Answers - Champions Trophy Cricket Quiz

Hello All,

Sorry for the delay in posting the answers, but I had to wait for some "late-Latifs" to post the answers!!!

So, here goes,

1.Whose brainchild was the Champions Trophy (then known as the ICC Mini World Cup)?
---Who else, but "our own" Jagmohan Dalmiya, who started with this Tournament, to collect funds that could be used to encourage/develop Cricket in newer Regions! Ironic, that his successors dont really think so!

2.In the first 4 editions of the Champions Trophy, 2 Indian batsmen have top scored the Runs columns, where as 1 Indian bowler has top scored the wickets column for that Tournament. Name them.
---The Players were :
Saurav Ganguly (348 runs) in 2000,
Virender Sehwag (271 runs) in 2002 and
aurprise surprise, Venkatesh Prasad (8 wkts) in 2000!

3.One of the closest matches that happened at the Champions Trophy was the first ever played in 1998, between NZ and Zimbabwe, when Harris hit a boundary off the last delivery to win it for the Kiwis. Who was the bowler, and how many runs were needed at the beginning of the over?
---Yeah, it is Neil Johnson, many got this one right. 14 runs were needed to win off the last over, and Harris hit a four off the last ball to clicnh a cracker of a match!

4.Who is the only cricketer in the History of the CT to have scored a ton and take 4 wickets in the same match?
---Sachin Tendulkar did it against Australia in 1998, glorious days of Tendulkar versus Aussies!

5.What is the highest Team Score in the CT, by a team against a Test playing nation in the first 4 CTs?
---India 307/8 in 50 overs versus Australia at Dhaka in 1998, otherwise, NZ's 347/4 against USA(yeah, we did have them play International Cricket!), rules the roost

6.In the current edition of the CT, i.e. the 5th one, whose record did Fervez Mahroof break to record the best bowling analysis in the CT?
Shahid Afridi - 5/11

7.Name the Man of the Series in the 2002 CT which was shared by India and SL?
---A bit of a googly here, there was no Man of the Series award given!

8.Looking at the CT 2006 crowd turnout, who said the following, “This [poor crowd turnout] makes me wonder if cricket is a religion in India? Let me rephrase it then: it's Indian cricket that is a religion in India”?
---Yeah, that was our own Sanjay Manjrekar, a very well made point there Sir!

9.Connect the following: Bruce Reid, Kapil Dev, Danny Morrison and Jerome Taylor?
---This one was a tough nut to crack...each one of them were the first players from respective countries to take ODI Hat tricks, Jerome Taylor achieving that feat against the Aussies in the 2006 edition.

10.How many runs did Yuvraj Singh score in his first CT match, which incidentally was his ODI debut as well?
---He did not bat, against Kenya, his second match against the Aussies, he scored that 80 odd!

11.What do the following players have in common vis-à-vis the first 4 CTs played, R. Sarwan, M. Vaughan, V. Sehwag, A.De. Silva, S. Ganguly, S. O’Connor, J. Kallis and M. Dillon?
---Another tough cookie...They were all awarded the Man of the Match award in the semi finals of the first 4 CTs played so far

Following are the scores -
TG - 7
abaddon - 5.5
kriti - 4.5
chetan narula - 3

Hope you guys enjoyed the quiz, do lemme know how can I improve it further!
Will be out with a new Cricket Quiz soon...Till the next time, ciao!