10 Test Cricket Questions | Cricket Trivia Quiz

Answer: Malcolm Nash

Tony Cottey, the former Glamorgan batsman, was hit for 34 from an over by Glen Chapple in 1993. Steve Marsh, the Kent keeper for years, was hit for 34 from an over by Glamorgan batsman Matthew Maynard in 1992. Tilak Raj was hit for six sixes but by Ravi Shastri in 1984. Malcolm Nash not only got hit for 36 by Gary Sobers, but nine years, in 1977 later got hit for 34 by Frank Hayes.

Answer: Mohammad Ashraful

Mohammad Ashraful was just under 17 (16 years 362 days) when he made 114 against Sri Lanka in 2001-02, breaking the record Mushtaq Mohammad had held since 1960-01 when scoring 101 aged 17 years 78 days. Sachin Tendulkar was 17 years and 107 days old when he made 119* in 1990. Hamilton Masakadza was 17 years and 352 days when he made 119 in 2003. Imran Nazir was 18 years and 154 days old when he made 105* in 1999.

Answer: Lawrence Rowe

All these players made centuries on their test debuts but Thorpe(114* in 1993), Khan(107 in 2000) and Greatbatch(107* in 1988) made them in their second test innings. Famously Lawrence Rowe became the first person to make a double 100 and a 100 on debut while scoring 214 and 100* in his first Test match, against New Zealand in 1972.

Answer: False

Adam and Ben Hollioake made their debuts in the same match against Australia at Trent Bridge together in 1997. Adam went on to play four tests before retiring in 2004, while Ben was tragically killed after playing just two tests at the age of 24 in a car crash in 2002.

Answer: Marvan Atapattu

After making his debut in 1990, Atapattu had possibly the start no batsman could ever return from one run in six innings at an average of 0.16. Marvan Atapattu came back to become a batsman of immense concentration, only Bradman, Hammond and Lara have scored more double centuries than Atapattu. He became Sri Lankan captain in 2004.

Answer: Carl Hooper

Botham missed out by only catching 36 catches in ODI's. Akram caught only 44 catches in Tests and 88 catches in ODI's. Waugh only took 92 wickets in Tests.

Answer: Andrew Hudson

In the first Test after re-admission, Andrew Hudson scored a painstaking nine hour 163 against the West Indies, a match which they narrowly lost by 55 runs after being blown away by Ambrose and Walsh in the second innings.

Answer: Basil D'Oliveira

Mike Proctor played just seven times for South Africa before the ban. Kepler Wessels played 24 times for Australia, before returning to play for South Africa in 16 tests after re-admittance. Tony Greig played 58 tests for England. Basil D'Oliveira came to England as a 29 year old to play league cricket and within five years was playing for England.

A Worcestershire stalwart, his son, Damien, who was born in England and also played for many years for Worcestershire.

Answer: Viv Richards

Collingwood scored 112* and took 6-31 to beat the record for the best all round performance held by Viv Richards (119 and 5-41). Jayasuriya, Malik, and Gayle were in a select group of players to score a hundred and take four wickets in an ODI.

Answer: Narendra Hirwani

Hirwani bettered Massie by taking 16-136 against the West Indies in 1972. Sivaramakrishnan didn't take a single wicket on his debut against West Indies in 1983. Prabhakar took just 1-86 on his debut against England in 1984. Kumble took 3-170 on his debut against England in 1990, not a sign of things to come!