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The award began in 1889 with the naming of "Six Great Bowlers of the Year", and continued with the naming of "Nine Great Batsmen of the Year" in 1890 and "Five Great Wicket-Keepers" in 1891. From then on it became mixture of all 3.
Difficulty: Hard.

 

1884, 1893, 1894

Chetan Sharma was the first cricketer to take a hat-trick in an ODI. He achieved this feat in the 1987 World Cup, India v New Zealand, when he bowled out Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield. New Zealand batted first and finished with 9/221 after 50 overs. India won by 9 wickets when they replied with 1/224 after 32.1 overs (Sunil Gavaskar scored an unbeaten 103). Difficulty: Hard.

 

Dennis Lillee, Australia, Courtney Walsh, West Indies, Saqlain Mushtaq, Pakistan

Doug Walters was dropped for the 5th Test at the Oval in 1972 (replaced by Graeme Watson from Victoria), making it the first time in 95 years of Test cricket, that an Australian side entered the field without a New South Welshman. Difficulty: Hard.

 

1st Test, Brisbane, 1968 (vs.West Indies), 3rd Test, Melbourne, 1981 (vs. India, 1st Test, Melbourne, 1947 (vs. England)

He was knighted in 1936. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Kapil Dev

In a 32-run last wicket stand with Chris Harris, Allott faced 77 balls which lasted 101 minutes for his score of zero. Allott's ridiculously slow innings was utilised for time wasting purposes in order to minimise South Africa's chances of winning the match (reduce the time available for South Africa to bat). Difficulty: Hard.

 

13, 3, 6

This first definite reference is dated back to 1597, where a court record quotes Mr Derrick as having "played creckett" at the Grammar School in the 1540s. Difficulty: Hard.

 

13th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century

Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene miscued a ball on the leg side, and it looped into the air. Aussie skipper Steve Waugh ran backwards at full throttle from square leg to try and catch the ball, and Jason "Dizzy" Gillespie hared in from the midwicket boundary to try and pouch the ball as well. Having seen the incident on video time and again, it is one of those horror stories waiting to happen - and with a sickening thud, it does just that. Waugh's nose was badly broken nose and Gillespie suffered a broken leg that would keep him out of the Australian side for the best part of a year.

A helicopter - "dark green and menacing" - landed on the outfield to pick up both injured players and fly them to a Colombo hospital. You could almost hear the Wagnerian music, and Robert Duvall standing on the beach and sniffing! Difficulty: Hard.

 

One of the freakiest batting mix ups anywhere, A rabid baboon running amok in the changing room, Sever food poisoning at the luncheon table

Dean Jones played for Australia in the 1980's and 90's and was renowned for his batting skills. Post-retirement, he gained fame as a commentator and worked with channels like ESPN, NEO Sports and Ten Sports. In August 2006, while commentating on Ten Sports in the Pakistan-South Africa series, he referred to South African batsman Hashim Amla as a terrorist, causing an uproar. He was sacked immediately by Ten Sports. Subsequently, he joined the management board of the rebel Indian Cricket League and also worked as a commentator for the ICL. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Ian Smith, Greg Chappell, Paul Allot

Glenn Turner of New Zealand scored an unbeaten 171 (off 201 balls) against East Africa in the 1975 world cup in England (Birmingham). His record was broken by Kapil Dev in 1983 (175 not out off 138 balls). Subsequently, Viv Richards scored 189 not out (170 balls) in 1984. Difficulty: Hard.

 

David Lloyd, Vivian Richards, Kapil Dev

"Boned" is based on events surrounding the 2006/07 Ashes series between Australia and England. Difficulty: Hard.

 

New Zealand, India, South Africa

While there are specific 6-a-side competitions, the official amount of players is eight. A side can still compete with one or two players missing. In this instance, the opposing captain selects (usually the weaker) players to bowl and bat again, to fill the overs. Difficulty: Hard.

 

11, 3, 5

His false teeth were wrapped in a hanky, according to his obituary in Wisden 1988, as it was a spiteful pitch. The match, although in June, had been interrupted by snow. Difficulty: Hard.

 

His wallet, A lit cigarette, His last will and testament

He made 380 runs at Perth, and the name of the cricket ground at Perth is The WACA Ground. Australia won that match by an innings and 175 runs.
Difficulty: Hard.

 

Sydney, Harare, Bulawayo

Although all the other listed bowlers played county cricket at some stage. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose, Malcolm Marshall and Curtly Ambrose, Sylvester Clark and Malcolm Marshall

The champion leg spinner first represented India in 1990 when he made his debut against England at Manchester. Lamb was caught at silly-point by Manjrekar. Difficulty: Hard.

 

John Morris, Robin Smith, Graham Gooch

The record happened in the late 70's. Rikki Clarke from the county of Surrey is the second addition to the unique list. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Rikki Clarke, Peter Martin, Darren Gough

Bill Ponsford scored 352 in this record innings. Woodfull scored 133, Ryder scored 295, and Ellis scored 63. Difficulty: Hard.

 

J Ryder, J L Ellis, W M Woodfull

Mark Waugh has 4 centuries from 3 WC campaigns. The others have 3 apiece. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Sachin Tendulkar, Sir Vivian RichardsMark, Glenn Turner

'Tubby' had his worst Test series in a long time. Difficulty: Hard.

 

34, 77, 109

The batsman was Andrew Symonds, who in the first innings scored 254 not out with a total of 16 sixes; he followed it up with another 4 in the second innings (on his way to an individual score of 76).
Difficulty: Hard.

 

The maximum number of direct hits to the stumps (resulted in a total of 5 run outs), The highest individual score by an Australian batsman in his debut match, None of these

Charles Bannerman scored 165 retired hurt in the very first Test match. It was his only first class hundred. Bannerman was born in England but played for Australia. This match was played in Melbourne in 1876/77. Difficulty: Hard.

 

W.G. Grace, T.P. Horan, P.S. McDonnell

The bowler might bowl a no-ball, so the best thing to do is try for a six or four and hope. In this particular end-of-innings context, if the batter hits a six from a no-ball, then the scores are tied with one legal delivery still remaining. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Just block it or leave it., Make sure that he or she doesn't get out - to improve the average., Just hit a single if possible.

He wasn't playing the game due to illness, and met a man who owned two chimps as pets. Ritchie borrowed them and bought them into the ground after the game, causing a huge disturbance in the dressing room. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Monkeys, Giraffes, Bats

Gooch never gave another chance after that one, and went on to beat Don Bradman's test record at Lords'. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Kapil Dev, Mohammed Azharuddin, Sachin Tendulkar

The winning flow of the Aussies was finally stopped by the Indians. Australia lost to India in the test series at India. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Kangaroos, Titans, Invincibles

Courtney Walsh - the first man to take 500 test wickets - has the rather woeful batting average of 7.64 having scored 43 ducks. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Danny Morrison, Glenn McGrath, Joel Garner

Chang defeated his two fellow Americans way back in 1990. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Boris Becker, Jim Courier, Sergei Bruguera

Australia played the 1975, 1987, 1996 and 1999 world cup finals. It won in 1987 and 1999. Difficulty: Hard.

 

England, West Indies, Pakistan

He scored this against Pakistan. Difficulty: Hard.

 

189, 210, 198

Played for England. Difficulty: Hard.

 

S. Barnes, C. Grimmett, C. Turner

Was his last release really "The Final Dig"?! Difficulty: Hard.

 

Barry Humphries, Richie Benaud, Rob Sitch

Clive Lloyd lead the West Indies in 74 Tests (1974-1984) and was the first skipper to captain his country in 50 Tests. Nawab of Pataudi lead India in 40 Tests(1962 - 1975). Imran Khan lead Pakistan in 48 Tests(1982 - 1992) and Mike Atherton lead England in 54 Tests (1993 - 2001).
Other captains who have lead their countries in more 50 Tests or more are, Viv Richards (50),Stephen Fleming (80),Steve Waugh (57), Mark Taylor (50), Alan Border (93) and Ricky Ponting (77).
Difficulty: Hard.

 

Nawab of Pataudi, Imran Khan, Mike Atherton

The final of the Champions League was between NSW Blues of Australia and Trinidad & Tobago of West Indies at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, Hyderabad. New South Wales Blues won the inaugural Champions League by 41 runs: NSW Blues (batted first 9/159 after 20 overs) vs. Trinidad & Tobago (all out for 118 after 15.5 overs). Difficulty: Hard.

 

Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai

Sandham scored 325 against the West Indies at Sabina Park in April 1930. Bradman scored 334 against England at Headingley in July 1930. Hammond scored 336 not out in 1933 and Hutton 364 in 1938. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Don Bradman, Walter Hammond, Len Hutton

Gavaskar scored 774 runs in this series and average 154.8, including a century and double century in the fifth and final Test at Trinidad. It was after this series that the Windies resorted to a four-pronged pace attack which made them a terror in the 1980s. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Dileep Sardesai, Ajit Wadekar, Sandeep Patil

He scored 105 in both innings in the Test against India at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai in 1982. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Clive Lloyd, David Gower, Bill Ponsford

The 1920s decade proved to be a lucky one for the Australian side. At start, they whitewashed the English side 5-0, and then conquered the cricket world for the next 10 years. Against England, Australia's bowler Jimmy Matthews helped his team by taking hat-tricks in both the innings. Unfortunately, Jimmy could not play any more Tests after this. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Wilfred Rhodes, Trevor Penney, Alec Bedser

Aside from coming into bat at number 3 as a 16-year old, what made Afridi's achievement more astounding was that 65% of his innings was accumulated through sixes (11).
Difficulty: Hard.

 

59, 29, 39

He got Jim Burke caught out by Colin Cowdrey. The match was played at Old Trafford in 1956. Difficulty: Hard.

 

None. The batsman remained not out., None. He was run out., John Statham

It's highly unlikely that the two men were religious, therefore they wouldn't have been joining any party celebrating the publication of a Bible - although the King James version was published in 1611. Cromwell would only have been 12 years of age in 1611, therefore he didn't have an army they could have been conscripted into. Shakespeare wrote his last play in 1611 (The Tempest) but didn't die until 1616 - so if they did officiate at his funeral, it was 5 years later!

Cricket on a Sunday has only become socially acceptable in the UK since the late 1960s - and even then, in the early days, there was a lot of opposition from churchgoers to a sport being played on the Sabbath. Difficulty: Hard.

 

They joined the party marking the publication of the King James Bible, They were conscripted into Cromwell's army, They were two priests who were officiating at Shakespeare's funeral the next day