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  England vs New Zealand 1st Test: Lords 2015    
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The New Zealand team, fresh from the 2015 ICC World Cup Final, came to the home of cricket to face an English team in transition. Five full days of wonderful cricket followed in what arguably was one of the best matches of the century.
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  India vs Sri Lanka: 3rd Test    
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Welcome! After India could neither win the first nor the second Test in the Idea cup 2010, could India win this one to level the series 1-1?
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  Sri Lanka in England 2014    
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This quiz is about the 2-Test series played between England and Sri Lanka in mid-2014.
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  India vs NZ: 2010 2nd Test    
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The 2nd Test between New Zealand and India from November 11, 2010 to November 15, 2010 in the New Zealand Tour of India.
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trivia question Quick Question
In Sri Lanka's second innings, which bowler had hit 78 runs off 157 balls?

From Quiz "India vs Sri Lanka: 3rd Test"





Tests 2010s Trivia Questions
1. Which England batsman scored his maiden Test double century in this series?

From Quiz Sri Lanka in England 2014

Answer: Joe Root

Root made 200 not out in the 1st Test at Lord's. It followed Root's 180 against Australia at the same venue in the previous summer.

2. This Test was the first-ever played at which ground?

From Quiz India vs NZ: 2010 2nd Test

Answer: Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad

This stadium was enough to support 50,000 people. The stadium is also the home ground to the Indian Premier League Team, Deccan Chargers. It is located a little far away from the city in the vicinity of Uppal.

3. Where was this match played?

From Quiz India vs Sri Lanka: 3rd Test

Answer: Colombo

The match was played at the P.Sara Oval, Colombo. Sri Lanka has stadia at Galle and Kandy also. The cricket stadium in Hambantota is a newly constructed one, and will be used first in the 2011 cricket World Cup.

4. Cook, an opener, came to the crease with one of the two England debutants. The other opener scored 7 runs before being caught by Watling off the bowling of Southee. Who was the debutant opener?

From Quiz England vs New Zealand 1st Test: Lords 2015

Answer: Adam Lyth

Lyth, Wood and Kiwi Henry made their test debuts at Lords. Trent Boult had made his debut in 2011 v Australia. Lyth had a tough first test losing both his wickets for low scores: 7 and 12. On both occasions he was caught: off paceman Tim Southee in the first innings and then off the bowling of Boult in the second. Ironically Southee took this catch. Wood also making his test debut for England scored 8 and 4 runs,both not out. In contrast Wood as a bowler took 3-93 and 1-47 respectively. Henry, also a bowler, had a respectable start to his test career taking 4-93 and 2-106 whilst scoring 10 in both innings.

5. Which Australian-born cricketer made his Test debut in this series for England, along with Moeen Ali and Chris Jordan?

From Quiz Sri Lanka in England 2014

Answer: Sam Robson

New South Welshman Sam Robson made his Test debut for England in the 1st Test at Lord's. After failing to impress on debut, Robson scored 127 in the 2nd Test in Headingly.

6. Who was the only centurion for Sri Lanka in this match?

From Quiz India vs Sri Lanka: 3rd Test

Answer: Thilan Samaraweera

He had scored a well enough 137 off 370 balls and remained not out in the innings. Dilshan made 75 while Jayawardene made 56.

7. An incredible opening spell of bowling from NZ saw England in total disarray in the first hour. Can you recall the score when Ben Stokes came to the crease?

From Quiz England vs New Zealand 1st Test: Lords 2015

Answer: 30-4

Indeed England were blown away with some sensational bowling by the NZ attack. Lyth c. Watling b. Southee 7 Cook c. Watling b. Henry 16 Ballance c. Southee b. Boult 1 Bell b. Henry 1

8. Which batsman surpassed 50 in all four of his innings in the series?

From Quiz Sri Lanka in England 2014

Answer: Kumar Sangakkara

Sangakkara made scores of 147, 61, 79 and 55 in the series. His aggregate of 342 runs was the highest by any batsman in the series.

9. In the first innings with New Zealand to bat, who was the only centurion in their innings?

From Quiz India vs NZ: 2010 2nd Test

Answer: Tim McIntosh

He scored 102 off 250 balls. Unfortunately when New Zealand were cruising well at 253-3, he was bowled by Zaheer Khan, and this was followed by a quick fall of wickets. New Zealand ultimately ended their well cruised innings from 253-4, at 350 all out.

10. Which bowler of the Indian side had bowled 3 wides in Sri Lanka's first innings?

From Quiz India vs Sri Lanka: 3rd Test

Answer: Abhimanyu Mithun

He was not only the bowler of 3 wides in the innings but also the most expensive bowler by an economy rate of 3.54. He had no wickets to his name in the Lankan first innings. Sri Lanka were able to afford 425 runs after a good play from Dilshan, Jayawardene and Samaraweera.

11. A recovery for England was vital and this is exactly what happened. The fifth wicket stand was 161. Who accompanied Stokes on this rebuilding mission?

From Quiz England vs New Zealand 1st Test: Lords 2015

Answer: Joe Root

Both Root (98) and Stokes (92) fell agonisingly short of Lords' centuries. Thw Crowd witnessed some beautiful stroke play from the pair during their combined innings. The occasion was set for both to kick on, but sadly for the duo, they fell to two great deliveries. Stokes was first to go when after hitting 92 off 94 balls in little over 2 hours. He was bowled by a ripping delivery from Mark Craig. In contrast, Root was slow in his run scoring hitting 98 off 161 balls in four hours when he was caught by Tom Latham off the bowling of Henry.

12. Which batsman batted for over three-and-a-half hours on the final day to help Sri Lanka save the 1st Test?

From Quiz Sri Lanka in England 2014

Answer: Kumar Sangakkara

Sangakkara batted for 218 minutes (and scored 61 runs) as Sri Lanka limped to the finish line nine wickets down.

13. On the Indian side, two bowlers took four wickets each. One was Harbhajan Singh. Who was the other?

From Quiz India vs NZ: 2010 2nd Test

Answer: Zaheer Khan

Zaheer took 4-69 whereas Harbhajan took 4-76 but as Harbhajan bowled more overs, he hence had a better economy rate of 2.14 compared to 2.55 of Zaheer's. New Zealand finished their innings after being all out for 350 runs.

14. In the Indian batting, who was the only batsman in the first innings to have a strike rate of 100+?

From Quiz India vs Sri Lanka: 3rd Test

Answer: Virender Sehwag

He was also the only centurion in the innings. He made 109 off 105 balls. The credit of India's steady start goes to him. He had 19 fours in his innings. VVS Laxman did score a century, but in the second innings.

15. New Zealand were certainly on a high after taking England to 251-6. However the home side had another big partnership of 103 for the seventh wicket. Which two players established this knock?

From Quiz England vs New Zealand 1st Test: Lords 2015

Answer: Jos Buttler and Moeen Ali

Buttler and Ali battled hard for nigh on two hours in which time the Kiwis were held in check with some lovely stroke play. Buttler was out for 67 when bowled LBW by Trent Boult. The same bowler also dismissed Ali when Latham took one of his six catches in the match.

16. Which player's 55-ball duck brought England to the verge of an unlikely draw in the 2nd Test in Headingly?

From Quiz Sri Lanka in England 2014

Answer: James Anderson

Anderson's innings was the second-longest for a score of zero in the history of Test cricket (well short of New Zealander Geoff Allott's 77-ball duck against South Africa in 1999, which lasted 101 minutes). Anderson came to the crease with England nine wickets down and more than 20 overs left on the final day. He proceeded to bat for 81 minutes, before being caught at bat-pad to hand Sri Lanka victory (with just 1 ball to spare!) by 100 runs. A distraught Anderson slumped to his knees, and later broke down in tears during the post-match presentation while accepting the "Player of the Series" award.

17. In India's first innings, a batsman was the only person to score a 100. Who was it?

From Quiz India vs NZ: 2010 2nd Test

Answer: Harbhajan Singh

Luckily, he had scored a nelson and remained not out when India finished its innings on 472 runs. Nelson is a term used when a player scores 111 runs and may/may not get out. Nelson was used with the background that if one removes the bails on the stumps, you could see the number 111. He had the Strike rate of 95.68. He made this feat off 116 balls, which was also his maiden test century.

18. In the Indian first innings, who was the Sri Lankan bowler to bowl 2 no balls and a wide?

From Quiz India vs Sri Lanka: 3rd Test

Answer: Welegedara

Welegedara was also the most expensive main bowler with an economy rate of 5.86(it was supposed to be Dilshan at 7.50 but he bowled just 2 overs). Suraj Randiv bowled well with his 4-88, and restricted India only to make a score which was just 11 runs ahead of the Lankan score. India scored 436 runs.

19. The tail never seems to wag for England and on this occasion it didn't to do much to argue the case with the last four wickets falling for how many runs?

From Quiz England vs New Zealand 1st Test: Lords 2015

Answer: 45

After the dismissal of Buttler, England struggled. This seemed to be similar to recent tests. Only 45 runs were added to the score for the last four wickets, leaving England all out for 389. Stuart Broad was out for 3 with Latham and Boult once again working together to take a wicket. Wood remained not out 8, whilst Jimmy Anderson was caught and bowled by Henry for 11.

20. Which England bowler took 5 for 64 in the 1st innings of the 2nd Test, as Sri Lanka slumped to 257 all out?

From Quiz Sri Lanka in England 2014

Answer: Liam Plunkett

It was Plunkett's maiden Test 5-wicket haul. He finished with match figures of 9 for 176.

21. In Sri Lanka's second innings, which bowler had hit 78 runs off 157 balls?

From Quiz India vs Sri Lanka: 3rd Test

Answer: Ajantha Mendis

Angelo Mathews was an all rounder and not an only bowler. Mendis scored 78 off 157 balls which included 10 fours and a six and this innings, was highly appreciable as he did this under the pressure that the whole line up failed to score. Mendis and Samaraweera were able to put up a good partnership to keep Sri Lanka in the game. The Lankans scored 267, and a target of 257 runs was in front of India to level the series 1-1.

22. With the England innings over early on the second day, which two New Zealanders opened the batting scoring a fantastic partnership of 148?

From Quiz England vs New Zealand 1st Test: Lords 2015

Answer: Guptill and Latham

Both Kiwi openers showed sublime skills when batting for an impressive two and half hours. Alas, the partnership was broken up when Gary Ballance caught Latham off the bowling of Broad for 70. Then in the very next over Moeen Ali bowled Guptill LBW for 59, leaving NZ 148-2.

23. In the 2nd Test, England reached an imposing 311 for 3 in reply to Sri Lanka's 257 all out, before Shaminda Eranga and which other bowler revived Sri Lanka?

From Quiz Sri Lanka in England 2014

Answer: Angelo Mathews

Mathews' figures of 4 for 44 included the wickets of Joe Root and Gary Ballance. Eranga took 4 for 93.

24. In New Zealand's 2nd innings, who was the opening batsman who just missed out on making 50 runs?

From Quiz India vs NZ: 2010 2nd Test

Answer: Tim McIntosh

Tim McIntosh made 49, and was dismissed to Pragyan Ojha. McCullum played an excellent innings of 225, the only double century in the match. He was there until the near end of the innings, until NZ declared at 448-8.

25. India's second innings, the target was 257 runs. Who was the centurion in this innings?

From Quiz India vs Sri Lanka: 3rd Test

Answer: VVS Laxman

Laxman scored 109 off 149 balls which later turned out to be a match-winning century. Sachin scored 54 runs and Raina made a quick 41 off 75 balls, to finish this match and level the series 1-1.

26. After England had dismissed the two openers for 148, they set about trying to take further wickets, but which pair then continued the onslaught by scoring a further 189 for the fourth wicket?

From Quiz England vs New Zealand 1st Test: Lords 2015

Answer: Williamson and Taylor

Kane Williamson plundered the English attack with a scintillating 132 off 262 balls lasting well over six hours at the crease. He hit 15 fours whilst his partner Ross Taylor hit a fine 62 off 135 balls. Williamson was eventually caught by Ballance and bowled by Moeen Ali with the score 470-6. Taylor went earlier, caught Buttler, bowled Broad with the score 337-3.

27. After Sri Lanka slumped to 277 for 7 in the 2nd Innings of the 2nd Test, which Sri Lanka batsman combined with Rangana Herath to put on 149 for the 8th wicket to give Sri Lanka a match-winning lead?

From Quiz Sri Lanka in England 2014

Answer: Angelo Mathews

Mathews was eventually dismissed for 160, by which time Sri Lanka had accumulated an overall lead of 328 runs (they had lead by just 169 at the fall of the 7th wicket).

28. How many runs did India make in their last, 2nd innings?

From Quiz India vs NZ: 2010 2nd Test

Answer: 68-0

Virender Sehwag scored a 54 off the same number of balls. India had drew the match, and hence, in the 3 test match series, out of the 2 tests, nobody won. The match drew, with India needing 158 runs to win.

29. How many bowlers, combined of both teams in the second innings, were not able to take a single wicket?

From Quiz India vs Sri Lanka: 3rd Test

Answer: 6 & six & 4 & four

It was 6 bowlers in the sense that Angelo Mathews bowled 2 overs and Dilshan bowled 3 overs, but didn't get any wickets. 4 bowlers would also be accepted as the rest of the bowlers except these two, who didn't get any wickets, were all regular bowlers, whereas these two were part time bowlers.

30. Who was the Man of the Match?

From Quiz India vs NZ: 2010 2nd Test

Answer: Brendon McCullum

Tendulkar and Sehwag were out of the question. Though Harbhajan also deserved the Man of Match Award for his century and 5-wicket haul, McCullum, for his innings saving 225 was awarded the Man of the Match.

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