Assorted Cricket Trivia Quiz

Answer: Cricket

Of course the answer is cricket, considering my quiz is about cricket. It originated in England and has a following in many of the Commonwealth countries such as Australia.

Answer: Darren

Lehmann was the best player in the Sheffield Shield (Pura Cup) during the 1990s. He was then recalled to the Test team when Mark Waugh was dropped before the first Ashes Test of 2002-2003, and he was also picked in Australia's 2003 World Cup squad.

Answer: orange

Adam Gilchrist was the player in most of these ads for telephone company Orange. 'Orange JustGo. Just 18 cents for 30 seconds. Simple really.'

Answer: No ball

He would signal this by raising his right arm horizontally and to the side of his body. Umpire Darrell Hair once no-balled Sri Lankan spinner Mutthiah Muralitharan seven times in one over for 'chucking' the ball, back in 1995.

Answer: Adam

Adam Gilchrist: wicket-keeper/batsman for Australia both in Tests and One-Day Internationals.

Answer: Larwood

Harold Larwood came up with his 'leg theory' for the 1932-33 Ashes series in England, when Australian captain Bill Woodfull said the famous quote of 'There are two teams out there, but only one team is playing cricket. The other is making no attempt to do so'.

Answer: December 15, 2002

This was Game 2, against England. January 23rd, 2003 was the first final and December 13th, 2002 was Game 1 of the series.

Answer: Bangladesh

They failed to make the playoffs that year. Bashar, a batsman, prefers facing the fast men to the spinners.

Answer: Richie Richardson

From the West Indies, against Australia on 16 January, 1989 he was c: Mark Waugh b: Steve Waugh, for 55. I got this question from the 'Johnnie Walker Trivia' on Channel 9 during the second VB Series 2002-03 Final on 25th January 2003. I thought that it was a really interesting question!

Answer: Allan Border

He was also the Australian captain at the time. He had the 'Allan Border Medal' named after him. Adam Gilchrist won this in January 2003.

Answer: Dattatreya Gajanan Phadkar

An Indian bowler, he bowled 43-6-173-0 against West Indies in 1958-59 at Eden Gardens. He played from 1947 until 1959 and had an average strike rate of 96.68 (which is not too crash hot!).

Answer: MCG

Justin scored this in the Boxing Day Test Match; the 4th in the 2002-03 Ashes Series. He won Man-of-the-Match honours for this effort. This was the first Test in the series in which England managed to extend the Test to the full 5 days - but then they went and won the 5th Test in 5 days.

The 5th Test is where Australian stalwart Steve Waugh surpassed the mark of 10,000 Test runs (including more than 5000 in Australia) with his score of 102.

Answer: Ashes

The Ashes are the burnt remains of the stumps from a Test match between the two nations at Lord's in the 1880s. England's batting collapse (spearheaded by the bowling of Aussie Fred Spofforth) caused English newspapers to announce that English cricket had died and the ashes were to be cremated.

Answer: Namibia

The full list of countries in the 2003 World Cup: Australia, England, Pakistan, India, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Netherlands (Pool A); South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies, New Zealand, Kenya, Bangladesh, Canada (Pool B). Scotland did not play in the 2003 World Cup.

Answer: Donald Bradman

Sir Donald George Bradman was Australia's best-ever cricketer with a total of 6996 Test runs. His highest Test score was 334, which former Aussie captain Mark Taylor once equalled. In his last innings he was bowled for a fourth ball duck, only needing 4 runs for an average of 100, but received a standing ovation nonetheless. 'The Don' was knighted, but sadly the great man passed away in February 2001.