With so much of muck and dirt being thrown around, we thought of having a little fun our way. So we devised a small quiz to test your knowledge of the ingredients and characters of the IPL Gate.
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It is now almost difficult to believe that India was the most reluctant and the last of the Test Nations to say yest to ‘T20 Cricket’. But once India won the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup in 2007, things changed dramatically. We presented an IPL Quiz last month. Now, with the 3rd T20 World Cup slated to begin in the West Indies in about a month from now, here’s your chance to refresh your memories of the T20 World Cup 2007.
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The 3rd Edition of the Indian Premier League: IPL 2010 gets underway this evening at the Dr. D.Y. Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. On this occasion, presenting for you a special IPL Quiz: A set of 10 MCQ questions on the cricket world’s biggest masala showpiece. Enjoy!
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As India take on South Africa in the 3rd and Final One Day International Match of the 2010 Series, here’s a set of 5 questions on ‘India vs South Africa in One Day Cricket’.
Q.1 Who captained South Africa when they made the historical tour to India to play a 3 match ODI Series after their return to international cricket in the 1990’s?
Q.2 India won the first two matches in that famous series, but South Africa pulled one back in the final game - that was South Africa’s first ever One Day victory. Name the cricket ground in Delhi where that match was played.
Q.3 Name the tournament in which India beat South Africa in a semi-final match at the Eden Gardens on 24th November 1993.
Q.4 On which ground did South Africa dismiss India for a score of 91 runs to inflict a crushing defeat by 157 runs in November 2006?
Q.5 At which neutral venue did these two teams play three One Day Internationals between 26th June 2007 and 1st July 2007?
On 28th July 1952, following a recommendation made by India, Pakistan was granted Test Status by the Imperial Cricket Conference. Earlier, Pakistan players played for India – yes, even after independence! Here’s presenting Cricket Quiz no.9 – a set of eleven questions on Pakistan Cricket.
question # 1: In which city did Pakistan play its 1st home test match in the year 1955?
question # 2: In this 1955 five test series against India, what happened for the first time in the history of test cricket?
question # 3: Who was the first Pakistani player to score a triple century in test cricket?
question # 4: Who scored a double century as Pakistan scored over 700 runs at the Oval in 1987?
question # 5: Pakistan won the Benson & Hedges World Cup 1992 in Australia. Who was the man of the match in the final against England?
question # 6: Which former Pakistan cricketer scored over 16,000 runs for the English county team Gloucestershire including 49 hundred and 76 fifties?
question # 7: This former Pakistani great’s name has got permanently connected to Sunil Gavaskar as his was the only wicket that Gavaskar ever claimed in his career. Name him.
question # 8: A cricket ground in Pakistan was renamed after him in 1974 because of a rousing speech he delivered at a meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in favour of Pakistan pursuing nuclear weapons?
question # 9: Who was the first ever captain of the Pakistan national team?
question # 10: This ground has at various points in history been known by the names Llyalpur Stadium, National Stadium and City Stadium. What is it now known as?
question # 11: Which trophy was introduced in 1953 to help the selectors pick the squad for the upcoming tour to Pakistan?
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As Karnataka meet Mumbai in the final of the Ranji Trophy 2009, here is a set of 5 questions on India’s premier domestic cricket tournament – questions relate to this year’s championship only.
Q#1. Name the picturesque ground on which the current Ranji Trophy Final between Karnataka and Mumbai is being played. (11th to 15th January 2010)
Q#2. Only one player in the Karnataka team playing the final has played a five-day cricket match before. Who?
Amol Mazumdar
Q#3. Former Mumbai batsman Amol Mazumdar led which team into the Ranji Trophy quarter final?
Q#4. Which Karnataka pacemen who is in his debut season has taken over 40 wickets in this year’s Ranji Trophy matches?
Q#5. Which teams did Karnataka and Mumbai beat in the semi-finals?
Presenting Cricket Quiz no.7. With this we are beginning a new series of cricket quizzes titled ‘6 Balls’, which will be a mixed bag – a set of six questions on cricket but not categorized unlike our other quizzes.
Some of the questions herein are not original; we have mentioned the source in parenthesis in such cases.
Ball 1: He only ever took one first class wicket – that of W.G. Grace – and then wrote a poem about it. Who? (question source: quiz by H Natarajan, Wisden Asia Cricket Magazine, May 2003)
Ball 2: Who was the only Pakistani batsman whom Anil Kumble couldn’t dismiss during his ‘10 wickets in an innings’ haul at the Feroze Shah Kotla grounds in Delhi?
Ball 3: Who was the first bowler to take 8 wickets in an ODI innings?
Ball 4: Who were the three cousin brothers to lead Pakistan in Tests? ( question sourced from: quiz by H Natarajan, Wisden Asia Cricket Magazine, April 2003)
Ball 5: Name the ground where Sunil Gavaskar scored his 10,000th run.
Ball 6: He scored 1788 runs in 2006 – the highest runs in test cricket by any player in a calendar year. Who?
We are delighted to announce that noted cricket journalist and writer Gulu Ezekiel will be writing an exclusive weekly column for our cricket blog. The column titled ‘Gulu’s Googlies’ will be hurled at cricket fans every Tuesday afternoon on our cricket blog – http://cricket.butjazz.com .
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On the eve of the New Year’s Test 2010 between Pakistan and Australia beginning tomorrow morning at the historical Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), here are five questions on one of my favourite cricket grounds.
Q#1. The New Year’s Test 2006 against South Africa here at the SCG was Rickey Ponting’s 100th Test. What unique record was created by the Aussie captain in this match?
Q#2. Here’s a picture question for you:
Q.2. Identify this SCG legend.
Q.3 The New Year’s Test in 1992 was the debut test for ______ ?
Q.4 In the same test as in the previous question, India captain Azharuddin selected Kapil Dev, Manoj Prabhakar, Javagal Srinath, Subroto Banerjee and Ravi Shastri amongst others in the XI. I have mentioned these 5 as they were the ones who handled the bulk of the bowling in the test for India and the question deals with bowling only. With respect to the bowling combination, what did Azharuddin do for the first time in the history of Indian cricket in this match? ( I doubt if it has ever been done again after this, but I am not sure about that)
Q.5 Ned Gregory, Jack Jennings, Bill Stuart, Wally Gorman, Bill Watt, Athol Watkins, Peter Leroy, Tom Parker. That’s a list of the ______________?
Presenting Cricket Quiz # 5 – a set of six questions on the History of Cricket. Hope you find them interesting and enlightening.
Q.1 The acronym ICC now expands into International Cricket Committee, but that was not always the case. Before the renaming in 1965, what did the letters ICC stand for?
Q.2 The first official international cricket match took place in 1844. Which were the two teams involved in the match?
Q.3 It evolved out of the White Conduit Club in 1787 . Its members revised the laws of cricket in 1788 and gradually took control of the game thereafter. What is ‘it’?
Q.4 Fill up the blanks:
The Gillette Cup that began in 1963 in England was the first major _____ _____ tournament.
Q.5 What was condemned and outlawed by the MCC in 1935?
Q. 6 Stuart Robertson, the marketing manager of the ECB proposed the idea in 2002 and it was put to vote. The proposal was passed by 11 votes to 7. What was Robertson’s proposal all about?
