Niall McVeigh 

Sport quiz of the week: Two-team players, T20 records and transfer fees

Test your knowledge of tennis, cricket, the Paralympic Games – plus American and association football
  
  

Emma Raducanu returns to the US Open
Emma Raducanu returns to the US Open next week, but who is her first-round opponent? Photograph: Javier García/Shutterstock

  1. When Ipswich forward Ali Al-Hamadi came on against Liverpool, he became the first player from which nation to play in the Premier League?

    1. Iraq

    2. Libya

    3. Qatar

    4. Syria

  2. At the age of 68, Alpine skiing legend Ingemar Stenmark is trying his hand at which new discipline?

    1. Judo

    2. Cyclo-cross

    3. Pole vault

    4. Curling

  3. Who said: 'It’s embarrassing that we don’t have video replay of these kind of situations'?

    1. Jack Draper

    2. Novak Djokovic

    3. Emma Raducanu

    4. John McEnroe

  4. Which historic British venue was described this week as 'borderline unplayable'?

    1. Old Trafford (the cricket ground)

    2. Old Trafford (the football ground)

    3. St Andrew's Old Course

    4. Centre Court, Wimbledon

  5. Complete the county cricket sequence: Hampshire v Somerset, not held, Glamorgan v Durham, Kent v Lancashire, Leicestershire v Hampshire, ...

    1. Glamorgan v Somerset

    2. Leicestershire v Warwickshire

    3. Hampshire v Durham

    4. Kent v Lancashire

  6. IN MLB, Danny Jansen will feature on both team sheets when the Boston Red Sox take on the Toronto Blue Jays next week. How is this possible?

    1. They are two separate players – and second cousins – who play for either team

    2. The match was suspended by weather in June, and Jansen – who was part of the Blue Jays' line-up – has since been traded to the Red Sox

    3. Jansen is a businessman with investments in both franchises, who is an honorary member of both playing squads

    4. Jansen has already signed for the Blue Jays but has to complete this postponed game as a Red Sox player

  7. The Paralympics begin this week in Paris. How many gold medals are up for grabs across 12 days of sport?

    1. 149

    2. 349

    3. 549

    4. 749

  8. Who said this? 'You take a bit of stick during the game, but it’s part of football. As long as they can take it when I’m giving it back, that’s all that matters.'

    1. Erling Haaland

    2. Jude Bellingham

    3. Jamie Vardy

    4. Ashley Young

  9. Emma Raducanu has been handed a tough US Open first-round draw against which fellow former grand slam winner?

    1. Sofia Kenin

    2. Elena Rybakina

    3. Marketa Vondrousova

    4. Jelena Ostapenko

  10. NCAA Division I college football returns this weekend with Georgia Tech taking on Florida State. Where is the game being played?

    1. Montreal

    2. Nassau

    3. Shanghai

    4. Dublin

  11. The men's summer transfer window shuts on Friday with around £4bn spent. But which player has commanded the biggest fee?

    1. Julian Álvarez

    2. Dominic Solanke

    3. Dani Olmo

    4. Pedro Neto

  12. Finally, Samoa cricketer Darius Visser broke what world record this week in a T20 against Vanuatu?

    1. Most consecutive dot balls faced

    2. Taking six wickets inside one over

    3. Most catches taken in a T20 game

    4. The most runs scored in one over

Solutions

1:A - Al-Hamadi's top-flight bow means 124 different nations have been represented in the Premier League. Brighton's Mahmoud Dahoud recently switched allegiance from Germany to Syria, but no-one from Libya or Qatar has featured yet., 2:C - Stenmark cleared three metres to place eighth in his category at the world masters athletics championships in Gothenburg – having practiced with a home-made vault in his garden., 3:B - The tennis legend spoke out after a controversial moment on match point in the Cincinnati Open match between Draper and Canada's Félix Auger-Aliassime., 4:C - Catriona Matthew expressed fears that the impact of Storm Lillian would leave the coastal links 'not actually playable' for the Women's Open this weekend. Some rounds on day one took more than six hours, but the event goes on., 5:A - These are the last five One-Day Cup finals – the event did not take place in 2020. Glamorgan beat Warks and Somerset beat Leics in last week's semi-finals to set up a final at Trent Bridge in September., 6:B - Jansen, who joined Boston in July, will be a catcher for the Red Sox when the rest of the game is finally played out on Monday., 7:C - Last time in Tokyo, China topped the medals table with 96 golds and 207 medals in total. Team GB were second with 41 golds, and a total haul of 124., 8:C - Vardy marked his Premier League return by necking an energy drink, scoring Leicester's equaliser against Spurs, and then goading the away fans when substituted off., 9:A - Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion, is currently ranked No 56 in the world while Raducanu is 15 places lower at No 71., 10:D - The Bulldogs face the Seminoles in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday. Ever since 1874, overseas games have been an occasional feature of US college football, with China and the Bahamas other recent venues., 11:A - Based on initial fees without add-ons, Atlético's £64.4m outlay eclipses Spurs for Solanke (£55m), Chelsea's Neto fee (£54m and Olmo's Barça move (£51.1m), 12:D - Visser smashed 39 runs off a single over, thanks to six sixes and three no-balls. He could even afford a dot ball in the middle of the nine-ball over.

Scores

  1. 6 and above.

    A decent innings. Enjoy your weekend

  2. 0 and above.

    Better luck next time?

  3. 10 and above.

    Very well played. Enjoy your weekend
 

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