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Cricket is a sport that is beloved by millions of fans around the world. It is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players, and is known for its rich history and traditions. From the iconic Lord's Cricket Ground in London, to the colorful Indian Premier League, cricket is a sport that is steeped in culture and passion. Here is a list of cricket trivia questions to test your knowledge of this exciting sport.
Whether you're a cricket expert or a beginner, these trivia questions are sure to challenge and entertain you. So why not test your knowledge and see how many you can get right?
1. Arguably the second-most popular in the world after soccer, what lucky sport has defensive positions named gully, silly mid-off, and deep mid wicket?
Answer: Cricket
2. As part of an effort to break into the Indian market, Nike released the Air Zoom Yorker to target players of what sport?
Answer: Cricket
3. Kashmir and English willow are the two most common materials for constructing what piece of cricket equipment?
Answer: Bat
4. As part of the apartheid boycott, what nation was banned from international cricket from 1970 to 1992?
Answer: South Africa
5. In the late 1800s, former cricketer Henry Chadwick was living in Brooklyn, New York, when he devised the "box score" for what other sport?
Answer: Baseball
6. In the oldest written record of the sport of cricket, there is a 1611 entry in which two parishioners in Sussex, England, failed to attend church because they were playing cricket. What important Christian holiday did these men skip to play bowler and batsman?
Answer: Easter
7. Originally known as the Sheffield Shield and today known as the Marsh Sheffield Shield because of sponsorship, this first-class cricket competition crowns a domestic champion from the six states of what nation?
Answer: Australia
8. An "inning" is one of nine periods of play in the sport of baseball (or seven periods of play in softball). An "innings"—with an s—is a period of play in what other sport? In some versions, a game consists of four innings over several days.
Answer: Cricket
9. What country’s national cricket team is known as the "Men in Blue?"
Answer: India
10. In cricket, what word that rhymes with the sport refers to the set of stumps and bails at either end of the pitch?
Answer: Wicket
11. "Angela, Pamela, Sandra, and Rita" are mentioned in what Lou Bega song that the UK's Channel 4 uses as theme music for its live Test coverage and highlights?
Answer: Mambo No. 5
12. What is the only African country to make it to the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup semi-finals more than once?
Answer: South Africa
13. How many inches is the circumference of a standard Cricket ball?
Answer: 9.1 inches
14. In the 2014 Disney sports movie “Million Dollar Arm,” two Indian cricket players are recruited to play baseball by an agent portrayed by what American actor, best known for playing Don Draper on “Mad Men?”
Answer: Jon Hamm
15. In cricket, what does the term “break one’s duck” mean?
Answer: To score the first run in an inning.
16. Although the origins are somewhat debated, it is generally agreed that cricket originated as a children's game in the southeastern counties of what modern-day country?
Answer: England
17. In 2021, Paras Khadka is retiring from a 17-year career playing cricket on behalf of what nation, a mountainous land with capital at Kathmandu?
Answer: Nepal
18. Cricket is under discussion to be reintroduced as an Olympic sport in the 2028 Summer Games, which are set to take place in what American city?
Answer: Los Angeles
19. What two-word name is given to the puffy, dark myrtle-green hats worn by Australian Test cricketers since about the turn of the 20th century?
Answer: Baggy green
20. How many players are on each side in a standard match of cricket?
Answer: 11
21. Founded in the late 19th century, the Authors Cricket Club was an amateur team whose famous members included what creator of Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
22. The national cricket team of what nation is known as the Lions, was coached by Mickey Arthur, and once captained by Dimuth Karunaratne? It was formerly known as Ceylon.
Answer: Sri Lanka
23. Hosting duties for the 2011 Cricket World Cup went to India, Sri Lanka, and what third country that replaced Pakistan as hosts?
Answer: Bangladesh
24. As has been tradition for many years, what color apparel is typically worn during Test cricket?
Answer: White
25. An urn that does not actually contain any cremains is the prize for what Test cricket series that has been played since the late 19th century between England and Australia?
Answer: The Ashes
26. Jacques Kallis racked up 13,289 career Test cricket runs while repping what African nation?
Answer: South Africa
27. At the top of Bleacher Report's top five cricket movies of all time is 2001's "Lagaan," which had the epic subtitle "Once Upon a Time in..." what country?
Answer: India
28. What eponymous star of a "show about nothing" did an American Express commercial in the 1990s in which he played cricket and said "wicked googly?"
Answer: Jerry Seinfeld
29. After football (soccer), what is the second most popular sport in the world? Although there is discussion about this sport returning to the Olympics in 2028, it has not been in the Olympics since 1900.
Answer: Cricket
30. During normal play of a cricket match, how many umpires are on the field?
Answer: Two
31. England cricket captain Ben Stokes was born in New Zealand. His father Gerard represented New Zealand in which sport?
Answer: Rugby League
32. What retired cricket star and former PM of Pakistan anagrams to ARM IN HANK?
Answer: Imran Khan
33. The leading run-scorer and century-maker in the history of first-class cricket was also an answer to a key question in the film "Slumdog Millionaire." What’s the name?
Answer: Jack Hobbs
34. The slang term "duck" in cricket typically refers to what score for a batsman?
Answer: Zero
35. The "Laws of Cricket" specify the rules of the game worldwide and were first drafted in 1744. How many Laws are there now?
Answer: 42
36. Twenty20 cricket is a mega-popular shortened format of the traditional structure. It first introduced at the professional level by England and Wales in what year?
Answer: 2003
37. The winner of the inaugural and second ICC Men's Cricket World Cup was what breezy team with a palm tree next to the wickets on their crest?
Answer: West Indies
38. What Taunton-based cricket club has never won a County Championship in domestic English cricket, but have placed second in 2016, 2018, and 2019?
Answer: Somerset County
39. How many centimeters above the playing surface does a standard wicket rise?
Answer: 71 (68 - 74 accepted)
40. What country has won the most Cricket World Cups since 1975, last besting New Zealand 186-3 in 2015?
Answer: Australia
41. A wicket in cricket is considered broken if one or both of what small sticks falls off? One cannot be used to pay your way out of jail if you get arrested.
Answer: Bail
42. A March 2019 win over Ireland made what national team the fourth-ever team to win one of their first two test matches?
Answer: Afghanistan
43. The Mumbai franchise in the Indian Premier League of Cricket has what team name?
Answer: Mumbai Indians
44. Inaugurated in 2020, Motera stadium, the world’s largest cricket venue, is in which Indian city?
Answer: Ahmedabad
45. Consistently one of the largest cities in India, and host of the 2011 Cricket World Cup final, Bombay officially changed its name to Mumbai in which year?
Answer: 1995
46. What was the official margin of victory when India defeated Australia in their first match in the 2023 Cricket World Cup?
Answer: 6 Wickets
47. Which player scored a century against India in India’s defeat in the 2023 Cricket World Cup final against Australia?
Answer: Travis Head
48. In 2023, it was announced that a team called the San Francisco Unicorns would be one of six to play in a new professional league for what sport?
Answer: Cricket
49. Michael Clarke, Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh, and Allan Border have all captained what country to a record five victories at Cricket World Cup finals?
Answer: Australia
50. Since they moved from London in 2005, the world headquarters for the International Cricket Council has been located in what city?
Answer: Dubai
51. What type of "impermeable buoyant" material is typically at the center of any regulation cricket ball?
Answer: Cork
52. The inaugural Cricket World Cup began on June 7, 1975, in what country?
Answer: England
53. A standard cricket match has two umpires. One stands behind the wicket, and the other stands about 20 meters away from the batsman in a position with what two-word geometric-sounding name?
Answer: Square leg
54. Brian Lara, one of the greatest cricket batsmans of all time, played for the West Indies team from 1990-2007, and is from what Caribbean nation with capital at Port Of Spain?
Answer: Trinidad
55. Finishing runner up in 2015 and 2019, what is the only country to have lost a Cricket World Cup final without winning one in another?
Answer: New Zealand
56. What “G”reat cricket team, representing the Indian state in its name, won the Ranji Trophy in 2017, the club’s first?
Answer: Gujarat
57. The Mullagh Medal goes to the Player of the Match for Australia's traditional Boxing Day face-off at MCG in what sport?
Answer: Cricket
58. A cricket pitch is typically painted with four horizontal white painted lines: two return creases, a bowling crease, and what other crease?
Answer: Popping crease
59. TOo form a wicket for the sport of cricket, two bails are balanced atop three of what objects?
Answer: Stumps
60. The inaugural women's international Test cricket match was between the English side and what other country in December 1934?
Answer: Australia
61. Nicknamed "The Don", what legendary Australian cricketer, who played in the first half of the 20th century, finished his career with an astonishing Test batting average of 99.94?
Answer: Don Bradman
62. What is the name of the Liverpool-based Premier League football (soccer) team that was founded in 1876 by the members of a local church cricket team?
Answer: Everton
63. The first batsman to score a double century in a One Day International is what Indian player with the awesome nickname "Master Blaster"?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar
64. What cricket team has been one of the most successful in the Indian Premier League, winning the championship five times, with the most recent being in 2020?
Answer: Mumbai Indians
65. When India won the Cricket World Cup (then called the Prudential Cup) in 1983, what country hosted the knockout stage of the competition?
Answer: England
66. What is the alliterative name for the fielding restrictions in limited overs cricket?
Answer: Powerplay
67. Rachin Ravindra, who had a breakout tournament in the 2023 Cricket World Cup, was born in what country?
Answer: New Zealand
68. In the title, Sachin has how many Dreams in the Indian sports documentary about the life of cricketer Sachin Tendulkar with details on his sport and personal life?
Answer: Billion
69. Twenty20's origins came in part because of the final iteration of what one-day competition in 2002?
Answer: Benson & Hedges Cup
70. What is the name for a cricket scoop in which a batsman is down on one knee and hits the ball over the wicket keeper's head? The name is taken in part from the name of a Sri Lankan player at the ICC World Twenty20 in 2009.
Answer: Dilscoop
71. Introduced in Tests in November 2009, the semi-controversial DRS stands for what Review System?
Answer: Decision
72. Although he played in less than one-tenth as many test matches, a childhood friend of Sachin Tendulkar featured a test match average higher than the all-time great. Who was the friend?
Answer: Vinod Kambli
73. What continent has the most members in the International Cricket Council, with 33 of the group’s 105 members?
Answer: Europe
74. LBW is an initialism for what phrase, which is considered one of the 10 ways in which a batsman can be dismissed?
Answer: Leg before wicket
75. In 2021, Damien Wright took over as the bowling coach of what regal Indian Premier League team that dropped Roman numerals from their name in 2020?
Answer: Punjab Kings
76. With his 183 against Sri Lanka in 1999, who holds the record for being the Indian batsman with the highest individual score at a Cricket World Cup?
Answer: Sourav Ganguly
77. What fowl term is used in cricket to represent getting no runs?
Answer: Duck
78. Mushfiqur Rahim, Tamim Iqbal, and Shakib Al Hasan are the three record-holders with the most Test runs for what nation's cricket team?
Answer: Bangladesh
79. The only Olympics in which Cricket was a sport was the 1900 event hosted in what European capital?
Answer: Paris
80. What are the two parts of a cricket bat?
Answer: Handle, Blade
81. Cricket was introduced to Papua New Guinea in the 1890s, but which village in particular is known for producing a large number of its cricket team players? It’s also where the Liklik Kricket Competition of was started.
Answer: Hanuabada
82. Prior to a December 2018 name change, what was the alliterative name of the Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League?
Answer: Delhi Daredevils
83. According to Yuvrat Singh's "Test of My Life," a character from the comic "Champak" is the source of what blushable nickname of cricketer Virat Kohli?
Answer: Cheeku
84. "Selection Day" is a 2016 novel about a young cricket star by what Indian author whose debut novel "White Tiger" won a Man Booker Prize?
Answer: Aravind Adiga
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