Cricket Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which West Indian batter of the 1970s and 80s, who refused to wear a helmet even against the fastest bowling, made a then-record Test century off 56 balls against England in 1986 and an unbeaten 189 in a one-day international, and embodied the swagger of the era's all-conquering side?

Question 2

Which Indian opening batter was the first to reach 10,000 runs in Test cricket, and passed Don Bradman's long-standing record of 29 Test centuries, finishing with 34, all while facing the fearsome pace bowling of his era without a helmet?

Question 3

What is the name for the ritual before a cricket match in which a coin is spun and the visiting captain calls, the winner then choosing whether the team bats or bowls first, a choice that on a helpful or a deteriorating pitch can decide the game?

Question 4

Which South African is statistically the greatest all-rounder in the game's history, with around 13,000 Test runs at an average over 55 and 292 Test wickets with genuine fast-medium pace?

Question 5

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 6

Which annual Twenty20 competition, launched in 2008 with city-based franchise teams filled through a player auction, is by a wide margin the wealthiest event in the sport and has reshaped the global calendar around it?

Question 7

Which West Indian left-hander is regarded as the greatest all-round cricketer, able to bowl fast-medium, orthodox spin and wrist-spin, holding the Test-record individual score of 365 not out for 36 years, and the first man to hit six sixes in a single over?

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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.