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Sports Medley - Part II

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1.The stadium is in Liberia. The footballer in the
question is George Mane Veah(who got the FIFA player
of the year in 1995, played for AC Milan and won CL
with them .But he never got a chance to play the FIFA
WC. now he is contesting in the presidential elections
there in October 2005 .William V S Tubeman was the
president of Liberia when Veah was 3 years old¡He
built the Antoinette Tubeman ootball stadium (which is
situated in the capital Monraviah) in memory of his
beloved wife Antoinette Tubeman who loved soccer very
much. Veah studied the first lessons of football in
that stadium and also he coached his team mates for
the WC qualifiers in that stadium only.

2.Christian Klien

3.Kapil Dev

4.Player-A is Asif Mujtaba and he belongs to Pakistan


this happened in 1992-93 World Seies 4th ODI atHobart.

5.The ball will be taken by the square leg Umpire bcz


he will be the one who will initiate the things next
morning. ( I gave 0.5 to those who answered 'umpire'.
No body precisely answered this question)

Questions for Referenc


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1.Where is the Antoinette Tubeman football stadium? It
is connected to a famous footballer and to one of the
president(mainly connected with this fellow) of his
country. Give me the name of the footballer and the
president also..

2.Which F1 Driver has the same name of a famous


fashion designer (I think this is an easy One...This
one is from last year's ESPN School Quiz)?

3.It was in 1989 in Karachi when sachin made his debut


in Test Cricket.On that day one of his team mate came
to the dressing    room and spoke to sachin and     
encouraged him.This man promised sachin that if he
completes 100 Tests he will give 1000R/s to    him and
when Sachin completed his 100 tests he fulfilled his
promise      and gave 1000R/s to sachin. Can u name
this man? ( I think this is also a sitter...)

4.It was in the ninties, a one day match was played


between Australia and Team X.Australia won the Toss
and elected to bat    and set a decent target.Chasing
the target Team X kept on loosing wickets at regular
intervals, finally it was left to a young
player-"Player-A" who score a defiant 50.Finally the
equation reached 8 runs to win  in 2 balls.One run was
scored in the penultimate ball and Player A got the
strike to achieve the impossible target of scoring 7
runs to win in the last ball of the innings,the bowler
was waugh who came and bowled a short pitched
delivery.Player-A went front foot and hit the ball to
long off for a huge six  and the match ended in a tie.
   Player-A shook his head and stood their shaking his
head in amazment.he became so popular that he was made
the vice-caption of the team.Later he was dropped and
never made a come back. Can u name this Player-A and
the team he belongs to?

5.In a Test match after the days play who will have
the ball and why?

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