grinned and threw the ball back to Jackman.
• It had the crowd roaring with laughter and lifted the spirit of the team somewhat
from the depths of gloom.”
• What was the cause of this gloom?

Answer
• Ken Barrington had passed away the previous night due to a heart attack.

10.
• End of day 3 – “You are our only hope.”
• End of day 4 – “You can do it.”
• End of day 5- “If you bat till tea tomorrow, the match will be saved.”
• This is a story from the 50’s. What is this about?

Answer
• Hanif Mohammad’s epic 337
• Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistan’s captain kept these notes besides Hanif’s bed
as a way to encourage the man.
• End of day 3 – 61*
• End of day 4 – 161*
• End of day 5 – 270*

11.
• Yorkshire's overseas pro X, had convinced Y, a mate from his playing days in
Adelaide, Victoria, and now Yorkshire, to ask his sister Andrea to show him
around Scarborough. X had spent the preceding afternoon drinking with
David Boon, and he had to work hard to convince Andrea that "her knight in
shining armour was an overweight cricketer from Australia". They did wind
up getting married, and although X told Andrea his international career was
over, which would allow him time to look after a family, recalls followed: he
played three Tests and three ODIs against brother-in-law Y and were
teammates when Yorkshire were county champions in 2001.
• X and Y?

Answer
• X – Darren Lehmann
• Y – Craig White

12.
• Khanmohammad Cassumbhoy Ibrahim or KC Ibrahim played four Tests for
India against West Indies in 1948-49. Opening with Vinoo Mankad, he
scored 85 and 44, but in his next six innings he made only 40 runs and he
had retired by the time England toured India in 1951-52.
• A prolific scorer in first class cricket, he did something in the 1947-48 season
that is still a record in FC cricket but was in jeopardy recently. What record
and who came close to beating it?
•

Answer
• Scoring the most runs without being dismissed. KC Ibrahim got 709.
• Adam Voges scored 614 before being dismissed in the Wellington Test.
•

13.
• The design originated in England, where John Guy, who played 12 tests,
observed a Newbery bat with what he calls a "dry knot" - a darker, weaker
section of the willow - in its shoulder. Guy wondered out loud to John
Newbery, the master bat maker, whether the bat would split if a ball hit that
dry knot. Yes, Newbery said, the shoulder would fly right off. But what could
they do about it?
• "I said, 'What if we shave it?' So that's what we did," Guy says. "We shaved
the shoulder down and I said, 'I think that's a good idea for a bat'. Newbery
said: 'What would you call it? It's got to be something like a _____'. I said it
felt like a heavy wand. He said, 'What about ____ ______ _________'. I
said, 'You've hit the nail on the head, it sounds great'.“
• Story of a bat. What is the name?

14.
• Cricketer X represented team 1 and cricketer Y represented team 2 in the
inaugural U-19 world cup in 1988. Cricketer Y made his international debut
in 1993, whereas X made his debut in 1996.
• Cricketer X and Cricketer Y featured in the line up for team 3 together for
the first time in a test match in 1999.
• Cricketer Y ended up with more than 200 wickets. Cricketer X didn’t play
much, but was known for his extremely poor batting. He once scored 24 in a
game against Pakistan, after being offered 30 pints if he could score 30 by
his coach.
• Identify cricketer X and cricketer Y.

Answer
• X – Alan Mulally
• Y – Andy Caddick

15.
• There was a myth about cricketer X. X’s explanation was “I played with a
chronic back injury for most of my career. I also perspired heavily when
batting, which often gave me a stiff neck.”
• The myth maybe due to the fact that causation may not be co-relation, but
persisted through out his career.
• X? What myth?

Answer
• Gordon Greenidge
• He was at his most dangerous when he
limped.

16.
• The initial experiment was done in a couple of benefit matches. Given their
low stature, it went un-noticed. It was again tried in a warm up match, and
again it attracted no comments. They finally decided to use it after
confirming that it did not break any rules of cricket or tournament
regulations.
• When it was finally noticed, the umpires not sure of the legality contacted
the match referee, who wasn’t of much help. He contacted ICC, who said,
though not illegal, it was unfair.
• After the conclusion of the tournament, ICC finally made it illegal.
• What is this controversy all about?

Answer
• Hansie Cronje and Allan Donald using a earpiece to communicate with Bob
Woolmer

17.
• BCCI announced a one time payment to all former cricketers. Initially a few
former cricketers were not beneficiaries. Kapil Dev, for instance, had not
officially left ICL. Hence was not eligible. In the initial ineligible list, there
were 4 more names – Mohinder Amarnath, Gundappa Viswanath, Syed
Kirmani and Dilip Vengsarkar. BCCI initially felt that these 4 cricketers were
beneficiaries more than once. Ultimately all 5 cricketers got the payment.
• What reason was being given for BCCI not to pay the 4 cricketers?

Answers
• They had benefit matches in their honour which was organized by BCCI. The
reason BCCI decided to make these one time payments was because it was
difficult to organize benefit matches these days.

18.
• In response to the night cricket innovation happening in Australia, the TCCB
wanted to see if night cricket will be popular in England. In 1981, they
organized a tournament which involved all 17 counties sponsored by
Lambert and Butler.
• Due to the venues used, the competition got reduced to a 7 a side team
with 10 overs a side. There was never a real cricket feel to these games and
TCCB felt that the tournament and night cricket would not work in England.
• Where were the games happening and why were these venues chosen?

Answer
• Football stadiums as they
were the only stadiums in
England with floodlights

Abba ke zamane mein
• 10 classic pictures
• 10 for correct answers
• +10 bonus for getting all correct

1.
Identify this sportsman in another sport
giving cricket a try.

2.
• Who at what sombre occasion in 1915?

3.
• Leeds 1930. What just happened?
• A 14 year old watched this innings and went on to break the record 8 years
later. Who?

4.
• X, on the receiving
end of many run
outs, runs out Y as
the agony on the
non striker - CA
Davis is all too
evident. X and Y?

5.
• Identify these two
gentlemen,
who’ve just
helped England
regain the Ashes
after 19 years.
These two are
famed for their
long partnerships.

6.
• Identify the god playing cricket.

7.
• Identify this medium pacer.

8.
• Identify both. Walking out
for a historic test match.

9.
• He invented something in
cricket, though not named
after him directly.

10.
• Identify the
man talking to
Sardar Patel.

Omar Sharif
• He was a bridge player

Ranjitsinhji at WG Grace’s funeral

Don Bradman 334*, Len Hutton
• Len Hutton scored 364 at the Oval in 1938.

X – Geoff Boycott Y – Gary Sobers

Denis Compton, Bill Edrich
• This image is from the 5th test of the 1953 Ashes

Bandula Warnapura, Keith Fletcher
• On the occasion of Sri Lanka’s first test

Chinaman
• Ellis Puss Achong

Col. C.K. Nayudu
• India’s first test captain

Anti Clockwise
• 18 questions
• +10 on the bounce
• Using Sai Ganesh pounce system – 8 pounces through out the quiz. +20 or
nothing.

1.
• Devastated by dropping a vital catch then being last man out in one of the
most famous tests of all time, Australia’s 3 run victory over England in
Manchester in 1902, England bowler Fred ____ - whose only test it was –
allegedly said “I’ve a lad at home, who will make up for this.” His son, then
only 7, became England’s finest fast medium bowler between the 2 world
wars.
• Who is the son?

2.
• For the first rebel test in 1982 between England and South Africa, the
chairman of selectors Ali Bacher selected a team of 12. They had to end up
with exact 11 as the 12th man decided to pursue a proper international
career, than play with the Proteas. His patience was rewarded as he made
his debut later in the year. Who?

3.
• In a book Gideon Haigh mentions that on the eve of an important game,
cricketer X told his teammates an observation that was both tangential and
characteristic: that the habit of cricketer Y (in the opposition) to “celebrate
too early” would get him into trouble one day. In his opinion, it was too lairy,
too cute. His teammates cracked up at this.
• As it would happen many times in his career, X’s prediction did come true
and Y celebrated too early, the cost of which came to be known a few days
later. Y’s actions led to another famous cricket myth. Identify the cricketers X
and Y.

4.
• Judging by his interview with Boy’s Own, he seemed pretty pleased with his
effort. “Noble was bowling, and sending the balls down in pretty good style,
and at last I struck at one. I was not very sure about it; and the next thing I
saw was the ball looking like a pea in the air, and I learned that it had just
touched the chimney and _____ ____ ___ __ ___ _______.”
• Who? And what did this incident achieve that nobody has been able to
achieve since then?

Albert Trott, hit over Lords pavilion

5.
• X named his first son after his predecessor in the Yorkshire side.
• His second son, named after 2 cricketers, had a promising career cut short
when he sustained a serious knee injury while having football trials with
Leeds united.
• Another cricketer Y’s middle name is named after X. Y was known as a ODI
specialist.
• Identify X, his 2 sons and Y.

Answer
• Hedley Verity
• First son – Wilfred Rhodes
• Second son – Douglas George (Douglas Jardine/George Hirst)
• Y – Nick Verity Knight

6.
• Duncan Fearnley
released this bat
series in honour of
whom?

7.
• Dave Whelan, an England cricket fan from Devon, became an unlikely hero
in Antigua. He had just purchased something and this was required by the
English team due to injuries to key people in the team. It would have been
very difficult for England, if not for Dave Whelan.
• “I was just joking with my brother that they will want support from us, but I
didn’t know how much!”
• What did Dave Whelan do to help the England team?

Answer
• He had purchased a brand new England replica kit. That was required when
Paul Collingwood was named as one of the substitutes in the T20 game
against West Indies in Antigua.

8.
• November 16, 1962 is significant in cricket for 2 announcements
• First one abolished a culture that according to many was divisive and
discriminatory
• Second one was the announcement that a new innovation would be
adopted wholeheartedly and paved the way for attracting newer people to
the game.
• What were the 2 announcements?

Answer
• First abolished the distinction between Amateur and Professional in English
cricket
• Second established the Gillette cup which essentially started ODI cricket

9.
• In July 1992, Leicestershire had qualified for the semi finals of the 60 over
knockout tournament. But their two key players – David Millns and Vince
Wells were injured and ruled out of the match.
• A fortnight before the game, the county contacted X and Les Taylor to see if
they were available. The pair had helped the county win the Benson &
Hedges cup in 1985. X, had retired in 1990, and had settled into his new
role. X, performed admirably, sending down 12 overs for 31 runs and picking
up a wicket.
• Leicestershire won the game. And the next day headlines in the newspapers
read “Action speaks louder than words for ___”
• Who was asked to play for Leicestershire?

Answer
• Jonathan Agnew. He was BBC’s correspondent for cricket when he was
asked to make a comeback.

10.
• It was Mohinder Amarnath’s only game as captain. India started off slowly,
but managed to reach a respectable total of 210/3 in 40 overs thanks largely
to a 94* from Dilip Vengsarkar. What was the result of the game?

Answer
• Match was abandoned as the news that Indira Gandhi had been
assassinated reached the ground. The tour was called off as well.

11.
• For many years it was featured on the cover of the New South Wales Cricket
Association’s annual report, and it remains the basis of the design adorning
the cover of Australian Wisden. It has been a motif for artistic enterprises as
diverse as the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Graham
Greene's The Return of AJ Raffles and “______ _______'s Everlovin' Pop and
Soul Revue" by Australian rock band You Am I. It has been turned into a
print by Archibald Prize finalist Dave Thomas, a letterhead by Australian
cricket bookseller Roger Page, the symbol of a chatroom called the “______
_______ Cricket Board, and features on the jacket of Endless Summer, an
anthology of writings about Australian cricket from the Wisden Cricketers'
Almanack.
• What?

Answer
• Victor Trumper photograph by George
Beldam

12.
• The game which was a celebration of the past, with a defining moment that
came from the distant future. The game was a high scoring draw. The
batsman had sleep walked his way to 117 on an easy pitch. He came down
the track to drive, he overbalanced a bit towards the off side, and this was
enough for the bowler to stop the drive and throw the ball in one
movement. The batsman was on his knees.
• This brilliant piece of fielding still didn’t win the bowler the best fielder
award. It instead went to Clive Rice. Almost nobody remembers Rice’s
contribution, but this piece of fielding is still remembered.
• Who was the fielder and who did he dismiss?

13.
• In 2005-06 test at Adelaide, Lara smashed 226 and overtook Alan Border’s
record. In the process something rare happened, something that had last
happened in 1886-87. After that it happened 4 more times -> all involving
India vs Sri Lanka, three times in India and once in Sri Lanka in 2010.
• It looks very unlikely to happen in the near future.
• What rare feat are we talking about?

Answer
• Highest wicket taker bowling to highest run getter
• 1886-87 -> Fred Spofforth (94 wickets) bowled to Arthur Shrewsbury (903
runs)
• 2005-06 -> Warne bowled to Lara.
• 2009 (3 tests in India) 2010 (1 test in Sri Lanka) – Murali bowled to
Tendulkar

14.
• X was adopted by a Goud Saraswat Brahmin sect, similar sect of the
Gavaskars, Tendulkars etc. Inspired by her father, X took to the game.
Wanting to pursue the game seriously, X joined a local club. X would dress
up in long pants and have a cap on even while bowling, a practice that
continued till the end of X’s international career.
• X’s debut was supposed to be in the 2001 Ashes, but was injured just before
flying. The debut finally happened in the 2002-03 Ashes. X’s only test
century came in the 2005 Ashes. X finally retired a day after winning the
world cup.
• Who is X?

15.
• India's 2008-09 tour of New Zealand was jam-packed. India played 2 T20's, 5
ODI's and 3 tests in less than 50 days. India's test specialists had no warm up
match to prepare for this tour. How did they get the required match
practice, before the first test?

Answer
• They played 1 game in the NZ domestic championship. Rahul Dravid turned
out for Canterbury and scored a 100 for them.

16.
• What was conceived by X while playing for Rawtenstall in the Lancashire
cricket league in the 80's? Being the overseas star, he had to bowl a lot of
overs and this was a way of easing his workload for a club side. He practiced
it at the nets and claims that nearly 20% of his 125 victims in the 1988
county season were out because of this.

Answer
• Franklyn Stephenson
• Slower ball

17.
• The Sri Lankan cricket team embarked on a cricket tour of South Africa in
1982. They were soundly beaten on the field and for all their 'rebellion',
received life bans from Sri Lankan cricket board, which to this day has not
been revoked.
• Despite the ban, one person from that Sri Lankan team played international
cricket again in 1996. Who?

Answer
• Flavian Aponso
• He played for Netherlands in the 1996 world cup

18.
• Bert Flack was going to be criticized for the role that he played. But his
infamy was short lived as more serious things were happening elsewhere.
"Thank god Nasser had taken over the Suez Canal, otherwise I'd have been
plastered over every front page like Marilyn Monroe." What Flack had done
was something that has come into focus again due to home dominance of
teams. Why was Flack going to be criticized?

Answer
• He was the groundsman who prepared the pitch for Jim Laker's 19

List It
• 16 people have scored a 1000 runs in a Ranji season
• Name them
• 5 points for each. 10 points for getting all 16 correct.

1415 Hyderabad 1999/00
1280 Karnataka 1998/99
1260 Mumbai 2008/09
1223 Maharashtra 2013/14
1204 Mumbai 2015/16
1089 Mumbai 2008/09
1075 TamilNadu 1999/00
1037 Baroda 1998/99
1034 Delhi 1996/97
1034 Rajasthan 2011/12
1033 Delhi 1996/97
1033 Karnataka 2013/14
1018 TamilNadu 1988/89
1008 Bombay 1944/45

1415 VVS Laxman Hyderabad 1999/00
1280 R Vijay Bharadwaj Karnataka 1998/99
1260 W Jaffer Mumbai 2008/09
1223 KM Jadhav Maharashtra 2013/14
1204 SS Iyer Mumbai 2015/16
1089 AM Rahane Mumbai 2008/09
1075 S Sriram TamilNadu 1999/00
1066 DS Jadhav Maharashtra 2003/04
1037 JJ Martin Baroda 1998/99
1034 R Lamba Delhi 1996/97
1034 RD Bist Rajasthan 2011/12
1033 AK Sharma Delhi 1996/97
1033 KL Rahul Karnataka 2013/14
1018 WV Raman TamilNadu 1988/89
1008 RS Modi Bombay 1944/45
1004 HH Khadiwale Maharashtra 2013/14

List It
• 7 Indians have scored 100’s at the MCG. One among them has scored 2.
• List all 7 Indians, circle the one who has scored 2.

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