MCQ 23 - Bestest

During the 2003-04 India's Tour to Australia, Virender Sehwag smashed 195 on the first day of the boxing day test match. He got out trying to hit a six to score double hundred. Identify the bowler , fielder combination that got Sehwag got caught out.

• Caught Katich Bowled Macgill
• Caught Macgill Bowled Katich
• Caught Bracken Bowled Macgill
• Caught Bracken Bowled Katich

Before the second Test in January 2008, Phil Jaques had never made a duck in a home Test. He was removed for 0 off 9 balls by which Indian bowler?

• Irfan Pathan
• RP Singh
• Anil Kumble
• Ajit Agarkar

When one mentions streaks of ducks against Australia, Agarkar’s is possibly the first name that comes to mind. He got out 5 times in 5 balls in the 1999-00 Series. In which ground, did he get a king pair ?

• Gabba
• SCG
• Adelaide Oval
• MCG

In the 1980-81 series, Australia chasing 143 in the last test match to win the match and series were bowled out for a paltry 83. Who was the chief destructor taking 5 wickets in second innings helping India win a historic match ?

• Karsan Ghavri
• Dilip Doshi
• Kapil Dev
• Mohinder Amarnath

In the 2003-04 series, which Australian Batsman scored back to back double hundreds in the Second and Third Test ?

• Matthew Hayden
• Ricky Ponting
• Justin Langer
• Damien Martyn

In the 1947-48 tour, Batsman Bill Brown and an Indian Bowler was all over the news for Brown's 'unusual' yet controversial dismissal. How did he get out ?

• Handling the Ball
• Given out for late entry into field of play
• Short of Crease at Non-Striker's end - Run out
• Given out when bails did not fall off the stumps

In the Sydney test in 2000, this 'opener' early in the innings was fiercely hit on the helmet by a bouncer. The moment, many believe knocked the safety pin out and he exploded out of the blocks forever . Who was this opener who went on to torment aussies after that for a decade?

• Harbhajan Singh

• VVS Laxman

• Rahul Dravid

• Virender Sehwag

The second Test of the 2007-08 Border-Gavaskar Trophy has a cricketing record which is a rarity ? What ?

• Same number of wickets fell on each day of the Test Match
• All the wickets that fell were caught
• There was one century hit on each day of the test match
• None of the wickets were caught by keeper

Much has been talked about Ishant Sharma's spell to Ricky Ponting in the second innings of the 2008 Perth Test Match. Just before the over Ishant was about to take the wicket, he was taken out of the attack by Captain Kumble only to be intervened by somebody who said "woh ek aur dalega" (One more over he can bowl). Who convinced Kumble to give Ishant Sharma another over which helped Ishant to grab the prized wicket.

• Rahul Dravid
• Sachin Tendulkar
• Virender Sehwag
• Sourav Ganguly

The last Test at Perth in the 1991-92 series saw Australia take complete upper hand, thanks to their all-round display. This bowler (who later became famous in another field) picked up 7 wickets in the second innings and ran through the Indian batting to guide the Aussies to a 300-run victory and a 4-0 series win.

• Craig Mcdermott
• Mike Whitney
• Bruce Reid
• Steve Waugh