The apartheid-era controversy surrounding Basil D'Oliveira's selection for England's 1968/69 tour of South Africa, which prompted the cancellation of international sporting contacts between South Africa and other countries and the sporting isolation of South Africa due to its apartheid policies.
7. Jason Gillespie scored his first century in his
71st test match.
Chaminda Vaas broke this record when he
scored a century in his 97th.
Who broke Vaas’s record by scoring one in his
118th test?
8. Anil Kumble
• On 10 August 2007, Kumble scored his maiden
century, with an innings of 110 not out against
England
9. • He was given
the honour of
ringing the
bell to signal
the start of
play in the
third and final
Test match
between
England and
South Africa at
Lord's. ID him.
16. This was the first-ever Twenty20 international and was played
between Australia and New Zealand. With the match all but
won, Glenn McGrath revisited the history of underarm bowling
between Australia and New Zealand. When he ran in to bowl
the last ball, he shaped to bowl underarm, but held on to the
ball. Billy Bowden, in the spirit of fun in which the whole match
was played promptly produced a red card and showed it to
McGrath, soccer style.
18. Id him.
• He was said to be the best all-rounder of his day. He
made his first-class debut for Sussex in 1845 aged
18, weighing only 7 stone(45 kg). Initially a fast round-
arm bowler, his pace slowed in later years. While
bowling fast, he took on average nearly 10 wickets in
every game. In 1850, playing for the South against the
North at Lord's, he took all 10 wickets in the second
innings, all clean bowled (still the only instance of all
ten wickets being taken "bowled" in any first-class
match). In all, he took 1,109 first-class wickets with a
bowling average of 10.32 He was also a fine batsman
(4,140 first-class runs with a batting average of
14.12, an average which was very good for the time).
He scored only two centuries, the first in 1849 and the
second was the only century scored in 1855. Who?
20. ID X.
• After X's birth, there nearly was an exchange of
babies with a fisherman's new-born baby. Luckily
Narayan, X's uncle had spotted a birth mark on
him a while ago and when the baby in the cot
didn't have it, there was chaos. He was ultimately
located in the cot where the fisherman's wife had
kept her baby. In his autobiography, X writes
“Perhaps, I would have grown-up to be an
obscure fisherman, toiling somewhere along the
west coast...I sometimes muse on the
possibilities of fishing in Mahim, if not for the
doctor”
24. About whom this is poem is talking
about??
• Hey Andy,
You are indeed handy,
When you come to Kandy,
I`ll give you brandy, .
But you bring the shandy,
After brandy,
If you try to be chandi,
And hit Murali out of Kandy,
I will make you nondi
25. Andy flower, by Percy Abeysekara
(by Sri Lanka’s biggest fan just like
Sudhir Kumar of India)
26. • X had the number 356 tattooed on his
body, believing he was the 356th Test
representative for his nation. He also had a
personalised number plate on his Ferrari
reading MS356. But he is listed by his Cricket
Board as the 357th. Fortunately, Brendon
Julian , who was the 356th Test player, said he
was happy to concede the number to X and
the board approved.
28. • I was a prominent opener for my nation. In my
greatest innings, I perished by lofting a catch
to Saurav Ganguly off of Sachin
Tendulkar, only 6 runs short of what would've
been an awesome and unique record. Later, I
took a short break and took up religion. Who
am I?
29. Saeed Anwar. He perished for 194 in
an ODI. He missed out on scoring the
first ever ODI double century by 6
runs.
33. • X is a FIM Supersport World Championship
team founded by the captain of the Indian
cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
• It’s the first Asian team to participate in
Superbike World Championship.
• Its currently leading with 2 out of 2 wins.
• Id X.
37. • The 1996 Wisden records that "fried calamari
stopped play" during a South African domestic
match at Paarl in February 1995. This was
probably the most bizarre incident which
stopped play in a game of cricket.
• What happened??
38. Calamari is a mediterranean dish made using
Squid. The batsman Daryll Cullinan hit a six into
a frying pan in a kitchen in a nearby building. It
was about ten minutes before the ball was cool
enough for the umpires to remove the grease.
Even then, the bowler Fanie De Villiers was
unable to grip the ball and it had to be replaced
later.
40. Morne Morkel ball delivery at 173.9
kmph made dale steyn tweet this.
41. • Sledging can be an effective cricketing weapon, but I feared
I had gone too far when one of my victims burst into the
Australian dressing room brandishing an AK- 47 and
demanding revenge.
I said: 'Looks like you don't fancy it very much, Depardieu
(he resembles the French actor).' He replied: 'Listen, a lot of
people go missing every day in South Africa and one more
won't be noticed.' Later, he threatened to use me for bait
when he went shark fishing.
I thought nothing of it all - until we went to South Africa. It
was lunch in Johannesburg and we were just starting to
tuck in when he stormed in wielding the gun, which he had
borrowed from a policeman outside, shouting: 'Right, I've
had enough of you Australians.'
Identify the person who wrote these line and who is he
talking about?
42. Shane Warne wrote these lines. He
was talking about Brian Mcmillan.
Read this in the book Shane Warne's
100 best cricketer...Wonderful read...
43. This is a picture of the highest cricket
match to have ever been played. It was at
the Everest Base Camp at a height of
5,165m. Team X vs. Team Y.
Give X and Y
45. In a 1933 test against England a West Indian bowler
called Ellis Achong had Walter Robins stumped off a
ball that according to the bowler „pitched perfectly
and turned nicely and Robins saw it coming back at
him, he opened his legs and the ball went through‟.
On his way back Robins is reported to have said to
Learie Constantine, “Fancy being done in by a
bloody ____________”. To which Learie Constantine
is said to have replied: “Do you mean the bowler or
the ball?”
Fill in the blank.
47. • This term, very popular among cricket
commentators, comes from the Latin word for
Lead (the element).
It is the name of the device, that has a heavy
lead ball, attached to the end of a rope, used
to gauge the straightness of a wall or surface,
This word also gives its name to a particular
profession.
What word?
52. • Significance of the following series of
numbers:
[0,0,1,4,4,0,4,4,0,4,1,6,6,4,0,6,6,4,6,1,6,0,6,6,
4,6,6,0,1,6,1,0,1,1,0,1,1,0,0,6,1,1,1,1,1,6,4,1,4,
6,6,4,6,1,1,0,1,4,1,4,1,1,6,1,1]
62. X- So what does Brian Lara D**k taste like ?
Y- I don’t know ask your wife.
X(losing it)-
If you ever f***ing mention my wife again, I will
f***ing rip your f***ing throat out.
66. Roke Manor Research Ltd. How is this company
related to the field of Cricket ?
Its first existence in this game came into picture
on 21 May 2001 when used by CHANNEL 4.
During a Test match Between Eng v Pakistan
72. Sachin’s wax statue was unveiled at SCG on April 20th
2013 before being placed at Sydney's Madame
Tussauds Wax Museum. What was wrong about this
statue ?
73. The wax statue has the 2012 ICC World
T20 t-shirt, a tournament which
Tendulkar was not part of
74. When Vikram Solanki took the field during Eng v
Aus ODI replacing Simon Jones at Headingley in
July 2005 what happened for the first time in
history of ODI cricket.
76. Richie Benaud used to work in Aus during the Aussie
Summer and then in Eng during the English Summer. He
retired from commentary in 2005 Ashes but still
continues to commentate for matches in Australia. What
very specific reason did Benaud give for this decision ?
77. Post Ashes 2005, Sky Sports paid ECB for
Cricket rights in Eng. So, cricket was no longer
Free-to-air on BBC.
78. Identify the tournament and Y
Captain – Ajay Jadeja
Vice Captain – Anil Kumble
Coach – Kris Srikkanth
Group Stage Opponents- Aus, Can and
Y
Y has player like Curtly Ambrose, Richie
Richardson etc.
82. During the 1988-89 Ranji Semifinals,
X, a popular member of team scored
an important hundred at Eden Garden
(Home Ground). When he reached his
hundred, crowd started to chant”___
______”. This was a tribute to X as
well as popular motto of that region.
Id X as well as the slogan.
84. X , in Australian Cricket is considered an unlucky score (the devil's
number). The theory apparently was born from Keith Miller -regarded
as Australia's greatest ever all-rounder.
Miller- “As a boy I used to visit the Melbourne Cricket
Ground, applauding my heroes – especially Don. I was barely ten then.
And there I was admiring a masterly innings by Bradman for NSW
against Victoria on the MCG. Don was seeing the ball as big as a
football, but ‘Bull’ Alexander bowled him. I looked at the scoreboard
which read: Bradman X”.
Richie Benaud and some other commentators later picked up on it
and the myth grew.
Later in Miller words- “when I checked the scorebook of the 1929
Sheffield Shield match at the NSW Cricket Association Library I find
Bradman was bowled by Alexander on another score. So it was not X
after all; the MCG scoreboard was slow as usual!”
Bradman in fact never really got out on X.
86. X gained the nickname "King of Spain", after a set of
mugs ordered in 2000 (for his testimonial year) had
been erroneously printed with that slogan, instead of
"King of Spin". There were originally only two of these
mugs produced, one of which X used for his coffee in
the dressing room (this mug was subsequently
stolen), and another on display in the club shop.
However, after the error was publicized, a further two
hundred mugs were produced with King Juan Carlos on
the other side and were snapped up by Warwickshire
fans.
Name X
88. He was born in Malwan, a village nearly 500 kms
from Mumbai. When he was eleven, he came to
Mumbai, eventually got a job in SBI as a
cricketer. His teammate at SBI Ajit Wadekar said
about him “He was supposed to be the Don
Bradman of tennis ball cricket at Shivaji park. He
got a lot of runs in club cricket and was recruited
in SBI as a cricketer. His wicket keeping was
excellent, though he didn’t shine as a batsman.
He was studious about the game and looked
more towards developing others talent.
90. X was great patron of sports in India. X’s cricket team
was called Y IX and polo team was called Y-Tigers.
X was captain of the Indian cricket team that visited
England in 1911 and played in 27 first-class
cricket matches between 1915 and 1937. For season of
1926/27, he played as member of Marylebone Cricket
Club. X donated the Ranji Trophy in honour of Kumar
Shri Ranjitsinhji, Jam Sahib of Nawanagar. He was
selected as the captain of India on its first Test tour of
England in 1932, but dropped out for reasons of health
two weeks before departure. X made the cricket
ground at Chail in 1893, the highest cricket ground in
the world.
92. X - “I bowled the best ball in the history of the
game and they are talking about him (Y)”.
Many claims had come. A story developed over
the years that claimed Y missed the ball because
of tears in his eyes, a claim Y denied for the rest
of his life.
93. X-William Eric Hollies
Y- Don Bradman
On getting Bradman out for a duck in
last match, hence denying him of Test
Avg. of 100 (99.94)
94. This young cricketer X was the very reason for
something really bad for the cricketing fraternity
but a great step for mankind. He led to an
uproar which cut short many great players
career. What was this particular incident one
would associate ?
95. Basil D'Oliveira, who had previously emigrated to
England from South Africa, was included in the England
touring squad to South Africa in 1968, but the
ruling apartheid government in South Africa objected
to his inclusion because he wasn't white. The tour was
subsequently cancelled.
The incident marked the start of South Africa's sporting
isolation during the apartheid era.
That spelled the end of the career of such players as
Peter and Graeme Pollock and Barry Richards.
96. X made his debut in New Zealand in early 1981
as a replacement for injured Dilip Doshi. He
picked up 15 wickets and scored 48 runs as an
lower order batsmen. Who is this cricketer ?
98. James Ormond had just come out to bat on an Ashes
tour and was greeted by an Australian player X
fielding at slip.
X: F**k me, look who it is. What are you doing here,
there's no way you're good enough to play for
England.
"Ormond: "Maybe not, but at least I'm the best
player in my family". Id X
102. X scored 201 not out on his Test Debut and
became the First Sri Lankan to hit a double Test
century. He played 584 balls and took 777
minutes for this innings, the slowest double
hundred in test history, unfortunately he played
only three more test for his country without
much success, though he came to know as slog
hitter in ODI cricket. Which player?
105. This a still from 1992 WC Semi-Final between England
and South Africa, rain stopped play for 12 minutes
with South Africa needing 22 runs from 13 balls
chasing England's 6/252 off 45 overs, and the revised
target left South Africa needing 21 runs from one ball
