Cricket Records and IPL Quiz

Virender Sehwag holds the record for most fours in a Test innings with 47 fours against Sri Lanka in 2008. Tendulkar, Dravid, and Laxman all have high scores but Sehwag's aggressive batting gave him the fours record.

Mahela Jayawardene holds the record for most catches in ODIs as a fielder (non-wicketkeeper) with over 400 catches. Dravid and Ponting are close behind but Jayawardene's longevity in slip cordon gave him the record.

Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the record for highest partnership in ODIs with 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999. Their unbroken stand stood for many years as an ODI record.

Michael Bevan holds the record for highest batting average in ODIs (minimum 5000 runs) with an average of 53.6. He was known as the "finisher" and rarely got out. Hussey has a high average too but Bevan's record stood for long.

The IPL inaugural edition began on April 18, 2008. The first match was between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore. May 1, 2009 and April 20, 2009 were dates in later seasons.

Vijay Mallya owned Royal Challengers Bangalore through his company United Breweries. Shah Rukh Khan owned Kolkata Knight Riders, Shilpa Shetty co-owned Rajasthan Royals, and Mukesh Ambani owns Mumbai Indians.

Shah Rukh Khan is the co-owner of Kolkata Knight Riders along with Juhi Chawla and Jay Mehta. Anil Ambani and Ness Wadia were not associated with KKR ownership.

Mukesh Ambani owns Mumbai Indians through Reliance Industries. Vijay Mallya owned RCB, Lalit Modi was a former IPL commissioner, and Ness Wadia co-owns Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings).

Yusuf Pathan scored a double century (210) in List A one-day domestic cricket. The question refers to rare double centuries in one-day format beyond Sachin Tendulkar's famous ODI 200*. Brian Lara, Adam Gilchrist and Ravi Bopara are not recognized for scoring double centuries in one-day format.

IPL franchises are allowed 8 overseas players in their squad (though only 4 can be in the playing XI). The question asks about squad composition, not playing XI.

Kepler Wessels was the coach of Chennai Super Kings in the early IPL seasons. The other options - Venkatesh Prasad, Gary Kirsten, and 'Rushi Johnson' (likely misspelled) - coached other franchises or were not associated with CSK.

Shane Warne was both captain and coach of Rajasthan Royals in the inaugural IPL season (2008), leading them to a surprise championship victory. Sachin Tendulkar played for Mumbai Indians, Yusuf Pathan was under Warne's captaincy at RR, and Anil Kumble coached/played for Royal Challengers Bangalore and later captained the Indian team.

Narendra Hirwani took 16 wickets for 136 runs on his Test debut against West Indies in 1988, which remains the record for most wickets on debut. Jim Laker took 19 wickets in a match (but not on debut), Muralitharan and Kumble are legendary spinners but didn't set the debut record.

Deccan Chronicle (newspaper group) owned the Hyderabad Deccan Chargers IPL team. GMR Holdings owned Delhi Daredevils, India Cements owned Chennai Super Kings, and UB Group had no IPL team ownership during that period.

John Buchanan was the coach of Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008-2009. Sourav Ganguly was the captain, Tom Moody coached Punjab, and Greg Chappell (misspelled as Shepperd) had various coaching roles but not KKR.

Graeme Smith and Neil McKenzie put on 415 runs for the first wicket against Bangladesh in 2008, setting the Test record. Sehwag-Gambhir and Hayden-Langer had famous partnerships but didn't hold this record. Hobbs-Sutcliffe played in the 1920s-30s.

This refers to Robin Uthappa, who was swapped with Zaheer Khan in a trade and moved to Royal Challengers Bangalore for the 2009 IPL season. The other options include years (2008, 2009 IPL) and another team (Mumbai Indians) but only the franchise name is the correct completion.