Day 7: Jumma Sizzle by Ozzie & Bangla

Q Part:

What I thought to be a tough one proved to be an easy one for these google-ka-puthras :-(

One man's meat is...

Yes, the four gentlemen in question - Abdul Razzaq, Shoaib Malik, Lance Klusener and Hashan Tillakaratne have all batted at 10 different positions in ODIs. While Abdul Razzaq has batted from no 2 to no 11 postion in ODI, the other 3 have batted from Nos.1 to 10 in ODI.

Siva* and Guru gave the full answers, and the latter was honest enough to say that Steven Lynch from Cricinfo helped him :-)) I shall give them a full point and for AdarshB and Raghav, half a point for giving the first part of the answer alone.

Now for today's quiz - an easy one

Drumrolls pleazzzz...

This is a true career graph. But something is wrong. What is it? 

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The Chappell-Hadlee trophy game petered out into a tame draw - oops - a tame affair, I meant. Johnson caused enough woes to the Kiwis adding to the shock and sorrow due to the natural calamity back home at Christchurch. Aussies are ripe for picking by the Lankans and thereafter by everybody else. Just kidding, lah!

(Lesson 101 in writing: Take into consideration the sentiments of people who read what you write. I seem to have, inadvertently though, caused concern and anguish in certain sections of the readers about my comment on equating the Nagpur drubbing to the Christchurch calamity. What was written in jest seems to have touched a raw nerve. I apologise unreservedly for any anguish caused. I am with all the thousands who are suffering due to this and my prayers for a speedy return back to normalcy for the affected.)

And then the most exciting match of the tournament so far (well after the England v Netherlands game ;-))

Believe that the Irish are going to complain to ICC that they did not issue ear-muffs along with the kit!! 

Shob Bangla khoob balo! And oh, those bindis :-))

Interesting that both the teams that batted first scored pretty much the same score. Fixed?

B Part:

* Thanks Guru, for pointing out the mistake. Honesty pays!

The B portion had a lean crop. I think people could not decide between BAN and IRL. That showed.

Two big games over the weekend. Please send in your entries asap. Note the timings.

Sri Lanka v Pakistan by 16:25 hours SGT Saturday

India v England by 16:25 hours SGDT Sunday

(Shows how materialistic we are; even time zones morph into currency codes. Tch Tch Tch...)

Answers and guesses to the usual place. (The usual place is my email address, which you can find in the this post!)

We have the weekend on us. And definitely the crackers as well. SL v PAK and IND v ENG coming up. Let us rock!