cricket meri jaan

CRICKET MERI JAAN!

AMAN SINHACSE 3RD YEAR

Q1.

• Connect the Following players.Adding one player to the list will make it exhaustive. Name him!Pics in next Slide

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• Missing Cricketer- Lance KlusnerThey all were the Man of the tournaments in World Cups.Martin Crowe-1992Sanath Jayasuria-1996Lance Klusner-1999Sachin Tendulkar-2003Glenn Mcgrath-2007Yuvraj Singh-2011

Q2.

• Identify.Why is he very famous among Indians?

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• Travis DowlinDhoni's only One day international wicket.

Q3.

• "Honestly. I got out to X more than anyone. When we played South Africa he always got me out more than Allan Donald or Shaun Pollock. It wasn't that I couldn't pick him it's just that the ball seemed to go straight to a fielder.I was going great guns in Durban one year and played some big shots against Donald and Pollock. X came on and I flicked his first ball straight to leg-slip. I

never knew what to do with him" - Sachin Tendulkar

Identify X.

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• Hansie Cronje

Q4.

• Beginning his career for Yorkshire in 1898 as a slow left arm bowler who was a useful batsman, X quickly established a reputation as one of the best slow bowlers in the world. However, by the First World War he had developed his batting skills to the extent that he was regarded as one of the leading batsmen in England.He played throughout the 1920s as an all-rounder before retiring after the 1930 cricket season. His first appearance for England was in 1899 and he played regularly in Tests until 1921. Recalled to the team in the final Ashes Test of 1926 aged 48, X played a significant part in winning the match for England who thus regained the Ashes for the first time since 1912. He ended his Test career in the West Indies in April 1930.

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• Wilfred Rhodes He holds the world records both for the most appearances made in first-class cricket (1,110 matches), and for the most wickets taken (4,204). He completed the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in an English cricket season a record 16 times.Retired at an age of 52, oldest to do so.

Q5.

• Full Name: Nanik X Bharadwaj

• Born: Kapurthala, Punjab

• Major Teams:India,Gujarat,Hindus,Maharajah of Patiala's XI, Railways, UP

• Batting Style: Right Hand Bat

• Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium

• ID this Famous Indian Captain

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LALA AMARNATH

Q6.

• When Virender Sehwag was dismissed for 175 in the opening match of the world cup 2011 against Bangladesh, Ravi Shastri in the commentary box said to Sunil Gavaskar, "The last time someone made 175 in a world cup game we were still playing." Which innings was he referring to? (Batsman, opposition, year)

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• Kapil Dev Zimbabwe1983

Q7.

• This is one of the most famous incident of sledging.Ormond was involved in a notable piece of sledging, when in a test match against Australia in 2001, X asked him, "Mate what are you doing here? There's no way you are good enough to play for England."Ormand replied back "May be not, but at least I am the best in my Family".Give me X.

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Mark WaughOrmond was referring to him and his brother Steve Waugh.

Q8.

• X retired from International cricket at the end of the world cup. He was asked to return to the captaincy by the President and on 18 January, he announced his decision to rejoin the team. Soon after returning to the captaincy, X led his team to another winning tour, before lifting the next World Cup for his country.ID X

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• Imran Khan

Q9.

• He was a compact batsman – and a competent off break bowler – with a defense that was hard to breach. He led Ruia college with distinction at the inter-college level and was almost selected for the Bombay University team.

• He played Kanga league ‘B’ division for Young Comrades and graduated to ‘A’ division for Jolly cricketers. He was good enough to play against the likes of Gavaskar and Vengsarkar in the Kanga A division. He now travels to San Francisco every July for coaching assignments.

• But he is most famous for a close association with another cricketer. Who?

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• Ajit Tendulkar

Q10.

• Complete the list and tell what is this all about!

• EAS Prasanna (twice) – 1973-74, 1977-78• Brijesh Patel – 1982-83• Anil Kumble – 1995-96• Rahul Dravid – 1997-98• Sunil Joshi – 1998-99• X- 2013-14

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• R Vinay Kumar

• They are the only 6 captains that led Karnataka to lift Ranji Trophy.Karnataka has won 7.

Q11.

• X is a retired South African cricketer. He was also chosen as the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2003.Xwas also a very useful hard-hitting batsman, whose style bears some resemblance to his famous uncle on occasions. He had a Test average of over 30 and ODI average above 25.He has the lowest (best) economy rate of any bowler to have taken 300 ODI wickets.In June 2007 he represented an Africa XI in an ODI game against an Asia XI in Bangalore. Playing as a specialist batsman, X scored 130 from number 7 in the batting order, the highest ever score by an ODI batsman in that position at that time.

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• Shaun Pollock

Q12.

On typing Which Cricketer's name in the search bar, will Google return these images?

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• George BaileyJames Stewart's characater in the movie "It's a wonderfull life" was called George Bailey.

Q13.

• Immediately after the 2008 IPL, BCCI selected an India A team captained by Jayadev Shah , which included players like Pujara and star IPL performers like Swapnil Asnodkar and Rajat Bhatia. They were going on a tour and were playing an International team consisting of former international cricketers like Jonty Rhodes, Adam Bacher and Rolan Lefebvre. Which Country?

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• Israel

• On their 60th Anniversary, comprising of Jewish cricketers from all around the world.

Q14.

• Connect the following three images to an incident that has happened only once in International Cricket.

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• Only instatce of 3 bowlers being used to finish an over.Cricinfo says,"M Dillon was replaced by CEL Stuart after 2 balls of his over due to groin injury. Stuart was withdrawn from the bowling crease for the remainder of the innings after bowling two beamers in his first three balls.CH Gayle bowled the final 3 balls of the over"

Q15.

• Cricinfo's 'Most runs in a single ground' record list is led by Ricky Ponting- 3467 runs at the MCG, Second is Mahela Jayawardene with 3218 runs at the Sinhalese Sports Club, Columbo. The top 20 has only two Indians- one scoring 1778 runs while the other one scored 1660 runs, both on the same ground. one of them is Sachin.Identify the other player and the ground.

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• Player- Md. Azharuddin

• Venue- Sharjah

Q16

• Y Venugopal Rao shot into fame after scoring 228 in South Zone's successful chase of 501 in the Duleep Trophy in 2004. A forgotten fact is that X scored a 100 in each of the innings of the match. One of the only 11 people who have done so in a Duleep trophy game. X made his international debut later and established himself as a big match winner.

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• Kevin Pieterson

• BCCI experimented with the format of the Duleep Trophy by calling an English Team to participate. That Team included KP, Sajid Mahmood and Simon Jones.

Q17.

• In 1996, England hosted an U-15 world cup. India emerged champions with a team consisting of future internationals like Reetinder Sodhi and Mohammad Kaif.

• In the semis, India defeated a South African team. Only one member of that team graduated to play test cricket and continues to play international cricket even today. Identify him.

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• Jonathan Trott

Q18.

• X attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir School, where he was a schoolmate of future cricketing star Sachin Tendulkar. Like Tendulkar, he was coached by Ramakant Achrekar. When Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli shared in a then-record 664-run partnership for their school in a Harris Shield match, he was on the same team and was due to bat next.On his first-class debut for Bombay, he scored 260 against Haryana at Faridabad in a Ranji Trophy match in the 1993–94 season. This was a record for any player on their debut in first-class cricket. X was named as the vice-captain of the Indian U-19 cricket team for their tour of England in 1994. He was regarded as one of the country's finest prospects and was labelled the "new Tendulkar".He also played for the India A side in the 1994–95 season alongside Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly.

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• Amol Muzumdar

Q19.

• X started his cricket career as a teenager at Mahinda College, Galle, where Major G. W. S. de Silva was his first cricket coach. Then he crossed over to Ananda College, Colombo, where he was subsequently coached by P. W. Perera. Making his Test debut in November 1990 just after his 20th birthday, his first six innings yielded five ducks and a 1.After this difficult start in his first three matches, he did not score above 29 in his next 11 innings, before hitting his first Test century in his 10th match, against India, seven years after his debut. He has 22 Test-match career ducks and 4 pairs (two ducks in a single match), both records for a top-order batsman.A report prepared by Cricinfo in late 2005 showed that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the second highest number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the seventh highest success rate.Who is X?

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• Marvan Atapattu

Q20.

• Connect.(Exhaustive)

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• They are the only players who have batted at all the 11 positions in international cricket.Abdul Razzak has done it in ODI's while the rest in Tests.

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