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?
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 .
Gulu has hurled his first Googly today – the target is the BCCI. Check it out here.
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?
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Quiz created on Day 1 of the England vs South Africa Test at Super Sport Park, Centurion – 16th December 2009. Some of the questions / answers may not stand the test of time
Q.1 Which England batsman holds the record for the highest aggregate runs in Test Cricket at home?
Q.2 He scored 333* in the 1st Innings and 123 in the 2nd Innings in a test match against India. In all he scored 456 runs in a single test match – a record that is still to be eclipsed. Which former English batsman are we talking about?
Q.3 Who scored the first ever century for England in Test cricket?
Q.4 Amongst bowlers from England, who holds the record for the maximum number of wickets in a calendar year?
Q.5 Amongst the 10 highest partnership records for England for each wicket, only one – the one for the 7th wicket has come in the last 30 years. These two batsmen shared a partnership of 281 runs vs New Zealand at Christchurch. Can you identify the two?
Q.6 What is England’s highest ever total in a test innings?
Q.7 What happened for the first time ever in cricket in Australia’s second innings of the 4th Ashes Test at Old Trafford in the year 1956? ( It has only happened once more since then)
Q. 8 Identify this former England cricketer:
He was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame this year.
A street in the Fernhill area of Shipley in England is named after him.
He was born in Yorkshire.
He took 193 wickets in his Test career.
Q.9 Who was born on 27 June 1980 in Pietermaritzburg?
Q.10 He scored a duck on his debut, a century in his 2nd test and within another year or so at the young age of 22 created a batting record that no English batsmen has since broken. The selectors were so impressed by this talented cricketer that they broke with a 65 year old tradition that only an amateur would captain the England team and made him the captain of their cricket team. Which legend of English cricket are we talking about?
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Presenting a quiz on the genius of modern cricket who is now drawing parallels with none other than Don Bradman and at least in some respects, threatening to overtake the Don…
Q.1 Rickey Ponting, Shane Warne, Andrew Flintoff, Muttiah Muralitharan, Virender Sehwag. That is a list of…. ?
Q.2 Virender Sehwag, Don Bradman, Mohammed Azharuddin, Matthew Hayden and Kevin Pietersen are the only 5 players to hold a interesting record amongst players who have scored 10 or more centuries. What is this record?
Q.3 In which year did Sehwag win the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India’s highest award for achievements in the field of sports?
Q.4 In which series did Sehwag win the Man of the Series award for the first time in his test career?
Q.1 Only thrice in the entire history of test cricket has a team lost a match after making the opposition follow on. India inflicting this embarassment on Australia in the Kolkata 2001 Test was the most recent such case. On the previous two occasions the same team finished on the losing side both times. Which team?
Q.2 New Zealand is currently hosting the Pakistan team and as I write the first test match is in progress at Dunedin. What “1st ever” record has been established in this test?
Q.3 All the 10 wickets of a test team were once dismissed in as few as 75 balls; this was the shortest stay at the crease for any team in a test innings in terms of number of balls. Which team was this? Against whom?
Q.4 Have a careful look at the following scorecard of the England vs Pakistan 5th Test of the 1992 series which was played at the Kennington Oval, London.
England 1st Innings: 207 all out ( 78.1 overs), Pakistan 1st Innings: 380 all out (127.5 overs), England 2nd Innings: 174 all out (72 overs), Pakistan 2nd Innings: 5 without loss (0.1 overs)
A ‘highest’ team record was made in this match which is unlikely to get surpassed. What record? ( Hint: It can be worked out)
[ An interesting trivia from this England vs Pakistan match not connected to the question above: In a match completely dominated by Pakistan and remembered for England's batting failures in both innings, the two highest scorers were both Englishmen; Robin Smit who remained not out on 84 and Michael Artherton who scored 60. ]
Q.5 When India scored 417 runs yesterday (India vs Sri Lanka, 1st Test at Kanpur) it was their highest score in a single day of test cricket ever. Which team/s hold the world record for the highest number of runs in a day of test cricket? How many runs?
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Q.1 Against which team did Sachin Tendulkar score his first First Class double hundred?
Q.2 What was Tendulkar’s score in his debut One Day International match?
Q.3 Tendulkar’s coach Ramakant Achrekar used to place a one rupee coin on the top of his stumps whenever Tendulkar used to complain of exhaustion. This coin would be the prize for the bowler who would dismiss Sachin, and if Sachin managed to remain unbeaten he could retain the coins. This collection of coins now forms one of the most prized possessions of the batting maestro. How many such coins did he win?
Q.4 What is “Lateral Epicondylalgia”?
Q.5 In which city did Tendulkar score his 35th Test century to surpass Sunil Gavaskar’s tally of 34 and create a new world record?
Q.6 Name the Ferrari car which was presented to him by Michael Schumacher to commemorate his 29th century and that later got him into a excise-tax controversy.
Q.7 Sachin owns two restaurants in Mumbai. Who is his business partner in this venture?
Q.8 Which comics group is planning to come out with a series of comic books featuring him as the superhero?
Q.9 How many Twenty20 Internationals has Sachin played?
Q.10 How many times has Tendulkar taken 5 or more wickets in One Day Cricket?
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