Cricket Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

What is the name for a set of six legal deliveries bowled consecutively from one end of the pitch by a single bowler, after which the umpire calls time, the fielders switch ends, and a different bowler operates from the other end?

Question 2

Which bearded Victorian doctor dominated English cricket for decades from the 1860s, scoring the first triple century in first-class cricket, playing top-level matches into his fifties, and doing more than anyone to turn the sport into a mass spectator attraction?

Question 3

Which visual break with a century of tradition, introduced by Kerry Packer's breakaway competition in 1978-79 and quickly adopted by the official game, put limited-overs teams in bright team kit with their names on the back, playing with a white ball under lights?

Question 4

Which competition, first staged over the 2019 to 2021 cycle, turns two years of bilateral Test series into a league table, with the top two sides meeting in a one-off final, and was introduced to give the five-day game a global context and a prize?

Question 5

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 6

What is the name for the dark green cap awarded to every man who plays a Test match for Australia, each player keeping the same one for a whole career so that it grows faded and frayed, and wearing it in the field, especially in the first hour, as a mark of identity?

Question 7

What is the name for a 1981 one-day international in which, with New Zealand needing a six off the last ball to tie, the Australian captain Greg Chappell ordered his brother Trevor to bowl the ball along the ground so that it could not be hit for six?

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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.