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Ranji Trophy Quiz : Cricket Quiz no.8

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?

Cricket Butjazz Goes Pink, Gulu joins Butjazz

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.

Also don’t forget to check out the all PINK look of our Cricket Blog – in support of the Jane Mc Grath Foundation. You can click here to check some cool pink snaps from the Sydney Cricket Ground.

SCG Cricket Quiz | 5 Questions on the Sydney Cricket Ground

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 ______________?

Cricket Quiz: History of Cricket

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?