KQA Cricket Quiz Prelims 2015 by Sohan and Manish

1. Well Of Course
Prelims
KQA Cricket Quiz
2015
@soganmageshwar
@paap_singer

2. Rules
Teams of 4 or less
30 Questions
First five questions are *ed
In case of ties even after counting stars, we will become ICC and
shun out who we feel are associates and include only “strong
teams”….
…. Just kidding, we do a straight sudden death starting from the last
question

3. Put Your Hands Together….

4. Take Your Guard

5. 1.
It all started with Paul Taylor, a man from Sydney.
“I was overcome with sadness, and I was also knowing that there
were a whole lot of cricketers feeling the same way. How do we
convey our emotions? So I took a photo and placed it on ___X___
with the ___Y___. It was just a simple thing to say, this is a sad day,
this is how I am feeling.”
Many people picked up the idea from Paul Taylor and this was
repeated around the world.
Identify Y.

6. 2.
Plain and simple, identify

7. 3.
Where, quite appropriately named city, did Jacques Kallis, Shaun
Pollock and Stephen Fleming play their 100th test?

8. 4.
This is Joseph “Reds” Perreira, a radio
commentator and sports administrator in
the Caribbean. He has covered over 145
tests, 300 ODI’s. But his primary claim to
fame is that he broke a story that was
breaking news before breaking news
became a fad and tore the Caribbean
region apart.
He broke the story after enquiring about
American Airlines flights from Port-of-
Spain to Miami, via Barbados.
What story?

9. 5.
The first was by Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad against New
Zealand. The next was in 1981-82 by Gundappa Viswanath and
Yashpal Sharma against England. Who were the third and definitely
the most famous instance in Indian cricket?

10. 6.
Benjamin question of the quiz.
Emmanuel Benjamin was actually the second Indian to do it, when
he played in 1981-82. Who is often erroneously credited as being
the only Indian when he did it in the 1960’s? And what is being
spoken about?

11. 7.
Identify X. What list is this? How is the instance of X unique to this
list?
Sl.No. Batsman Score For Against Venue Date
1 RussellEndean 3 SouthAfrica England Newlands,CapeTown 01-Jan-57
2 X 29 Australia Pakistan WACA,Perth 24-Mar-79
3 MohsinKhan 58 Pakistan Australia NationalStadium,Karachi 22-Sep-82
4 DesmondHaynes 55 WestIndies India WankhedeStadium,Bombay 24-Nov-83
5 GrahamGooch 133 England Australia OldTrafford,Manchester 03-Jun-93
6 SteveWaugh 47 Australia India MAChidambaramStadium,Chennai 18-Mar-01
7 MichaelVaughan 64 England India MChinnaswamyStadium,Bangalore 19-Dec-01

12. 8.
Pakistan forward Kallimullah Khan, won the 1984 Olympic gold
medal. In his long career, whom did he consider the greatest
goalkeeper that he ever faced?
The man in question “just happened” to be a keeper at all sports
that he played – cricket, hockey and football. He continued to play
behind stumps until his late thirties and decided to give up, when
he got injured and stopped enjoying keeping.

13. 9.
For sometime on twitter, during the first one day between Australia
and Pakistan in 2014, the term “Backwad Alam” trended. Basically
Fawad Alam did something that was commonly associated with
what Geoffrey Boycott did.
What?

14. 10.
Identify the cricket team

15. 11.
In 1983, West Indies toured India with the intention of humiliating
the World Champion side in all formats. India after having done
reasonably well on day 1 of the first test in Kanpur, were obliterated
by Malcolm Marshall on day 2. He first scored 92 and then bowled
one of the fastest spells in India to leave India reeling at 34/5.
What was the memorable headline penned by Rajan Bala to
describe the carnage?

16. 12.
Who is receiving his Executive MBA degree? The ceremony was
organized specifically for him, given his busy international schedule.

17. 13.
Identify

18. 14.
What in Australia, gets its nickname because it originates in a
neighboring town and brings welcome relief from high
temperatures during the summer?

19. 15.
What happened because of this?

20. 16.
On his first class debut (His only
game) after beating his outside
edge several times, an
exasperated bowled exclaimed,
“For Christ’s sake X, you must
have been f**king adopted”.
X, ended up being the black
sheep of the family, by not
playing test cricket unlike his
brothers. X?

21. 17.
For the preview of the 1977-78 series between Pakistan and
England, what did Wisden label the following players as?

22. 18.
What upset has been attributed to the fact that the much fancied
opponents took a tour round the local Guinness Factory the night
before and might have suffered some after effects?

23. 19.
Highest scores achieved by Karnataka Batsmen
• KL Rahul – 337
• Karun Nair - 328
• X – 283
• Y – 270
• Arjun Raja – 267
• Z – 264*
• Karthik Jeshwant – 259*
• Z - 257
X is named after a quite often underrated English giant. Y did it in a
test match, Z is the only wicketkeeper to have 2 scores of 250+ in
Indian cricket. Id all 3

24. 20.
Lalit Modi envisioned a city based league way back in the 1990's
when he was working to get ESPN into India. In 1996 thanks to the
hype generated by the world cup, he decided to pitch his idea to
the BCCI. His league was based on the ODI game and he had
included traditional cricket cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai,
Chennai etc. However to get support from a former president of
BCCI, he told him even his city can have a franchise.
After the president's untimely death a cricket ground, in another
city, that had regularly staged ODI's has been renamed after him.
Who is the president and what was the franchise included?

25. 21.
Identify this domestic smasher, who was born 15 years too soon for
the T20 revolution.

26. 22.
India were touring Australia. There was a match scheduled at
Adelaide, and manager Pankaj Gupta had asked the Mayor of the
Adelaide whether X could be at the ground during the match.
X, who had shifted base to Adelaide from Sydney, had never
witnessed Y playing and impressed with his play commented
something. This was to be a famous meeting between X and Y, only
known meeting between them.
Identify X and Y and the famous comment made famous in Indian
school books.

27. 23.
Allan Donald was to resume international cricket for South Africa as
they were taking on England. The county decided to replace the
fast bowler with another “fast” bowler. Just days before his
departure, the other “fast” bowler got injured and therefore could
not take part in the county championships.
The county decided to hire a batsman instead and it led to all sorts
of history being created. Identify the other bowler and the batsman
who replaced him.

28. 24.
Whose voice?
Who was dismissed?

29. 25.
Identify the cricketer on the left – basically the subject of this comic
book

30. 26.
He got his nickname, that he hated, due to the fact that in his first
major game in 1975, he smashed an assortment of good spinners
for 7 sixes and scored a quick-fire hundred. He was out for 110
made only in 113 minutes.
Old timers immediately recalled a path-breaking hundred by
another person nearly 50 years earlier, who had similarly smashed
an assortment of good bowlers for sixes and this ensured that India
was taken seriously as a cricket team.
Who got his nickname from whom?

31. 27.
The story goes that the two brothers decided to toss a coin to
decide who would remain a fast bowler and who would try spin,
after they agreed that both couldn’t be fast bowlers.
X won and became a cornerstone for the international attack
whereas Y became an off spinner, but was confined to domestic
cricket. After cricket, the brothers got together and opened a
stationary shop which was quite successful. Neither married and
the brothers lived together. Identify X and Y.

32. 28.
This 1980 match at the Gadaffi Stadium was petering to a draw so
Pakistan’s keeper Taslim Arif, who played 6 tests and 2 ODI’s,
decided to bowl with X as keeper.
Arif took his sole international wicket in that innings.
X did not do any monkey business as a keeper and got his only
international stumping. He got Y stumped off Azhar Khan (which
incidentally was also Azhar’s only wicket)
Y despite being grumpy, had a good match, and did something in
that game which is the only instance in the history of tests.
Identify X, Y and what Y achieved

33. 29.
X was on the verge of equalling a record at Y's hometown. Their
team needed 3 wickets to win and Y took 2 of them. Y then decided
to bowl badly to ensure X equals the record which he did. X later
broke the record in the next game and retired after one more test.
Few years later, Y was on the verge of another record and this time
it was Z's responsibility to bowl badly so that Y can achieve the
record. Z famously did that and Y confessed later, if he hadn’t
broken the record, it would have been really difficult to ask Z to
bowl another over badly.
 Identify X, Y, Z and the 2 records involved.

34. 30.
X announced his retirement at the end of 2014. Although not all
that successful at the international level, he is the only player to
have been involved in a 400 run partnership in FC cricket, 300 run
partnership in List A and 200 run partnership in T20.
Y opened the batting in 2 tests with X in a series against Sri Lanka in
2006/07. They were a long list of opening pairs that were being
tried out during that period. Thanks to their surnames, the opening
pair were part of some jokes.
Identify the opening pair

35. Time for Answers

36. 1.
It all started with Paul Taylor, a man from Sydney.
“I was overcome with sadness, and I was also knowing that there
were a whole lot of cricketers feeling the same way. How do we
convey our emotions? So I took a photo and placed it on ___X___
with the ___Y___. It was just a simple thing to say, this is a sad day,
this is how I am feeling.”
Many people picked up the idea from Paul Taylor and this was
repeated around the world.
Identify Y.

37. #PutYourBatsOut

38. 2.
Plain and simple, identify

39. Ajinkhya Rahane

40. 3.
Where, quite appropriately named city, did Jacques Kallis, Shaun
Pollock and Stephen Fleming play their 100th test?

41. Supersport Park, Centurion

42. 4.
This is Joseph “Reds” Perreira, a radio
commentator and sports administrator in
the Caribbean. He has covered over 145
tests, 300 ODI’s. But his primary claim to
fame is that he broke a story that was
breaking news before breaking news
became a fad and tore the Caribbean
region apart.
He broke the story after enquiring about
American Airlines flights from Port-of-
Spain to Miami, via Barbados.
What story?

43. West Indies rebel tour of South
Africa

44. 5.
The first was by Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad against New
Zealand. The next was in 1981-82 by Gundappa Viswanath and
Yashpal Sharma against England. Who were the third and definitely
the most famous instance in Indian cricket?

45. Batting an entire day without losing
a wicket

46. 6.
Benjamin question of the quiz.
Emmanuel Benjamin was actually the second Indian to do it, when
he played in 1981-82. Who is often erroneously credited as being
the only Indian when he did it in the 1960’s? And what is being
spoken about?

47. Indians playing Sheffield Cricket
Rusi Surti played for Queensland during the 60’s.
Emmanuel Benjamin played for Tasmania in 1981-82

48. 7.
Identify X. What list is this? How is the instance of X unique to this
list?
Sl.No. Batsman Score For Against Venue Date
1 RussellEndean 3 SouthAfrica England Newlands,CapeTown 01-Jan-57
2 X 29 Australia Pakistan WACA,Perth 24-Mar-79
3 MohsinKhan 58 Pakistan Australia NationalStadium,Karachi 22-Sep-82
4 DesmondHaynes 55 WestIndies India WankhedeStadium,Bombay 24-Nov-83
5 GrahamGooch 133 England Australia OldTrafford,Manchester 03-Jun-93
6 SteveWaugh 47 Australia India MAChidambaramStadium,Chennai 18-Mar-01
7 MichaelVaughan 64 England India MChinnaswamyStadium,Bangalore 19-Dec-01

49. 3 Pointer
X – Andrew Hilditch
List - Handling the ball dismissals in Tests
Uniqueness – Only non-striker to dismissed handling the ball

50. 8.
Pakistan forward Kallimullah Khan, won the 1984 Olympic gold
medal. In his long career, whom did he consider the greatest
goalkeeper that he ever faced?
The man in question “just happened” to be a keeper at all sports
that he played – cricket, hockey and football. He continued to play
behind stumps until his late thirties and decided to give up, when
he got injured and stopped enjoying keeping.

51. Dave Houghton

52. 9.
For sometime on twitter, during the first one day between Australia
and Pakistan in 2014, the term “Backwad Alam” trended. Basically
Fawad Alam did something that was commonly associated with
what Geoffrey Boycott did.
What?

53. Bowling with cap backwards
Geoff Boycott famously did it during his bowling stints in the 1979
World Cup

54. 10.
Identify the cricket team

55. Vatican Cricket Team
They call themselves St. Peters XI.
This is a Peter question
We can see the St. Peter’s Basilica in the background

56. 11.
In 1983, West Indies toured India with the intention of humiliating
the World Champion side in all formats. India after having done
reasonably well on day 1 of the first test in Kanpur, were obliterated
by Malcolm Marshall on day 2. He first scored 92 and then bowled
one of the fastest spells in India to leave India reeling at 34/5.
What was the memorable headline penned by Rajan Bala to
describe the carnage?

57. Marshall Law declared at Kanpur

58. 12.
Who is receiving his Executive MBA degree? The ceremony was
organized specifically for him, given his busy international schedule.

59. Misbah Ul-Haq

60. 13.
Identify

61. Moeen Ali

62. 14.
What in Australia, gets its nickname because it originates in a
neighboring town and brings welcome relief from high
temperatures during the summer?

63. Fremantle Doctor

64. 15.
What happened because of this?

65. Devon Malcolm 9/57
After being hit on the head by the bouncer from Fannie De Villiers,
the South African fielders started sledging him. Devon told the
fielders – “You guys are f***ing history” and then proceeded to
bowl one of the most aggressive spells of fast bowling to take 9
wickets

66. 16.
On his first class debut (His only
game) after beating his outside
edge several times, an
exasperated bowled exclaimed,
“For Christ’s sake X, you must
have been f**king adopted”.
X, ended up being the black
sheep of the family, by not
playing test cricket unlike his
brothers. X?

67. Dean Waugh
A fourth brother Daniel Waugh, did not play first class cricket

68. 17.
For the preview of the 1977-78 series between Pakistan and
England, what did Wisden label the following players as?

69. Packerstanis

70. 18.
What upset has been attributed to the fact that the much fancied
opponents took a tour round the local Guinness Factory the night
before and might have suffered some after effects?

71. West Indies all out for 25

72. 19.
Highest scores achieved by Karnataka Batsmen
• KL Rahul – 337
• Karun Nair - 328
• X – 283
• Y – 270
• Arjun Raja – 267
• Z – 264*
• Karthik Jeshwant – 259*
• Z - 257
X is named after a quite often underrated English giant. Y did it in a
test match, Z is the only wicketkeeper to have 2 scores of 250+ in
Indian cricket. Id all 3

73. Jai Karnataka
X – Barrington Rowland
Y – Rahul Dravid
Z – CM Gautam

74. 20.
Lalit Modi envisioned a city based league way back in the 1990's
when he was working to get ESPN into India. In 1996 thanks to the
hype generated by the world cup, he decided to pitch his idea to
the BCCI. His league was based on the ODI game and he had
included traditional cricket cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai,
Chennai etc. However to get support from a former president of
BCCI, he told him even his city can have a franchise.
After the president's untimely death a cricket ground, in another
city, that had regularly staged ODI's has been renamed after him.
Who is the president and what was the franchise included?

75. Madhavrao Scindia, Gwalior

76. 21.
Identify this domestic smasher, who was born 15 years too soon for
the T20 revolution.

77. Atul Bedade

78. 22.
India were touring Australia. There was a match scheduled at
Adelaide, and manager Pankaj Gupta had asked the Mayor of the
Adelaide whether X could be at the ground during the match.
X, who had shifted base to Adelaide from Sydney, had never
witnessed Y playing and impressed with his play commented
something. This was to be a famous meeting between X and Y, only
known meeting between them.
Identify X and Y and the famous comment made famous in Indian
school books.

79. Dhyan Chand, Don Bradman
“You score goals, like I score runs”

80. 23.
Allan Donald was to resume international cricket for South Africa as
they were taking on England. The county decided to replace the
fast bowler with another “fast” bowler. Just days before his
departure, the other “fast” bowler got injured and therefore could
not take part in the county championships.
The county decided to hire a batsman instead and it led to all sorts
of history being created. Identify the other bowler and the batsman
who replaced him.

81. Manoj Prabhakar, Brian Lara

82. 24.
Whose voice?
Who was dismissed?

83. John Arlott, Derek Randall

84. 25.
Identify the cricketer on the left – basically the subject of this comic
book

85. Shapoor Zadran

86. 26.
He got his nickname, that he hated, due to the fact that in his first
major game in 1975, he smashed an assortment of good spinners
for 7 sixes and scored a quick-fire hundred. He was out for 110
made only in 113 minutes.
Old timers immediately recalled a path-breaking hundred by
another person nearly 50 years earlier, who had similarly smashed
an assortment of good bowlers for sixes and this ensured that India
was taken seriously as a cricket team.
Who got his nickname from whom?

87. Dilip Vengsarkar, CK Nayudu
Here Dilip Vengsarkar is receiving the CK Nayudu lifetime
achievement award.
CK Nayudu smashed 153 against MCC in 1926, an innings that
pushed India’s case for test status

88. 27.
The story goes that the two brothers decided to toss a coin to
decide who would remain a fast bowler and who would try spin,
after they agreed that both couldn’t be fast bowlers.
X won and became a cornerstone for the international attack
whereas Y became an off spinner, but was confined to domestic
cricket. After cricket, the brothers got together and opened a
stationary shop which was quite successful. Neither married and
the brothers lived together. Identify X and Y.

89. Alec and Eric Bedser

90. 28.
This 1980 match at the Gadaffi Stadium was petering to a draw so
Pakistan’s keeper Taslim Arif, who played 6 tests and 2 ODI’s,
decided to bowl with X as keeper.
Arif took his sole international wicket in that innings.
X did not do any monkey business as a keeper and got his only
international stumping. He got Y stumped off Azhar Khan (which
incidentally was also Azhar’s only wicket)
Y despite being grumpy, had a good match, and did something in
that game which is the only instance in the history of tests.
Identify X, Y and what Y achieved

91. 3 pointer
X – Javed Miandad
Y – Alan Border
Only instance of 150 being scored a batsmen in each innings

92. 29.
X was on the verge of equalling a record at Y's hometown. Their
team needed 3 wickets to win and Y took 2 of them. Y then decided
to bowl badly to ensure X equals the record which he did. X later
broke the record in the next game and retired after one more test.
Few years later, Y was on the verge of another record and this time
it was Z's responsibility to bowl badly so that Y can achieve the
record. Z famously did that and Y confessed later, if he hadn’t
broken the record, it would have been really difficult to ask Z to
bowl another over badly.
 Identify X, Y, Z and the 2 records involved.

93. 5 pointer
X – Kapil Dev
Y – Anil Kumble
Z – Javagal Srinath
Record 1 – Most test
wickets
Record 2 – 10 wickets in
an innings

94. 30.
X announced his retirement at the end of 2014. Although not all
that successful at the international level, he is the only player to
have been involved in a 400 run partnership in FC cricket, 300 run
partnership in List A and 200 run partnership in T20.
Y opened the batting in 2 tests with X in a series against Sri Lanka in
2006/07. They were a long list of opening pairs that were being
tried out during that period. Thanks to their surnames, the opening
pair were part of some jokes.
Identify the opening pair

95. Jamie How, Craig Cumming
The New Zealand Openers are Cumming and How!