Cricket Quiz — 10 Free Questions

Question 1

Which England off-spinner took 19 wickets in a single Test match against Australia at Old Trafford in 1956, nine in the first innings and all ten in the second, figures no one has approached before or since?

Question 2

Which Australian captain led the most dominant Test side of the modern era around the turn of the century, winning 16 matches in a row twice, and as a batter famously reached a century off the last ball of a day's play against England at Sydney in 2003 while under pressure to keep his place?

Question 3

What batting feat, achieved in a men's international for the first time by India's Yuvraj Singh against England's Stuart Broad in the 2007 Twenty20 World Cup, means hitting all six legal deliveries of an over clean over the boundary?

Question 4

What is the name for the classical front-foot batting stroke, played with a full swing of the bat and the weight forward, that sends a wide, well-pitched delivery racing between the fielders positioned squarish on the off side?

Question 5

Which Indian leg-spinner took all ten wickets in a Test innings against Pakistan in Delhi in 1999, only the second bowler ever to do so, and retired as India's leading Test wicket-taker with 619?

Question 6

What is the name for a bowler dismissing five or more batters in a single innings, a benchmark of a match-winning spell that, at Lord's, earns a bowler's name a permanent place on the honours board in the dressing room?

Question 7

Which match saw England, following on and offered at odds of 500 to 1 against, win an Ashes Test by 18 runs after Ian Botham made an unbeaten 149 and Bob Willis took eight for 43 in the final innings?

Question 8

Which Australian wicketkeeper-batter transformed expectations of the role by scoring at nearly a run a ball down the order in Tests, and made 149 from 104 balls in the 2007 World Cup final, reportedly with a squash ball tucked into his bottom glove to firm up his grip?

Question 9

Which trophy, named jointly after a great batter from each country, is contested in Test series between India and Australia, a rivalry that has grown into arguably the sport's fiercest over the past two decades?

Question 10

Which Sri Lankan off-spinner took 800 Test wickets and more than 500 in one-day cricket, both all-time records, despite his bowling action being reported for illegal straightening of the arm and twice cleared after laboratory testing?

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About Cricket

Cricket is the world's second most watched sport, followed passionately across South Asia, Australasia, the Caribbean, southern Africa and the British Isles. This quiz covers it in eighty questions. Each describes a player, a format, a law, a piece of jargon, a tournament, a ground or a famous match, and asks you to name it from four choices, then explains what it is and the record or the row attached to it. Indian cricket gets full weight alongside the wider game. Every answer is a single name chosen from four, so nothing rests on remembering exact figures, and the questions make sense whether you have followed the sport for decades or are meeting it for the first time.

The first pack is the essentials: the run-machines Tendulkar and Bradman; the Ashes and its tiny urn; the three formats, Test, one-day and Twenty20; the World Cup; the laws and terms everyone should know, leg before wicket, the googly, the yorker, the over, the duck; the great bowlers Muralitharan and Warne; the all-rounder Sobers; India's World Cup captains Kapil Dev and Dhoni; Virat Kohli; and Lord's, the home of the game.

The second pack widens out. More batting greats, Gavaskar, Lara, Kallis, Ponting, Dravid and Laxman and their landmark innings. More bowlers, Kumble's ten in an innings, Laker's nineteen in a match, Wasim Akram, Michael Holding, Glenn McGrath. The wicketkeeper-batter Gilchrist. The machinery of the modern game, the follow-on, the Duckworth-Lewis method, the review system, the no-ball, the hat-trick, reverse swing, the doosra, sledging, the powerplay, the declaration. The competitions and bodies, the Indian Premier League, the International Cricket Council, the World Test Championship, the Border-Gavaskar and Ranji trophies, and Kerry Packer's breakaway. And the matches that live in memory, Headingley 1981, the two tied Tests, the 2019 World Cup final, the 2005 Ashes, Bodyline, and the Hansie Cronje fixing scandal.

The third pack is history and culture: W. G. Grace and Jack Hobbs; the Marylebone club, the Laws and their 'spirit of cricket' preamble; the yellow Wisden almanack; the Barmy Army; six sixes in an over and the 438 game; the toss, the cover drive, the all-rounder; the underarm incident; Viv Richards; the pink ball and the day-night Test; Mankading; Eden Gardens; the women's World Cup that predates the men's; the baggy green; the timeless Test; and the coloured-clothing revolution. Because a photograph of a player or a full stadium almost always gives the answer away, images are used only where a neutral view of a ground, a pavilion or a set of stumps does not, and every figure has been checked.