5. • Shantibai Seth trophy is an award given to the best junior
cricketer of the year by M.C.A.
• There have many famous recipients of this award such as
Eknath Solkar, Ravi Shastri, Amol Mazumdar.
• For the year 1987-88 it was shared between two players X AND
Y.
6. Joy reigned in the Pavilion,
And gladness 'mongst his clan
While thousands breathed good wishes round
the ring;
Admirers dubbed the youngster As Surrey's
coming man;
In X’s play they saw the genuine ring.
'Twas well worth going to see Illustrious
Hayward's smile,
While Razor Smith and Walter Lees Cheered
with the rank and file.
7. • X coming in at no.11 had been continuously playing and
missing for a while now…..frustrated with X’s comic defiance
Y went upto him and asked,
“ Why are you so fat?”
Quick as a flash, X replied: “Because every time I make
love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit .”
8.
9. • X is the only venue in the world to
have hosted a home fixture for two
Test nations.
• Sportspersons like Muhammad Ali
and Messi have performed at this
venue.
10.
11.
12.
13. • Maninder Singh was the last batsman to get out in the
famous tied test between India and Australia at chennai.
• Who was the last batsman to get out in the first tied test
match?
14.
15. 11..
X was one of the rare Australian
cricketers who would have a go at
Bradman whenever he got a
chance right from blaming for the
bodyline series warner-woodful
spat leak to creating a sectarian
division in the aussie team under
catholic-protestant divide. X
nonetheless was admired for his
witty remarks and regarded as one
of the best cricket writers in his later
years.
Once during an interview when
asked by a broadcaster how it felt
to score successive ducks in the
bodyline series x replied how many
times you have scored four
consecutive centuries……...
16.
17. » THE STAN NAGAIAH TROPHY is an annual
series of one-day cricket matches played
between X and Y.
» It has been played annually since 1995, and is
named in honor of STAN NAGAIAGH,
a cricketer from X in the 1950s who also often
represented-----.
18.
19. • Recently Mccullum and Watling were involved in a record
breaking partnership for the sixth wicket, against India, in
tests .
• Which pair held the record before them?
