Cricket Quiz

Do you know what they were doing before entering into cricket.

1. He was a vegetable vendor (an hawker) before he took cricket as his profession.
Abdul Qadir
2. He was working as a Maths teacher. He was considered as one of the best slip fielders.
Brain McMillan
3. He was a plumber by profession. He is now working as a commentator.
Bill Lawry
4. He was police man. He is one of the leading bowler in world cricket now. He is a injury prone bowler.
Shane Bond
5. Selling soapnut (shikakai) in his family business. He then went on the become India's leading bowler.
Javagal Srinath


Who said this? Also tell who is the listener?

1) "Man, it don't matter where you come in to bat, the score is still zero"
Speaker : Viv Richards
Listener : Sunil Gavaskar
Incident : At Madras 1983. Gavaskar had decided to relinquish his opening position and come in at no 4 for that test. But, Malcolm Marshall fired out Anshuman Gaekwad and Dilip Vengsarkar for ducks, setting the stage for Gavaskar to walk in at 0/2. And he thought there would be less pressure!

2) "It's red, round and weighs about 5 ½ ounces"
Speaker : Greg Thomas
Listener : Viv Richards
Incident : Greg Thomas was bowling to Viv Richards in a county game. Viv missed a superb outswinger, and Thomas said "It's red, round and weighs about 5 ½ ounces" Next ball Viv hits Greg Thomas out of the ground for a 6 and replies, "Greg, you know what it looks like. Go ahead and find it!"

3) "He is batting like a revolving door. Whatever Zulu bowls it is reaching the midwicket fence". Who is the speaker. The speaker is commenting on which cricketer?
Speaker : Hansie Cronje to media persons
Speaker is commenting on which cricketer : Azhar
Incident : First Azhar hit Lance Klusener for 5 consecutive fours in Eden Garden. Then when India toured SA, again the treatment was repeated in the second test in Newlands , Cape Town

4) Now an easy one..
Speaker 1: If I were playing now, I would have averaged around 70.
Speaker 2 : Why so less?
Speaker 1 : 'cause I am .....

Speaker 1: Sir Donald Bradman
Speaker 2 : Sachin Tendulkar
Incident : When Sachin was invited for the 90th birthday of Sir Donald Bradman, Sachin put forward a question to Sir Don, "How much will you score if you were playing now?". For that Sir Don replied "If I were playing now, I would have averaged around 70". Sachin asked "Why so less? Whether modern cricket is tougher than the 1930s". Sir Don replied with a smile "man I am 90 now. For a 90 year old man, 70 average is a good one. isn't it?"

5) "For Great Batsman, there is no good ball"
Speaker : Sir Garfield Sobers
Listener : Sunil Gavaskar
Incident : In 1980s, Sunl Gavaskar was running a cricket magazine "Indian Cricketers". He was the editor of that magazine. When he was interviewing, Sir Gary was stressing that the word 'GREAT' was misused by many of the media person. For that Sunil asked "According to you who is a great batsman?" For that Sir Gary answered "For Great Batsman, there is no good ball"