Continuing the quiz series on cricket, let us have the second round. If possible, avoid Cricinfo and google. Give it a try. All the best. This week it is India at the worldcup.
a. Who has the best bowling performance by an Indian bowler ? (Pretty easy one).
b. Including 2007, which Indian player has played the maximum number of worldcups ?
c. Who was the man of the match in the England Vs India match during the 1987 semifinals ?
d. Who made his debut in the 1987 WC for India and remained consistent through out in the series ?
e. Kapil was tried as an opener in some WC matches. When ?
f. The 1987 worldcup had an Indian company as the major sponsor. Name the company.
g. Who scored the maximum runs for India in the 1983 WC finals ?
h. Venkatesh Prasad, the MOM in the game against Pak in 1999 WC took how many wickets giving how many runs ?
i. When Kapil made 175* against Zim in the 1983 WC, what was India's score when he entered the ground to bat ?
j. India Vs Srilanka in the 1996 WC at Calcutta, who was the man of the match ?
Friday, February 23, 2007
Saturday, February 10, 2007
A Wicket Goes Down
Congratulations to the "fastest" dude in our batch for getting married. AK has attended the reception and has provided us the updates. Badhaai Ho sir.
On Friday, we had the party at Harry's @ Esplanade arranged by the NBS office to celebrate NBS' entry into top 100 in the FT rankings. Met up with my profs, seniors and my own batchmates. Atlast some decent veggie food at an NBS party with samosas, potato chips etc. Nice place to hang around. I remember coming to this place during the induction. It was the same Harrys where we went after our out door activities ended. Missing those good old days with friends.
Coming to CNY holidays, I tried my luck to get some tickets to Bangkok, but in vain. Too late to enquire. Baptiste staying in Bangkok, I thought staying should not be an issue at all. But all these airlines are running packed. Tried my luck in some of the cruises. (thoda zyaada ho gaya na..) There is one cruise to nowhere which is like 640 SGD for the first person, 640 for the second person and 320 for the third person. Add to it the taxes. Gave it up instantaneously. Finally what is left...........Good old Malaysia. I am planning for a trip to Malacca. Enquiring couple of friends if they can join me. Mani might not join as his Dad is around during this time. Seems like a small nice place, this Malacca. Has got rich history and decent beaches around. Should not be a bad choice for a weekend.
Last week watched my favourite director's movie, GURU. Technically it was a well made movie. Nice locales, Good songs, Wonderful camera. Some amount of work has been done to recreate the past decades. Kudos to all who have worked. But did I feel the impact after the movie ended ? Nope ! Well, that is the truth. They have worked really hard for the movie but the punch was not there at the end. To me, it looked like collection of scenes from the life of Guru. Mostly in bits and pieces. The climax did not impact me at all. The pace was also quite slow.
But the movie is doing well, I heard. The next movie in line is Eklavya. Big B was gifted a Rolls Royce for his performance. Phew... Should be some performance. Let us wait and watch.
On Friday, we had the party at Harry's @ Esplanade arranged by the NBS office to celebrate NBS' entry into top 100 in the FT rankings. Met up with my profs, seniors and my own batchmates. Atlast some decent veggie food at an NBS party with samosas, potato chips etc. Nice place to hang around. I remember coming to this place during the induction. It was the same Harrys where we went after our out door activities ended. Missing those good old days with friends.
Coming to CNY holidays, I tried my luck to get some tickets to Bangkok, but in vain. Too late to enquire. Baptiste staying in Bangkok, I thought staying should not be an issue at all. But all these airlines are running packed. Tried my luck in some of the cruises. (thoda zyaada ho gaya na..) There is one cruise to nowhere which is like 640 SGD for the first person, 640 for the second person and 320 for the third person. Add to it the taxes. Gave it up instantaneously. Finally what is left...........Good old Malaysia. I am planning for a trip to Malacca. Enquiring couple of friends if they can join me. Mani might not join as his Dad is around during this time. Seems like a small nice place, this Malacca. Has got rich history and decent beaches around. Should not be a bad choice for a weekend.
Last week watched my favourite director's movie, GURU. Technically it was a well made movie. Nice locales, Good songs, Wonderful camera. Some amount of work has been done to recreate the past decades. Kudos to all who have worked. But did I feel the impact after the movie ended ? Nope ! Well, that is the truth. They have worked really hard for the movie but the punch was not there at the end. To me, it looked like collection of scenes from the life of Guru. Mostly in bits and pieces. The climax did not impact me at all. The pace was also quite slow.
But the movie is doing well, I heard. The next movie in line is Eklavya. Big B was gifted a Rolls Royce for his performance. Phew... Should be some performance. Let us wait and watch.
Friday, February 02, 2007
Cricket Quiz - I
Now that Cricket fever is catching up with the Worldcup round the corner, I was thinking of coming out with a Quiz. I will try to post a series of questions related to cricket and post the answers in the next post. Avoid Google/Cricinfo if possible. Enjoy lah...
This week is on worldcups.
1. Against whom did India register its first win in the world cup ?
2. What is the best performance by a bowler in the world cup ?
3. Who was the Indian captain at the first world cup ?
4. India Vs Pakistan matches have always been onesided in the worldcups. Who were awarded the man of the match awards in these matches (1992/1996/1999/2003 )?
5. Name the man of match award winners starting from 1975 till 2003 world cup finals.
6. What is the dubious record that Gavaskar has at the world cups ?
7. India & Australia had two closest matches at the 87 and 92 worldcups. What was the margin of victory?
8. It was the rain rule in 1992, in 1996 it was Lara, in 1999 they ran themselves out and in 2003 the spoilsports were was once again rain & Duckworth-Lewis method. Whom and what are we talking about ?
9. How many world cup matches ended in a tie ?
10. Who were the victims of the Chetan Sharma when he took the Hat trick in the 1987 world cup?
Happy Quizzing.... Will come out with some more in the comings posts.... Au Revoir !
This week is on worldcups.
1. Against whom did India register its first win in the world cup ?
2. What is the best performance by a bowler in the world cup ?
3. Who was the Indian captain at the first world cup ?
4. India Vs Pakistan matches have always been onesided in the worldcups. Who were awarded the man of the match awards in these matches (1992/1996/1999/2003 )?
5. Name the man of match award winners starting from 1975 till 2003 world cup finals.
6. What is the dubious record that Gavaskar has at the world cups ?
7. India & Australia had two closest matches at the 87 and 92 worldcups. What was the margin of victory?
8. It was the rain rule in 1992, in 1996 it was Lara, in 1999 they ran themselves out and in 2003 the spoilsports were was once again rain & Duckworth-Lewis method. Whom and what are we talking about ?
9. How many world cup matches ended in a tie ?
10. Who were the victims of the Chetan Sharma when he took the Hat trick in the 1987 world cup?
Happy Quizzing.... Will come out with some more in the comings posts.... Au Revoir !
Thursday, February 01, 2007
RIP
Masala Novels author Sidney Sheldon passed away recently. Truly a masala novel writer in all sense. It is little difficult to believe that he was the same guy who came up with "I dream of Jeannie".
Some of my favs are Sands of Time, Doomsday Conspiracy and If Tomorrow comes.
Most of his novels portray the stronger side of women. Women get cheated; they struggle hard and rise to the top; exact revenge. Memories of midnight, Other side of midnight, Rage of Angels etc etc.
He himself has said that most of his novels resemble the way a movie screen play is written and the reason being that he started writing screenplays from the age of 17.
Mani and I were discussing about him in the morning. He surely is a publisher's delight as his novels have grossed millions. Everyone starts reading novels with Sheldon and adds that as a hobby in their resume. But very rarely people move beyond him. I and Mani belong to that genre :P
May his soul rest in peace.
Some of my favs are Sands of Time, Doomsday Conspiracy and If Tomorrow comes.
Most of his novels portray the stronger side of women. Women get cheated; they struggle hard and rise to the top; exact revenge. Memories of midnight, Other side of midnight, Rage of Angels etc etc.
He himself has said that most of his novels resemble the way a movie screen play is written and the reason being that he started writing screenplays from the age of 17.
Mani and I were discussing about him in the morning. He surely is a publisher's delight as his novels have grossed millions. Everyone starts reading novels with Sheldon and adds that as a hobby in their resume. But very rarely people move beyond him. I and Mani belong to that genre :P
May his soul rest in peace.
Hurray ! It is done
After a brief hiatus, I am back. This is not because that I have been getting countless emails and calls to start writing again. Neither was I too occupied at work nor my comp broke down. It is the same old reason, Laziness. Hmm..Posting something in your blog can happen only when something interesting happens in your life or something that you want to share/post across. Apni life mein tho.... Cheer up..Cheer up..
Well, My Indian trip is getting postponed for the second time. I thought of going during the New year holidays, then the CNY holidays. But now it seems CNY will be missed. I am now thinking of planning my trip sometime in March.
Recently sent money through Western Union money transfer. Quite efficient and safe. I ended up submitting the money in SGD to one of the agents here. Within 15 minutes, my Dad could take this amount from any agent in India. He prompty received the same from Head Post Office Pondicherry. The commission was 20 bucks though. ICICI Money2 India is free of charge. Should try this out soon.
Yes Coming to the title of this Post, Officially I am done. My MBA course requirement of 16 courses + 2 extra courses are complete. I sent out the pending report for Mgmt Consulting yesterday night. Wow... What a relief. I had to do night out for this report exactly on the 30th to be ontime for the 31st deadline. Now no more of those for MBA sake. So Aruneganesh has provisionally finished his MBA. The grades should come in the month of March. Hope to get an A+ in atleast one of my subjects. This is something that has not happened to me in my MBA curriculum so far. Have got lots of As and A-s, but not a single A+. Keeping my fingers crossed.
I thank all the souls who have been with me all through this and helped me out to finish this. Thanks to my family, my friends, my Profs and also to Google. If not for Google, most of our reports would not have happened. Most of my batchies are gone back. It is just Ani, Mani and the two Aruns here at SG. Missing all the Grad Hall days and Friday night gatherings.
Chalo then folks... Till next time.. Cya..
Well, My Indian trip is getting postponed for the second time. I thought of going during the New year holidays, then the CNY holidays. But now it seems CNY will be missed. I am now thinking of planning my trip sometime in March.
Recently sent money through Western Union money transfer. Quite efficient and safe. I ended up submitting the money in SGD to one of the agents here. Within 15 minutes, my Dad could take this amount from any agent in India. He prompty received the same from Head Post Office Pondicherry. The commission was 20 bucks though. ICICI Money2 India is free of charge. Should try this out soon.
Yes Coming to the title of this Post, Officially I am done. My MBA course requirement of 16 courses + 2 extra courses are complete. I sent out the pending report for Mgmt Consulting yesterday night. Wow... What a relief. I had to do night out for this report exactly on the 30th to be ontime for the 31st deadline. Now no more of those for MBA sake. So Aruneganesh has provisionally finished his MBA. The grades should come in the month of March. Hope to get an A+ in atleast one of my subjects. This is something that has not happened to me in my MBA curriculum so far. Have got lots of As and A-s, but not a single A+. Keeping my fingers crossed.
I thank all the souls who have been with me all through this and helped me out to finish this. Thanks to my family, my friends, my Profs and also to Google. If not for Google, most of our reports would not have happened. Most of my batchies are gone back. It is just Ani, Mani and the two Aruns here at SG. Missing all the Grad Hall days and Friday night gatherings.
Chalo then folks... Till next time.. Cya..
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