Answers to the 2003 Cricket World Cup Quiz

question no.1
John Davison

question no.2
Andy Flower and Henry Olonga

question no.3
Rudi van Vuuren

question no.4
Dazzler, the mascot for the 2003 Cricket World Cup

question no.5
Chaminda Vaas, who took 23 wickets to set up a new World Cup record

Answers to the 1999 World Cup Cricket Quiz

My apologies for an error which crept in into one of the questions in this quiz. In question no.2, that should have been not the 20th but the 21st over. Actually i copied that extract directly from Cricinfo.com, and the error there got transferred here - I should have verified it further. Sorry guys. Here are the answers:

q.1 Yes, that’s a Bangladesh postage stamp. (there were 3 clues: the Green Flag, the Bengali script and a very small part of the tiger’s face visible on the ball)

q.2 Fill up the blanks.

With Wasim Akram and Azhar Mahmood acting out the role of the orchestra on the Titanic, playing on valiantly as the ship went down, Mark Waugh and Darren Lehmann began to pick off the remaining runs at will, with Lehmann driving pleasantly through the covers to leave Australia needing under ten for victory........ A ridiculous pitch invasion by some Pakistani fans was fortunately dealt with quickly and Darren Lehmann thrashed Saqlain Mushtaq's 1st ball of the 20th over to the point boundary to post the winning runs for Australia and a well deserved, if thoroughly anti-climactic victory.

q.3 Lance Klusener ( Ridley Jacobs and Tom Moody were the other two)

q.4 England, Scotland, Ireland and the Netherlands

q.5 Shane Warne and Geoff Allott were the joint highest wicket takers in the 1999 World Cup. (20 apiece)

ICC Cricket World Cup Trivia: Solution

The obvious answer is South Africa vs Sri Lanka, but that's obviously not the case else where was the point spending so much time creating this question.

Working:

Group A - South Africa wins all matches, tops the group. Australia finish second.

Group B - Larger countries beat small countries. So India & Pakistan shoould have qualified, because there are 3 countries from the Indian subcontinent and the 4th one Bermuda is anyways the smallest. But it's mentioned that Pakistan is not one of the teams to qualify so it implies Pakistan was not a part of Group B. Hence India and Sri Lanka qualify, with India on top and Lanka second.

The super eight match we are talking about is supposed to be between A1 and B2. So it should have been SA vs Lanka. But that's where the catch is:

The new rule for the Super Eight stage is more than a little weird - If Australia & SA both qualify, Australia will be treated as A1 and SA as A2 irrespective of who finishes first, because Australia is ranked higher in the ICC ratings.

By the logic of this new ICC rule for the Super Eight stage, the answer becomes India vs Australia

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Though I have discussed about this weird super-eight rule in my main cricket blog as well, beyond a point even i have not understood it. The official ICC site goes on to say that if Scotland qualifies instead of Australia, then Scotland will be A1. I really don't know what they mean..hope the International Cricket Committee understands it.

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

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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