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A mixture of questions about cricket.

A multiple-choice quiz by buguru. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
buguru

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
72,885

Updated
Sep 22 24

# Qns
15

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Tough

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9 / 15

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Question 1 of 15

1. In a One-Day match, if a team needed 8 to win from the last ball of the innings, what should the batter do? Hint

Just block it or leave it.

Just hit a single if possible.

Make sure that he or she doesn't get out - to improve the average.

Try to get as many runs as he or she should.

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Question 2 of 15

2. Who was the first batsman to be given out 'obstructing the field' in test match cricket? Hint

Joel Garner

Len Hutton

Charles Bannerman

Jonty Rhodes

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Question 3 of 15

3. Which businessman turned cricket upside down in 1977 when he lured many test players away from test matches to play World Series Cricket? Hint

Kerry Packer

Richard Branson

Rupert Murdoch

The Sultan of Brunei

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Question 4 of 15

4. Which 'keeper made a world record 52 stumpings in his test career? Hint

APE Knott

Bert Oldfield

Rod Marsh

Syed Kirmani

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Question 5 of 15

5. No one has ever scored two quadruple centuries in first-class cricket.

True

False

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Question 6 of 15

6. Who was the first player to score 20 centuries in One-Day Internationals? Hint

Saeed Anwar

Sachin Tendulkar

Viv Richards

Desmond Haynes

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Question 7 of 15

7. It is possible to score 10 runs from one legal delivery?

Yes

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Question 8 of 15

8. Six and out? From one legal delivery, is it possible for a batter to get out but score six runs at the same time?

Yes

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Question 9 of 15

9. Which team won the first two World Cup tournaments (in 1975 and 1979) and were also runners-up in the third (in 1983)? Hint

India

West Indies

England

Australia

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Question 10 of 15

10. Who was the first player to achieve the not-so-enviable feat of ten scores in the nineties in Test cricket? Hint

Steve Waugh

Michael Slater

Alvin Kallicaharan

Geoffrey Boycott

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Question 11 of 15

11. Who was the first batsman to be dismissed for 299 in test cricket? Hint

Don Bradman

Martin Crowe

VVS Laxman

Viv Richards

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Question 12 of 15

12. Kennington Oval is better known as ______ ? Hint

Newlands

Eden Gardens

The 'Gabba

The Oval

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Question 13 of 15

13. What caused the cricket law-makers to decide that two fielders maximum would be allowed behind square leg on the on-side? Hint

The advent of one-day cricket

Bodyline

Batters getting caught on the leg side boundary

Balance

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Question 14 of 15

14. The best figures by a bowler on debut in test cricket were 16 wickets for 137 runs by Bob Massie. Then another bowler, on debut, achieved figures of 16 for 136. Who was that bowler? Hint

Narendra Hirwani

Chaminda Vaas

Laxman Sivaramakrishnan

Muttiah Muralitharan

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Question 15 of 15

15. Who was the first batsman to score more than 500 runs in a single first-class innings? Hint

Hanif Mohammed

Colin McDonald

Graeme Hick

Brian Lara

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In a One-Day match, if a team needed 8 to win from the last ball of the innings, what should the batter do?

Answer: Try to get as many runs as he or she should.

The bowler might bowl a no-ball, so the best thing to do is try for a six or four and hope. In this particular end-of-innings context, if the batter hits a six from a no-ball, then the scores are tied with one legal delivery still remaining.

2. Who was the first batsman to be given out 'obstructing the field' in test match cricket?

Answer: Len Hutton

It is extremely rare for a batter to be given out in this way. In fact, in the first 125 years of test cricket through to the end of the 20th century, it only happened once. Len Hutton (England) was given out in the August 1951 Test England v South Africa - 5th Test - at Kennington Oval.

3. Which businessman turned cricket upside down in 1977 when he lured many test players away from test matches to play World Series Cricket?

Answer: Kerry Packer

The experiment failed in that it did not attract big crowds. Many innovations to cricket, however, came about because of this 'revolution'.

4. Which 'keeper made a world record 52 stumpings in his test career?

Answer: Bert Oldfield

Almost half of Oldfield's dismissals were stumpings. He played 52 Tests for Australia between 1921 and 1937. In the modern game, this kind of rate is unheard of.

5. No one has ever scored two quadruple centuries in first-class cricket.

Answer: False

Way back in the 1920s a player called Bill Ponsford made two huge scores (437 and 429) for the State of Victoria.

6. Who was the first player to score 20 centuries in One-Day Internationals?

Answer: Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar is also the first to reach thirty centuries in ODIs.

7. It is possible to score 10 runs from one legal delivery?

Answer: Yes

It's theoretically possible to score more than 1000 runs from one delivery. Imagine, on a big oval, two batters running hard between wickets, attempting to run four. From the boundary, the fielder throws it to another teammate, who thinks she or he can run out a batter going for the fourth run, and throws the ball hard towards the stumps.

The throw misses the stumps, and no one is backing up. Another fielder chases the ball to near the boundary while the batters run another four. The throw to the 'keeper's end is wayward, and hits the helmet that is being kept behind the keeper.

After hitting the helmet, the ball runs away to the boundary at fine leg. The batsman has scored 17 runs from that one legal delivery. (4 plus 4 plus 5 plus 4.) This doesn't happen very often. And the moral of the story is, commentators should not use the term 'maximum' when a batter hits a six.

It's not the maximum at all.

8. Six and out? From one legal delivery, is it possible for a batter to get out but score six runs at the same time?

Answer: Yes

There are a few ways this could happen. For example, the batter could run six and be run out going for the seventh.

9. Which team won the first two World Cup tournaments (in 1975 and 1979) and were also runners-up in the third (in 1983)?

Answer: West Indies

The West Indies defeated Australia in the first final, England in the second, and lost to India in the third.

10. Who was the first player to achieve the not-so-enviable feat of ten scores in the nineties in Test cricket?

Answer: Steve Waugh

Waugh also scored 199 in a test match against the West Indies in 1999. Once he was stranded on 99 not out, when his twin brother Mark was run out at the bowler's end.

11. Who was the first batsman to be dismissed for 299 in test cricket?

Answer: Martin Crowe

Don Bradman once scored 299 NOT OUT against South Africa. Martin Crowe scored 299 in a match against Sri Lanka.

12. Kennington Oval is better known as ______ ?

Answer: The Oval

Kennington Oval is the home ground for the English county side Surrey. It is located in London.

13. What caused the cricket law-makers to decide that two fielders maximum would be allowed behind square leg on the on-side?

Answer: Bodyline

Bodyline was introduced in the 1932-33 Australia v England series. It was Douglas Jardine's idea to stop the flow of runs from Bradman's bat. Basically the bowlers would bowl short at the batsmen's bodies. The batsmen would often be caught be one of the many fielders behind square leg as they fended the ball away.

14. The best figures by a bowler on debut in test cricket were 16 wickets for 137 runs by Bob Massie. Then another bowler, on debut, achieved figures of 16 for 136. Who was that bowler?

Answer: Narendra Hirwani

Interestingly, neither of these bowlers had long, successful careers. Perhaps, in both cases, Bob Massie (Australia, 8-84 and 8-53 v england in 1972) and Narendra Hirwani (India, 8-61 and 8-75 v. West Indies 1988) had a big dose of beginner's luck.

15. Who was the first batsman to score more than 500 runs in a single first-class innings?

Answer: Brian Lara

Lara scored 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham in 1994. Hanif Mohammed came close. He scored 499 for Karachi against Bahawalpur in 1958.

Source: Author buguru

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