SOHAN AND MANISH

Well of course Cricket Quiz – Finals

Rounds: List it Written Round Clockwise Written Round II Anti-clockwise LVC

List It

Fill in the blanks of this song by Mojo called C’mon Aussie C’mon.

It was used to advertize world series cricket by Kerry Packer.

Lyrics contains references to Aussie cricketers of the time.

Identify A – J. 5 points for each, bonus of 10 for getting all

10 correct.

A pounding down like a machine,B making divots in the green.C is taking wickets,D is clearing pickets.And the E’s eyes have got that killer gleam.

C’mon Aussie C’monC’mon Aussie C’monC’mon Aussie C’monC’mon Aussie C’mon

Mr F is playing havoc with the bats.G is good to have you back.H is making runsI is chewing gum. And J is wielding willow like an axe.

Exchange Sheets please

A – Denis LilleeB – Len PascoeC – Rodney MarshD – David HookesE – Chappell’sF – Max WalkerG – Ian RedpathH – Bruce LairdI – Doug WaltersJ – Gary Gilmour.

Song video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qJLi5y2d2w

Stamping their Authority.

Stamping their Authority

5 stamps. 8 answers to be filled up. 5 points for each. A bonus of 10 for getting all 8 correct.

1. When was this stamp released?

2. Identify these 4 cricketers

3. For whose golden jubilee was this stamp released?

4. Identify the 2 teams involved. (No part points)

5. Somebody’s centenary. Whose?

Exchange Sheets Please

1. When was this stamp released?

1971, celebrating our victories.

2. Identify these 4 cricketers

CK Nayudu, Vinoo Mankad, Deodhar, Vijay Merchant

3. For whose golden jubilee was this stamp released?

Jasu Patel

4. Identify the 2 teams involved. (No part points)

Royal-Thomian rivalry

5. Somebody’s centenary. Whose?

Jawahar Lal Nehru

Clockwise

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If you list South African test cricketers by caps in the order in which each player won his Test cap, the list stops with X at 235 in 1969/70.

After their readmission to test cricket in 1992-93, the list resumes at 236 with Y.

Y's only Test appearance was South Africa's first Test back in the fold, at Bridgetown in 1991-92. He was also a member of the team that went to the 1992 World Cup in Australasia and eventually ended up playing only 2 ODIs. He died a month short of his 34th birthday apparently of a rare viral infection, but 18 months later his body was exhumed and a post mortem suggested he might have been poisoned.

Coincidentally X was still playing cricket when Y made his debut.Id X and Y.

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X - John Traicos

Y - Tertius Bosch

He played 2 tests for Pakistan and is the lesser known brother of a famous wicket keeper. But his greatest claim to fame or notoriety comes in his contribution as a substitute fielder. That controversy along with others ensured a surreal ending to a test match, played in front of empty stands. Who?

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Nadeem Khan, brother of Moin Khan.His direct throw from deep mid wicket ran out

Sachin. Spectators at Eden Gardens felt Shoaib Akhtar was obstructing the batsman.

•This is Ravi Mammen. He is considered to be the main man behind a company’s aggressive marketing campaign in the 80’s. He died of a heart attack in 1990.

•Why in a cricket quiz?

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MRF Pace Foundation. •Ravi Mammen was the brain behind the MRF Pace

foundation and was instrumental in getting Dennis Lille to be the main coach.

A.

Margaret Thatcher had a fairly controversial reign as the Prime Minister of England. There was a famous piece of Graffiti in London that said "Thatcher out"

The Australian team for the 1989 Ashes had won the series and were travelling for the 6th test match at the Oval, London. They came across this graffiti, but it had been vandalized as "Thatcher out ___ ________" to highlight (depending on your viewpoint) the ineptness of the umpires or as a tribute to the tormentor-in-chief for England.

What was the addition to the graffiti?

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LBW Alderman

Terry Alderman had taken almost 50% of his 41 wickets as LBW.

•Adreshir _____ was the vice president of a Cricket Club in Bombay. His son, a promising cricketer, died in the prime of his life.

•A proposal was initiated at the time of his death (almost 80 years ago from today) and his son is now chiefly remembered for this reason.

•Why do we remember Adreshir’s son?

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Rohinton Baria

A proposal was discussed to have an inter-university trophy. The trophy is named after Rohinton Baria.

This year, it was jazzed up and had SRK as brand ambassador. Jain University, Bangalore are the current champions.

Aftab Habib represented England in 2 tests (against NZ in 1999). He scored a total of 26 off 140 balls in the 2 tests and never played for England again.

In 2005 he was employed by the Taranaki Cricket Association in NZ and in a game between his New Plymouth United club and Hawera, he did something to "make a stand". Unbelievably, he was later to face accusations of bringing the game into disrepute at a hearing carried out by the Taranaki Cricket Association . Habib said he what he did was well within his rights wrt the laws of cricket.

What did he do ?

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He retired hurt due to too much sledging from the opposition.

Regarding X's selection in a test against SA in 2008,

Ian Botham described it as "The most illogical, pathetic and diabolical piece of selecting I've seen. The

selectors have embarrassed English cricket. I want to hear a proper explanation for this, as do England fans around the country."

Geoffrey Boycott said"This was one of the first big decisions taken by England's new selection

panel, and they got it badly wrong. They need to admit their mistake and realise that wild hunches are no way to build an international cricket team."

Following England's defeat, captain Michael Vaughan appeared to criticise the selection, saying

"It does look a confused selection, but the selection of one person does not lose you a Test."

X never played an international game after that. X's younger brother has had a promising start to his career though. Identify both.

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Darren Pattinson and James Pattinson.

When England were forced by the Government to cancel the tour arranged for South Africa to the United Kingdom in 1970 the authorities at Lord's through the Test and County Cricket Board devised a series of five matches against The Rest of the World. At the time the matches were deemed to be Test matches, but that was later revoked.

The RoW squad was chosen by F. R. Brown (manager), G. S. Sobers (captain) and L. E. G. Ames (secretary-manager of Kent) and comprised of:

From Pakistan: Intikhab Alam, Mushtaq MohammadFrom South Africa: Eddie Barlow, Graeme Pollock, Peter Pollock,

Mike Procter, Barry RichardsFrom the West Indies: Lance Gibbs, Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd,

Deryck Murray, Garry Sobers

Australia and India just had representative each. Identify both.

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Graham McKenzie and Farokh Engineer.

•The first floodlit game in England took place in 1980 between Essex and the touring West Indians.

Officials toyed with the idea of changing some of the rules, but eventually decided not to tinker and to play to the laws as they stood. Essex lent their mobile scorebox to the ground for this occasion for a reason.

Where did this game take place?

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Stamford Bridge.  Officials toyed with the idea of reducing a side-on hit into the stands to two

runs because of the width of a football field. The elctronic scoreboard could not cope with the complexities of a cricket

score. Two days after the game at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea fought out a dull 2-2

draw with Wrexham. As the game drew to a close the bored crowd chanted "We want cricket"!

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_________ is a large genus of filamentous fungi widely distributed in soil and in association with plants. Most species are harmless saprobes, and are relatively abundant members of the soil microbial community. The name comes from Latin for spindle.

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X wrote in The Guardian"This was written up as the '________ Test' because the pitch had

been infected by a fungus following a freak storm a few days earlier. It was damp, entirely grassless and mottled, seemingly perfect conditions for spin bowling."

"..from 79 for one I took four wickets, bowling flatter and quicker than usual to make use of the pitch, and the captain two to reduce them to 98 for seven.."

"Their second innings began on Saturday morning and after an initial burst from Snow and Geoff Arnold we went for spin at both ends. I had a spell of five for 18 in 13 overs either side of lunch and we knocked off the 20 runs we needed to win shortly after tea."

Id X and the blank.

Derek Underwood and Fussarium Test

•X’s first important contribution in a game came in this game against the visiting Pakistanis. He batted at No. 9 in this game and contributed with 6 wickets.

•He improved his batting so much he was asked to open in the game played at Karachi. Who?

Scorecard next slide.

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Asif Iqbal

•He played for Hyderabad before emigrating to Pakistan.

•In 1978 against India, he was asked to open the batting when Pakistan needed about 164 runs in around 25 overs.

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Connect the man in the video to the song.

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The infamous "Can't bowl, can't throw" incident.This occurred in a Test match between Australia

and Pakistan at Bellerive Oval in 1999. This was Scott Muller's second and last appearance in a Test match and his bowling had been below his best. Muller made an inaccurate throw from the outfield, and the words "He can't bowl, and he can't throw" went to air.

The finger was pointed at teammate Shane Warne, who was fielding close to the stump microphone, as the source of the comment. Warne denied it and eventually Joe the Cameraman confessed to having said the remark.

The song is called "Can't bowl, can't throw" and is by Six and Out and features Joe.

Even Scott Mueller has dismissed Sachin Tendulkar :-)

What is happening here?

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Geoff Griffin was called by umpires for chucking. He decided to complete the over by bowling underarm.

He was similar to Muralitharan as a childhood accident left him with an unstraightened right arm.

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If this happened in the first innings of the test match, what infamous incident (involving one of the players pictured here) took place in the second innings?

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Ian Botham apologises to Bob Taylor after running him out in England's first innings against NZ in 1978.

That was accidental but in the second innings Botham ran out Geoffrey Boycott on purpose as he was scoring too slowly.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAeFm22xB7Q

Cricketer X’s tweet was RT’d but for some reason he misunderstood it and subsequently sent an abusive DM to the retweeter.

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His teammate Y jumped to his rescue with this tweet but he also did agree that X’s account was indeed genuine.

X then later deleted his Twitter account.Identify X and Y.

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X - Upul Tharanga.Y – Farvez Maharoof

Scores.

Bowlers!

+5 for every correct answer.+10 if you get all correct.

Written Round II

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5. Here is Ian Healy impersonating 4 bowlers during the Allan Border Testimonial match in 1993.

Name all 4 bowlers.

Exchange sheets.

1) Matthew Wade2) Sultan Zarawani3) Rodney Marsh4) Alec Stewart5) Merv Hughes, Terry Alderman, Malcolm

Marshall, Abdul Qadir.

Answers

Video (terrible quality) of a match in Sharjah. Asanka Gurusinha hooks a bouncer from Wasim Akram to fine leg and Zahid Fazal takes a spectacular diving catch on the boundary.

What happens next ?

Audience Question!

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A fan jumps from the stands and gives Zahid Fazal some holy water.

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Anticlockwise.

Shujauddin Butt played 19 test matches for Pakistan primarily as a left arm spinner. He took 20 wickets in a 19 test career and later became a selector for Pakistan. He even played all the test matches against India in 1955. The question is, why did he spend some extra time in India 16 years later?

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Prisoner of War.He was a Colonel in the army and was

arrested during the 1971 Indo-Pak war.

2.

X on the left is congratulating the batsman Y for a unique feat.

This feat has been achieved only 8 times and only once after the batsman in the picture did it.

Z came very close to achieving the feat last year.

Identify X, Y, Z and the feat

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X - Colin MilburnY - Glenn TurnerZ - Nick Compton

Feat - 1000 runs in a first class season before the month of May.

•This English player of the 30’s and 40’s played 7 tests with reasonable success. But he is mostly remembered for this amusing and possibly apocryphal story.

•When the player reported to the front desk at the hotel, he was asked “Bed Sir”? Thinking that they thought he was Bedser, the wicketkeeper replied, “No, X.” The receptionist duly directed him to the first door on the right.

•Identify.

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Jack Crapp.

•Played 7 tests for England after the war. He was Gloucestershire’s first professional captain.

A.

•A largely forgettable ODI took place at the West Pac stadium between England and New Zealand at the Westpac stadium in 2002.

•But why have people “heard” this game?

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•Peter Jackson used the noise generated by the spectators in the LOTR: The two towers.

A.

•Picture of Leicester’s X and Martin Johnson in 2001. Martin Johnson went on to captain the world cup winning English team in 2003.

•The guy on the left though has been in the news recently and has more articles on cricinfo rather than on scrum.com.

•Yaaru?

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Pat Howard•He was appointed as the General Manager for Team

Performance of the Australian Cricket team.•Has faced rampant criticism from ex-cricketers. And

played a major part in the Gang of four exclusion.

A.

•In 1946, Vijay Merchant scored a classy 128 and looked like he would get more. But, he was run out in a very unusual manner.

It probably wasn’t a fluke that Merchant was run out in the manner that he was.

•Who ran Merchant out and how?

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•Dennis Compton.•He used all the skills that made him a winger at

Arsenal and kicked the ball onto the stumps from MID-ON.

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X, a Lord's centurion for Cambridge University, had been tipped to play for his country before being hit by one of his beloved buses while at Eton. So when England were stricken by illness before the Bombay Test of

1963-64, X was asked to stand by. He agreed and cheekily said, "I don't care if Cowdrey and Parfitt are flying out as replacements. If I make 50 or above in either innings, I'm damned if I'll stand down for Calcutta."

However, Cowdrey's future career was saved when at the 11th hour it was decided that Micky Stewart would play despite illness. Stewart appeared on the scorecard as `Absent ill 0.'

X?

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Henry Blofeld

Identify both.

•Abida Sultan and Begum Sajida were sisters. Abida Sultan gave up her right to the throne of a royal state and opted to go to Pakistan. Begum Sajida, who continued to stay in India succeeded her.

•Both the sister’s sons have associations with the game. Sajida’s son went on to captain India. Abida’s son went on to head the administration in Pakistan. Identify both the sons.

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•Nawab of Pataudi Jr.•Shahryar Khan

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•X always dreamed of opening the batting for Yorkshire and England.

•In 1957, Middlesbrough club sent a team to play cricket against Redcar cricket club. X, came in at no. 6 and scored 4, whereas Y, who would later be known for his close association with X, top scored with 31 as Middlesbrough won by a wicket. Next year, Y scored 41 and X took 2 for 21 and scored 15 not out to once again guide his team home to victory.

•X represented his country twice but is considered as one of the greatest coaches of the world.

•X and Y?

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X - Brian CloughY - Peter Taylor

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Various theories for why this player bowled with a cap on -

1. He did not want to show his receding hairline.

2. He had more test wickets than hair on his head.

Despite all that he was still good enough to take 13 wickets against South Africa in what turned out to be his last test at the age of 44.

Who?

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Clarrie Grimmett

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Leslie Hylton made his debut on the England tour of the West Indies in January 1935 in Barbados.

A rain-affected surface produced a rather strange game. England declared at 81/7 in reply to West Indies’ score of 102, and Hylton returned flattering figures 3-8 off 7.3 overs. Hylton ended the series with 13 wickets in 4 matches. Hylton did well enough to be chosen for the next tour, which was to England in 1939.

By that time, however, his bowling had fallen off, and his two games only yielded a further two wickets at a cost of 55.56 runs. Hylton was never chosen again and so he retired and settled down to life in Jamaica in the civil service.

He also is the answer to the question, “Who is the only test cricketer _________ .”

What’s the question?

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Hylton was hanged for the murder of his wife in 1955.

He is the only Test cricketer known to have been executed.

This began life in Sialkot in 1931, when brothers Dwarkanath and Kedarnath Anand decided to diversify the family business. By the time World War II broke out, they had 250 people working in its unit, and it continued through the war years.

In 1947 Dwarkanath’s family is holidaying in the hill resort of Kud in Kashmir when Pakistan and India are officially severed from each other. The family is told not to go back to Sialkot, now in Pakistan, and to move to Amritsar instead.

Dwarkanath, who was not on the trip, stayed put in Sialkot, hoping the situation would resolve quickly. It didn’t and Dwarkanath was asked to move to a refugee camp.

The Anands drifted from Amritsar to Delhi, then to Mathura, and then Agra. “We were refugees in our own country,” Anand says. “It was a horrible abuse word for us—refugees.” Finally, in 1950, many industrialist families uprooted from Sialkot managed to negotiate space and financial help from the government to re-establish their factories in Meerut,”

What?

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Sanspareils Greenlands

•During a game, when England were 164 for 7, Frank Tyson walked out to bat. He joined his captain Len Hutton. They were in pursuit of their opponents first innings total of 200.

•Len Hutton is said to have told Tyson “Stick around for a while, we may not have to bat again.” These words ended up being true.

•Who were the opponents and how much did they score?

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New Zealand, 26 all out.

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A disciple of Stan McCabe in Mosman club, Sydney, Douglas Keith _____ made his debut at 20 for NSW in 1939, the last season before the War suspended Sheffield Shield cricket.

In an unofficial four-day Tests against India on the Services' way home his sequence as opening batsman was 113, 40, 14, 0 and 92. He was Captain-coach in Western Australia's first Sheffield Shield season but never played Test cricket for Australia.

He is credited with an innovation in the game that is seen even today, albeit not very often. This innovation was seen even earlier this year.

What ? And give me his name.

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The umbrella field also called the Carmody field after Douglas Carmody

The title of Greame Swann's autobiography is a pun that references both his craft on the cricketing field as well as the unhinged, frank opinions and stories contained in the book. Name it (spelling important)

In a similar vein, Richard Blakey, who kept wickets for England in 2 tests and ODIs in the early 90's titled his autobiography _________ .The Independant said this about the title:

"No one would judge a book by its cover, but when it comes to a title such as this one it becomes a little more difficult.There is not merely a temptation to judge the book and its contents on the double entendre of the title of Richard Blakey's grande oeuvre, but also the author's mentality. It is staggering the Yorkshire wicketkeeper was able to persuade the publishers to run with it..."

Identify both titles

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Identify the dude taking the catch.What was unique about his appearance in

this game?

Audience Question

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Jeff Vaughan.

He is the assistant coach of the South Australia T20 team. There were two injuries on field that day, hence he came onto the field as substitute and ended up taking this catch.

LVC18 slides

1st set: +45, -202nd set: +35, -153rd set: +25, -104th set: +15, -55th set: +5, -0

1. +45, - 20

2. +35, -15

3. +25, -10

4. +15, -5

5. +5, 0

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Bowlers who have taken a wicket with their first ball in international cricket in ODIs.

• GG Arnold• Clive Lloyd• Shahid Mahboob• Shane Thomson• Inzamam-ul-Haq• EZ Matambanadzo• S Ramesh• WW Hinds• Josephat Ababu• Martin van Jaarsveld• M Zondeki• KS Lokuarachchi• R Clarke• FH Edwards• Thilan Thushara• Kevin O’ Brien• Parth Desai• Bhuvanesh Kumar

Stumps.

Tie breaker

•Which English wicketkeeper, nicknamed Badger, has written an autobiography ironically titled “Keeping Quiet”?

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Identify the player and the team he is playing for.

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3.

In 2008, Wisden magazine published an article and specifically highlighted these 5 cricketers in the article – Abdul Qadir, Bishan Bedi, Wes Hall, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Jeff Thomson.

What was the subject of the article?

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List all 10 fielders with more than 150 test catches.

+ 1 for a correct

5.

 List all bowlers from India who have taken 5 or more wickets in an innings at Lords.