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The next photo is a little harder to guess, although when the players know it's Abhinav Manohar, they joke about him losing hair right from his childhood days. Harsh!

The Sri Lanka top-order batter, who plays some of the smoothest checked drives you have ever seen, was at PSL 2025 last week and had to leave all of a sudden when cross-border tensions erupted between India and Pakistan. In his haste to return home, Mendis had to leave his kit bag behind and every effort he made to get it back just wouldn't come off.

unfortunately when I Had to leave @OfficialPSL suddenly I had to leave my kitbag behind,Tried everything to get it down to join @ipl but nothing worked,when this amazing Sri Lankan Mr. Wayne who is living in Pakistan, flew all the way to colombo to bring my kitbag amazing human. pic.twitter.com/fMU7WzD8gf

— Kusal Mendis (@KusalMendis13) May 17, 2025

Levy doesn't seem to have a watched a cricket match before, but he had better start now, and what better place to begin than the IPL?

At the start of their match, Deverakonda announced that he'd wear a Mumbai Indians jersey if he lost the best-of-three contest. The games, which also featured Raj Bawa as Varma's team-mate, were hard-fought, with Varma often looking like he was digging out yorkers. But eventually, Deverakonda and his partner beat the cricketers 2-1.

His demand for the losing team was to recreate a dance for the song "Hridayam Lopala" from his new movie Kingdom, set to release at the end of this month.

The pictures have been splashed across news outlets, and people wondered what had brought him to India, and to the RR corner. Turns out he met Manoj Badale, the British Indian businessman and one of the owners of RR and two "struck up a good friendship".

And it didn't take much persuasion to make a first trip to India or to drop in at the cricket.

Then assistant coach Naeem Amin, who's conducting the quiz, turns to Shahrukh Khan and asks him who holds the record for most sixes in the IPL. No trouble with that one either - it's Chris Gayle with 357.

He starts strong, guessing some of the Aussies who have played the most matches for CSK: Shane Watson (43), Michael Hussey (64), George Bailey (four) and Doug Bollinger (41). Ellis stumbles a bit after that, wondering if Mitchell Johnson played for them. In six IPL seasons, Johnson played 54 matches, but none for CSK - Kings XI Punjab (PBKS), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and MI.

After a lot of mulling, Ellis guesses David Hussey, who played five matches for CSK in 2014. It takes a bit of prompting, with clues like "big guy", for him to remember the CSK stalwart, Matthew Hayden, who, along with Watson and Mike Hussey, makes up the list of Australians to score 1000-plus runs for CSK.

Lasith Malinga's hair made it easy to spot his portrait, although we are intrigued by Rohit Sharma's observation: "If you take the hair out, it looks like Drake." Rohit himself was drawn playing a shot, although to SKY, it wasn't clear whether it was a cut or a pull - maybe it was abstract art?

On the occasion of Tendulkar's 52nd birthday, on April 24, Mumbai Indians (MI) asked some of their players to identify a few of the Little Master's innings: his Test debut in 1989, the ODI knocks against Australia in Sharjah in 1998 (one of which came on his 25th birthday), and his ODI double-hundred - the first in the men's format - in 2010.

Suryakumar Yadav (born 1990) gets them all easily. While Robin Minz (born 2002) says he's watched the highlights of the Sharjah innings on YouTube, Suryakumar remembers it was always on TV. Tilak Varma (also 2002) recognises Tendulkar's debut, but the year eludes him. "I'm not even sure if my parents were married in 1989," he exclaims when told the year.