1. Who captained the Pakistan team in the 1996 quarter-final encounter against India when the regular captain Wasim Akram withdrew on the eve of the match following a finger injury?
2. In a hilarious incident in the 1992 WC match, which batsman imitated Kiran More for access appealing by jumping and howling?
3. Who was the player of the match in the 1992 WC match for scoring a half-century and picking the all important wicket of Aamir Sohail?
4. In the 1999 WC encounter, who replaced Saurav Ganguly in the Indian squad when he was injured on the eve of the match?
5. Who was the player of the match in the 1999 encounter for his career best figures of 5-27?
6. Who picked the first wicket in the 1996 encounter for Pakistan when he clean bowled Sachin Tendulkar?
7. Who is the only person to score a century among all the WC encounters between India and Pakistan till date?
8. Who made his debut in international cricket in the final of the T-20 WC final in 2007 and hit a six in the very first ball he faced which also happened to be the very first ball of the match?
9. By scoring 50 of 39 balls in the T20 2007 WC against Pakistan who became the first Indian to score a 50 in T-20?
10. Which bowler dismissed Misbah-ul-Haq (caught by S. Sreesanth) to clinch the title for India in the inaugural edition of the T20 World Cup?
Answers to cricket quiz:
1. Aamir Sohail
2. Javed Miandad
3. Sachin Tendulkar
4. Sadagoppan Ramesh
5. Venkatesh Prasad
6. Ata-ur-Rehman (the replacement for Wasim Akram)
7. Saeed Anwar (101 in the 2003 edition)
8. Yusuf Pathan (replacing the injured Virender Sehwag)
9. Robin Uthappa
10. Joginder Sharma
Author: Geetanav Ojha, Kozhikode, kerala
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