Cricket Round from Balls, Ballots, Bollywood; http://notesandstones.blogspot.com/2008/10/oct-2008-open-morning-quiz-balls.html

1. Balls Scheme 1 st 4 – 5 pts – written (name, place, animal, thing) Next 12 – 10 - passing Last 2 – 10 – team nominee Answers at the end! Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kkseema/2372998076/

2. Note 1. This is a quiz on Indian Politics, Hindi Films, and Indian Cricket. 2. This quiz was conducted on Oct 12, 2008 under the aegis of the BCQC by J. Ramanand. 8. License Note: you are free to share and reuse these questions provided you clearly attribute the questions to the author. In particular, the facts in these questions are in the public domain but in the case where you are re-using the framing of the question, the author requests the courtesy of due credit!

3. Q01 Identify

4. Q02 Identify place and connection to Indian cricket

5. Q03 Which cricketer is nicknamed after this? Harpodoron Nehereus

6. Q04 Discovered & marketed by Robert Chesebrough Gets its name from German for “water” + Greek for “oil”

7. Q05 M.J.Gopalan was a Test cricketer who also played Hockey for India at the highest level. M. K. Gopalan Trophy was introduced as a trophy between which two teams?

8. Q06 Which Indian won an Oxford Blue in 1987? Hint: he is well known in another field these days

10. Q08 In the Ranji Trophy, what is common only to the following teams w.r.t something they did at the beginning of the associated season? UP (52-53) Rajputana (52-53) MP (52-53) Holkar (52-53) Railways (75-76)

11. Q09 He made his domestic 1 st class debut in 75-76 against the Rest of India at Nagpur. He scored 110, which included several sixes off the likes of Bishen Bedi. Who and how was this debutant personally affected as a result?

12. Q10 Their only Test stumpings are: X: Frank King, Clyde Walcott Y: Carl Hooper Who?

13. Q11 What achievement is common to these teams in the following years? (not an exhaustive list) East Zone – 1949, 1979 West Zone – 1956 Combined East & West – 1967 Karnataka – 1979, 2000 Mumbai – 1998

14. Q12 South Africa’s 1 st tour to India was hastily arranged after their reinstatement. Why was there a gap in the Indian international playing calendar, such that South Africa could step in?

15. Q13 Connect “ It’s Now or Never”

16. Q14 In the Sahara Cup 1998, this player was asked to replace Jatin Paranjpe who was injured after the first three matches. However, the replacement could not be contacted since he was away on holiday. As a result he missed the 4 th game. Eventually, the player was reached and rushed to Toronto, where he featured in the last game. The question: who was the player and why was he not picked to be part of the initial squad for the Sahara Cup?

17. Last Wicket

18. Q15 Chandu Borde, Polly Umrigar, K.N.Prabhu are among those who “contributed” in a certain way. This has led to something being commemorated on 3 February annually, particularly at Eden Gardens What?

19. Q16 In 1974, a home Test vs WI was to be played at Delhi Captain Pataudi and VC Gavaskar were both unfit On the eve of the Test, Board Vice President Ram Prakash Mehra made an announcement about the next captain. This was a potential ‘first’ But the next day, Venkat made captain! Who was earlier announced as captain and what first would it have been?