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Mahesh Hegade's Blog
Wednesday, 23 February 2005
Cricket Trivia
Just for trivia lovers...

What is common between Gary Sobers and Ravi Shastri?
Six sixers in one over...

Who were those unfortunate bowlers?
Malcom Nash and Tilak Patel (respectively)

In what game?
English county cricket, Ranaji Trophy(respectively)

Commonality between Viv Richarads and Gary Sobers?
Many...both are west Indians (duh, PJ)
Both captained WI (duh)
Both had an Indian girl friend or mistress or whatever...

Who?
Neen Gupta (Richards), Anju Mahendru(Sobers)

Which cricketer of Indian origin led the first rebel WI team to SA?
Alwyn Kalicharan (in those Apartheid days..SA was boycotted from cricket world....those cricket loving SAs used to entice cricketers with tonnes of money)

Who was the other Kalicharan who played for WI?
Derek Kalicharan but not as famous as his bro Alwyn..

Who are two cricketers of Indian origin played for WI shared 'Shiva' as part of their name?
Shiv Shiv Narain...Shiv Chandrapaul......

Who used to be known as deadly quartet?
Micheal Holding, Andy Roberts, Collin Craft, Joel Garner....speedsters from WI

Who got the bat from Sunil Gavaskar after he beat the record of maximum centuries back in 1984?
Jeff Dujon, WI keeper

Where did G'kar score that centuray?
Chepauk, Madras

That's it for now....

Yours
Trivia Junkie

Posted by Mahesh at 10:09 PM EST

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