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Windies In India
So you follow cricket, eh? A simple quiz on the tours of West Indies to India.
ANIRUDHA BHATTACHARJEE

1. Who was the Indian captain when Windies toured India under the captaincy of Clive Lloyd in 1974?

Ajit Wadekar
M A K Pataudi
Syed Abid Ali

2. The highest score in a test match at Eden Gardens, Calcutta was by a West Indian, till the record was broken by V V S Laxman in 2001 against Australia. Who was the previous owner of the record?

G Sobers
R Kanhai
C Walcott

3. Who, among the present Windies squad, has been religiously visiting Bharat Seva Ashram to reinstate his faith in his chosen religion, Hinduism?

S Chanderpaul
M Nagamootoo
R Sarwan

4. Which West Indian player, portrayed as a budding Sobers, shared the new ball with the likes of Roberts and Holder in 1974?

B Julian
K Boyce
S Clarke

5. Who is the Indian team manger in this current series?

Rusi Surti
R S Dungarpur
Rambabu Gupta

6. Who, in a column, has critised the present cricket fan in India as "Sadly, the current spectators don't seem to love cricket, they only seem to love Indian cricketers'

Vivian Richards
Desmond Haynes
Michael Holding

7. Barrington Browne, a little named West Indian player, was in the squad on 1994 which visited India. He came in as a replacement for somebody who had to miss out the tour on account of injury. Who?

B Lara
C Ambrose
I Bishop

8. The Windies tour of India in 1983 was crucial for their pride, as they were keen to avenge the defeat in the finals of the Prudential World Cup. Keeping in mind Indian conditions, they brought a new spinner who made his debut in the Calcutta test. Who was this player in question?

L Gibbs
R Harper
Ishan Ali

9. The 1979 Windies team did not have stars who had migrated to the Packer camp. Apart from Alvin Kallicharan, their captain on the tour, the team had only one veteran who was ably appointed as the Vice-captain. Who was this player?

Larry Gomes
David Murray
Vanburn Holder

10. Which West Indian, probably their number one star at that time, missed the 1974 tour and gradually retired from cricket due to a nagging eye problem?

Gary Sobers
Lawrence Rowe
Derek Murray

11. Who scored the maximum runs, 520 , at an average of 173.33 in 5 tests in the 1994 tour?

Sachin Tendulkar
Carl Hooper
Jimmy Adams

12. Which Indian, after playing in the first test at Bangalore in 1974, missed three tests in a row, only to come back in the final test at Bombay, scoring a classy 86 in the first innings?

G R Vishwanath
E D Solkar
S M Gavaskar

13. Though this does not relate to a West Indian team touring India, February 3 is honoured in the name of a West Indian. Who?

Frank Worrel
Courtney Walsh
John Alexander

14. Who, in the present Windies team is the nephew of Alvin Kallicharan?

Shivnarayan Chanderpaul
Mahendra Nagamootoo
Ramnaresh Sarwan

15. 'The dream comes true' was a film made during the 1974 series to commemorate what?

The first test match to be played at Bangalore
India's win over the Windies in Calcutta and Madras
Clive Lloyd's 242 at Bombay, an effort which helped Windies clinch the series 3-2

16. 3 Indians scored centuries in the test series against Windies in 1994. Two were Sachin Tendulkar and N S Sidhu. Who was the third centurion?

Kapil Dev
Ajay Jadeja
Manoj Prabhakar

17. Why should we remember an organization called Hanuman Vyayam Prasakar Mandal, in reference to the current series?

Manning gates at Nagpur ODI
Acting as Tourist guides to the Windies team at Jamshedpur
Providing yoga training to the Windies team

18. Who is the only Wet Indian in the current squad to have take more than 100 ODI wickets, record prior to November 10, 2002?

Mervyn Dillon
Cameron Cuffy
Carl Hooper

19. India's loss at Jamshedpur was their 250th loss in 510 ODIs. Which other team has lost more matches than India?

Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka
No other country

20. J P Yadav, who made a not too auspicious debut at Jamshedpur, plays for which team in the country?

Bombay
Services
Railways



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