Cricket 1 - Answers

Published: Tuesday 23rd March 2010
  1. What is the distance between the wickets on a cricket pitch? 22 yards.
  2. There are four types of extras (sundries in Australia) in cricket, can you name them? No Ball, Wide, Bye and Leg Bye.
  3. Where are the headquarters of the International Cricket Council? Dubai.
  4. What does MCC stand for in relation to cricket? Marylebone Cricket Club.
  5. Which London ground is said to be "The Home of Cricket"? Lords.
  6. Who was the first batsman to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket? Sunil Gavaskar [India].
  7. In cricket, for which English county was Gary Sobers playing when he hit Glamorgan's Malcolm Nash for six sixes from one over? Nottinghamshire.
  8. Which teams compete for the Ashes? England & Australia.
  9. What form of cricket shares its name with perfect eyesight? Twenty/Twenty.
  10. Between which two nations, not known for their cricketing prowess, did the first International take place in 1844? Canada & USA.
  11. Which cricket batsman has scored the most test runs up to March 2010? Sachin Tendilkar[India].
  12. Which cricket bowler has taken the most test wickets up to March 2010? Muttiah Muralitharan[Sri Lanka].
  13. Which cricket team has scored the highest number of runs in a single test innings? Sri Lanka [956-6 dec. vs. India 1997].
  14. Which cricket team has scored the lowest number of runs in a single test innings? New Zealand [26 vs. England 1955].
  15. Which cricket batsman averaged the highest [99.94 runs] in test matches? Don Bradman [Australia].
  16. Which cricket batsman has the highest individual score in a single test innings? Brian Lara [West Indies 400 not out vs. England 2003/4].
  17. Only two cricket bowlers have taken all ten wickets in a test innings, who were they? Jim Laker [England vs. Australia 1956] and Anil Kumble [India vs. Pakistan 98/99].
  18. Which businessman who created the 20/20 cricket tournament in the West Indies, was arrested for fraud in 2009? Allen Stanford.
  19. Who founded the break-away World Series Cricket in 1977? Kerry packer.
  20. There are ten ways that a batsman can lose his wicket in cricket, how many can you name? Bowled, Caught, Leg Before Wicket[LBW], Run Out, Stumped, Hit Wicket, Hit The Ball Twice, Obstructed The Field, Handled The Ball and Timed Out.

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