Trivia: Answers

1. How many modes of dismissal are there in cricket? No this is not the question :) I will make it simpler there are 10 modes

* Caught
* Bowled
* Leg before wicket (lbw)
* Run out
* Stumped
* Hit wicket
Name the remaining four

Ans:

• Handled the ball
• Hit the ball twice
• Obstructing the field
• Timed out

2. Who was man of the match in the Final of 1975 World Cup ?
( will give you a sitter hint , he was a West Indian)

Ans: Lloyd scored his century of 82 balls. There was a 149-run 4th wkt partnership between him and RB Kanhai.

3. Another from the first world cup Who was the most economical bowler of the cup?
You should know this .........

Ans: Bedi had 12 overs and 8 maidens vs East Africa.


4. Any guesses what was the lowest score by any batsman in the 1975 cup?
Now don't say duck

Ans : 5
The lowest score on the West Indian scorecard was 5 runs by Viv Richards; the lowest Australian score was 7, which was scored by Rick McCosker and Max Walker.

5. Now this one from the 2003 WC . Which batsman set the highest individual score of the tournament.
Need a hint :)
He was from Africa ...... he he

Ans: Craig Wishart. The Zimbabwean bludgeoned his way to 172 from just 151 balls against the Namibians in Harare.

Desh and kartikeya got 3-4 correct so no one is going to West Indies ....... as a quizmaster I am going to get you more questions :)

Wait for the next

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This is for all cricket fans out there some sitters and some difficult questions. See if you can answer without using Google

1. How many modes of dismissal are there in cricket? No this is not the question :) I will make it simpler there are 10 modes

• Caught
  
• Bowled
  
• Leg before wicket (lbw)
  
• Run out
  
• Stumped
  
• Hit wicket

Name the remaining four

2. Who was man of the match in the Final of 1975 World Cup ?
( will give you a sitter hint , he was a West Indian)

3. Another from the first world cup Who was the most economical bowler of the cup?
You should know this .........

4. Any guesses what was the lowest score by any batsman in the 1975 cup?
Now don't say duck

5. Now this one from the 2003 WC . Which batsman set the highest individual score of the tournament.
Need a hint :)
He was from Africa ...... he he


Now serious effort . No google please

Answers after few days

Winner will get a trip to West Indies *





* this incident can be purely imaginary

Hobbes - the run machine

There are some things that you look and feel, is there a limit, and here is a cricketing career that makes you feel the same, Sir John Berry Hobbs aka Sir Jack Hobbes. The least talked about member of the Wisden's best five of the 20Th century(along with Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garfield sobers, Shane Warne, Sir Vivian Richards) is one of the most productive batsman of my grandfather's age, my dad's age and my age.

He was the first cricketer to be knighted back in 1953. Playing for England and Surrey he made as many as 61760 runs, ohhh myyy gaawwwddd, this guy must have run the whole continent twice to take all these runs. As a part time bowler he has the best figures of 7/56 as well. Created in 1932, he must have been the biggest motivation for superman. And now some statistics to solidify the thought of his greatness.

First-class Batting

Matches played :834

Innings :1325

Not outs :107

Runs :61760

Highest Score :316*

Average :50.70

Centuries :199

Half Centuries :273

Catches :342

After serving cricket for a long long time, the oldest centurian of test cricket (46 years old), also known as "The Master" departed in 1963 leaving behind a prolific cricketing career and unbelievable numbers. These are the legends of the game!

Image srcs : bbc.co.uk and cricinfo.com
Statistics src : cricinfo.com

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Its Ivy League

Ok refer this for this post

Sports Trivia #1

Ok first image is ivy.

Second Image is from the movie Love Story.

So what is it that links them from Sports? It’s Ivy League. Love Story was clue to guess Harvard (Oliver and Father Oliver and Grandpa Oliver and many more all studying there). Last year during a quiz at Synapse I came across this astonishing fact from Sidin, who was conducting the quiz contest there.

Quite nice if you consider the best known group of Universities in the World comes up from simple athletics meet (I won’t blurb much, read the WIKI post linked up).

Anyway Quiz on this blog seems a good idea.

What do you think?

Sports Trivia #1

Link the following images,



with obviously the thing we blog about, SPORTS. Related post will follow.