Switch Hit – Hindustan Times Cricket League Quiz: Top tips from the quizmaster
From ClassAct 2022 and 2023 to Smartacus 2022, HT School has come a long way and proved to be the ultimate destination for young quizzing enthusiasts. Now, amidst the ongoing T20 cricket fever, this fun learning platform has returned with yet another exciting quiz: Switch Hit – Hindustan Times Cricket League Quiz. Registrations for this online quiz, meant for students of grades 1 and 12 are open till 29th April. Sign up for Switch Hit here if you want to test your T20 cricket knowledge while having loads of fun and grabbing exciting prizes on the way. The prizes include T20 tournament match tickets, T20 tournament team jerseys and merchandise, alongside exciting Amazon gift vouchers.
This T20 cricket quiz will kick off on 30th April with the Qualifier Round, followed by the National Semi-Final and National Final on 6th and 7th May respectively. While the first two rounds will be conducted asynchronously on the Kahoot! platform, the final round will take place over Zoom and will be hosted by one of India’s most prolific quizmasters of the country Mr. Meghashyam Prabodh Shirodkar. He is popularly known as Megatron in Indian quizzing circles and has been hosting quizzes and gamified knowledge content for bluechip corporates, IITs-IIMs and NGOs in India over two decades. He has conducted prestigious quizzes such as, HDFC Ergo Insurance Awareness Award Junior Quiz (Asia’s largest school quiz), CBSE Heritage India Quiz and SEBI Annual All-India Employee Quiz among others. Ahead of the Qualifier, the quizmaster shares his pearls of wisdom with the participants as they gear up for Switch Hit – Hindustan Times Cricket League Quiz.
Love the game, remember the Name
Watch all the matches passionately and intensely, even those not featuring your favourite team. Not only will you enjoy the ‘cricketainment’, but the players, and their emotions and the spectacle they put on show will stay with you long after the season ends.
Know thy stats, be it balls or bats
Develop an abiding interest in the numbers and records behind the sporting drama as well. You will become aware of rare nuggets of cricketing statistics and lore, precious facts that most people are unaware of. Don't remain satisfied with such discoveries - try and learn 5 or 10 other related things about what you discovered. In quizzing, like in cricket, it is always the ‘extras’ that matter in the end!
Sharing is caring
Be a part of an active community, group, club, or society that meets regularly and discusses the matches together with gusto. It is only by interacting with like-minded cricket lovers and trivia buffs that your own cricket IQ will develop, grow, and become sharper with frequent use. Remember, those who quiz together, grow together.
Sharpen your saw, do lots of net practice
The more you watch the tournament’s games, listen to experts' analysis, and learn the finer points of the game, the better you will become at answering any question that the quizmaster throws at you. Just as net practice makes Suryakumar Yadav a 360° player, for you too, “SKY” is the limit as long as you keep practising!
Match practice makes match winners
Get into the habit of participating in as many cricket and T20 cricket quizzes as you can, at as many levels as you can, and as often as you can. Watching matches, listening to experts, reading, and knowledge-gathering is useless as a quizzer unless you test your mettle in the heat of battle by crossing swords with other cricket buffs like yourself. Only when we come up against a variety of quiz-mastering styles and a variety of quizzing oppositions do we truly realise how good (or not-so-good!) we really are. Remember, it does not matter whether you win or lose. If you win, you remember those answers only once...but lose once because of a bad answer or two, and you will never forget those facts till the end of time!
Quiz long and keep Switch Hit-ting!!!