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Cricket Quiz: Rules, Grounds and Famous Firsts

A cricket quiz is only worth coming back to if the answers stay true, so all 15 questions here rest on things the game has settled: the laws, the formats, the grounds and the famous firsts. Nothing depends on last night's score or on who happens to be batting well this season. You will meet the six ball over, the pitch measured at twenty two yards from stump to stump, the five day Test and the fifty over international. The umpire signals are in here too, because arms above the head and arms straight out sideways mean very different things to a crowd. The grounds are Lord's, headquarters of the MCC since 1814, and Eden Gardens in Kolkata, which opened in 1864 and staged its first Test in 1934. The firsts are the 1877 match in Melbourne that began Test cricket and India's win at Lord's in 1983. Every answer carries a one line explanation, so a wrong guess still leaves you knowing something, and the score lands the moment you finish.

All 15 questions

  1. How many balls are bowled in one standard over?

    • Four
    • Five
    • Six
    • Eight

  2. How long is a cricket pitch from stump to stump?

    • 18 yards
    • 20 yards
    • 22 yards
    • 24 yards

  3. How many days is a Test match scheduled to last?

    • Three
    • Four
    • Five
    • Seven

  4. How many overs does each side get in a One Day International?

    • Forty
    • Forty-five
    • Fifty
    • Sixty

  5. Which ground is known as the home of cricket?

    • The Oval
    • Lord's
    • Newlands
    • Eden Gardens

  6. How many bails sit on top of the stumps at each end?

    • One
    • Two
    • Three
    • Four

  7. An umpire raising both arms above the head is signalling what?

    • A four
    • A six
    • A wide
    • A no ball

  8. Eden Gardens, a Test ground since 1934, is in which city?

    • Mumbai
    • Chennai
    • Kolkata
    • Delhi

  9. The first Test match, in 1877, was played between Australia and who?

    • England
    • India
    • South Africa
    • West Indies

  10. In which year did India win the Cricket World Cup for the first time?

    • 1975
    • 1979
    • 1983
    • 1987

  11. Which colour ball is used in day and night Test matches?

    • Red
    • White
    • Pink
    • Orange

  12. Which fielding position stands beside the wicketkeeper to catch edges?

    • Gully
    • Slip
    • Point
    • Mid-off

  13. An umpire holding both arms straight out sideways is signalling what?

    • A wide
    • A bye
    • A dead ball
    • A leg bye

  14. Runs taken when the ball misses both bat and body are recorded as what?

    • Byes
    • Leg byes
    • Wides
    • Overthrows

  15. Off a no ball, which of these dismissals can still happen?

    • Bowled
    • Caught
    • Run out
    • Leg before wicket