Cricket questions and answers...
Cricket is a bat and ball game played between two teams of 22 players on a large circular or oval shaped grass field. There are no fixed dimensions for the sphere but its diameter usually varies between 137 m and 150 m. It is centered on a 20-metre pitch on a cricket field, with two wickets, including a ball bat at three stumps. For each leg of the game or innings, a batting side attempts to score as many runs as possible after hitting the cricket ball with the bat, while the bowling and fielding side attempt to stop it and get each player out. The game is decided by two umpires who are also a third umpire who is already a player of the game or an experienced player.
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Question 1. When was the archaic four balls per over changed to five balls per over?
Answer : In 1889.
Question 2. When was the change from five balls per over to the modern six balls per over?
Answer : In 1900.
Question 3. Name the two umpires in the first ever One Day International?
Answer : T.F. Brooks and Lou Rowan.
Question 4. When Was The First Test Match Played?
Answer : The first test match began on 15 march 1877 between Australia (captain: D.W.Gregory) and England (captain: James Lillywhite) at Melbourne.
Question 5. Who Bowled The First Ball In Test Cricket And Who Faced It?
Answer : Alfred Shaw of England sent down the first ball and Charles Bannerman of Australia faced it.
Question 6. Who Scored The First Century In Test Cricket?
Answer : Charles Bannerman of Australia scored 165 (retired hurt) in the first ever test match itself.
Question 7. Who Was The First Indian To Hit A Test Century?
Answer : Lala Amarnath. In his test debut he scored 223 against England at Mumbai in 1933 - 34.
Question 8. Who Was The First Indian To Hit A Double Century In A Test Match?
Answer : P.R.Umrigar. He scored 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955 - 56.
Question 9. Against Which Country Did P.r.umrigar Scored An Unbeaten Century And Capture Five Wickets In An Innings?
Answer : Against West Indies at Port of Spain in 1962.
Question 10. When And Where Did India Enter The Test Arena? Who Captained India?
Answer : On 25 June 1932 at Lord’s against England. C.K.Naidu was the captain.
Question 11. When, Where And Against Which Country Did India Record Its First Test Victory? Who Captained India?
Answer : On 10 February 1952 at Chennai, India defeated England by an innings and 8 runs. Vijay Hazare was the Indian captain.
Question 12. At Which Cricket Ground Did India Win For The First Time Against West Indies In A Test Match?
Answer : India won by 7 wickets at queen’s park oval, Porto of Spain, Trinidad on 10 March 1971.
Question 13. Who Holds The World Record For Most Runs Compiled By A Batsman In His First Test Series?
Answer : S.M. Gavaskar against West Indies in 1970 - 71. He scored 774 runs in 4 matches.
Question 14. Who Is The Youngest Test Cricketer?
Answer : Mushtaq Mohammad of Pakistan. He was ages 15 years and 124 days when he made his debut against West Indies at Lahore, 1958-59.
Question 15. What Record Is Held By M. Azharuddin Of India?
Answer : He is the only batsman to score hundreds in each of his first three tests.
Question 16. Who Has Scored Most Test Runs In A Calendar Year?
Answer : I.V.A Richards. In 1976 he scored 1710 runs in 11 tests for West Indies.
Question 17. There Is Only Instance Of Father And Son Carrying The Bat Through A Test Innings. Who Are They?
Answer : Nazar Muhammad and Mudassar Nazar of Pakistan.
Question 18. Who Has Scored The Fastest Test Hundred In Terms Of Balls Received?
Answer : I.V.A Richards. He scored the century off 56 balls for West Indies against England at St. John’s, 1985 - 86.
Question 19. Who Has The Scored The Maximum Test Runs In A Single Day?
Answer : D.G. Bradman - 309 runs against England at Leeds, 1930.
Question 20. Who Holds The Record For The Slowest Test Hundred?
Answer : Mudassar Nazar of Pakistan made a century England at Lahore, 1977-78 in 557 minutes.
Question 21. Who Holds The Record For Scoring Most Runs In A Test Series?
Answer : D.G. Bradman of Australia. He scored 974 runs against England in 1930.
Question 22. Which Indian Holds The Record For Sending Down Most Number Of Consecutive Maiden Over’s In First Class Cricket?
Answer : R.G.Nadkarni. He bowed 21 successive maidens on the third day of the first test between India and England at Chennai in January 1964.
Question 23. What Is The Distance Between Popping Crease And Stumps?
Answer : 1.22 metres.
Question 24. What Is The Length Of The Bowling Crease?
Answer : 2.64 metres with the stumps in the centre.
Question 25. What Is The Distance Between The Wickets?
Answer : 20.12 metres.
Question 26. What Shall Be The Weight And Size Of The Cricket Ball?
Answer : The ball, when new, shall weigh between 155.9 and 163 grams and the circumference shall be between 22.4 and 22.9cm.
Question 27. What Shall Be The Width And Length Of The Cricket Ball?
Answer : The bat overball shall not be more than 96.5cm in length. The width shall not exceed 10.8 cm.
Question 28. When Was The First Prudential World Cup Held?
Answer : In 1975.
Question 29. Who Has Played The Maximum Number Of The Matches In The First Class Cricket?
Answer : Wilfred Rhodes - 1107 matches.
Question 30. What Is The Name Of The Trophy Awarded To The Winners Of The Inter Island Championship Of The West Indies?
Answer : Shell shield.
Question 31. Where Is Quaid - E - Azam Trophy Tournament Held?
Answer : It is the national championship of Pakistan.
Question 32. In Which Country Is Currie Cup Competition Held?
Answer : It is the inter provincial championship of South Africa.
Question 33. When Was The Ranji Trophy Championship Instituted?
Answer : In 1934.
Question 34. When Was The Duleep Trophy Championship Instituted?
Answer : In 1961.
Question 35. When Was The Youngest Test Captain?
Answer : In 1959.
Question 36. Who Was The Youngest Test Captain?
Answer : Nawab of pataudi (Jr.). He was aged 21 years and 77 days when he captained India against West Indies at Bridgetown in 1962.
Question 37. Who Wrote “tiger’s Tale”?
Answer : Nawab of pataudi (Jr.).
Question 38. Can You Name The Pair Of Brothers Who Have Played Test Cricket For India?
Answer : B.P.Gupte - S.P. Gupte, S. Amarnath - M.Amarnath, M.L.Apte - A.L.Apte, C.K. Naidu - C.S. Naidu, A.G.Kripal Singh - A.G.Milkha Singh, S.Wazir Ali - S.Nazir Ali, L.Ramji - Amar Singh.
Question 39. Can You Name The Father- Son Combinations That Have Played Test Cricket For India?
Answer : Amarnath.L - M.Amarnath and S.Amarnath, D.K. Gaekwad - A.D. Gaekwad, Nawab of pataudi ( Sr ) - Nawab of pataudi ( Jr. ), V.Mankad - A.V. Mankad, Pankaj Roy - Pranab Roy, V.L Manjrekar - S.V. Manjrekar.
Question 40. In Which Year Did S.M.Gavaskar And G.r.viswanath Win Arjuna Awards?
Answer : 1977.
Question 41. Who Donated The Ranji Trophy?
Answer : The Maharaja of Patiala, Ranjit Singh ji.
Question 42. Who Is The Author Of Story Of A Cricket Person?
Answer : E.W.Swanton.
Question 43. Which Cricketer Is Nicknamed ‘electric Heels’?
Answer : Learie Constantine of West Indies.
Question 44. Who Is Called Father Of Cricket?
Answer : C.S.Marriott of England.
Question 45. Who Is The Only Sportsman To Have Played In Both World Cup Cricket And World Cup Football?
Answer : Vivian Richards, besides playing in world cup cricket, he has also represented antique in the preliminary rounds of world cup football.
Question 46. Who Is The Only Player To Have Scored A Century And Taken 5 Wickets In A One - Day Match?
Answer : Vivian Richards, 119 and 5 for 41 against New Zealand at Dunedin in March 1987.
Question 47. Who Is The Only Sportsman To Have Played In Both World Cup Cricket And World Cup Football ?
Answer : Vivian Richards, besides playing in world cup cricket, he has also represented antique in the preliminary rounds of world cup football.
Question 48. Which Are The Teams Contesting The Irani Trophy?
Answer : The national champions vs the rest of India.
Question 49. What Is Known As The Under - 22 - Interzone Tournament?
Answer : C.K.Naidu trophy.
Question 50. Which Is The Highest Individual Score In World Cup Cricket?
Answer : Gary Kirsten, S. Africa, 188 not out Vs. UAE at Rawalpindi, 1996.
Question 51. Who Claimed The First Ever Test Hat - Trick For His Country Australia In Test Crickets?
Answer : F.R.Spofforth (Melbourne, 1878 - 79).
Question 52. Which Are The Highest Individual Score In One Day Crickets?
Answer : Saeed Anwar, Pakistan. 194 Vs India at Chennai 1997.
Question 53. Which Test Cricketer Has Hit Four Consecutive Sixes In A Test Match?
Answer : Kapil Dev at lords in 1996.
Question 54. Sachin Tendulkar Holds The Record Of Making The Highest Number Of Runs In Test Cricket For India. How Many Runs Did He Score In All?
Answer : Over 30,000.
Question 55. Who Has Led India In Most Tests?
Answer : Sourav Ganguly.
Question 56. Who Captained India In Her First One - Day International?
Answer : Ajit Wadekar.
Question 57. Who Is The Only Test Cricketer To Play For Australia Against England And For England Against Australia?
Answer : W.E. Midwinter.
Question 58. How Many Tests Did Don Bradman Play And How Many Runs Did He Score?
Answer : 52 tests and 6996 runs.
Question 59. The First Asia Cup Was Held At?
Answer : Sharjah 1984.
Question 60. Who Has The Credit Of Captaining India To Her First Overseas Victory?
Answer : Mansoor Ali khan Pataudi against New Zealand.
Question 61. Who Is The Youngest Player To Score A Century In Test Cricket?
Answer : Mushtaq Mohammed of Pakistan.
Question 62. The Name Donald Bradman Is Associated With Which Game?
Answer : Cricket.
Question 63. Who Is The First Captain To Win The Toss In All Five Tests?
Answer : F.S.Jackson.
Question 64. Who Is The Only Batsman To Have Hit A Century In Each Innings Of A Test Thrice?
Answer : S.M.Gavaskar.
Question 65. Who Won The Inaugural Asia Cup Championship?
Answer : India, beating Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Question 66. Who Was Australia’s First Captain?
Answer : D.W. Gregory.
Question 67. Which English Captain Was Also A Famous Violinist?
Answer : Tony Lewis.
Question 68. How Many Centuries Has Sunil Gavaskar Scored In First Class Cricket?
Answer : Eighty.
Question 69. What Has Been The Shortest Duration Of A One - Day International?
Answer : 3 hours 26 minutes, Australia Vs India, Sydney, 1980 - 81.
Question 70. On Which Cricket Ground Were The First Test Match And The First One - Day International Played?
Answer : In Melbourne.
Question 71. Who Captained India to victory in the World Cup in 1983?
Answer: Kapil Dev.
Question 72. An India - England Match Was The First One - Day International To Extend On To The Second Day. When And Where?
Answer : At the oval, 1974.
Question 73. When And Where Was The First Ranji Trophy Match Played?
Answer : In Chennai.
Question 74. Which Country Has Played The Maximum Number Of One Day Matches?
Answer : Australia.
Question 75. When And Where Did India Play Her First One - Day International?
Answer : In 1974 at lords, England.
Question 76. Who Were The Mohammed Brothers Playing Test Cricket For Pakistan?
Answer : Wazir, Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq.
Question 77. Who Was The First Indian To Score A Double Century Against The West Indies?
Answer : Dilip Sardesai.
Question 78. Who Has The First Batsman To Score A Century Before Lunch In A Test?
Answer : K.S. Ranjit singhji (England), Vs. Australia, 1896.
Question 79. When And Where Did India Play In New Zealand First In A One - Day International?
Answer : At old trafford, Manchester, 1975.
Question 80. Which Is The Highest Test Score?
Answer : Sri Lanka 952/6 declared against India at Colombo in 1997 - 98.
Question 81. Which Was The Longest Test Ever Played?
Answer : The 5th test at Durban, south Africa Vs England (1939).
Question 82. Who Was The First All - Rounder To Score 1000 Runs And Take 100 Wickets?
Answer : Ian Botham (England).
Question 83. Name the only cricketer to score five centuries in five successive innings:
Answer: Everton Weekes.
Question 84 Who is the only batsman to have hit a century in each innings of a Test thrice?
Answer : Sunil Gavaskar.
Question 85. Which trophy is awarded to the winner of the West Indies Vs Australia Test Series?
Answer : Worrell Trophy.
Question 86. Which trophy is awarded to the winner of the West Indies Vs England Test Series?
Answer : Wisden Trophy.
Question 87. Who has been the first hat-trick recorded in Test?
Answer: Fred Spofforth.
Question 88. The 'Guinness Book of Records' gave a memorable nick name to Kapil Dev. Can you say that nickname?
Answer : Haryana Hurricane.
Question 89. 'Sunny Days' is a well-known autobiography of a world famous player. Name him:
Answer: Sunil Gavaskar.
Question 90. Which Australian city has a cricket ground called the Oval?
Answer : Sydney.
Question 91. Who was the only player to be dismissed at 99 in the Indo-New Zealand Test Series?
Answer: Rusi Surti.
Question 92. Who was India's Captain when they first won over Australia?
Answer: Gulabrai Ramchand.
Question 93. The only instance in first class cricket when father and son umpired a match was.
Answer: In 1960-61, the duo being M.G Vijaya Sarthy and M. V. Nagendra.
Question 94. This cricketer was declared out “handled the ball” in a Test against India. Name him.
Answer : Desmond Haynes.
Question 95. Two school boys, now full-fledged cricketers, who created a world record by a total score of 664 runs in a school match in Bombay. Name them:
Answer : Vinod Kambli and Sachin Tendulkar.
Question 96. Which was the longest test ever played?
Answer : The 5th Test at Durban, South Africa Vs England (1939).
Question 97. He is the first Indian to score a Test debut century in a match won by India. Name him?
Answer : Surinder Amarnath.
Question 98. Australia’s first captain:
Answer : Dave Gregory.
Question 99. Which English Captain was also a famous violinist?
Answer : Tony Lewis.
Question 100. Who was England's fist Captain?
Answer : James Lillywhite.
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