Cricket Q&A Squeeze

Q1. Name the president of the cricket board, who managed to avail about 9200% rise of ICC grant in 2009 for his board, despite his national cricket team lost all games in ICC World Cricket League 2008, finished the lowest position among the 10 countries participated in the tournament.

Clue : He was also a member of ICC Development Committee to higher level of ICC Associate membership during this period.

Answer: Mr. Mark Stafford, an Australian-British origin President of Vanuatu Cricket Association. Vanuatu was successfully promoted to join the elite Associate membership, though came last in ICC WCL 2008, by overleaping other 3 higher ranked ICC Affiliate members – Bahama, Norway and Mozambique. Mr. Stafford is still the President of Vanuatu Cricket Association and has returned to ICC Development Committee again in 2019.

Q2. Name the national cricket federation which received an amount over $2,800,000.00 USD (Two millions and Eight Hundred thousand USD) during the period of 2009-2019 from ICC, mainly of Cricket development, through ICC Development Department.

Clue: Despite the huge financial assistance from ICC, this country has its top 14 players of the squad, all Asian origin and in the full list of 21 T20I players, 17 are Asian origin players in a declared T20I squad.

Answer: German Cricket Federation - Deutscher Cricket Bund – DCB

Try to hit a six by identifying German players from the below list of players.