This Is Not Cricket Trivia Quiz

Answer: Rally

Colin McRae (1968-2007) was a Scottish pilot in the rally world championships. In 1998 the first instalment of a series of video games was released by Codemasters with his name (and to which he had contributed with technical advice). This first instalment was developed on PlayStation 1 and also available on Windows PC. Later instalments were for various consoles, or (in the 2013 instalment) for smartphones.
After McRae's death, several instalments (but not all) were simply named "Dirt" plus a sequential number. The 2009 instalment (a tribute to Colin McRae) still mentioned his name, as also does the first mobile version (instalment of 2013).
The core of the game is competing in a series of rally tracks for a one-year championship (so one event per venue). Career based play (in which one can earn prize money in each venue, and one is allowed to compete more than once on each venue) is also possible.

Answer: Baseball

RBI is the abbreviation for runs batted in, one of the main statistics in baseball. Atari Games (meanwhile a defunct company) developed the RBI Baseball game in 1988 for Nintendo, and a number of (almost) yearly upgrades followed until 1995. Since 2014 new yearly updates were released by the company MLB Advanced Media, and these were available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android and iOS (and some also on other platforms). Whilst using the names and statistics of real-world baseball players, their style of play is not necessarily portrayed correctly: for instance a switch hitter would be playable as a left-handed batter.

Answer: Tennis

"Top Spin 3" is (evidently) the third version of the game "Top Spin", originally published in 2003 by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox. It features different aspects of the tennis game: playing matches, a career mode including training and searching sponsors...

The career mode is not available on the Wii console, though. Multiplayer party games are available, and (except on the Wii) so is online multiplayer mode with rankings and tournaments.

Answer: Skateboarding

In real life, Tony Hawk (born 1968) was a world champion on the skateboard. Neversoft (a division of Activision) developed and published a number of games based upon skateboard tricks between 1999 and 2007. In 2009 Robomodo, another developer working for Activision, published the twelfth instalment in the series ("Tony Hawk: Ride"), the first to use a separate controller shaped as a skateboard. Alas, this had not the success Robomodo hoped for. Because of the awkward controlling, the game had a poor rating and sales never reached the intended target.

Answer: Golf

"Leader Board" was developed for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore 128 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The first game contained four different golf courses, soon followed by some expansion disks. "Leader Board Executive" (1987) added trees and bunkers, and the final instalment included some real-world golf courses (among which the famous St. Andrews).

Answer: American football

A touchdown is one of the best scoring moves in American football. The Polish company Cherrypick Games created a simple version for playing on smartphones: one player in possession of the ball has to start running across the field, moving left or right to evade tackling defenders. If your player reaches the end zone, you score a point.

Answer: Soccer

Electronic Art Sports started a series of soccer simulations in 1993. "FIFA 18" is the 34th instalment in the series, and each instalment corrects some flaws from the past. "FIFA 18" features over 80 stadiums, many teams, legendary soccer players such as Pele and the Russian keeper Lev Yashin, and so much more. You can play with each of the national teams having competed in the 2018 World Championship, and so on.

But there is one downside to the game: in Ultimate Team Mode (where a player can compose his own team, buying and selling players for fictional money) there was a bug which made gamers have to pay real money for their transactions.

Answer: Bridge

Omar Sharif (1932-2015) was an Egyptian actor known for his roles in movies as "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) or "Dr. Zhivago" (1965), but also as one of the top-50 bridge players in the world.
The first instalment of the game dates from 1992. Since then many upgrades have been made available, and the 2016 version I've mentioned is available as a free downloadable game.
"Omar Sharif Bridge" simulates the contract bridge either as rubber bridge (whenever a team wins two games, they win) or as Chicago bridge (a predetermined number of hands).

Answer: Cricket

Did the title of this quiz induce you in thinking I would not include any cricket video game? No, I did include a short-lived game that was brandished "the worst cricket video game ever". It is indeed "not cricket", as the English would say.
The Ashes is the most famous test game in cricket: the classic batting between England and Australia. The cricket tournament first inspired Transmission Games in 2009 for a video game named "Ashes Cricket 2009", with a moderate appreciation by the public. "Ashes Cricket 2009" was published for PlayStation 3, Wii, Windows and Xbox 360.
In 2013 Trickstar Games tried to develop a better cricket game, which would be published for Windows only by 505 Games. Alas the product released was full of bugs, and the reception thus was very bad. The sale was stopped after merely four days, the game was retired after six days, and 505 Games refunded every gamer who bought the download.
In 2017 a new game "Ashes Cricket" was released by Big Ant Studios, and contrary to the 2013 edition, it had a good evaluation by the public.  

Answer: Boxing

"Ready 2 Rumble" was the first (and according to the public, the best) instalment of a boxing game series made by Midway Games. Efficient hard hits would gain one or two letters from the word "RUMBLE" at the bottom of the screen, and when this word was completed, one gained access to even more efficient hit combinations. The (fictional) characters in the match are gradually updated with bruises and wounds, so the fight would be graphically more interesting.
A second instalment ("Ready 2 Rumble: round 2") in 2000 added two more levels of rumble, and a combo on the third level would knock the opponent not only out of the fight but also out of the ring altogether.
The third instalment, "Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution" (2009) was only published for Wii. It had a very poor reception.