England batsman Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott won the ICC Test player and player of the year awards respectively. Sri Lankan Kumara Sangakkara won the ICC One Day player of the year award. Aleem Dar won the Umpire of the year award. Devendra Bishoo (West Indies) won the emerging player of the year award. New Zealand bowler Tim Southee got T20 performance of the year award. Ryan Ten Doeschate is the best player from associate and affiliate countries. Indian captain M.S. Dhoni got the spirit of the cricket award for recalling Ian Bell during Headingly Test match. West Indies cricketer Stafanie Taylor won the woman cricketer of the year award. Quiz questions: 1. Jonathan Trott is the first England cricketer to win the ICC Player of the year award. 2. Who is the ICC Cricketer of the year in 2010? Answer: Sachin Tendulkar. ICC Cricketer of the year: 2004: Rahul Dravid (India). 2005: Jacques Kallis (South Africa) & Andrew Flintoff (England). 2006: Ricky Ponting (Australia). 2007: Ricky Ponting (Australia). 2008: Shivnaraine Chanderpaul (West Indies). 2009: Mitchell Johnson (Australia) 2010: Sachin Tendulkar (India). 2011: Jonathan Trott (England) … [Read more...]
Sachin Tendulkar quiz
Sachin Tendulkar has been playing cricket since 1989 and crossed many mile stones in his glittering career. Outlook magazine published a special issue on this Cricket legend on the occasion of scoring 50th test century. Quiz questions on Sachin and Cricket: 1. Sachin Tendulkar scored just one test century on Pakistan soil. Where did he score that century? Ans: In Multan against Pakistan in 2004 2. Where Sachin scored maximum number of centuries in India? Ans: Vidarbha Cricket Association stadium in Nagpur. Sachin scored 5 centuries at Nagpur in his favourite ground. Tendulkar scored 4 centuries in Chennai and 3 centuries at Sardar Patel stadium in Ahmedabad. Sachin scored 5 centuries in Colombo (Sri Lanka). 3. Which batsman scored a triple century and never played a test match again? Ans: Andrew Sandham (England). He scored 325 against the West Indies in 1929-30 series but never played test match again!!! 4. Sachin Tendulkar played first International Cricket match (debut) on? Ans: Against Pakistan in Karachi on November 15, 1989. Srikanth was captain and Chandu borde was manager of Indian cricket team. 5. Who was the youngest Indian to score fastest 1000 runs in test cricket before Sachin Tendulkar? Ans: Kapil Dev 6. How many triple centuries Sachin scored in test cricket? Answer: Zero 7. Where Tendulkar played first International One Day Cricket match? Ans: Against Pakistan in Gujranwala (December, 1989). Sachin scored zero runs in that match. 8. Who was the youngest cricketer to play International … [Read more...]
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