Semi Finals #1 Rules

1. Please send in all your entries by 8.30 pm SGT to lnspatta@gmail.com
2. Please ensure that you give both the ranges, run-margin & wicket-margin (Ranges have differed now)
3. Please do not invent your own margins; stick to the published ranges shown below
4. If you are using Excel to track your guesses, when you cut-and-paste, please use Rich Text for pasting; the PCX format is painful from gmail.


You are expected to provide all the following five pieces of information for the cost 7.00:

Winner, Run Margin, Wicket Margin, 1st Innings score if Sri Lanka bats first, 1st Innings score if New Zealand bats first

Run Margin Ranges:

• Between 1 to 50 runs (both inclusive)
• Between 51 to 100 runs (both inclusive)
• Between 101 to 150 runs (both inclusive)
• Between 151 to 175 runs (both inclusive)
• Above 176+ (176 and Infinity inclusive)

Wicket Margin Ranges:

• By 1 to 2 wickets (both inclusive)
• By 3 to 4 wickets (both inclusive)
• By 5 to 6 wickets (both inclusive)
• By 7 to 8 wickets (both inclusive)
• By 9 to 10 wickets (both inclusive)

Number of runs scored in the first innings of the match:

• Less than 125
• 126 - 175
• 176 - 230
• 231 - 280
• 281 - 300
• 301+

Each guess costs 7.00; Please ensure that you give all the information. Five pieces of information in all...

Let the semis begin....

Now for the Can-You-Do-It-Without-Googling Trivia...
(Just to show that there is life outside cricket, however small! No points; Pure quizzing!)

Answer to yesterday's question: Tembusu Tree on the back of SGD 5 note.

Anand Re, Guru, Aditya K and Sharath answered the question correctly. The daughter is happy to see that at least four knew the right answer!


With three more questions to go, Anand Re is in pole position followed closely by Guru; Sivasubs and Ganesh TCS are neck to neck in the third position.

Today's easy question:

• You are given ten coins. Place all the ten coins along the edges of a square in such a way that there is the same number of coins along each edge. You are not allowed to place one coin on top of the other. [Pictures & Drawings welcome.]

Your answers via normal mode of communication. Keep them rolling in.

Until the next one...