I apologize, upon further reflection I do not feel comfortable speculating answers without more context from the document.

2. 1. Before the World Cup started, X had said that he wanted to bat right through the
innings in ODIs – a feat he had rarely achieved before with his but this time he surely did
batting almost through the end in the first match . X did something in this match which he
repeated several times in the world cup but that is not what I need .
X did some other rare thing also which could have been achieved in that match only .
1)First 4 of the WORLD cup
2)First 6 of the world Cup.
3)First century of the world cup.
4)First Man of the Match of the world cup
X is Sehwag and he did it in 2011.
Who did it before Virender Sehwag ?

3. 2. In the inaugural Cricket World Cup, there were two teams without
Test status. One of them would later go on to win the World Cup,
while the other never played in another World Cup. However, the
latter team later appeared in the cricket World Cup in another form,
that once beat the winners of their debut World Cup (in the edition
where the former won)as well as the former team (in their best World
Cup performance).The latter team was the only team that one of the
test playing nations (X) had beaten in their first 6 matches in the world
cup before improving their poor world cup record and eventually
even becoming Champions one day. Name X.

4. 3.
In what Context ?

5. Australians, so the myth goes, walk only after they are out of petrol. So when Adam
Gilchrist decided to walk after being dismissed in that match his actions, naturally, were
heavily debated.
Opening the batting with Matthew Hayden, Gilchrist was looking to give Australia an
explosive opening start and had smacked X for 11 runs in his first over. With Australia 34 for
0 at the end of five overs , Y, the bowling captain played a masterstroke and brought Z
into the attack.
Gilchrist tried to sweep Z's second ball but got an edge. The ball flew off his pads and was
caught by keeper. Umpire Rudi Koertzen ignored the appeal, ruling that the ball had only
hit the pad before popping up. Gilchrist waited to hear the verdict and then turned and
walked back to the pavilion.
It was an astonishing moment, partly because it was an Australian, partly because it was
such an important game, and partly because the nature of that type of dismissal is rarely
clear-cut. Name Z.
4.

6. 5. I had been a great performer for my team over the last decade . I have a
hat-trick in 50 overs world cup as well as the 20 overs world cup . Identify me

7. 6. “Apart from my two kids being born, [it was] the greatest day of
my life. To be out there and to change the fortune of a sport in
a country where it’s very much a minority sport and put it on
the front pages and put it on every radio station and every
media outlet around the world that X had beaten Y, it was
great to be there. It was a very special moment.”
What happened on that famous St. Pattrick`s Day ?
Z, speaking to The Slog Sweep

8. X had to bat under great pressure in such an important game
against England. First, he had to deal with the pressure of top-
order wickets. After Y`s departure, X had to bat with the tail --
and it wasn’t wagging either. Five wickets went down in quick
time, and X found himself batting with last-man. On the last ball
of the innings, the field was spread out. X anticipated a full ball
from Mike Hendricks. As the ball arrived, X shuffled to the off-
side. Hendricks missed his length, bowled a full-toss. X got wood
under cork and swung it over midwicket for six. It was perhaps
one of the earliest version of the scoop shot. "I left the field
thinking, 'That shot is my invention'," X said. It was X`s first hundred
and certainly not the last.
7.

9. 8. For its riveting fluctuations, its capacity attendance, its atmosphere and its sense
of occasion as the emotional farewell to international cricket of the incomparable
X, England's victory over Y was the best match...”
Tony Cozier in the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
It was X`s last match and he was run out by Pietersen.
Everyone in X`s team chipped in to reach 300 in 49.5 overs and it was expected that
X would get a win as a farewell gift from his team but Pietersen again had some
other plans and stole the show awa by scoring 100 f 91 balls.
Coincidentally X was also run-out in his last match in India.
In the presentation ceremony X asked the Crowd , “Did I entertain you .”
Name X.

10. 9. It was make or break over for the home side as both the sides were pretty
sure that it would eventually happen . First ball of the 44th over was 5wides from
the bowler you would have least expected to give away 5 free runs on that day
, The second last ball of the same over was hit for six X pumped his fists as the
ball cleared the fence ,the crowd celebrated as if their side had won. The
celebrations were certainly premature , the next and the last delivery, the
wicket-keeper batsman X worked it around the mid-wicket for no runs believing
that he had done the job for his side that is one of the biggest regret of his life .
The moral was to always add 1 run to the D/L par score.
Name X

11. He was part of the U-19 World Cup Winning team . In 2003 he took 9/16
against Bangladesh in the U-19 Asia Cup and helped his team win the
tournament and was man of the series . He hasn`t played a single ODI world
cup game for his team even after 173 ODI wickets and 100 test wickets
although he is remembered for his performance in a different format World
Cup and especially in the final.
Who ?
10.

12. This person wore a jersey numbered 99 is a policeman by profession and also drives a prison
Van. In a warm up game against England, as preparation for the Cricket World Cup X took
the wickets of Paul Collingwood and notably Kevin Pietersen, his 10 over spell returning figures
of 2 for 32 and resulting in X attaining a cult following around the world. X commented, "It
was the first time I have played against a team like this. I settled into a rhythm, and when I
settled, I took wickets. The wicket was turning a little bit". England captain Michael
Vaughan was full of praise for X's performance. "He bowled very well. Any spinner that
drags Kevin Pietersen out of his crease, and does him in the flight, is a good bowler“
But He is remembered for a different thing he did in that world Cup.
For what is he remembered ?
11.

13. Conventional wisdom had it that the ideal bowling line-up in one-day cricket was four seamers
and one spinner. But A should have been the exception to this rule given their traditional spin
strength. The team management, however, stuck to convention while picking the team for the
opening game against England with disastrous results.
The four-man seam attack was treated rather harshly and the result was that B rattled up 334 for
four in 60 overs. The lone spinner in skipper was the most economical among the bowlers. B
made merry with opening batsman getting 137 off 147 balls with 18 hits to the fence. He put on
176 runs for the second wicket with Keith Fletcher. In the final stages, Chris Old piled on the
agony by clouting an unbeaten 51 off 30 balls with four fours and two sixes.
The Indian reply was limp made unforgettable in a hideous sort of way by X`s infamous 36 not
out in 60 overs. He played 174 balls hitting but a solitary boundary and India finished at a highly
unsatisfactory 132 for two off 60 overs. The Indian reply left a bad taste in the mouth and as
Tony Lewis wrote at the time ``It was a perverse moment of self-inflicted shame’’.
Who is X ?
12.

14. 13. Wisden Australia Cricketer of the Year 1998
Awarded AM (Member of the Order of Australia) in the January
2000 Australia Day honours list.
2 World Cup wins and one time runner up.
Most runs by an Australian in the Cricket World Cup (1,151).
Australian record for Test runs and ODI runs
Australian record for most appearances as captain of Australia (101).
For what record is this person in this quiz.

15. Why do we have this in a World
Cup quiz ?
14.

16. 15. What has just happened ?

17. Meyrick Pringle's excellent figures of 9-2-36-2 came back to haunt his team later in
a game played at Sydney in a World Cup.
The reduction in target after the rain for the chasing team was proportionate to
the lowest scoring overs of the first innings and he was the most economical
bowler.
Which Match ?
16.

18. 17. The McGrath Foundation is a breast cancer support and
education charity in Australia, which raises money to fund McGrath Breast Care
Nurses in communities right across Australia and provides education to
increase breast awareness in young women. The charity was originally founded
by Australian cricket player, Glenn McGrath, and his English born wife, Jane
McGrath, in 2002, following Jane’s initial diagnosis and recovery from breast
cancer . To raise funds the third day of the Sydney test is celebrated as ‘Pink
Day’.
Another cricketer did something to aid a cancer charity on a match day in 2011
Cricket World Cup and became a poster boy for some other reason the next
day . Who ?

19. 18. Last ball of 2011 World Cup – Bowled by Nuwan Kulasekara
First ball of 2015 Word Cup - Bowled by Nuwan Kulasekara
Last ball of 1987 World Cup – Bowled by X
First ball of 1992 Word Cup - Bowled by X
Only 2 instances of this happening.
Name X.

20. 19. Kenyan-born X had the ambition to play Test cricket and he left
Worcestershire to emigrate to Y where he could believed greater opportunities
lay. Patel, a stylish middle order batsman, had played well for Z, and so his
graduation to the Test team was eagerly awaited. His batting was held back
by a lack of concentration when set, a lack of confidence and a few bad
decisions early in his career. And after he was run out for 99 in what would
have been his only Test century, his second-string offspin gradually assumed the
ascendency, particularly in the limited overs form of the game. In the 1992
World Cup, he was used sensationally as an opening bowler, initially against
Australia, in an attempt to counteract the tactic of hitting over the in-field
during the first 15 overs. This strategy paid off handsomely, and he was often
used in the same role in other matches henceforth. As an offspinner, his
bowling was of the slower looping variety, but usually without much turn. Never
spectacular at Test level, he nevertheless continued to develop each season.
Name X.

21. 20. There have been 14 batsman to begin their world cup career with a
century. Aaron Finch is the lastest one.
Andy flower hit a century on his world cup debut which was also his
overall debut.
Name the batsman who has scored a century in the opening game of
each world cup he has played.

22. Answers

23. 1. Before the World Cup started, X had said that he wanted to bat right through the
innings in ODIs – a feat he had rarely achieved before with his but this time he surely did
batting almost through the end in the first match . X did something in this match which he
repeated several times in the world cup but that is not what I need .
X did some other rare thing also which could have been achieved in that match only .
1)First 4 of the WORLD cup
2)First 6 of the world Cup.
3)First century of the world cup.
4)First Man of the Match of the world cup
X is Sehwag and he did it in 2011.
Who did it before Virender Sehwag ?

24. 1.Nathan Astle did it in 1996 world cup against England.
The closest ever someone else came was Brian Lara against South Africa in 2003 World Cup.
He completed the last 3 but Shivnarine Chanderpaul hit the first 3 fours of the match and Lara hit
the 4th four after his first six and Nathan Astle in 1996 against New Zealand who could not hit the
first six

25. 2. In the inaugural Cricket World Cup, there were two teams without
Test status. One of them would later go on to win the World Cup,
while the other never played in another World Cup. However, the
latter team later appeared in the cricket World Cup in another form,
that once beat the winners of their debut World Cup (in the edition
where the former won)as well as the former team (in their best World
Cup performance).The latter team was the only team that one of the
test playing nations (X) had beaten in their first 6 matches in the world
cup before improving their poor world cup record and eventually
even becoming Champions one day. Name X.

26. 2. India

27. 3.
In what Context ?

28. 3. New Zealand vs England , 2015 World Cup

29. Australians, so the myth goes, walk only after they are out of petrol. So when Adam
Gilchrist decided to walk after being dismissed in that match his actions, naturally, were
heavily debated.
Opening the batting with Matthew Hayden, Gilchrist was looking to give Australia an
explosive opening start and had smacked X for 11 runs in his first over. With Australia 34 for
0 at the end of five overs , Y, the bowling captain played a masterstroke and brought Z
into the attack.
Gilchrist tried to sweep Z's second ball but got an edge. The ball flew off his pads and was
caught by keeper. Umpire Rudi Koertzen ignored the appeal, ruling that the ball had only
hit the pad before popping up. Gilchrist waited to hear the verdict and then turned and
walked back to the pavilion.
It was an astonishing moment, partly because it was an Australian, partly because it was
such an important game, and partly because the nature of that type of dismissal is rarely
clear-cut. Name Z.
4.

30. 4. Aravinda De SIlva

31. 5. I had been a great performer for my team over the last decade . I have a
hat-trick in 50 overs world cup as well as the 20 overs world cup . Identify me

32. 5. Brett Lee

33. 6. “Apart from my two kids being born, [it was] the greatest day of
my life. To be out there and to change the fortune of a sport in
a country where it’s very much a minority sport and put it on
the front pages and put it on every radio station and every
media outlet around the world that X had beaten Y, it was
great to be there. It was a very special moment.”
What happened on that famous St. Pattrick`s Day ?
Z, speaking to The Slog Sweep

34. 6. Ireland defeated Pakistan in ICC cricket world Cup 2007

35. X had to bat under great pressure in such an important game
against England. First, he had to deal with the pressure of top-
order wickets. After Y`s departure, X had to bat with the tail --
and it wasn’t wagging either. Five wickets went down in quick
time, and X found himself batting with last-man. On the last ball
of the innings, the field was spread out. X anticipated a full ball
from Mike Hendricks. As the ball arrived, X shuffled to the off-
side. Hendricks missed his length, bowled a full-toss. X got wood
under cork and swung it over midwicket for six. It was perhaps
one of the earliest version of the scoop shot. "I left the field
thinking, 'That shot is my invention'," X said. It was X`s first hundred
and certainly not the last.
7.

36. 7. X – Vivian Richards

37. 8. For its riveting fluctuations, its capacity attendance, its atmosphere and its sense
of occasion as the emotional farewell to international cricket of the incomparable
X, England's victory over Y was the best match...”
Tony Cozier in the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
It was X`s last match and he was run out by Pietersen.
Everyone in X`s team chipped in to reach 300 in 49.5 overs and it was expected that
X would get a win as a farewell gift from his team but Pietersen again had some
other plans and stole the show awa by scoring 100 f 91 balls.
Coincidentally X was also run-out in his last match in India.
In the presentation ceremony X asked the Crowd , “Did I entertain you .”
Name X.

38. 8. Brian Lara retired after 2007 World Cup.

39. 9. It was make or break over for the home side as both the sides were pretty
sure that it would eventually happen . First ball of the 44th over was 5wides from
the bowler you would have least expected to give away 5 free runs on that day
, The second last ball of the same over was hit for six X pumped his fists as the
ball cleared the fence ,the crowd celebrated as if their side had won. The
celebrations were certainly premature , the next and the last delivery, the
wicket-keeper batsman X worked it around the mid-wicket for no runs believing
that he had done the job for his side that is one of the biggest regret of his life .
The moral was to always add 1 run to the D/L par score.
Name X

40. 9. Mark Boucher

41. He was part of the U-19 World Cup Winning team . In 2003 he took 9/16
against Bangladesh in the U-19 Asia Cup and helped his team win the
tournament and was man of the series . He hasn`t played a single ODI world
cup game for his team even after 173 ODI wickets and 100 test wickets
although he is remembered for his performance in a different format World
Cup and especially in the final.
Who ?
10.

42. 10. Irfan Pathan

43. This person wore a jersey numbered 99 is a policeman by profession and also drives a prison
Van. In a warm up game against England, as preparation for the Cricket World Cup X took
the wickets of Paul Collingwood and notably Kevin Pietersen, his 10 over spell returning figures
of 2 for 32 and resulting in X attaining a cult following around the world. X commented, "It
was the first time I have played against a team like this. I settled into a rhythm, and when I
settled, I took wickets. The wicket was turning a little bit". England captain Michael
Vaughan was full of praise for X's performance. "He bowled very well. Any spinner that
drags Kevin Pietersen out of his crease, and does him in the flight, is a good bowler“
But He is remembered for a different thing he did in that world Cup.
For what is he remembered ?
11.

44. 11. Leverock from Bermuda

45. Conventional wisdom had it that the ideal bowling line-up in one-day cricket was four seamers
and one spinner. But A should have been the exception to this rule given their traditional spin
strength. The team management, however, stuck to convention while picking the team for the
opening game against England with disastrous results.
The four-man seam attack was treated rather harshly and the result was that B rattled up 334 for
four in 60 overs. The lone spinner in skipper was the most economical among the bowlers. B
made merry with opening batsman getting 137 off 147 balls with 18 hits to the fence. He put on
176 runs for the second wicket with Keith Fletcher. In the final stages, Chris Old piled on the
agony by clouting an unbeaten 51 off 30 balls with four fours and two sixes.
The Indian reply was limp made unforgettable in a hideous sort of way by X`s infamous 36 not
out in 60 overs. He played 174 balls hitting but a solitary boundary and India finished at a highly
unsatisfactory 132 for two off 60 overs. The Indian reply left a bad taste in the mouth and as
Tony Lewis wrote at the time ``It was a perverse moment of self-inflicted shame’’.
Who is X ?
12.

46. 12. Sunil Gavaskar

47. 13. Wisden Australia Cricketer of the Year 1998
Awarded AM (Member of the Order of Australia) in the January 2000 Australia Day
honours list.
World Cup wins in 1997 and 2005 in South Africa, and the final in 2000
Most Test runs by an Australian (919)
Highest individual ODI score of 229 not out against Denmark in Mumbai in 1997 Women's Cricket
World Cup
First double centurion (of either gender) in a One Day International among all men and women
cricket formats.
Most runs by an Australian in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup (1,151).
Australian record for Test runs (919) and ODI runs (4,844)
Australian record for most appearances as captain of Australia (101

48. 14. Title sponsor of first 3 World Cups

49. 15. Vinod Kambli

50. 16. 1992 World Cup Semi Final , England vs South Africa

51. 17. Kevin O` Brien

52. 18. Craig Mcdermott

53. 19. Dipak Patel

54. 20. Virat Kohli