KQA Cricket Quiz Finals 2013

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

 A – Denis Lillee
 B – Len Pascoe
 C – Rodney Marsh
 D – David Hookes
 E – Chappell’s
 F – Max Walker
 G – Ian Redpath
 H – Bruce Laird
 I – Doug Walters
 J – Gary Gilmour.
Song video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qJLi5y2d2w

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?

1971, celebrating our victories.

CK Nayudu, Vinoo Mankad, Deodhar, Vijay Merchant

Clockwise
 15 Questions
 Infinite Bounce
 Infinite Pounce +10/-10

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.
1.

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?
2.

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?
3.

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?
4.

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?
5.

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 ?
6.

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.
7.

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 Mohammad
From South Africa: Eddie Barlow, Graeme Pollock, Peter Pollock, Mike Procter,
Barry Richards
From the West Indies: Lance Gibbs, Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd, Deryck
Murray, Garry Sobers
Australia and India just had representative each. Identify both.
8.

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?
9.

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"!
A

_________ 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.
Contd..
10.

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.
11.

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.
A

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.
A

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?
14.

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.
Contd..
15.

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.

X - Upul Tharanga.
Y – Farvez Maharoof

Bowlers!
+5 for every correct answer.
+10 if you get all correct.
Written Round II

1) Matthew Wade
2) Sultan Zarawani
3) Rodney Marsh
4) Alec Stewart
5) Merv Hughes, Terry Alderman, Malcolm
Marshall, Abdul Qadir.
Answers

15 Questions
Infinite Bounce
Infinite Pounce +10/-10
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?
1.

Prisoner of War.
He was a Colonel in the army and was arrested
during the 1971 Indo-Pak war.

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

X - Colin Milburn
Y - Glenn Turner
Z - 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.
3.

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?
4.

•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?
5.

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?
6.

•Dennis Compton.
•He used all the skills that made him a winger at Arsenal and
kicked the ball onto the stumps from MID-ON.
A.

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?
7.

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.
8.

•Nawab of Pataudi Jr.
•Shahryar Khan
A

•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?
9.

X - Brian Clough
Y - Peter Taylor
A.

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?
10.

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?
11.

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?
12.

•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?
13.

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.
14.

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
15.

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.

LVC
18 slides
1st set: +45, -20
2nd set: +35, -15
3rd set: +25, -10
4th set: +15, -5
5th set: +5, -0

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

•Which English wicketkeeper, nicknamed Badger, has written an
autobiography ironically titled ―Keeping Quiet‖?
1

Identify the player and the team he is playing for.
2.

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?

4
 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.

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