Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Trivia #15 : My name is now a cricketing verb

1. I am an Indian cricket player.

2. I am an all-rounder. My equally commendable performances in both batting and bowling earned me the distinction of being the only Indian player and one of the only 3 non-English players whose name features in both the batting and bowling honour boards at Lord's.

3. Myself and Pankaj Roy's partnership of 413 runs against New-Zealand in 1956 was the world record for an opening partnership in Tests for 52 years.

4. I am one of the 3 players in Test history to have batted at every batting position.

5. Now comes my unique distinction. I ran out an Australian batsman Bill Brown during the second test of India's tour to Australia in 1947/1948 in a peculiar manner. This earned me the wrath of the Australian press though I had not contravened the rules of cricket. My sportsmanship too was questioned.
But I was finally vindicated when Sir Don Bradman in his autobiography defended me and my action.
As a result of my action, my name has become a verb in the cricketing jargon (of course informally) which denotes the action I did.
Like using Google has become Googling or Googled.

Who am I and what was my action?

Monday, April 16, 2012

Trivia #14 : Guess me by Connecting the dots

Hi Guys,
Blogging after an extended hiatus.
Ok. Lets get straight to the point.
Here's the trivia of the day.

1. I am a consumer electronics device and the technology behind me was invented by Zeev Zalevsky, Alexander Shpunt, Aviad Maizels and Javier Garcia.

2. My company code named the project which developed me "Project Natal", as my company has a convention of code naming development projects after cities.

3. As an off-shoot, I am being used even in the field of robotics, surveillance, medicine etc.

4. Ok here comes my claim to supremacy.
I am the "fastest selling consumer electronics device" as per the people at Guinness.
You guys have bought 8 million of me in the 1st 60 days after my launch.

Who am I?
Ok. I give this too.
I am not an Apple product.