IPL Captains and Coach

Ricky Ponting, was a legendary captain but it is coaching that has made him a regular feature of this league. How well do you remember the various ways in which these coaches and captains have contributed in IPL? Take this quiz and find out:

Mike Hesson, the ex-New Zealand cricket team coach and current RCB Director of Cricket of Operations was also coach of which national team?

In 2003, Hesson was appointed by the ICC as national coach of Argentina in their bid to reach that year's World Cup

Bangladesh

Zimbabwe

Argentina

Italy

Which of these head coaches have an IPL hundred to their name as a player?

Mahela Jayawardena scored a match-wining 110* against Kolkata while playing for Punjab. Kallis came with a top score of 89 in IPL

Mahela Jayawardena

Ricky Ponting

Stephen Fleming

Jacques Kallis

How many cricketers have won IPL both as a player and a coach?

Only Shane Warne, Ricky Ponting and Darren Lehmann, co-incidentally all Australians, have won IPL both as a player and a coach

Who coached Chennai Super Kings in 2008, the only season when Stephen Fleming represented them as a player?

Kepler Wessels was Chennai’s coach in the inaugural 2008 season. Since then, it has always been Stephen Fleming who shifted to the coaching role in 2009.

Steve Rixon

Greg Shipperd

Kepler Wessels

Andy Flower

Which franchise has had the most head coaches in IPL?

Kings XI Punjab have had 8 coaches till now. Since 2017, they have employed a new coach every season.

Kolkata Knight Riders

Kings XI Punjab

Mumbai Indians

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Who played an important role in bringing Delhi’s current skipper, Shreyas Iyer to the franchise in 2015?

Praveen Amre, who was Delhi’s batting coach that season is also Shreyas Iyer’s childhood batting coach and pushed the case for his inclusion in the Delhi Daredevils squad in 2015

Gary Kirsten

Zaheer Khan

Pravin Amre

Sridharan Sriram

Which of these players have never led an IPL side?

Cameron White led the Hyderabad franchise in 12 games between the 2011 and 2013 season. James Hopes led Delhi thrice in 2011 and Bravo led Mumbai in one game in 2010.

Sanath Jayasuriya

Cameron White

James Hopes

Dwayne Bravo

Adam Gilchrist is the only player in IPL to open the innings with the bat, keep wickets, captain a side, coach a side and take a wicket.

Adam Gilchrist was a specialist wicketkeeping batsman who opened the innings, captained Deccan Chargers and Kings XI Punjab, acted as their coach in 2012 and took a wicket in his final IPL game in 2013

True

False

Filling in for which player did Darren Lehmann play two games for Rajasthan Royals in 2008?

Graeme Smith joined Rajasthan Royals late in the 2008 season and Darren Lehmann filled in for him

Graeme Smith

Kamran Akmal

Younis Khan

Shane Watson

Whom did Royal Challengers Bangalore management first nominated to replace Kevin Pietersen as captain mid-season in 2009 but later changed their mind to hand the leadership to Anil Kumble?

Kallis was supposed to led Bangalore when Pietersen left for international duties but Kumble’s impressive performance till Pietersen’s departure fetched him the captaincy

Mark Boucher

Ross Taylor

Rahul Dravid

Jacques Kallis

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