International Cricket Quiz

[bullseye]

Their has been so many landmarks that has happened in the history of Cricket that it is impossible to remember everything.

But it gives us a great feeling when we recall or revisit as it brings us boundless thrill and joy.

Let’s recall some of those landmarks in the form of Quiz

Here you go:

Question 1

Tied Test

1 There are two instances of tied tests matches in the history of test cricket.

a When and where did the two instances of tied test matches take place?

b. Who were the opposing teams in each instances?

c Who were the rival skippers of opposing teams in those instances?

d How many runs were scored by opposing teams in each instances?

e. Which batsman was last out in each instances and who was the opposing bowler who accounted for that wicket?

Question 2

Name the cricketers who have achieved the rare distinction of taking a wicket with their very first ball on test debut. Since their has been multiple instances I will accept any 10.

3 The are considered as one of the greatest all- rounders of all time.

Besides being endowed with outstanding Batting and Bowling talent they shared one other thing in common. Both of them were gifted with Killer Looks that spontaneously drew huge crowds.

Who are these 3 in 1 Cricketers?

4
a. Who is the inventor of Doosra and Teesra?

b. What is the difference between Doosra and Teesra?

5. When and who wore the first Helmet in a Test match?

Answers will be posted Saturday Sept 5, 2009 by 10:00 p.m(EST)

Who is the first to take a shot?

Good luck to everybody!

 

[Somerset]

Question 1
a. 1960 in Brisbane; 1986 in Madras
b. Australia and West Indies; Australia and India
c. Richie Benaud and Frank Worrell; Allan Border and Kapil Dev
d. 737; 744
e. Ian Meckiff, run out by Joe Solomon (bit difficult to account the bowler, Wes Hall, responsible for a run out) ; Maninder Singh, lbw to Greg Matthews

Question Two
Arthur Coningham, Bill Bradley, Ted Arnold, George Macaulay, Maurice Tate, Matt Henderson, Dennis Smith, Tyrell Johnson, Dick Howorth, Intikhab Alam, Richard Illingworth, Nilesh Kulkarni, Chamila Gamage

Question Three
Keith Miller and Imran Khan (bit ambiguous that question IMO)

Question Four
a. Doosra invented by Saqlain Mushtaq (though also arguably Sonny Ramadhin), teesra also invented by Saqlain Mushtaq
b. The doosra spins the opposite way to the off spinner's stock delivery (like a leg spinner), while the tessra is a top spinner disguised as an off spinner.

Question Five
Graham Yallop in 1978

 

[bullseye]

Congratulations Somerset! Fantatstic Peformance!

Congratulations Somerset!

You have stunned eveybody, icluding myself with a fantastic performance.

You have scored 100% correct answers. It was like playing T 20 in Test match.

One attempt - All correct. Can't get better.

Hat's off to you!

I would like to acknowledge your great feat by conferring upon you the title of International Cricket Quiz Guru.

I will have more this weekend.

Thanks and Cheers!

 

[NUFAN]

"stunned everybody".

 

[SJS]

Congratulations Somerset!

You have stunned eveybody, icluding myself with a fantastic performance.

You have scored 100% correct answers. It was like playing T 20 in Test match.

One attempt - All correct. Can't get better.

Hat's off to you!

I would like to acknowledge your great feat by conferring upon you the title of International Cricket Quiz Guru.

I will have more this weekend.

Thanks and Cheers!

Yeah we are all amazed.

I have been struggling since yesterday afternoon and couldn't go beyond the first question.

 

[bullseye]

"stunned everybody".

Nobody else has attempted a single question leave alone answering correctly within the time framework.Boy, not all of these were easy.

Fortune favors the best.

He came, He saw, He conquered.

 

[bullseye]

Yeah we are all amazed.

I have been struggling since yesterday afternoon and couldn't go beyond the first question.

Thanks for your honest admission.

Cheers!

 

[SJS]

Thanks for your honest admission.

Cheers!

You are welcome.

Next time please make them a bit easier. It will be more fun if everyone can give it a try you know.

 

[bullseye]

You are welcome.

Next time please make them a bit easier. It will be more fun if everyone can give it a try you know.

I will definitley make it easy and hope that you become a runner up if not the winner.

Frankly Speaking my objective of the Quiz tis not to challenge or give a hard time to the readers but it is meant to share Cricket knowledge amongst us so that we all get enriched.

All is needed is a little bit of time and usage of search engine with which you can pretty much find any informan or validate that. These days these search engines and cricket websites has made our life so easy. Unbelievable!.

The next Quiz is coming up this coming Saturday - Just 3 days from now.

Good Luck and Cheers!

 

[Somerset]

"stunned everybody".

Lol, such an accolade...

 

[SJS]

I will definitley make it easy and hope that you become a runner up if not the winner.

Frankly Speaking my objective of the Quiz tis not to challenge or give a hard time to the readers but it is meant to share Cricket knowledge amongst us so that we all get enriched.

All is needed is a little bit of time and usage of search engine with which you can pretty much find any informan or validate that. These days these search engines and cricket websites has made our life so easy. Unbelievable!.

The next Quiz is coming up this coming Saturday - Just 3 days from now.

Good Luck and Cheers!

This time I am going to do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll....