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Cricket Knowledge Quiz

Test your knowledge of cricket with this engaging quiz that covers various aspects of the game, its history, rules, and key players.

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1 What is Cricket's union called?

2 The 19th century saw ________ replaced by first roundarm and then overarm bowling.

3 What does the following picture show?  The cricket pitch dimensions   Wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni of India successfully stumps a South African batsman out during a match played in Chennai in 2008.   An umpire   Don Bradman had a Test average of 99.94 and an overall first-class average of 95.14, records unmatched by any other player.[19]

4 It was the determination of the England team to overcome his skill that brought about the infamous ________ series in 1932–33, particularly from the accurate short-pitched bowling of Harold Larwood.

5 One of them is the ________ aka "keeper" who operates behind the wicket being defended by the batsman on strike.

6 ________ (lbw): first and foremost, the ball must, in the opinion of the on-field umpire, be going on to hit the stumps if the ball had not hit the pad of the batsman first.

7 If this kind of match is temporarily interrupted by bad weather, then a complex mathematical formula, known as the ________ after its developers, is often used to recalculate a new target score.

8 In 1876–77, an England team took part in the first-ever Test match at the ________ against Australia.

9 In ________, teams gather over the winter for the annual Ice Cricket tournament.

10 What does the following picture show?  The directions in which a right-handed batsman intends to send the ball when playing various cricketing shots. The diagram for a left-handed batsman is a mirror image of this one.   An umpire   The first English touring team on board ship at Liverpool in 1859

💡 Interesting Facts

  • William Hone played cricket both for and against the MCC inside four days in June 1868.
  • a fielder in cricket may only alter the ball condition by removing mud, drying or polishing it without use of a artificial substance, else he is guilty of ball tampering.
  • Will Jefferson is probably the tallest professional cricketer ever, at about 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) tall.
  • Walter Livsey kept wicket so well in his debut cricket match in 1913 that the opposing team only scored three runs from his mistakes.
  • Thomas Lord started Lord's Cricket Ground (right), the Home of Cricket in 1814.
  • Walter Colquhoun Grant introduced cricket and the invasive plant Scotch broom to the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1849.
  • a number of Test match cricketers have represented Nelson Cricket Club, including Learie Constantine, Kapil Dev and Steve Waugh.
  • after his move to Philadelphia in 1879, English-born cricketer Arthur Wood (pictured) had to satisfy a five year residency requirement before he was allowed to play with the Philadelphian cricket team.
  • before working as biomechanist to the Indian cricket team, Ian Frazer helped Australian cricketer Greg Chappell develop a patented cricket training program.
  • biographer Andrew Lycett has claimed the spirit named 'Dodd' in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The New Revelation is that of cricketer Surgeon-Captain John Trask.
  • at the age of 13, English cricketer Joe Root is the youngest person to have been awarded a scholarship to the Yorkshire County Cricket Club academy.
  • at age 20, cricketer Cameron White (pictured) became the youngest ever captain of the Australian state-side, the Victorian Bushrangers.
  • although Brendan Nash was born and grew up in Australia, he qualifies to play international cricket for the West Indies because his father, who represented Jamaica at the Olympics, is of Jamaican origin.
  • as cricket in Ireland is organised on an All-Ireland basis, a team representing Northern Ireland has appeared just once, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games cricket tournament.
  • Sydney Deane, who narrowly missed representing Australia in cricket, was the first Australian to appear in a Hollywood film.
  • Stan McCabe, who once caused a cricket Test to be abandoned in poor visibility due to the danger his hard-hitting posed to the fielding team, died after falling off a cliff.
  • Palwankar Shivram, brother of the Dalit cricketers Baloo and Vithal, was a spin bowling all-rounder who represented the All-India cricket team that toured England in 1911.
  • Palwankar Vithal became the first Dalit cricketer to captain the Hindus team in the Bombay Quadrangular cricket competition, a milestone in the Hindu society's struggle against caste discrimination.
  • Palwankar Baloo was a Dalit (also called Untouchable) who helped break down the Indian caste system with his prowess at cricket.
  • Neil Doak was named in the Ireland squad for the 2003 Rugby World Cup but did not play, just missing out on becoming the first Irish dual cricket/rugby union international since the 1960s.
  • Mazhar Hussain has scored more runs in one-day international cricket then any other United Arab Emirates batsman.
  • Mohammad Shukri played for the Malaysian Under-15 cricket team at the age of 18, and for the Under-19 team at the age of 20.
  • Pankaj Gupta was one of the earliest Indian sports administrators involved in football, hockey and cricket.
  • Parthiv Patel had never played domestic first-class cricket prior to becoming the youngest Test Wicketkeeper in history at just 17 years and 102 days.
  • Slindon Cricket Team was the winning team recorded on the earliest surviving cricket scoresheet.
  • South African rebel tours was the name given to a series of cricket tours to South Africa during its isolation from international cricket in the 1980s due to apartheid.
  • Shane Warne Cricket '99, a Playstation cricket game is endorsed by the Australian bowler, Shane Warne.
  • Ronald Joy was an English cricketer, who played eight County Championship matches in the 1928 season.
  • Percy Christopherson, his father Derman Christopherson, and nine brothers played a cricket match against Blackheath on a team named 'The Christophersons'.
  • A. R. R. A. P. W. R. R. K. B. Amunugama has more initials than any other first-class cricketer.
  • despite being an Australian, Walter Cornock played both professional football and first-class cricket for English teams.
  • five teams in cricket's 2005 ICC Trophy will be granted official one-day international status for the next four years.
  • the Tuanku Ja'afar Cup was a cricket tournament contested by the national sides of Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand from 1991-2004, and was won by Hong Kong in 9 of the 14 competitions.
  • the English all-rounder Leslie Todd was once described as "the most perverse, most infuriating cricketer of his generation".
  • the Sydney Riot of 1879 was one of international cricket's earliest riots.
  • the Combined Islands cricket team were dissolved the year after they won their first — and thus last — domestic trophy in West Indian cricket.
  • the 1948 Headingley Test, in which Don Bradman's cricket team the Invincibles (pictured) made a world record run-chase, remains the most attended Test on English soil.
  • the Bombay Quadrangular cricket tournament originated in an 1877 game to foster interracial harmony, but was abandoned in 1946 over fears that its racial basis threatened Indian independence.
  • the father and two brothers of Pakistani cricketer Wasim Raja also played first-class cricket.
  • the father of cricketer Peter Burge had to resign from Queensland's selection committee when his son was being discussed for selection.
  • when Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly scored a century on test debut at Lord's in 1996, he became the third overall and first since John Hampshire in 1969 to do so.
  • when Ireland bowler Peter Connell took a hat-trick on his debut in first-class cricket, he was the first player to do so in an international match.
  • the winning players in cricket's Stanford Super Series take home one million dollars each, while the losing players walk away with nothing.
  • the winners of the Twenty20 Champions League, a tournament between Twenty20 cricket champions from Australia, England, India and South Africa, will collect a prize estimated at £2.5 million.
  • the first ever Ranji Trophy cricket match, played in the year 1933 between Mysore and Madras teams, is the only game in the history of the Ranji Trophy to have been completed in a single day.
  • the four years between the two no ball decisions for throwing by cricketer Harold Cotton is the longest span during which a player was no-balled in major cricket in Australia.
  • the United Breweries' chairman Vijay Mallya, named his Bangalore Royal Challengers, an Indian Premier League cricket team, after his liquor brand.
  • the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches.
  • in 1892, George Brann became only the third cricketer to score two centuries in a match, after W. G. Grace and William Lambert.
  • in April 2005, cricketer Daleen Terblanche became the first South African woman to pass 1,000 One Day International runs.
  • in 1882, after Australia beat England at cricket, The Sporting Times published a satirical death notice (pictured) which was the origin of The Ashes.
  • from 1897 until his retirement in 1908, American cricketer John Lester (pictured) led the batting averages of the Philadelphians.
  • former Gloucestershire cricket captain Sir Derrick Bailey founded an airline and based the colour of its planes on the racing colours of his South African father.
  • former West Indian cricketer John Maynard gained his nickname The Dentist after knocking out an opponent's teeth with one of his fast deliveries.
  • informal cricket games often replace the original cricket ball with a tape covered tennis ball known as the tape ball.
  • the "Victory Tests" were a series of cricket matches between a team of Australian servicemen and an English national side played just two weeks after World War II ended.
  • the Indian cricketer Bapu Nadkarni got the nickname Bapu—literally, father, and Mahatma Gandhi's sobriquet—for the curious reason that he used to wear loincloths (langotis) instead of modern underwear.
  • the leg break bowled by Shane Warne to Mike Gatting that turned around the 1993 Ashes cricket series is widely known as the Ball of the Century.
  • the fast bowling during West Indies' tour to England in 1984 was so hostile that England Test cricketer Andy Lloyd was struck on the head and hospitalised, despite wearing a helmet, and Paul Terry's arm was broken.
  • the charitable Sheffield Town Trust funded a cricket match which aimed to "prevent the infamous practice of throwing at cocks".
  • the Australian Test cricketer "Ranji" Hordern played for Philadelphia while studying dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Major League Cricket plans to launch a professional cricket league in the United States, with the goal of qualifying the U.S. for the Cricket World Cup by 2011.
  • Lionel Baker is the first cricketer from Montserrat to represent the West Indies senior side at international level.
  • cricketer Steph Davies, who made four appearances for England in 2008, made her county debut for Somerset aged just 13.
  • cricketer Steve Atkinson has played for both the Netherlands and Hong Kong in international cricket.
  • cricketer Roger Kimpton also won an Oxford University tennis tournament and a golf blue, and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross as a Second World War fighter pilot.
  • cricketer Lisa Sthalekar took five wickets in her 100th One Day International match for Australia.
  • cricketer Major Leo Bennett was meant to have been made captain of Surrey in 1946, but a different Major Bennett was offered the position by mistake.
  • cricketer Les Jackson played in two Test matches for England, one in 1949 and a second in 1961, the longest gap between Test appearances for any player with only two caps.
  • England's cricket selectors picked "coloured" Basil D'Oliveira to replaced the injured Tom Cartwright for the tour to South Africa in 1968-69, triggering the cancellation of the tour and leading to the exclusion of the South African cricket team from international cricket until apartheid was abolished in 1991.
  • English cricketer Roger Davis was once struck so hard on the head by a ball that his heart and breathing stopped, and he had to be revived by a doctor from the crowd.
  • Indian-born English cricketer Hugh Bartlett died whilst watching a cricket match at Hove in 1988.
  • Indian wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik learnt to play cricket in Kuwait.
  • Guyana won the first senior regional cricket tournament of the 2005-06 West Indian cricket season.
  • first-class cricketer Bryan Lobb was such a poor judge of a run that he was once run out by a fielder who overtook him as he strolled down the wicket.
  • English cricketer and footballer Arthur Milton was the last surviving person to have played Test cricket for the England cricket team and international football for the England football team.
  • Essex cricketers Frank Vigar and Peter Smith shared a club record 218-run last-wicket stand in 1947.
  • cricketer Lauren Ebsary had never played a formal match before representing South Australia at youth level.
  • cricketer Johnny Lawrence refused to allow Sunday matches or raffles to be used to raise money for his benefit season because he was a staunch Methodist.
  • Australian artist Ben Shearer says blindness in his right eye that resulted from an injury while playing cricket was a reason he began to paint.
  • indigenous Australian cricketer Jack Marsh was called for illegally throwing instead of bowling an Australian record seventeen times in one innings.
  • Australian cricketer Trevor Chappell was reprimanded by the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand when he rolled an underarm delivery to batsman Brian McKechnie to stop him from lofting the ball for six.
  • Australian cricketer Karen Rolton has scored the most runs for the Australian women's cricket team in women's Test cricket.
  • Australian cricketer Keith Miller, while attending high school during his teenage years, had Test captain Bill Woodfull as his mathematics teacher, who gave him a zero on a geometry exam.
  • Australian cricketer John Gleeson attributed the finger strength used in his two-finger bowling action to a childhood of milking cows.
  • Invincibles members Colin McCool, Doug Ring and Ron Hamence referred to themselves as "ground staff" because they were rarely given an opportunity to play cricket.
  • Barbadian cricketer Sir Clyde Walcott became the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council in 1993.
  • cricketer George Nichols was a key member of the Somerset team that was unbeaten against other counties of England and Wales in 1890.
  • cricketer John McMahon once used an ornamental sword to behead gladioli at a public house at Nottingham.
  • cricketer Dick Motz took one wicket in his last Test match in August 1969, becoming the first New Zealand bowler to take 100 Test wickets.
  • cricketer Barry Fisher had a metal pin surgically inserted into his shoulder to prevent injury while bowling, although he still suffered from persistent shoulder problems.
  • cricket was introduced to Slovenia in 1974 by a 13-year-old boy who had visited his pen pal in England and brought back a single bat and a copy of the Laws.
  • cricket writer Gerald Howat won the Cricket Society's golden jubilee award for his biography of Learie Constantine.
  • Lancashire cricketer Dick Barlow was immortalised in Francis Thompson's poem "At Lord's".
  • Dutch cricketer Maurits van Nierop had been recalled to the Netherlands national cricket team squad for the first time in two years just two weeks before he died.
  • Ernest Dynes, best known as an English cricketer in the 1920s and 1930s, served as Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II between 1955 and 1957, for which he was awarded the CBE.
  • Farhad Reza, along with 12 other Bangladeshi cricketers, was banned from playing for 10 years after joining the Dhaka Warriors team in the unauthorised Indian Cricket League.
  • Emerson Rodwell, a former captain of the Tasmanian cricket team, scored 11,542 runs and took 331 wickets in his club career, as well as earning the Military Medal in Borneo during World War II.
  • Edward Barrett played rugby union for England, and cricket for the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States.
  • Dar Lyon was the only English cricketer involved in the 1924 Test Trial match not to go on to represent England at Test cricket.
  • Deepak Chougule, a cricketer from the Indian state of Karnataka, created a junior world record for the most runs scored in a single day of a cricket match when he scored 400 runs in a match against Goa.
  • Frank Leslie Walcott, the first Barbadian ambassador to the United Nations, was also an exceptional cricket umpire.
  • George Patterson's score of 271 is the highest total in a single innings for a cricketer from a non-Test nation.
  • Johann Myburgh, a South African cricketer playing in New Zealand, broke Graeme Pollock's mark for the fastest first-class double century.
  • John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset was one of the most noted cricketers of the mid-to-late 18th century.
  • Jimmy Matthews is the only Test cricketer to have bowled two hat tricks in one match, a feat achieved during the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England.
  • Jack Iverson developed his unique "bent finger" bowling action (pictured) while experimenting during recreational cricket while serving in Papua New Guinea during World War II.
  • Harry Peckham (pictured), along with Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville, wrote the first cricket rules to include a leg before wicket clause.
  • Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard was an explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter, international cricketer, novelist and marksman who founded the British Army's sniping school during the First World War.
  • Colin McDonald and George Thoms were Australian cricketers who, uniquely, opened the batting for their club, state and national teams in the same season.
  • Chetan Sharma, a former Indian cricketer, was the first Indian ever to get a ten wicket haul overseas, taking 10/188 against England in a Test Series in 1986.
  • Somerset cricket captain Jack Meyer was entrusted with the education of seven Indian boys, six of them princes, and founded the Millfield School to do so.
  • Somerset cricketer Bill Hyman hit 62 runs from two overs of lob bowling by W G Grace's older brother.
  • Rhodesian cricketer Ray Gripper's score of 279 not out in a 1968 game against Orange Free State was a Currie Cup record.
  • Nottinghamshire and England cricketer Charles Wright was the first captain to declare an innings closed.
  • New Zealand cricketer Ted Badcock is the only player to be out first ball in both innings on his Test debut.
  • New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain Merv Wallace has been called "the most under-rated cricketer to have worn the silver fern".
  • South African cricketer Geoff Griffin took a hat-trick in his second Test match, at Lord's in 1960, but was no-balled repeatedly for throwing in the same match and in the exhibition match that followed it, and never played Test cricket again.
  • Alex Cusack, on his debut in first-class cricket, partnered with Andre Botha to break a 111 year record.
  • Ben Brocklehurst, one of the last amateur captains in county cricket and later owner and publisher of The Cricketer magazine from 1972 to 2003, is the grandfather of cricketer Ben Hutton.
  • Brian Statham shares his name with an England international cricketer and was himself a talented schoolboy cricketer, but opted to pursue a career in professional football.
  • a recent cricket match saw the record for highest team total for a single innings in One-day Internationals broken by both the teams, and has been called the greatest ODI match ever by much of the cricket media.
  • Andy Ducat suffered a heart attack and died whilst playing in a wartime cricket match and is the only person to have died during a cricket match on the Lord's Cricket Ground.
  • Andrew Jordaan was the first cricketer to be timed out in a first-class match after poor weather delayed him in reaching the ground to start his innings.
  • 22-year-old Indian cricketer Vikram Singh, regarded by many as the fastest bowler in India, played only 5 matches for his state before being selected for the national squad against Sri Lanka.
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