Abhishek Mukherjee

Southern Asia, West Bengal

Head Of Content at Wisden

https://t.co/6pAaW3G1Hb | Head of Special Content @WisdenCricket @WisdenIndia | SCSI Cricket Statistician 2019/20 | Ex @cricket_country | king of typos & bad puns

Articles

Operation Sindoor: Booming defence stocks carry a message for investors

1 week ago | livemint.com | Abhishek Mukherjee

New Delhi: To paraphrase the ancient Greek statesman and general Pericles, just because you do not take an interest in geopolitics, doesn’t mean geopolitics will not take an interest in you. Or your stocks portfolio. If the events of the last few weeks have shown us anything, it is that the real estate guys were right—it really boils down to location, location, location.
Quiz! Gavaskar, Dhoni, Kohli – How Well Do You Know The Indian Test Captains?

2 weeks ago | wisden.com | Abhishek Mukherjee

In this quiz, you have to answer ten questions on cricketers who have led India in Test cricket. When India made their first Test tour, to England in 1932, it was the norm to appoint members of royal families as captain. In accordance with that, they appointed the Maharaja of Porbandar as captain, while the Kumar Shri of Limbdi was his deputy. However, neither Porbandar nor Limbdi was a competent cricketer. They played sporadically on the tour, allowing CK Nayudu to be in charge of the side.
Quiz! Everyone To Play A Test Match In The 2021-2022 England-India Series

2 weeks ago | wisden.com | Abhishek Mukherjee

In this quiz, you have to name the 39 cricketers who played in the Test series between England and India that was spread across the English summers of 2021 and 2022. The five-match Test series between England and India that began in 2021 was a most singular one. The last day of the Trent Bridge Test match was washed out when India, chasing 209, were 52-1. India took lead at Lord’s with a 151-run triumph, but England squared the series at Headingley with an innings win.
The Fiendishly Difficult Quiz On Ambidextrous Cricketers

2 weeks ago | wisden.com | Abhishek Mukherjee

In this quiz, you have to answer ten questions on ambidextrous cricketers. There have been ambidextrous cricketers in the past. Leonard Shuter, brother of Test cricketer John bowled only 164 balls across 38 wickets and got a solitary wicket, but he did bowl both right-arm fast and left-arm finger-spin. Clem Wilson was a superior bowler. From 52 matches, he got 125 wickets at 18.69.
Quiz! Every Batter To Score A Men’s Test Hundred In 2024

2 weeks ago | wisden.com | Abhishek Mukherjee

In this quiz, you have to name the 53 batters who hit at least one hundred in men’s Test cricket in 2024. The 53 men’s Test matches in 2024 produced 85 hundreds by 53 batters from 11 teams. There have been several calendar years with more Test hundreds, but only three years – 2001 (60), 2004 (57), 2013 (57) – had more distinct centurions, while 2002 and 2016 had 53 as well.
Quiz! Batters with the most Test runs for Zimbabwe

2 weeks ago | wisden.com | Abhishek Mukherjee

In this quiz, you have to name the leading run-scorers for Zimbabwe in Test cricket. In 1992, Zimbabwe became the ninth team to play men’s Test cricket – and became only the second team, after Australia, to not lose their first ever Test match. They rose through the ranks over the next decade until events off the ground affected their cricket. However, Zimbabwe did not fade away. They struggled through the 2000s and much of the 2010s and even lost their Test status for a while.
The Ultimate Trent Bridge Quiz

2 weeks ago | wisden.com | Abhishek Mukherjee

In this quiz, you have to answer ten questions on the Trent Bridge Cricket Ground. William Clarke, the great cricketer of the first half of the 19th century, married the landlady of the inn situated to the south of the bridge over River Trent. That was in 1837. The following year, he laid a cricket ground adjacent to the inn. In 1899, Trent Bridge became the fourth venue in England (and the tenth overall) to host a Test match.
Quiz! Family Matters, World Cup Tussles – How Well Do You Know England-Zimbabwe Cricket? | Wisden Cricket Quiz | ENG V ZIM

2 weeks ago | wisden.com | Abhishek Mukherjee

In this quiz, you have to answer ten questions on England-Zimbabwe cricket as well as cricketers with links to both nations. Zimbabwe became independent in 1980, played their first World Cup in 1983 in England, and stunned England in the 1992 World Cup. That year, they became an ICC Full Member – England were the only ones to vote against them – and played their first Test match. In 1996, England arrived in Zimbabwe for the first ever Test series between the sides.
Quiz! Every Cricketer To Play A Men’s Test Match For South Africa In 2024

2 weeks ago | wisden.com | Abhishek Mukherjee

In this quiz, you have to name every cricketer to have played men’s Test cricket in 2024. Until 2023, South Africa had never fielded more than 25 different players in men’s Test cricket in a calendar year. And that count of 25, in 2004, was the only time they fielded more than 22. In 2024, they exceeded that count by some distance when they fielded as many as 30. This is also the most Test cricketers any men’s side has fielded since 1988.
Quiz! ICC Bans, Mid-Ashes Switches – How Well Do You Know These Bat Sponsors? | Wisden Cricket Quiz

2 weeks ago | wisden.com | Abhishek Mukherjee

Few things in cricket stir up as much nostalgia in fans as bat stickers: try this quiz if you think you'd like to test your knowledge on bat branding. As cricket evolved and grew over time, so did the humble block of willow, changing in form, appearance and value. The blade became flatter and wider through time, eventually getting enough space for advertisers to stick their logos and turn them into commercial commodities.