This document contains the questions and answers from a cricket quiz. It begins with the rules of the quiz being two players per team and 30 preliminary questions with the last 5 being tie-breakers. It then lists 23 multiple choice cricket trivia questions about players, matches, statistics and terminology followed by the corresponding answers. The questions cover topics ranging from cricketers from different eras and countries to specific matches, records and nicknames.

1. The „Well Of Course‟
Quiz
League Stage
MANISH ACHUTH

2. Rules.
Teams of 2 or less.
Prelims – 30 questions
Questions 26 – 30 are starred, to be used in case
of ties

3. 1. Identify the gentleman in question
• When Rajasthan beat Mumbai in the 2010-11 Ranji
Trophy quarter finals, many old time journalists
commented that X will finally be able to rest in
peace. He took part in 7 Ranji finals against
Mumbai and was not part of the winning team even
once. It is interesting to note that X is now
remembered for his association with a Mumbai
institute.

4. 2. Identify the missing name.

5. 3. Identify the speaker

7. 5. Give Reason.
Richie Benaud used to work in Australia during the
Aussie summer and then in England during the
English summer. He „retired‟ from commentary in
England in 2005 Ashes but still continues to
commentate for matches in Australia. What very
specific reason did Benaud give for this decision?
This reason has divided the cricketing public in
England. Cricketing authorities claim it helps the
game, whereas general public say it drives away
viewers from it.

8. 6. Identify the gentleman on the right

9. 7. Identify the gentleman in question.
RamchandraGuha in his book “States of Indian
cricket” uses the technique of selecting an All Time
State XI to describe the history of cricket in a
particular state. His Bengal XI reads thus
Openers – X, Pankaj Roy
Middle Order – ArunLal, SauravGanguly, Ambar
Roy, Shute Banerjee
Wicketkeeper – P (Khokan) Sen
Bowlers – S. K.
Giridhari, KamalBhattacharjee, DilipDoshi, Subro
toGuha
X never played for India, but a pretty familiar name
to Quizzers. Has a #kvlt status.

10. 8. Identify both gentlemen
An annual cricket game takes place in Barossa
Valley, Adelaide called the Masters Cricket game at
a ground called Chateau Cricket Ground.
The 2007 game celebrated the 21st anniversary of
a historic game and involved 2 people who were
last seen together in that game. Identify both of
them?

11. 9. Identify the tournament and Y(very
specific)
Captain – Ajay Jadeja
Vice Captain – Anil Kumble
Coach – Kris Srikkanth
Manager – ChitrakMishra
Group Stage opponents – Australia, Canada and Y.
Y had players like Curtly Ambrose, Richie
Richardson, EldineBaptiste etc.

12. 10. What?
What feat that was first achieved by Edmund
Hinkley in 1848 at Lords, and the last achieved by
Mario Olivier at Bloemfontein in 2007. This was
achieved only 4 times in the noughties and very
famously in the late 90‟s.

13. 11. Identify the gentleman and the slogan
During the 1988-89 Ranji semifinals, X, a popular
member of the team scored an important hundred
at the home ground. When he reached his
hundred, the thousands who turned up to watch the
game chanted “___ ______”. This was a tribute to
X as well as a popular motto of that region. Id X as
well as the slogan.

14. 12. Identify the gentleman on the right.
The gentleman on the left should serve as a clue.

15. 13. Who/What?
Michael Holding on air “Our statistician has
confirmed this. This is the first instance of a
bowler, in over 120 years of test cricket, taking a
wicket with blue hair.”
Holding describing who/what?

16. 14. Fill in the blank
Conversation heard during the recent Eng-Pak
series.
David Lloyd - ...During the Lancashire
leagues, derby games used to be very competitive
and local teams across the road would _________
the other if they lost. Literally _________ them.
WaqarYounis – Axellent, is that the origin of the
term?
David Lloyd – I don‟t know. But it would be very
funny if someone carried buckets to _________
Lords.

17. 15. Identify the gentleman.
During the bodyline series, Bradman is batting on
99 and the last man in is X. X was known for his
Chris Martin-like batting.
In „Bodyline‟ TV series a character comments that
all tail enders are usually rabbits. But X is a ferret
as it goes in after the rabbits.
Who is this Chris Martin precursor?

18. 16. Identify this stadium.

19. 17.Which cricketer have I searched for?
He left for the US after this and then had links with
CPI(M).

20. 18. Who?
Cricketer snapped during his much anticipated “comeback”
game.

21. 19. Identify the nickname.
Jimmy Adams had an extraordinary start to his test
career. He scored 1132 runs in his first 12 tests at
an average of 87. He scored 520 of those in one
series in India. He had scores of
39, 81, 125*, 23, 174*, 78* in 6 innings.
He used a particular technique to avoid getting out
to Indian spinners, something which wont be as
successful today. The Indian media at that time had
given him a nickname which is often used on
cricinfo commentary stints referring to players
successful in India.

22. 20. Identify the gentleman in question.
In the Ranji Trophy final of 1968-69 he scored 96
and 84 for the losing side. In 1962, he led India to a
significant triumph – something that has not been
repeated since then.
Who?

23. 21. Identify the gentleman.
He is the only known bowler to have taken a hat-
trick over 3 overs and 2 days.
He basically took the last 2 wickets of the innings.
Geoff Lawson was beaten by a bouncer and had a
broken jaw. And this bowler was really fired up
when he bowled the opposition opener first ball of
the 2nd innings to complete his hat-trick.

25. 23. Identify this fast bowler

26. 24.‟Jiggery Pokery‟ from The Duckworth Lewis
method. Describing what?
Jiggery Pokery, trickery chokery,
How did he open me up?
Robbery, muggery, ______ skull-duggery,
Out for a buggery duck.
_____ _ ________!!
I might as well have been
Holding a child‟s balloon
Jiggery Pokery who is this nobody?
Making me look like a buffoon?

27. 25. Identify this gentleman.
He was the star during the 2000-01 Deodhar
trophy. His 4 wickets restricted North Zone to a
below par total. And during the final, he hit an
audacious 20 ball 31, that ensured the final was
tied. He played his last FC game in 2001 and then
disappeared. Made a comeback last year.
Yaarapaivanu?

28. 26. Identify the gentleman.
After taking 7 for 9 in a first class game he is said to
have told his teammates, “I wonder if I‟ll ever bowl
again.”
A few years later, his last words were supposedly
“Keep going ahead.” Who?

29. 27. X and Y
Malcolm Marshall died in 1999 from colon cancer.
There was a wide outpouring of grief.
His funeral was appropriately held in X gymnasium
and the last prayers were whispered by Y.
Needless to say X and Y are Barbados legends.

30. 28. Identify the gentleman
Born in Belmont, he was a good enough left winger
to play for his country from 1919 to 1932. Bowling
to Walter Robbins, he bowled to a plan and got
Robbins stumped. Robbins is said to have told a
scribe, “Fancy being stumped by a bloody
_____________” to which the scribe retorted “Do
you mean the bowler or the ball?”

33. Please hand in your papers.

34. Answers…

35. 1. Identify the gentleman in question
• When Rajasthan beat Mumbai in the 2010-11 Ranji
Trophy quarter finals, many old time journalists
commented that X will finally be able to rest in
peace. He took part in 7 Ranji finals against
Mumbai and was not part of the winning team even
once. It is interesting to note that X is now
remembered for his association with a Mumbai
institute.

36. Raj Singh Dungarpur, known for his
association with CCI, Mumbai.

37. 2. Identify the missing name.

38. Denis Compton
Only Foreigner to score a double hundred in the
Ranji Trophy final.
Also, the only double hundred in the 4th innings of a
Ranji Trophy final.

39. 3. Identify the speaker

40. Fred Trueman
First to 300 wickets, he was congratulating Dennis
Lille on becoming the 3rd member of the 300 wicket
club.

42. David Saker, Current England bowling
coach
He never played for Australia, but was given a lot of
credit for England‟s show against Australia during
the Ashes and also during their 4-0 whitewash of
India.

43. 5. Give Reason.
Richie Benaud used to work in Australia during the
Aussie summer and then in England during the
English summer. He „retired‟ from commentary in
England in 2005 Ashes but still continues to
commentate for matches in Australia. What very
specific reason did Benaud give for this decision?
This reason has divided the cricketing public in
England. Cricketing authorities claim it helps the
game, whereas general public say it drives away
viewers from it.

44. Cricket on Paid Channels.
Post Ashes 2005, Sky Sports paid ECB for cricket
rights in England. So, cricket was no longer free-to-
air on BBC. Consequently the viewers reduced, but
ECB maintains that the money from Sky is used to
spread the game at the grass roots level.

45. 6. Identify the gentleman on the right

46. Mohsin Khan, current coach of Pakistan

47. 7. Identify the gentleman in question.
RamchandraGuha in his book “States of Indian
cricket” uses the technique of selecting an All Time
State XI to describe the history of cricket in a
particular state. His Bengal XI reads thus
Openers – X, Pankaj Roy
Middle Order – ArunLal, SauravGanguly, Ambar
Roy, Shute Banerjee
Wicketkeeper – P (Khokan) Sen
Bowlers – S. K.
Giridhari, KamalBhattacharjee, DilipDoshi, Subro
toGuha
X never played for India, but a pretty familiar name
to Quizzers. Has a #kvlt status.

48. Kartik Bose 
According to a particular quiz master, Bradman is
the Kartik Bose of Australia.

49. 8. Identify both gentlemen
An annual cricket game takes place in Barossa
Valley, Adelaide called the Masters Cricket game at
a ground called Chateau Cricket Ground.
The 2007 game celebrated the 21st anniversary of
a historic game and involved 2 players who were
last seen together in that game. Identify both of
them?

50. VikramRaju, DaraDotiwala

51. 9. Identify the tournament and Y(very
specific)
Captain – Ajay Jadeja
Vice Captain – Anil Kumble
Coach – Kris Srikkanth
Manager – ChitrakMishra
Group Stage opponents – Australia, Canada and Y.
Y had players like Curtly Ambrose, Richie
Richardson, EldineBaptiste etc.

52. Tournament – 1998 Commonwealth Games
Y – Antigua and Barbuda, nothing else will be
accepted.

53. 10. What?
What feat that was first achieved by Edmund
Hinkley in 1848 at Lords, and the last achieved by
Mario Olivier at Bloemfontein in 2007. This was
achieved only 4 times in the noughties and very
famously in the late nineties.

54. 10 wickets in an innings.

55. 11. Identify the gentleman and the slogan
During the 1988-89 Ranji semifinals, X, a popular
member of the team scored an important hundred
at the home ground. When he reached his
hundred, the thousands who turned up to watch the
game chanted “___ ______”. This was a tribute to
X as well as a popular motto of that region. Id X as
well as the slogan.

56. ArunLal, Lal Salaam.

57. 12. Identify the gentleman on the right.
The gentleman on the left should serve as a clue.

58. DeshPrem Azad
Coach of Kapil Dev, Yograj Singh among others.

59. 13. What?
Michael Holding on air “Our statistician has
confirmed this. This is the first instance of a
bowler, in over 120 years of test cricket, taking a
wicket with blue hair.”
Holding describing who/what?

60. Colin Miller. He took Walsh‟s wicket with this
hairdo.

61. 14. Fill in the blank
Conversation heard during the recent Eng-Pak
series.
David Lloyd - ...During the Lancashire
leagues, derby games used to be very competitive
and local teams across the road would _________
the other if they lost. Literally _________ them.
WaqarYounis – Axellent, is that the origin of the
term?
David Lloyd – I don‟t know. But it would be very
funny if someone carried buckets to _________
Lords.

62. Whitewash

63. 15. Identify the gentleman.
During the bodyline series, Bradman is batting on
99 and the last man in is X. X was known for his
Chris Martin-like batting.
In „Bodyline‟ TV series a character comments that
all tail enders are usually rabbits. But X is a ferret
as it goes in after the rabbits.
Who is this Chris Martin precursor?

64. Bert Ironmonger

65. 16. Identify this stadium.

66. Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi

67. 17.Which cricketer have I searched for?
He left for the US after this and then had links with
CPI(M).

68. N.Ram
Apparently was a competent wicketkeeper before
shifting to whatever he does now.

69. 18. Who?
Cricketer snapped during his much anticipated “comeback”
game.

70. Martin Crowe

71. 19. Identify the nickname.
Jimmy Adams had an extraordinary start to his test
career. He scored 1132 runs in his first 12 tests at
an average of 87. He scored 520 of those in one
series in India. He had scores of
39, 81, 125*, 23, 174*, 78* in 6 innings.
He used a particular technique to avoid getting out
to Indian spinners, something which wont be as
successful today. The Indian media at that time had
given him a nickname which is often used on
cricinfo commentary stints referring to players
successful in India.

72. Padams
He would use his pad against the spinners. Wont
be successful today as umpires are not as lenient
to front foot lunges as before and in games not
involving India, DRS still gives them out.

73. 20. Identify the gentleman in question.
In the Ranji Trophy final of 1968-69 he scored 96
and 84 for the losing side. In 1962, he led India to a
significant triumph – something that has not been
repeated since then.
Who?

74. ChunniGoswami
Captained India to 1962 Asian Games gold in
football.

75. 21. Identify the gentleman.
He is the only known bowler to have taken a hat-
trick over 3 overs and 2 days.
He basically took the last 2 wickets of the innings.
Geoff Lawson was beaten by a bouncer and had a
broken jaw. And this bowler was really fired up
when he bowled the opposition opener first ball of
the 2nd innings to complete his hat-trick.

76. .

78. Feroz Shah Kotla
HSRA was established in 1928 at Feroz Shah
Kotla.

79. 23. Identify this fast bowler

80. Aleem Dar
Is known to practice at the nets with teams.

81. 24.‟Jiggery Pokery‟ from The Duckworth Lewis
method. Describing what?
Jiggery Pokery, trickery chokery,
How did he open me up?
Robbery, muggery, ______ skull-duggery,
Out for a buggery duck.
_____ _ ________!!
I might as well have been
Holding a child‟s balloon
Jiggery Pokery who is this nobody?
Making me look like a buffoon?

82. Shane Warne‟s ball of the century.

83. 25. Identify this gentleman.
He was the star during the 2000-01 Deodhar
trophy. His 4 wickets restricted North Zone to a
below par total. And during the final, he hit an
audacious 20 ball 31, that ensured the final was
tied. He played his last FC game in 2001 and then
disappeared. Made a comeback last year.
Yaarapaivanu?

84. W.D.BalajiRao
The portly Canadian spinner of Indian origin giving
people like me lot of hope in the future 

85. 26. Identify the gentleman.
After taking 7 for 9 in a first class game he is said to
have told his teammates, “I wonder if I‟ll ever bowl
again.”
A few years later, his last words were supposedly
“Keep going ahead.” Who?

86. Hedley Verity
He died during the allied invasion of Sicily during
WW2.

87. 27. X and Y
Malcolm Marshall died in 1999 from colon cancer.
There was a wide outpouring of grief.
His funeral was appropriately held in X gymnasium
and the last prayers were whispered by Y.
Needless to say X and Y are Barbados legends.

88. X - Garfield Sobers gym
Y - Reverend Wes Hall

89. 28. Identify the gentleman
Born in Belmont, he was a good enough left winger
to play for his country from 1919 to 1932. Bowling
to Walter Robbins, he bowled to a plan and got
Robbins stumped. Robbins is said to have told a
scribe, “Fancy being stumped by a bloody
_____________” to which the scribe retorted “Do
you mean the bowler or the ball?”

90. Ellis „Puss‟ Achong, Chinaman.

92. Carlisle Best
He hooked his third ball in test cricket for a six off
the bowling of Ian Botham.
Did not play more as a certain Brian Charles Lara
took his place later on.

94. Peter McIntyre
Probably the only note worthy thing he has ever
done.