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Cricket Quiz # 3: The Virender Sehwag Quiz

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.5 Who was Sehwag’s first cricket coach?

The Sachin Tendulkar Quiz

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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?