Answer: Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium, Kolkata
Harbhajan Singh became the first Indian to take a Test hat-trick when he achieved the feat against Australia in 2000-01 at this stadium.
From Quiz: Historical Cricket Stadiums of India
Answer: Taj Mahal Hotel
The England players actually stayed there for about a week before they started the series(2008). They were really lucky to have escaped the bombings. Former captain Michael Vaughan had a narrow escape because he had left the hotel only a day earlier(25/11), planning to come back two days later.
From Quiz: Team India
Answer: Ravi Shastri
Ravi Shastri achieved the incredible feat of hitting six sixes in an over in a Ranji trophy match. The hapless bowler was Tilak Raj. The match was Bombay vs Baroda at Bombay, 1984-85 season. Shastri remained not out on 200 and hit 13 sixes in the innings.
Yuvraj Singh became the 4th cricketer to achieve this incredible feat - the first three were Sir Gary Sobers (Nottinghamshire v Glamorgan in 1968), Ravi Shastri (Bombay v Baroda in 1984) and Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa v The Netherlands 2007).
From Quiz: Indian Cricketers
Answer: 1
Yuvraj Singh is the son of Yograj Singh.
From Quiz: Indian Cricket: Pt. 3
Answer: 22
Gautam Gambhir made his debut aganst Bangladesh in Dhaka on 11 April 2003.
From Quiz: Indian Cricket [2]
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar made his debut in Pakistan when he was only 16 in 1989.
From Quiz: Indian Cricket [1]
Answer: C K Nayudu
BCCI had established C K Nayudu award in memory of him for contribution to the Indian cricket. The award carries a citation, a trophy, and a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh. Lala Amarnath was the 1st recipient of this award.
From Quiz: Cricket: The Indian's Passion
Answer: 0
Tendulakar was played his first ODI against Pakistan on 18 December 1989. That was a 40 over match. Tendulkar dismissed for 0. Pakistan won the match by 7 runs.
From Quiz: Indian Players and Debut Matches
Answer: Leicestershire
Virender Sehwag holds the record for the Highest individual score by an Indian in test matches when he scored 309 against Pakistan in 2004.
From Quiz: Indian Cricketers Who Played Abroad
Answer: India won by 34 runs
India played their first and last matches of the 1983 World Cup against the Windies. In the first match, they won by 34 runs and in the final, they won by 43 runs. The first match actually went to two days thanks to rain. Another freakish similarity was the first wicket India took in both the concerned matches - Balwinder Sandhu's swing bowled out Greenidge (in almost identical fashion).
From Quiz: The Summer of '83
Answer: 1980-1981
India failed to reach the finals in this tournament, winning only 3 of their 10 matches. The tournament was officially called "Benson and Hedges World Series Cup".
From Quiz: India in One Day Tournaments
Answer: Kapil Dev
Well life can churn some amazing ironies - some years ago, Kapil was charged for MATCH -FIXING ! (and exonerated).
From Quiz: Indian Cricket
Answer: M. Chinnaswamy Stadium,Bangalore
Floodlights were first installed at this stadium for the 1996 Wills World Cup. The 300-run partnership was the highest partnership at the stadium and the highest left-hander batsmen partnership.
From Quiz: Historical Cricket Stadiums of India
Answer: Lalit Modi
Well, as it was Lalit Modi's brain child, he was named the chairman of the IPL. He is considered world cricket's most powerful man.
From Quiz: Team India
Answer: RG Nadkarni
RG Nadkarni, popularly known as 'Bapu' Nadkarni, had a bowling analysis of 29-26-3-0 on day 3 of the first test between India and England at Madras in January 1964 and bowled 21 maidens in a row. Nadkarni's final figures were an amazing 32-27-5-0. There are a few websites which claim that he actually bowled 23 successive maidens, however the records state that Nadkarni bowled 131 consecutive dot balls, that is 21 maiden overs in succession.
From Quiz: Indian Cricketers
Answer: 2
Yograj Singh was a bowler, but his son Yuvraj Singh, also nicknamed as Yuvi, turned out to be a smashing batsman.
From Quiz: Indian Cricket: Pt. 3
Answer: 131
Sourav Ganguly was known as God on the off-side.
From Quiz: Indian Cricket [2]
Answer: 434
Kapil Dev was the greatest pace bowler India had produced, and their greatest fast-bowling all-rounder.
From Quiz: Indian Cricket [1]
Answer: Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka got the status of Test playing country in 1981, and beat India in the 1979 World Cup. Before this they were champion of ICC non-test playing countries.
From Quiz: Cricket: The Indian's Passion
Answer: Bhalchandra
Ajith was born on 4th December.
From Quiz: Indian Cricketers
Answer: Scotland
Rahul had a highly succesful stint with Kent in 2000.
From Quiz: Indian Cricketers Who Played Abroad
Answer: 5 wickets
India played matches on three consecutive days - June 9th and 10th against the Windies. The Indian bowlers were able to restrict Zimbabwe for a paltry 155 runs. India reached the target in 38 overs.
From Quiz: The Summer of '83
Answer: West Indies
This match was played on June 9th, 1983 in Manchester. India scored 8/262 in 60 overs, West Indies were all out for 228 in 54.1 overs.
From Quiz: India in One Day Tournaments
Answer: 1989
It was against Pakistan - the now famous saying -" go home and drink milk" was made against him!
From Quiz: Indian Cricket
Answer: Rahul Dravid
Rahul Sharad Dravid debuted in an ODI against Sri Lanka in 1996. He showed sportsmanship attitude in his first Test, when he walked away after being caught behind at a score of 95 and being declared "Not Out". He was listed by the Wisden as the third greatest Test batsman of all time in 2002. He also became the first player to score a century in all the Test playing nations in 2009.
From Quiz: Team of My Dreams
Answer: Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad.
Sachin Tendulkar completed his 20 years of International Cricket here on November 16, 2009, against Sri Lanka. During the same game, Sachin Tendulkar reached a landmark of 30,000 runs in international cricket which by far no cricketer has achieved.
From Quiz: Historical Cricket Stadiums of India
Answer: Z-security
Following the (26/11) terror attacks in Mumbai, people came to know that Dhoni was not happy with his security arrangements, so the Jharkhand CM, Shibu Soren, granted him Z-security.
From Quiz: Team India
Answer: Bhagwat Chandrashekar
BS Chandrashekar, known as "Chandra", was a famous leg spinner, part of the famous spin quartet on India in the 1970s. Chandrashekar was afflicted with polio which affected his right hand. Chandra was a leg spinner and opposition batsmen had lot of trouble reading his bowling because of the deformity in his hand.
From Quiz: Indian Cricketers
Answer: 201 not out
Yashpal Sharma played 160 matches and made 21 hundreds in First Class Cricket.
From Quiz: Indian Cricket: Pt. 3
Answer: 6
The match was drawn.
From Quiz: Indian Cricket [2]
Answer: Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid was nicknamed, 'The Wall'.
From Quiz: Indian Cricket [1]
Answer: R.E. Grant Govan
Govan was president from 1928-29 to 1932-33.
From Quiz: Cricket: The Indian's Passion
Answer: 11 January 1992
Sourav Ganguly made his debut against West Indies at Brisbane and scored 3 runs. (India dismissed for 191 in 48.3 overs)
West Indies won the match by 6 wickets.
From Quiz: Indian Players and Debut Matches
Answer: Navjot Singh Sidhu
Navjot Singh Sidhu's 85 saw India get off to a good start and build a platform from where Ajay Jadeja could simply launch into Waqar Younis whom he hit for nearly 40 runs in his last two overs. The sheer brutality with which Waqar was treated by Jadeja was almost poetic. In the bowling department, the moment to remember was Venkatesh Prasad's dismissal of Aamir Sohail. After having hit Prasad for a four, Sohail arrogantly pointed to the boundary indicating that was where the next ball would be going. Alas, for his hubris, the next ball sent his off stump cartwheeling. Prasad's celebration war cry is still well-remembered;)
It was a great one-day match and was also the first time Bangalore hosted a day-night match.
From Quiz: The Best of Indian Cricket
Answer: Shyamlal
He is from Agra, the home of the Taj Mahal.
From Quiz: Indian Cricketers
Answer: Saurav Ganguly
Saurav was signed as a replacement for wizard of off spin, Muttiah Muralitharan.
From Quiz: Indian Cricketers Who Played Abroad
Answer: Pakistan
The match was played on March 10th, 1985. Pakistan scored 9/176 in 50 overs, India scored 177 for the loss of two wickets in 47.2 overs.
From Quiz: India in One Day Tournaments
Answer: 35.83
He got his 1000th run against Zimbabawe in '92
From Quiz: Indian Cricket
Answer: Mohinder Amarnath
Mohinder Amarnath was one of the finest Indian all-rounders. He is most well known for his performance in the 1983 World Cup, where he was also awarded the "Man of the Match" award in the semi-final and the final. He had a nice batting average of 42.50 in Test cricket.
Quirky fact: He was the first Indian batsman to be given out for obstructing the field.
From Quiz: Team of My Dreams
Answer: Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
Chetan Sharma of India took the first-ever hat-trick in World Cups. He took it against New Zealand at Nagpur in 1987 World Cup. His victims were KR Rutherford bowled, IDS Smith bowled, and EJ Chatfield bowled.
From Quiz: Historical Cricket Stadiums of India