Cricket Quiz in Delhi

Cradle Sports is organizing an Open Cricket Quiz called "Khelega Kya?" at the FICCI Auditorium, New Delhi on the 23rd September, 2008 from 12 pm onwards.

Cash prizes worth Rs. 1 lac are up for grabs!!!

Teams of three members are invited. Third member will be Super-Sub. (remember that defunct but interesting rule?!)

For more details, visit www.cradlesports.com or call Arindam at +9312600283.( local for Delhi/Noida/Gurgaon/Faridabad)

I plan to be there, what about you?

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Cradle is also organizing an Inter-School Quiz at the same venue the next day (24th, FICCI). School kids from over 100 schools in the Delhi NCR region are slated to participated. Should be one noisy affair that!
For queries, call the same number as above.

"Cricketers & Women" Quiz

Q.1 "So where the bloody hell are you?", she enquired once, in an advertisement for Tourism Australia. Test cricketer Michael Clarke reportedly proposed to her with a $200,000 diamond ring. The duo is slated to be married next year. Just give us the name of this stunning beauty - for confirmation, see Pic 1!

Q.2 (pic 2) She is Minki Van Der Westhuizen, South African swim-suit model, arguably the pretties thing to have ever happened to any cricketer. Which cricket captain am I jealously talking about?








Q.3 Fill in the blank.
" ___________ blew our minds," claimed a young female MTV presenter, Coralie Eichholtz . "He was so fit. I'd give him top marks for more than satisfying us." ( Report in the British tabloid, The News of the World, year: 2006)



Q.4 Which corporate sponsor of the West Indies cricket team blasted the Caribbean players for "having more telephone numbers of women than runs" after the team's abject surrender in the 2005 VB Series?


Q.5 She is Cindy, former Miss South Africa (pic 3). Who is she married to?

1983 World Cup (Silver Jubilee) Cricket Quiz

( On your left is an artist's impression of the Turnbridge Wells Cricket Ground, much famous for Kapil's fabulous knock of 175*)


Q.1
The average number of wides per match increased from 4.64 in the 1979 cricket World Cup to 9.59 in the 1983 edition. Why?

Q.2
Which spinner made his limited overs debut in this World Cup bamboozling NewZealand with his haul of 4 for 21. In the next match he improved on his debut performance, taking 5 wickets for 44 runs, and helping his team win the match by 11 runs. Who are we talking about?

Q.3
How many matches did eventual winners India win in all in the 1983 cup?

Q.4
Who co-umpired the final along with the revered DickyBird?

Q.5
On your left is a famous image from the 1983 World Cup final match between India and the West Indies. Kapil Dev is trying to clear long on - does he or does he not? Who is the bowler?

The World's 1st IPL Quiz!! (self-assumed)

q#1. "Yet how paradoxical it is, and how delightful, that Bangalore, a city that has leapt to global prominence on the back of work outsourced by America, is now itself outsourcing from America — outsourcing glamour, no less. " - This is an excerpt from a NewYork Times Op/Ed column. Can you guess what exactly is being discussed ?

q#2. He has worked in various administrative and marketing capacities with Cricket NSW, the Melbourne Cricket Club, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's and New Zealand Cricket. In partnership with Shane Lee, he established two sports marketing organisations - Sporting Frontiers India and Sporting Frontiers Cricket. Who is he and how is he connected to the Indian Premier League?

q#3. They are initiating an exciting partnership between Liverpool FC and the All India Football Federation (AIFF), aimed at developing soccer in India. They also own one of the IPL teams. Name the organisation.

q#4. "A charging bull" is the logo of which IPL team?

q#5. "To be the most successful and entertaining franchise in the league" is their mission. Who are they?

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India-England One-Dayers: Cricket Quiz # 25

Q.1 On 13th July 1974, India made its One-Day International Debut. Who was India's captain in this match against England?

Q.2 When did India beat England for the first time in an ODI? In which city is the venue of this match - 'Burlton Park' located?

Q.3 In the 1983 World Cup Semi-Final against England, it is a well know fact that Jimmy Amarnath was the man-of-the-match. Who was the highest individual scorer for India?

Q.4 In the 1989 Nehru Cup match between the two teams, there was an unlikely hero. Promoted much up the order to no.4 by captain Krish Srikkanth, he won the match for India with a brilliant unbeaten century. Who?

Q.5 Tendulkar captained India against England in just one One-Day. His opposite captain in the match was the first captain in the world to win a 'Twenty20 Cup'. Who?

For a list of websites providing Live Streaming Cricket action for the India-England One-day Series 2007, click here.

Cricket Quiz # 24 ( Books & Authors)

Q.1 Identify this nobel laureate ( left pic ) who once famously said, "I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing God ever created on earth, certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either."

Q.2 Which famous writer, also a fine sportsman, once claimed the wicket of the great W G Grace, a feat which inspired him to write a poem on the subject?

Q.3 "Silence of the Heart", a melancholy book about cricket deals with a very specific but sad suject. What was David Frith's book all about?

Q.4 "A bat, indeed, can look an entirely different instrument in different hands. With Grace it was a rod of correction, for to him bad bowling was a deviation from moral order; Ranjitsinhji turned a bat into a wand, passing it before the eyes of the foe till they followed him in a trance along his processional way....". This is an extract from which of Neville Cardus' masterpiece?

Q.5 Who authored "The Summer Game" ?

Cricket Quiz - General

It's been a long, long time now since i posted my last quiz. Though I did come here more than a couple of times to break the break, somehow the right questions refused to form. ( this being amongst the other mis-consequences of the last World Cup!!) So i finally decided to break the ice the easier way. Presenting 5 non-original (but good) questions to tickle your cricket-brain. Cheers!

Q.1 Chaminda Vaas just scored his first century in his 97th Test - is this a record? And who holds the record for ODIs ? ( posted by Manesh Rawal from Delhi on Cricinfo.com )

Q.2 This man of many accomplishments was also the first Jew to lead a team in International Cricket. Name him. ( Cricinfo magazine, Oct 2004)

Q.3 Who is the only man to have scored two centuries in his 100th test? ( Cricinfo magazine, Jan 2007)

Q.4 He is the only man to have taken a hat-trick at Lord's. Strangely enough, he is also the only man to have been no-balled for throwing at Lord's. Who? ( Re-worded, Cricinfo magazine, Feb 2007)

Q.5 At a function for World Series Cricket, media mogul Kerry Packer once suggested that he put on a tie. After he replied infamously "I don't wear ties," Packer told him "You'll put one on for me, son.". Who is the player in question here? All of us have heard him commentating.

( from the archives of this blog)

And this to leave you in good humour, just in case you didn't appreciate the bouncers!

"It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don’t wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game. "
- Bryson, humorist and travel writer