. Who won the Man of the Match award in the 1996 World Cup final?

Answer: Aravinda De Silva

2. Against which team did Javed Miandad register his highest Test score of 280?
Answer:India

3. Who scored a century for India against South Africa in his 99th Test match?
Answer: Mohammed Azharuddin

4. Who held the world record for the highest number of Test wickets until Dennis Lillee
broke it?
Answer: Lance Gibbs

5. Who bowled the infamous underarm delivery in a one-day international between

Australia and New Zealand in 1980-81?
Answer: Trevor Chappell

6. Who led Australia to a Test series win in Pakistan in 1998-99?

Answer: Mark Taylor

7. Who was India's highest scorer in the 1982-83 series against Pakistan?
Answer: Mohinder Amarnath

8. Who led Australia in the 1999 World Cup?

Answer: Steve Waugh

9. Who won the Man of the Match Award in the 1992 World Cup final?
Answer: Wasim Akram

10. Where is the 'Gabba' situated?

Answer: Brisbane

11. How many runs has Border scored in Test cricket?

Answer: 11174

12. Who captained New Zealand in the 1992 World Cup?

Answer: Martin Crowe

13. Who conceded 22 runs from one over at Bangalore in the quarter-final of the 1996
World Cup between India and Pakistan?
Answer: Waqar Younis

14. Who was the non-striker when Rahul Dravid hit the winning runs against Australia at
Adelaide in 2003-04?
Answer: Ajit Agarkar

15. Name the Pakistani who scored a match-winning 60 against New Zealand in the semi-
final of the 1992 World Cup.
Answer: Inzamam-ul-Haq
16. Who was the first batsman to score 400 in a Test innings?
Answer: Brian Lara

17. What is Sachin Tendulkar's highest score in Test cricket?

Answer: 248*

18. Shoaib Akhtar is known as the Rawalpindi .......

Answer: Express

19. Who won the Man of the Match award in the semi-final and final of the 1999 World
Cup?
Answer: Shane Warne

20. Name the state that Rahul represents in the Ranji Trophy.
Answer: Karnataka

21. Who was known as the Black Bradman?

Answer: George Headley

22. Who was the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals?
Answer: Sachin Tenudlkar

23. Who played in Sri Lanka's inaugural Test as well as 100th Test?
Answer: Arjuna Ranatunga

24. Which England batsman broken his nose while facing Malcolm Marshall of West Indies
in 1986?
Answer: Mike Gatting at Kingston. Unfortunately the ball dropped from his nose on to the
wicket.

25. In the year 1985, two spectators were killed in a stadium collapse in India. Where was
it?
Answer: Vidharva Cricket Ground at Nagpur during the match against England.

26. Who scored the first test match century?

Answer: Charles Bannerman of Australia in 1877.

27. Who is the first batsman to get out at 99 on his test debut?
Answer: Australia’s Arthur Chipperfield at Tent Bridge in 1934.

28. Who has scored the highest runs in his last test as captain in test cricket?
Answer: Ian Chappell has scored 192 runs in his last test match as captain against England
in 1975 which is still a World record.

29. Who is the first bowler to take a five wicket haul in test cricket history?
Answer: Australia’s Billy Midwinter in 1877.

30. Name the two test cricketers who had also played Davis Cup Tennis?
Answer: Cota Ramaswami of India and Ralph Legall of West India.
31. Name the first brothers who played test cricket?
Answer: Charlie Bannerman in 1877 and Alec Bannerman in 1879 for Australia.

32. Name the first batsman in test cricket history to share 50 century partnerships?
Answer: Sunil Gavaskar of India.

33. Name the first left handed batsman to score a test century on his debut?
Answer: John Mills of New Zealand in 1930.

34. Who is the oldest test captain?

Answer: WG Grace at the age of 50 years 320 days in 1899.

35. Who has the longest test career?

Answer: Wilfred Rhodes spanning a period of 30 years 315 days from 1899 to 1930.

36. Name the first bowler to take a 10 wickets haul in a test innings?
Answer: Jim Laker in 1956.

1. So far (Oct 2008) there has only been one century by an Indian against Australia in a World
Cup match. Who scored it and in which year?

2. An amateur guitarist for 30 years, a science teacher and first-class opening batsman for 16
years. Who are we talking about?

3. He once super-glued his gloves to his bat's handle because of a problem with his grip. Identify
this Kiwi.

4. Which West Indian player, portrayed as a budding Sobers, shared the new ball with the likes of
Roberts and Holder in 1974?

5. Australia and India compete in Tests for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. When was it first fought
over?

6. The 1974 Indian tour of England saw the first one dayer being played between the two
countries. The first Indian bowler to take a one-day wicket was Eknath Solkar. Who was his
victim?

7. Sourav Ganguly, celebrated the Nat West Trophy win by ripping off his shirt and dancing
round the balcony. When criticised for his action by a section of the press, he said that he was
simply paying somebody back in the same coin. Who?

8. The first-ever Test between India and Australia saw the latter winning by an innings and 226
runs. However, this match at Brisbane is famous for another reason. What is it?

9. Like most celebrity cricketers of his time, Gavaskar also had his stint in the English County.
Which county did he play for? Hint: it has also hired greats like Viv Richards and Steve Waugh.
10. Though he played only four Tests in his career, this player was instrumental in a great victory
at Perth in December 1977 as he almost single-handedly pulled the match in Australia's favour by
doing something exceptional in the fourth innings. What is the player's name?

Which Indian cricket captain was described by Ray lllingworth thus: “Like all Indian captains he
placed his faith in the oriental virtue of patience?”

Ans: Ajit Wadekar

Complete the Richie Benaud quote: “Captaincy in ninety percent luck and ten percent skill…..
But for heaven’s sake don’t try without…..”

Ans: “that little ten percent”

When Neville Cardus described the phenomenon as ’snicket’ or ’slogget’, what was he referring
to?

Ans: One-Day Cricket

Which West Indian great’s autobiography is called “The Man in the Middle”?

Ans: Gordon Greenidge

One more quote: About which great left-hander batsman did Don Bradman remark, “If you score
a century like that again, I hope I’ll be there to see it”?

Ans: Graeme Pollock

Which was the first cricket stadium in India to have floodlights?

Ans: Eden Gardens

Who was the first Indian bowler to take five wickets twice in One-Day Internationals?

Ans: Krishnamachari Srikkanth

Which cricketer was in the same car with Jagit Singh’s only son Vivek Singh when they met with
an accident and the latter died?

Ans: Sairaj Bahutule

This Kiwi batsman was dismissed in the very first ball of a One day cricket World Cup, the only
one to have been done so. Can you name the batsman?

Ans: John Wright

Can you name Vinod Kambli’s debut film?

Ans: Annarth

Who used to keep wickets for South Africa in the 1996 Cricket World Cup?

Ans: Steven Palframan

Which cricketer was given the nickname “Rent-A-Wagon” by the legendary English
commentator Brian Johnston, since he could not pronounce his real name?

Ans: Srinivas Venkatraghavan

What connects Sourav Ganguly, Farokh Engineer and Clive Lloyd concerning their international
first class cricket career?

Ans: Lancashire

Who is the only Indian to win a World cup cricket (any category) as a player and a coach?

Ans: Roger Binny

Brett Lee was threatened to be taken to court by the Kiwi coach John Bracewell for bowling
successive beamers at which contemporary batsman?

Ans: Brendon McCullum

The first reported allegations about the match fixing can be traced back to the Pakistan-West
Indies test match played between February 15-20, 1975. Clive Lloyd was the West Indian captain.
Who led the Pakistan squad?

Ans: Intikhab Alam

Who headed the first Indian commission of inquiry into the allegations of match fixing against
Indian players?

Ans: Justice Y.V Chandrachud

Who is missing in the series: Hansie Cronje, Herschelle Gibbs, Nicky Boje, Pieter Strydom,
____________?

Ans: Henry Williams

Which Indian cricketer’s autobiography is called “Spin Punch”?

Ans: Dilip Doshi

In the famous Lord’s test of 1974, India crashed to 42 all out, who was the only batsman with
double figures in that infamous innings?

Ans: Eknath Solkar

What nickname connects Ken Rosewell with Venkatpathy Raju?

Ans: Muscles

This former English captain is a Kent legend. He captained the English cricket team during the
1975 world cup and Brian Luckhurst was one of his country opening partners. Who?

Ans: Mike Denness

Which Zimbabwe cricketer had his nose broken by an Irfan Pathan bouncer and his other claim to
fame includes being jailed for arson and violence and later sent for counselling?

Ans: Mark Vermuelen

Which Australian made his debut in 1994 in the Australasia cap as a wicketkeeper?

Ans: Justin Langer

How was Cricket Australia personnel Phil Jauncey in news?

Ans: As a sports psychologist, he was counseling Andrew Symonds

What is the exact position of Dave Whatmore in the current Indian cricketing system?

Ans: Director (Cricket Operations) National Cricket Academy, Bangalore

At the ICC Awards held on September 11, 2008 what honour was given to Ryan ten Doeschate?

Ans: The Dutchman was declared as the Associate Player of the Year.

Which Indian cricketing international and domestic legend are currently Bengal Ranji trophy
team’s consultant and coach respectively?

Ans: Mohinder Amarnath and Utpal Chatterjee

Complete the list: Marvan Atapattu, Russel Arnold, Upul Chandana, Avishka Gunawardene and
___________.

Ans: Saman Jayantha

Which two Indian cricketing legends’ autobiographies are called ”Cricket Delightful” and “A
Long Innings” respectively?

Ans: Mushtaq Ali and Vijay Hazare respectively

Chaminda Vaas has taken 400 one day wickets. Which one-day legend wrapped up his career
with 393 wickets?
Ans: Shaun Pollock

He has taken 32 wickets in test cricket. In the 1999 World Cup in England during India’s last
league match against England, who took the crucial wicket of Neil Fairbrother?

Ans: Sourav Ganguly

One more from the same World Cup. Which batsman scored a half century in the famous league
match of India against Zimbabwe in 1999 World Cup. India had lost that match.

Ans: Sadagopan Ramesh

In the famous Natwest trophy final which India won against England, Virender Sehwag hit 4
consecutive fours in an over. Which bowler from England was the sufferer?

Ans: Ronnie Irani

Which former Indian test player was born in Rio de Janeiro?

Ans: Ashok Gandotra

He was India one of the finest domestic crickets and held an international first class cricket
batting record for the last wicket partnership. Amongst his other non-cricketing specializations,
he was a fingerprint expert. Can you name the legend?

Ans: Chandu Sarwate

Apart from being former cricketer and a cricket coach, what is the professional expertise of Geoff
Lawson?

Ans: He is a qualified optometrist

What connects: Bal Thackeray, Arthur Mailey and OV Vijayan?

Ans: Also cartoonists

Which cricketing legend had a restaurant called “Banana Leaves” that was washed away by the
tsunami?

Ans: Aravinda de Silva

What is common to – scut of rabbit, brush of a fox, wreath of a boar, stern of a wolf and a
cricketing position?

Ans: Tail

What connects Timex, Acestar-underwear range and Manmohan Shetty’s film Victory?

Ans: Brett Lee

Sachin Tendulkar’s first world record was for his school Sharadashram Vidyamandir in a school
cricket tournament in Mumbai. Which tournament?

Ans: Harris Shield

Who scored a brilliant century for Bangladesh making his team win a historic one day match
against Australia in the Natwest Trophy-2005?

Ans: Mohammed Ashraful

Who was the Indian cricketer to endorse Brylcreem?

Ans: Farokh Engineer

Which is the only father and son pair to represent the same country in the ODI World Cup?

Ans: Lance Cairns and Chris Cairns

Who has the distinction of playing the maximum number of Test matches without being a
captain?

Ans: Mark Waugh

I was not out when Kumble took all ten wickets in an innings. Who am I?

Ans: Waqar Younis

One of the finest cricket contemporary cricket authors, he is currently a resident of Sri Lanka.
He is a New Zealand born cricket aficionado who has been a first class umpire and a cricket
writer since 1958. Can you name the journalist?

Ans: Trevor Chesterfield

Which company brings out the magazine Cricket Today?

Ans: Diamond Magazines

Sachin Tendulkar could have been the youngest ever test centurion when he was caught off the
bowling of Danny Morrison at Napier during the India- New Zealand test series early in the
master blaster’s career. Who took the catch?

Ans: John Wright

If Michael Holding was known as “Whispering Death”, who is known as the “Slow Death”?

Ans: Steve Bucknor

Who gave Kapil Dev the nickname “Haryana Hurricane”?

Ans: The Guinness Book of World Records

He began his first class career for his native state Otago and almost ended with Worcestershire. In
between, he became a cricketing legend both in Test and one-day and recorded his highest score
of 311 against Warwickshire at New Road in 1982. He has an Indian connection. Name the great.

Ans: Glenn Turner

Amongst the world records made in 2008, has been 12 sixes by a player against Canada during
his unbeaten 157-run knock at Maple Leaf North West Ground, King City on August 22. It broke
the joint record held by Sanath Jayasuriya and Shahid Afridi. Can you name the player?

Ans: Xavier Marshall of West Indies

In the famous match of the Australasia Cup where Javed Miandad recorded the last ball six off
Chetan Sharma, who was the Pakistani wicketkeeper in the game?

Ans: Zulqarnain

Which Indian cricketing legend was born in Kabul?

Ans: Salim Durrani

Who is the current Chief Operating Officer for PCB?

Ans: Salim Altaf

Which was the one-day cricket tournament when the Supreme Court of India had its first
brush with the cricket broadcasting rights?

Ans: Hero Cup

What does TEN stands for in ”TEN Sports”?

Ans: Taj Entertainment Network

1. So far (Oct 2008) there has only been one century by an Indian against Australia in a World
Cup match. Who scored it and in which year?

2. An amateur guitarist for 30 years, a science teacher and first-class opening batsman for 16
years. Who are we talking about?

3. He once super-glued his gloves to his bat's handle because of a problem with his grip. Identify
this Kiwi.

4. Which West Indian player, portrayed as a budding Sobers, shared the new ball with the likes of
Roberts and Holder in 1974?
5. Australia and India compete in Tests for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. When was it first fought
over?

6. The 1974 Indian tour of England saw the first one dayer being played between the two
countries. The first Indian bowler to take a one-day wicket was Eknath Solkar. Who was his
victim?

7. Sourav Ganguly, celebrated the Nat West Trophy win by ripping off his shirt and dancing
round the balcony. When criticised for his action by a section of the press, he said that he was
simply paying somebody back in the same coin. Who?

8. The first-ever Test between India and Australia saw the latter winning by an innings and 226
runs. However, this match at Brisbane is famous for another reason. What is it?

9. Like most celebrity cricketers of his time, Gavaskar also had his stint in the English County.
Which county did he play for? Hint: it has also hired greats like Viv Richards and Steve Waugh.

10. Though he played only four Tests in his career, this player was instrumental in a great victory
at Perth in December 1977 as he almost single-handedly pulled the match in Australia's favour by
doing something exceptional in the fourth innings. What is the player's name?

1. Ajay Jadeja in 1999

2. John Wright

3. John Wright, again I am afraid!

4. B Julian. Keith Boyce was also one of the pace battery, but he was never projected as a
successor to Sobers

5. 1996

6. Geoff Boycott, who allegedly had a weakness against left arm seamers

7. Andrew Flintoff, who had opened his shirt revealing his bare torso in a one-dayer against India
at Wankhade stadium

8. Only time Sir Donald Bradman was out hit wicket (To Lala Amarnath, after scoring 185)

9. Somerset

10. Tony Mann (He scored a century as a night-watchman. Given to score 340 fo a win, Australia
won the match by two wickets, mainly due to his totally superlative effort, duly assisted by a fine
83 by Peter Toohey)