Thursday, February 22, 2007

Cricket Quiz no. 10

Q – Whose statue is this and it is outside which cricket ground?

Q - Who had the honour of facing the first ball ever bowled in test cricket? This guy also went on to score the first century in a test match and made 165 runs, which incidentally is the highest score by an Australian on test debut.

Q – Who was the first bowler in international cricket to take more than 400 wickets in both forms of the game?

Q – Who are the only two batsmen to score the winning runs in the world cup finals?

Q – The only batsman to have reached a score of 200 with a test career average of less than 20 is……
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7 comments:

Kartikeya Date said...

1. Bradman - at the Adelaide Oval?
2. Charles Bannerman (his score is also the highest individual contribution to a team innings to this day in test cricket)
3. Wasim Akram
4. Arjuna Ranatunga and Gilchrist/Waugh (not sure which)
5. Wasim Akram

Jagadish said...

4 - Ranatunga and Lehmann

There's obviously a connection there. India _SHOULD_ have picked Powar!

Kartikeya Date said...

Oh hell yeah..... it was a 9 wicket win....

Kartikeya Date said...

jagadish.... india have picked Ganguly .... yet another cricketer in the grand tradition of assertive southpaws....

It all adds up dont you see... Ganguly has been to India was Ranatunga was to Sri Lanka and what Lehmann has been to South Australia and every single county team he played for....

In terms of fitness, the three are comparable too... :)

Kartikeya Date said...

The last question - Jason Gillespie most probably. Not sure if Wasim averaged under twenty.

Amit Bajaj said...

Karikeya..
Jagdish far more prefers the rotundness in the connection..but Powar would lose out i guess..the thinnest of the 3 i think

Jagadish said...

It isn't about assertive chaps. It's about their girth!