The Invincibles
The Australian cricket team in England in 1948 is famous for being the only Test match side to play an entire tour of England without losing a match. This feat earned them the nickname of "The Invincibles", and they are regarded as one of the greatest cricket teams of all time. According to the Australian federal government, the team "is one of Australia's most cherished sporting legends". The team was captained by X, who was making his fourth and final tour of England.
ID X.
A football icon, X joined Liga MX side Monterrey in February 2025 after a period of free agency. Following the announcement, it was revealed that he'd be wearing the number 93 on the back of his shirt during his stint with the club.
X chose the number 93 as it was the minute in which he scored the equalising goal for ______ in the 2014 Champions League final.
ID X.
Sergio Ramos
In 1985, Pope John Paul II invited X to meet him in Rome. But after arriving in the Italian capital, X and his agent Jorge Cyterszpiler hit the town for a raucous night of booze, cocaine and call girls. While Jorge headed home at 5am, X refused, and rocked up at the Holy City without having slept. After entering the pearly gates and greeting the bishops, a profusely sweating X turned pale and gestured to Jorge. He needed another line. Jorge explained to an assistant that X had an upset stomach, and he was ushered into the Pope's private bathroom. Inside the Papal bog, X racked up a line of top grade gear and snorted it, emerging with a grin on his face. When the Pope arrived to greet X, he began telling him about the church's work helping poor kids. Unimpressed, X surveyed the Vatican's gold-plated ceiling, and told him: "So? Sell the ceilings, mate! Do something!"
ID X.
Diego Maradona
The Lakers–Clippers rivalry is an NBA rivalry between the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers. The two Pacific Division teams both play their home games in the Greater Los Angeles area, thus inspiring their matchups to sometimes be called the "Battle of L.A."
From the 1994–95 to 1998–99 seasons, the Clippers played a limited number of home games at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim (now Honda Center). A deal to move the Clippers to Anaheim on a permanent basis was declined by the team in 1996, leading to the eventual decision to have the Clippers join the Lakers at the Staples Center when it opened in 1999.
The Clippers did not finish ahead of the Lakers again until 2004–05. Lakers star X almost joined the Clippers that season as a free agent before re-signing with the Lakers.
Kobe Bryant
X remains generally beloved by fans of both teams - he was just that good.
X only spent one season at Barca, but it was one of the most astonishing single seasons a player had delivered in Spain.
He scored 47 goals in 49 games in all competitions in 1996-97, but a contract dispute at the end of the year saw him leave for Inter for a world-record fee - breaking the record he set in joining Barca from PSV. He won that year's Ballon d'Or.
Returning to Spain in 2002, X became one of the leading lights of the Galactico generation, winning a second Ballon d'Or and top-scoring in La Liga.
However, his time at the Santiago Bernabeu brought only one league title and no Champions Leagues, before injuries and weight issues marked the beginning of a long decline.
Ronaldo
On 13 May, 2018 Barcelona's unbeaten run came to the end when they lost to Levante 4–5. Messi was given a rest on what was the penultimate gameweek. Barcelona mounted a spirited comeback after trailing 1–5 but fell agonizingly short.
On a night that saw their dreams of an Invincible run smashed to bits, the only bright spot in the game was a hat-trick by that season's new star Brazilian signing . The other goal was scored by Luis Suarez from the penalty spot.
Philippe Coutinho
X sent Lionel Messi a signed copy of his #Y Jersey on the occasion of Messi surpassing Y Million Instagram followers. Messi returned the gesture later by gifting his famous #10 jersey when X reached 10 million followers on Instagram.
Interestingly, Messi began as well as closed his European club career wearing #Y on his jersey. ID X and Y.
Steph Curry and 30.
In 2004, X was caught on camera applying lozenge on the ball while playing Zimbabwe in a one-day international in Australia. Match referee Clive Lloyd said that TV footage showed enough that the Indian captain intentionally applied the lozenge to the ball and was in breach of the code of conduct. He was found guilty and fined 50 percent of his match fee.
ID X
Rahul Dravid
X and Y shared a rivalry that defined the Attitude Era’s main event scene for WWE. With both superstars emerging as the top babyfaces of the time, their clashes were electrifying. X’s rough-and-tumble Texan persona contrasted sharply with Y’s Hollywood charisma, creating a perfect storm for fan engagement.
Their matches were more than just physical; they represented a clash of ideologies and personalities that transcended wrestling. In one of the most iconic moments in WWE history X drove a beer truck down the aisle of RAW and drenched company chief Vince McMahon and Y.
ID X and Y.
X: Stone Cold Steve Austin
Y: The Rock
The one that got away. X, one of the greatest players in football history, never actually played for Barca - and they are still not over it.
The two clubs competed for X's signature when he left Colombian side Millonarios in 1953, having mesmerised the Madrid defence during a tour of Europe.
After a lengthy legal dispute, the Spanish football federation decided the clubs should share his contract, with X playing for each side in alternating seasons. He had already trained with Barca, and participated in some friendly games.
But Madrid got him first and, after an unremarkable first few appearances, Barcelona agreed to sell on the rest of his contract. Four days later, he scored a hat-trick against them.
396 games, 308 goals, eight league titles and five European Cups later, X had redefined Real Madrid. Without a league title to their name before his arrival, by the time he left, they were the biggest club in the world.
To this day, Barcelona fans still suspect a Francoist conspiracy. To this day in Madrid, X is unsurpassed.
ID X.
Di Stefano
The 1982 Kangaroos, coached by Frank Stanton dominated, winning both Test series against Great Britain (three Tests) and France (two Tests); winning every match of the tour and earning the nickname The Invincibles. This was the first Kangaroo undefeated touring side.
What sport are we talking about?
Rugby
X's impact on the world of sport was evident -- David Beckham chose his number Y when he moved to Real Madrid from Manchester United. Beckham's famous no.7 shirt was already being worn by Madrid great Raul Gonzalez, and there was pretty much no chance of that being given up for the latest Galactico. Beckham would keep the number after leaving Madrid too, at Los Angeles Galaxy.
ID X and Y.
Michael Jordan & #23
These 2 center backs X and Y were huge rivals when playing for their respective EPL giant clubs. But together they formed an all timer pairing for their national team with their contrasting styles perfectly complementing each other.
However, the pair fell out when X in an EPL match against QPR, allegedly racially abused Y's brother Anton. The pair's relationship remains frosty till date.
ID X and Y.
X: John Terry
Y: Rio Ferdinand
During the 1996 ODI WC, in a tense Quarter final face off between India and Pakistan, Pakistan's X hit a four off India's Y, and asked him to 'fetch' the ball. Prasad responded by uprooting his off-stump and sending him off the very next ball.
Aamir Sohail and Venkatesh Prasad
A versatile, technically proficient midfielder, X played more than 200 times on each side of the divide as well as passing a half-century of international caps for Spain.
However, despite winning three trophies in five years at Madrid, he left for Barca on a free transfer in 1996, saying he felt underappreciated in the Spanish capital.
It took some time to win round the Barca fans. But he became a popular figure and a much-admired captain, scoring in several Clasicos against his former side.
After winning two league titles among several other trophies as a player, X later became manager of Barcelona, winning two further league titles and a Champions League.
Luis Enrique
In the 2003–04 season, Arsenal regained the Premier League without a single defeat. Over the 38 games played, their league record stood at 26 wins, 12 draws and no defeats. The unbeaten run came close to ending six matches into the campaign against Manchester United, as the Dutch striker X missed a penalty in injury time; the match then ended 0–0. At the turn of the calendar year, Arsenal won nine league matches in a row to consolidate first position; they secured their status as champions with a draw against local rivals Tottenham Hotspur in April 2004.
ID X.
Ruud Van Nilsterooy
X was a path-breaking Indian batter in his time, but he was also unique in that he played white-ball cricket with just his name and no number on the back. His reason? It's just less trouble.
"I don't believe in astrology, but my family members do. Too many people used to call up and pester me and my family to use different numbers," X said in 2008. "I was so fed up that I decided not to take any of their advice. We play Test matches without numbers and hence I don't use any number on my T-shirt."
Virender Sehwag
On 6 March 2012, during a raid conducted on an NRI residence near Chandigarh, Punjab Police seized 26 kilograms of heroin and other drugs, valued at ₹1.3 billion (US$15 million). They also recovered a car registered in the name of X's wife from outside the home of alleged drug dealer Anoop Singh Kahlon. Later in March, a Police statement said, "As per investigation conducted so far, X consumed the drug about 12 times " X denied the allegations and refused to give his hair and blood samples for testing.
ID X who is an Olympic bronze medal winner, in fact being the first Indian Olympic Medalist in his sport.
Vijender Singh
When tennis great X first played rival Y, Y beat him three times in a row. X said Y's serve was something the game had never seen. It was explosive. No one had hit the ball with that much ferocity and power before.
X needed to figure out a way to cope with Y's big serves.
While other players spent additional hours in the gym trying to bulk up to match Y's power, X sat on his couch and watched hundreds of hours of tape on Y's game. Then one day, he spotted something. Y had a weird, consistent tick. It was his tongue.
Y would go into his pre-service rocking motion, his usual routine, and just before he was about to toss the ball, he would stick his tongue out. It would either be right in the middle of his lip, or it would be in the left corner of his lip. So if he stuck his tongue out in the middle of his lip, he was serving up the middle. But if he put his tongue to the side, he was going to serve out wide.
It happened over and over again. Consistently.
The hardest part for X wasn't returning his serve, the hardest part was not letting Y know he knew this. So X had to resist the temptation of reading his serve for the majority of the match and rather choose the moments when he was going to use that information on a given point.
Years later, X was having a beer with Y, and said, "By the way, did you know you used to give away your serves by the consistent way you positioned your tongue?"
Y nearly fell off his chair. Y said he would go home after their matches and tell his wife, "It's like he reads my mind."
X: Andre Agassi
Y: Boris Becker
Widely regarded as the finest player ever to come out of Scandinavia, the Dane was a key part of the 'Dream Team' which won four straight La Liga titles under Johan Cruyff in the early nineties.
One of the most complete playmakers of all time, X's vision and guile made him arguably one of the all-time greats.
Frank Beckenbauer famously said of him: "Pele was the best in the 1960s, Cruyff in the 1970s, Maradona in the 1980s and X in the 1990s."
But after five glorious years with Barca, in 1994 he fell out with Cruyff and moved straight to Madrid, taking his winning touch with him - Madrid lifted their first league title in five years in his first season.
Memorably, X was on the winning side of two 5-0 Clasico wins - tellingly, they came in his final season at Barca, and his first at Madrid.
He only spent two seasons with Madrid before moving to Vissel Kobe in Japan, but in a poll run by Marca in 2002, he was voted the club's 12th greatest player ever.
Michael Laudrup
During the 1991–92 Serie A, under the guidance of Fabio Capello, Milan completed a remarkable unbeaten season, a run that eventually totalled 58 games. They finished eight points ahead of Serie A runners-up Juventus. 3 time Ballon D'or winner X was the top scorer that season in Italy with 25 goals, 7 ahead of the great Baggio of Juventus.
Marco Van Basten
At the start of the millennium, X wore shirt no. 00. However, from 2005 to 2009, X decided to change his shirt number according to a very specific logic. So, when he made his famous 175 in the greatest ODI run chase ever, he wore 06, but then wore 07 against Netherlands, when he became the first batsman to hit six 6s in an over in international cricket. ID X and the logic.
Herschelle Gibbs and Jersey Numbers changed based on the year.
It’s 1995, and as Anthony Mason plays for the New York Knicks against Utah Jazz, his girlfriend parties at a city nightclub. After a few champagnes, she locks eyes with rap legend X - then at the peak of his fame - and invites him back to hers. But as X gets freaky in the bedroom, Mason bursts through the front door. Panicking, X decides to stage a robbery - he convinces Mason’s girlfriend to let him tie her up, hides his face with a scarf and holds a gun to her head. When Mason comes in, he begs X “please don’t shoot her”, before lifting up the floorboards, filling a Prada bag with thousands of dollars in cash and handing it to him. X flees the scene, a few grand richer and with his illustrious love rival none the wiser. X then immortalised the whole episode in his hit song “I got a story to tell”...
ID X.
Biggie Smalls-The Notorious B.I.G.
The Ashes is one of the fiercest sporting rivalry between England and Australia.
The 2006–07 cricket series for The Ashes was played in Australia. Australia won the series and regained the Ashes that had been lost to England in the 2005 series.
In winning, Australia completed a 5–0 "whitewash", the first time this had happened in an Ashes series since 1920–21. The series was also notable for the retirement of four significant Australian players, namely A, B, C and D.
A: A is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer. He is the former coach of the Australia men's national team, having been appointed to the role in May 2018 and later became the coach of Lucknow based IPL franchise Lucknow Super Giants in July, 2023.
B:Damien Martyn is a former Australian cricketer, who became a regular Test player in 2000 until his retirement in late 2006. He was primarily a right-handed middle-order batsman with a 'classical' technique, known in particular for his elegant stroke-making square of the wicket on the off-side and through the covers. He was named man of the series in the Border–Gavaskar Trophy in 2004, to help Australia defeat India on the subcontinent for the first time in more than 30 years.
C: Widely considered to be one of the greatest cricketers of all time, C primarily played as a right-arm leg spin bowler. Warne revolutionised cricket thinking with his mastery of leg spin, then regarded as a dying art.
D:He was a fast-medium pace bowler and is considered one of the greatest bowlers of all time along with the title of most accurate pace bowler of all time and a leading contributor to Australia's domination of world cricket from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s.
A: Justin Langer
B: Damien Martyn
C: Shane Warne
D: Glenn Mcgrath
The 'Maradona of the Carpathians' spent two seasons apiece at Madrid and Barca, but did not lift a league title with either side.
He joined Madrid after impressing for Romania at the 1990 World Cup, but his time there was defined by moments of brilliance rather than sustained excellence.
After some memorable goals but only one Spanish Super Cup, he left for Brescia in 1992. They were relegated in his first season but he stayed to help win promotion back to Serie A at the first attempt, before returning to Spain with Barca.
Never a regular starter under Johan Cruyff, X won another Super Cup but left in 1996 to enjoy a more productive spell at Galatasaray.
Gheorge Hagi