Marathon Cricket World Cup Quiz Season 2019 (Answers)

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To make this Cricket World Cup 2019 more special, I setup a Marathon Cricket World Cup Quiz Season 2019. Specialty of this Quiz blog post is that it will have a new question on Cricket World Cup everyday and would continue till the end of the World Cup 2019 which is on date 14th July 2019. So keep visiting this post for new Questions everyday. #virtualqm

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1. Who is missing in this exhaustive list? (30/5/2019)

The ICC named six match referees for the 2019 Cricket World Cup tournament

England - Chris Broad
Australia - David Boon
New Zealand - Jeff Crowe
Sri Lanka - Ranjan Madugalle
Zimbabwe - Andy Pycroft
West Indies - Richie Richardson

2. What is this list of countries which are related to this 2019 World Cup? (hint - it is in order of something)
Oman, The USA, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany, England. (31/5/2019)
World Cup Trophy traveled starting from Oman to end in England.

 3.  This World Cup has a theme song named X sung by a newcomer singer named Y, it would represent the culture of UK, a UK’s most successful act called Rudimental along with theme song was played on the host ground and city events. Identify X and Y. (1/6/2019)
X =  ‘STAND BY’,  Y= LORYN 

4. It has never been in history that X team failed to qualify directly but in this World Cup 2019 the X team was not able to qualify the World Cup tournament directly so for admitting themselves to represent they had to play World Cup qualifiers. Which team is X? (2/6/2019)
West Indies

5. Australia - 6,  England - 4 and New Zealand - 1 what am I talking about with respect to cricket world cup? Hint - India and West Indies were too close to get a number, twice for India and once for WI. (3/6/2019)

Women's Cricket World Cup Winners!

6. Shoaib Akhtar bowled the fastest recorded ball in the history of cricket in the World Cup 2003 match at Newlands. The 161.3km/h ball completed a maiden over bowled at X of England and no doubt this over rates as the fastest in recorded history. That was Shoaib's second over and its recorded speeds were 153.3km/h, 158.4km/h, 158.5km/h, 157.4km/h, 159.5km/h, 161.3km/h and had an astonishing average of 158.06km/h. Who was the batsman X?  (4/6/2019)
Nick Knight.

7. How the person on right is associated with Cricket World Cup? (5/6/2019)

Sir Jack Hayward’s contributed £40,000 in the inaugural edition of the tournament. His contribution made the tournament possible and in fact, the concept of first ever Women’s World Cup was his brainchild.

8. In 2007 World Cup, X represented England and Y represented Ireland. In 2011, Y represented England and X represented Ireland. Identify both X and Y. (6/6/2019)
In 2007, Ed Joyce represented England and Eoin Morgan represented Ireland. In 2011, Eoin Morgan represented England and Ed Joyce represented Ireland. X=Ed Joyce, Y=Eoin Morgan

9. In 2003 World Cup, in a league match against Sri Lanka, X was suffering from Diarrhea. He wore a diaper and came to bat and went on to score 97. (Courtesy : X's autobiography). Who is X? (7/6/2019)
Sachin Tendulkar

10. Identify from this picture of a magnificent match against which team and in which world cup it was taken? Picture has the clue and also it has a hint: not seen in TV! (8/6/2019) 

Kapil Dev's 175 knock against Zimbabwe in 1983. It was not telecast on TV.

11. The 2003 World Cup in South Africa was the first major event of Pakistani umpire Aleem Dar’s career. To avoid distraction and to enable him to concentrate only on his job his wife Noshaba kept concealing the fact when Dar called home. When a group of Pakistani journalists eventually informed Dar, he was shocked. He called Noshaba immediately, asking her about the truth; her resilience finally gave way as she broke down into tears. Dar took the next flight home. What was the unfortunate event that had happened to Aleem Dar’s life during that world cup? (9/6/2019) 

Death of his daughter Javeria 

12. Easy one - Which team shocked the cricketing world when they beat a strong Australian side by 13 runs in their debut match in the World Cup in 1983? (10/6/2019)
Zimbabwe 

13. In the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, something had happened separately in Christchurch, New Zealand and Melbourne, Australia, on February 12, 2015 for the first time in the history of ODIs World Cup. What I'm talking about? (11/6/2019)
Two opening ceremonies were held (first time in the history of ODIs)

14. Identify the player in the picture and what record he is holding in world cup?(12/6/2019)

The fastest century in World Cup history belongs to Ireland's Kevin O'Brien

15. Ian Healy was the regular keeper, but was ruled out through injury for the Brisbane match v India in 1992 WC. Due to World Cup rules, Australia couldn't draft a replacement keeper in, so X was the official WK for the only time in his career. (Just for the record, there were no byes, no catches, no stumpings, but X did effect the winning run-out!) . Who was X? (13/6/2019) 
David Boon

16. Sri Lankan cricketer Nuwan Kulasekara has a unique record in Cricket World Cup history. So far it didn't happen except for Nuwan Kulasekara. What is the unique record I'm taking about. Hint - He didn't create the record but somehow or coincidentally it was created for him. (14/6/2019)
The last ball of the 2011 World cup was bowled by Kulasekara. The first ball of the following 2015 world cup was also bowled by Kulasekara.

17. Connect (Exhaustive list so far) (15/6/2019)

MoM vs Pakistan in World Cup. I know who is missing for 2019 but before that this question was posted :)

18.  How these play grounds are connected? Using the connection, identify X.

• Lord's, London
• Edgbaston, Birmingham, England
• Old Trafford, Manchester
• MA Chidambaram Stadium, Madras, India
• WACA Ground, Perth, Australia
• Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
• New County Ground, Hove, England
• Boland Park, Paarl, South Africa
• Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
• Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka
• Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
• X = ? (16/6/2019)
  Ground That hosted the first India match in World Cup

19. How this player got famous in the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup or in this World Cup only something had sensational happened in St. Kitts? (17/6/2019)

Herschelle Gibbs smashed his way into World Cup history when he hit six sixes in one over in a Group A match against the Netherlands. In Daan van Bunge over (in pic).

20. In this World Cup 2019, X bowled the ball at a speed of 143 km per hour and clean bowled the batsman Y facing him. The ball hit the tip of the stumps, dislodging the bails then what unique thing happened? And identify the players X and Y. (18/6/2019)
X=Jofra Archer, Y=Soumya Sarkar.

21. This happened during India vs Ireland in ICC World Cup 2015. Both teams were chilling out. Ravindra Jadeja was bowling and the batsmen hit the ball towards leg umpire. Shikhar Dhawan was the fielder. He got the ball before it reached to umpire and instead of throwing towards wicket keeper Dhoni, Dhawan did something which made people laughing. What he did? (19/6/2019)
Dhawan sweeps the ball before it reaches umpire and instead of throwing towards Dhoni, this is what Moustache man Dhawan does . Dhawan imitated throwing ball towards Kumar Dharmasena who was shocked and  he waves his hands up.

22.  The national cricket team from this country has been playing cricket since 1792! That's a lot of cricket history! isn't it? But this year that team could not make in final entry in 2019 World Cup. Which national team I'm talking about? (20/6/2019)
IRELAND

23. After this marvelous catch, the caption was given as "The flying Kiwi - no it's not Guptill or Nathan - it's big X". That was the catch of the World Cup. Identify the player with this spectacular catch. (21/6/2019)

Jesse Ryder

24. He has a dubious distinction of playing the most number of test matches before taking his first catch. On 31 October 2016, in his 20th test match, he had taken a magnificent catch to dismiss Darren Bravo. He is the only player to have bowled in a five wicket (1 caught, 2 bowled, 2 run-outs) maiden over in T20 cricket, doing so against Australia in 2010. This was the only time in cricketing history that 5 wickets had fallen in an over of any international format and that happened in the final over of a T20 World Cup clash. Whom I'm talking about? (22/6/2019)
Md Amir (He returns after long time and joined in World Cup 2019 after his ban was lifted)

25. Identify the historic moment from Cricket World Cup. (23/6/2019)

West Indies fans rush on to the ground after West Indies beat England by 92 runs in the World Cup final at Lord’s in June 1979. 

26. In ICC Cricket World Cup history which player holds the record of Highest batting Average of whopping 124 in which he batted for 11 innings out of which 8 were Not Outs? Hint - He was an all rounder. (24/6/2019)

Lance Klusner

27. X is the only batsman who is part of World Cup Final team TWICE but didn't get the chance in Playing 11. He started his career with scores of 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, and 0 in his first three Tests, but went on to become one of most prolific run scorers of all time for his country, scoring six double centuries in Tests. Identify X. (25/6/2019)
Marvan Atapattu

28. Connect them. This is exhaustive list so far in the World Cup history. (26/6/2019)

Only 2 openers carried the bat till the end in World Cup.

29. This happened after the 2nd semifinal between India and Australia in 2015 World Cup. After the victory, the Australian Captain Michael Clarke, along with the man-of-the-match Steven Smith, came to attend the press meet. What happened next made everyone in the press meet burst out laughing.
And then Clarke wittily replied, "That's a question for my wife". What had happened that day? (27/6/2019)
In an unsuccessful attempt to say, "you've had tremendous success" , the BBC reporter blurted out "you've had tremendous sex".

30. This policeman cricketer previously played football with his country team Zebras, where he was a striker. He also plays golf. In 2007 World Cup after taking a catch he set off running in celebration, blowing kisses to the crowd in the process. David Lloyd, on commentary duty, said "the earth shook". Who was that player? (28/6/2019)
Dwayne Leverock (Bermuda)

31. Identify the ground - this is a historic turning point of a final match, this "out" cost the batting side to lose the match and a World Cup! (29/6/2019)

Mike Gatting's impetuous reverse-sweep cost England more than a wicket at Eden Gardens (Kolkata).


32. UAE vs Ireland in ICC World Cup 2015. The UAE bowler bowled a delivery, the batsman missed it, the ball hit the wickets, bails lit up, and the UAE started rejoicing. What happened after that? Bonus for naming the bowler and the batsman. (30/6/2019)
The bails were back in their original position. The lights had gone off, and the bails weren't dislodged! NOT OUT!

33.  Identify the match and the moment. (01/07/2019)

Kapil Dev against West Indies, catches Viv Richards World Cup Final 1983.

34. Record happened in order of their occurrences below

1. X? (England)

50. Mark Waugh (Australia)

100. Matthew Hayden (Australia)

150. Brendan Taylor (Zimbabwe)

What record I'm talking about and who is X? (02/07/2019)

Centuries. X=Dennis Amiss

35. What unique thing happened in these below matches of 2019 Cricket World Cup? (03/07/2019)

England vs. South Africa : May 30

New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka : June 1

Australia vs. West Indies : June 6

England vs. Bangladesh : June 8

India Vs Australia : June 9

In all the cases ball hit the stump but bell didn't dislodged!

36. What is the record this table is showing (some portions are blanked out) which happened in the same World Cup Cricket 1999? (04/07/2019)

Most number of Extras.

37. X is the only country in the world where one of their international cricket grounds, Y stadium, is private property of  secondary school! Y has also hosted a 1996 Cricket World Cup fixture. A game remembered for the dreadful collision between Steve Waugh and Jason Gillespie. Both players had to be airlifted for medical treatment after being seriously injured. Waugh broke his nose while Gillespie had a broken bone in his shin. Identify X and Y. (05/07/2019)
Kandy, Sri Lanka.

38. Connect theme with respect to Cricket World Cup (exhaustive list) (06/07/2019)

Only 3 team participated in Wold Cup once and never won a single match.

39. Identify the bowler (below name is blanked out) who was man of the match in this winning World Cup match against Australia. (07/07/2019)
Md. Azharuddin

40. Who was the only batsman to have scored centuries in both the Semi-Final and Final of a World Cup. (08/07/2019)
Mahela Jayawardene

41. Connect (09/07/2019)

They are the wives of World Cup winning Captains. First one I think you already guessed it :)

42. How this Indian team in 2019 World Cup is unique? (10/07/2019)

KL Rahul 
Rohit 
Kohli 
Vijay S 
Dhoni 
Kedar 
Hardik 
Kuldeep 
Shami 
Bumrah 
Chahal 

They play for different Ranji teams.

43. Identify the person (11/07/2019)

Rihanna

44. Who is the first Indian player to score a century in the knock out stages of a World Cup? (12/07/2019)
Saurav Ganguly

45. What is this list of? (13/07/2019)

Duckworth & Lewis calculator chart.

46. In 2014, an umpire died after being struck on the head by a ball in country X - prompting this umpire Y into action. And Y invented the armguard which he used in this World Cup. Identify X and Y.

X=Israel, Y=Bruce Oxenford

47. Which team managed to all out their opposition for 7 consecutive time that is they picked up 70 Wickets in 7 Matches? It was most by any team in Cricket World Cup history. (15/07/2019)
INDIA

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