Fun Cricket Quiz Answers

I am still waiting for Sankalp to post me with the answers to Quiz no. 10, meanwhile let me give you the answers for Quiz no. 11.


1. Roshni Chopra – the expert cricket beauty on Doordarshan.

2. Makhaya Ntini – actually I made a small typo there. It’s not Moingi but Mdingi Express. That’s the name of the village from which Ntini hails.

3.England – Ponting blew his fuse off during an Ashes match when Vaughan asked for yet another substitution.

4.Raman Lamba was the 12th fielder on the field !! He was substituting for Kris Srikanth but when Srikkanth returned, Lamba failed to go back, thus creating this pecualiar situation.

5.All of you got this right – yes, it’s the boat the English cricketers had to catch the next day that caused the world’s longest match to be finally called off.

Cricket Quiz..another mail: Answers

Q - Who scored four sixes off Harbhajan Singh... - Shahid Afridi

Q - 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.... - David Hookes

Q – The only two Orissa players to have made it to the Indian Test team are Debashish Mohanty and Shiv Sunder Das

Q – The ad is for J.Hampstead

Q - On the 1974 tour to England, this Indian opener was accused of stealing a pair of socks .....Sudhir Naik

Q - His first six test innings were 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, and 0..... - Marvan Attapattu

Q – Who was the first Indian bowler to take a five wicket haul in ODI’s... - Kapil Dev, in all likelihood, however i would like to admit that i am not 100% confident on that. My apologies..

Q – “It involves the deliberate and systematic targeting - Decapitation

Cricket Quiz # 7: Answers

Q. Who holds the record for being the only cricketer to have scored more than 5000+ runs, taken...
- Carl Hooper

Q. Who was the first Pakistani batsman to score a century.....
- Saeed Answar

Q. Which are the only two cricket teams have been dismissed....
- Zimbabwe (against New Zealand at Harare in 2005) and India (against England at Manchester in 1952)

Q The first ball of the first world cup was bowled by…….
- Madan Lal (India vs England)

Q He was among the first of the genuinely fast, fast...
- Wes Hall

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Cricket Quiz # 6: Answers

Q – He was the first East Indian to represent West Indies and was probably the first right arm off break bowler.....

Answer - Sonny Ramadhin

Q – Who has the record for the most number of sixes in the Cricket World Cup?

Answer - Saurav Ganguly

Q – What do David Boon, Ricky Ponting and Viv Richards have in common apropos the Cricket World Cup?

Answer - Man of the Match in the World Cup Finals

Q – The brother in law of the Australian swing bowler Terry Alderman, this umpire is best known amongst cricket....?

Answer - Ross Emerson

Q – His career average of 38.81 in ODI’s is the highest for any New Zealand batsman...

Answer - Roger Twose

Cricket Quiz # 4: Answers

Cricket Quiz # 4: Answers

Q – He took a wicket with his first ball in first class cricket. He made his debut for England in a one day international against Bangladesh....

- Chris Tremlett

Q – The guy in the centre (see pic on the left) was not a part of the Ashes winning England side but was on the open top bus that did the celebratory rounds....

- Gary Pratt

Q – Who has the highest number of wickets not involving a fielder? And what is the form of dismissal (e.g. – lbw.kuruvilla)

- Muralitharan, the second best being lbw. W.Akram

Q – The BCCI logo is derived from the emblem of India’s highest order of chivalry (during the days of the British Raj) founded by Queen Victoria in 1861. What was the order called

- Star of India

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Cricket Quiz # 2: Answers

Answers to Cricket Quiz # 2

Q. What was burnt to create the Ashes? And what is the ashes urn made of? - A set of bails. The urn is made of terracotta

Q. Which ex Indian cricket was nicknamed “Colonel”? - Dilip Vengsarkar

Q . This was one of the most hilarious things ever said by a commentator. “He is not playing today as he has a problem with his testicles. The commentator was Ravi Shastri and it was the 1997 Sahara Cup at Toronto. Can you recall the injured player's name? - Mohammad Akram

Q. Who took the catch that prevented Sachin from becoming the youngest centurion in Test cricket? - John Wright

Q. Name the spectator who Inzamam attacked for repeatedly being called aaloo (hindi for potato, an obvious reference to the rotundness of the great cricketer) - Shiv Singh

World Cup Cricket Quiz

1. Lost the World Cup Cricket Final

2. India never played Pakistan until the 1992 World Cup in Australia. But since then, they have played each other once every World Cup with India winning all the 4 matches.

3. India won the match by 10 wickets, the highest possible margin of victory for a team batting second.

4. Wasim Akram

5. It was Clive Lloyd again, though this time he finished one short of the highest honours.

6. Chetan Sharma took the first hat-trick of the Cricket World Cup at Nagpur in the 1987 Reliance World Cup. Gavaskar scored a breath-taking century, his first, to ensure that India finish first in their pool. Both happened in the same match against Newzealand and they became the first joint winners of the Man of the match award in the World Cup. The UAE pair was the second joint winner of this award.

7. Martin Crowe in 1992, this was the first time that the man- of- the- series was awarded in the Cricket World Cup.

8. Gavin Hamiltion

9. The title sponsors of the Cricket World Cups - Prudential in the first three editions in England, Reliance in 1987 ( India), Benson & Hedges in 1992 (Australia/NZ) & Wills in 1996. Since then the ICC has stopped alloting title sponsorship rights to anyone. It's now simply known as the ICC World Cup.

10. Rickey Ponting

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