Identify the player and explain the rationale?

Mikhail Youzhny apologizing to audience for his poor performance

against David Ferrer in third round of 2012 French Open

England vs Australia, The Ashes - 3rd Test, Headingley, Leeds

Australia 1st innings: 401 for 9 dec

England 1st innings: 174 all out

England 2nd innings: 135 for 7

Ladbrokes, the bookmakers, offered odds of 500-1 on an England

victory. Two Australian players bet 15 pounds via their coach driver.

England ultimately scored 356 in their 2nd innings and dismissed

Australia for 111 to win by 18 runs.

Name the Aussie players who collected 7500 pounds on their team's

loss!!

Dennis Lillee & Rod Marsh

Identify the one (captain)ing the women?

Susan Polgar

Sofia, Susan, Judith

Some players from the ......... Cross Wesleyan Chapel

Cricket team together to discuss how to keep fit during

the winter months. Prominent amongst them were Jack

Hughes, Frederick Matthews, Walter Price and William

Scattergood. They saw a football game being played on a

meadow close by and decided it was the perfect solution.

Founded in 1874, the new club football team played its

first match against Aston Brook St Mary's Rugby team.

Name the club thus formed.

Who’s missing and what’s the exclusive connect?

Cedric Mourier : “….. You serve like me. If you serve like me, you

put it in the box. That’s it”

X: “Call the supervisor. Ask him about it”

Cedric: “That’s the coach you should ask.”

X: “I ask him. I want to kill him…Normally I cannot give up for

match for good reason just because I can not serve. How many

double-faults?”

Cedric: “I don’t know. I can tell you at the end of the match but too

many.”

X: “What can I do?”

Cedric: “Try your best”

Identify X who had been fined $2,000 for lack of effort in a match a

week earlier.

In which domestic derby, would you find fans

mainly waving either the Irish flag or the

Union Jack?

Old Firm Derby

(Celtics vs Rangers)

What is the umpire signaling about?

Commencement of the ‘Last Hour’ of the match

Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille!!

Four non-English cricketers have scored 100 first

class centuries. One being Sir Donald Bradman,

name the other three.

ZAHEER ABBAS VIV RICHARDS GLENN TURNER

Di Canio was awarded FIFA Fair Play Award in 2001.

Paolo Di Canio is present coach of

Swintown Town F.C.

(FIFA World Cup 1990 – Holland vs Germany)

Identify the protagonists.

Rudi Völler & Frank Rijkaard

English footballer Stanley Matthews holds the distinction

of being the only player to have been knighted while still

playing.

The Maharaj of Vizianagram was knighted during his test

cricket playing days (which he returned after India’s

independence in 1947).

Who is the other cricketer to have this unique distinction

of being knighted while still playing test cricket?

What's common between a Sunday League game

between Peterborough North End and Royal Mail

AYL officiated by Andy Wain in 2005 and

another Sunday League game between

Southampton Arms and Hurstbourne Tarrant

British Legion referred by Melvin Sylvester in

1998?

Both the referees Red Card-ed themselves after

incidents during the matches

Connect them with a football context.

Aaron Ramsey Curse

How do we better know them?

Magical Magyars (Golden Team)

Identify the encircled.

CLAYTON LAMBERT

Hunted the Swiss Big Bird, speared the Catalan

Torner before putting it across the Maryland

Pistol.. Fun at Haven ended with the Rabbit Split.

Explain the funda.

Paes at 1998 Pilot Pen International

A division of Fast Retailing Co. Ltd., the clothing retail

chain X was restructured as a separate wholly owned

subsidiary in Nov’ 2005. Spread in over a dozen

countries, X aims to be the world’s largest ‘Speciality-

store of Private-label Apparel (SPA)’ by the year 2020.

Headquartered in Tokyo, X has also furnished uniforms

for Japanese athletes at the Summer Olympics.

What am I referring to?

What’s so exclusive about these four?

Gimmick!! Eh… Name the team.

If Nirupama Vaidyanathan was the first, Sania

Mirza third, then who’s second.

Shikha Oberoi

BUNNY AUSTIN YVON PETRA

They faced off in the 1937 French Open Quarterfinals which Austin

won.. But, what is their lasting legacy on tennis courts?

First & Last!!!

Having announced his retirement plans before the start

of English series, he called it a day after 98 tests. On

asked why he did not complete 100 tests, he remarked

“… But at that point I had had enough. I wanted to give

100 percent all the time. But when I could not to do it

anymore, it got to a point when I needed a change in life,

I decided to end my career. I never played for personal

milestones”

Identify this living legend.

CURTLY AMBROSE

A former Lathe operator was put to trial for stabbing a

world class athlete in a case that attracted unprecedented

attention of media and general people alike. The accused

admitted his guilt in court and many a witnesses

confirmed his crime. The defense lawyers did try their

bit to get him off the hook though!

In her ruling, for what period did Judge Elke

Bosse send him to prison?

NONE for immediate effect. Just 2-years suspended jail term.

Monica Seles stabbed by Gunther Parche at 1993 Citizen’s Cup in Hamburg

Born in a small English town of Bideford, he made a

century in his debut match against the Oxford University.

This 5'10" batsman played for Gloucestershire scoring over

10,000 first class runs. Awarded an MBE from the British

Empire, he was given a standing ovation from the crowd at

the Oval in his last international match. He succumbed to

cancer in 2009 but not before having written his names in

the heart of players and fans all across the world.

Name this highly respected gentleman.

DAVID SHEPHERD

OPEN QUESTION

A batsman plays a ball and misses; the wicket

keeper also misses it and the ball hits the wicket

keeper’s helmet which was behind the stumps and

rolls over across the boundary line. (The batsmen

do not attempt a bye)

How many runs are credited to the batting team?

5 runs as penalty

Connect these to a sporting rivalry

Kıtalar Arası Derbi (Intercontinental Derby)

Galatasaray vs Fenerbahçe

The Bosporus Strait separates the parts of

Istanbul to which these teams belong.

The image is of Galatasaray coach Graeme

Souness who planted the flag in the middle

of Fenerbahce ground after Galatasaray

defeated Fenerbahce to win Turkish title in

1996.

Identify this game which is described as a bastion

of humility", with player names absent from

jerseys and a player's number decided by his

position on the field.

Combining the skills of lacrosse, hockey and

basketball, it is often claimed by fans as the 'fastest

game on grass'.

HURLING

Billy Midwinter holds the distinction of

being the first player to take 5 wickets in

a test match. A right arm medium pace

bowler, he also holds a unique place in

cricket history that has not been

emulated in over 135 years.

What unique distinction?

Only cricketer to have played for Australia and

England in Test Matches against each other

Which cricketer with 7422 runs under his name is

sometimes referred to as ‘The Keg on Legs’?

He once consumed 52 cans of beer on a flight to London.

Share the story please

After England defeated Argentina in their 1966

World Cup Quarterfinal match, English coach

Alf Ramsey spotted one of his players exchanging

jerseys with an Argentine, he stepped in and

snatched the jersey away.

Identify

Miguel Nadal,

Rafa’s Uncle

“I'm still going to hit my 20 or 30 aces if I'm mentally

OK. It doesn't matter about the balls. They can put water

balls out there or whatever they want. You can't slow the

game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast. If you

want slow tennis, go to the French. You will see plenty of

slow tennis. Don't come here to watch if you want slow

tennis.”

Who said this after his win against Jonathan Stark in

second round at Wimbledon?

Also the wicketkeeper for Middlesex, Leslie started out

as right back for Arsenal. He went on to become a

mainstay in Arsenal center half and also scored the

equaliser in FA Cup final in 1949-50.

He also won the 1947 County Championship with

Middlesex completing a rare double. In his benefit

match, he was alas! run out by his own brother. Name his

brother.

Dennis Compton

LESLIE COMPTONDENIS COMPTON

This 18.75 inch diameter trophy depicts the figure of

Sophrosyne in its center, seated on a chest with a lamp in

her right hand and a jug in her left, with various attributes

such as a sickle, fork and caduceus around her. The four

reserves on the boss of the dish each contain a classical

god, together with elements. The reserves around the rim

show Minerva presiding over the seven liberal arts:

astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, music, rhetoric, dialectic

and grammar, each with relevant attribute.

What am I referring to?

Venus Rosewater Dish