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120+ Useful Cricket Trivia Questions and Answers for Kids and Adults

Posted on the 12 April 2021 by Nihar Ranjan Gahan Gahan

Cricket”, the most wonderful sport globally; not all people of all countries love to play cricket, but most countries do; for me, it matters a lot. After all, I am pleased that you are also a fan of cricket and a strong willingness to know more about it. I will definitely help you get more informative cricket data through our Cricket trivia questions and answers section.

Cricket plays between two teams of eleven players of each team, did you know it before. If yes, you should try difficult trivia questions and if no, they have to start from beginning cricket trivia questions.

List of Cricket Trivia Questions and Answers

  1. What are the primary requirements to play Cricket? Answer Bat, Ball, players
  2. The oval with Rectangular area called as? Answer The Peach
  3. What is the length of Cricket pitch? Answer 20.12 Meter Lenghth and 3.4 Meter Width
  4. Lies horizontally Across the top of each wickets are called? Answer Bails
  5. Two sets of three sticks are known as? Answer Wickets
  6. How many players allows to play cricket from a single team? Answer Eleven Players
  7. Does there any referee needed to navigate the Cricket? Answer Yes
  8. How many umpires required to perform the Cricket? Answer Three Umpire
  9. Who Was the England’s first Captain in Cricket? Answer James Liliwhite
  10. What is the name of the English Captain is also famous for a popular violinist? Answer Tony Lewis
  11. What is the name of the 1st captain of Australian team? Answer Dave Gregory
  12. Which is the longest test ever played by which teams? Answer South Africa Vs England (1939), The 5th Test at Durban
  13. Who was the 1st captain when India Won 1st time from Australia? Answer Gulabrai Ramchandra
  14. What is the name of the city having a cricket playground named “Oval”? Answer Sydney
  15. What is the memorable nick name of Kapil Dev in the Guinness Book of records? Answer Haryana Hurricane
  16. Who has a wonderful and 1st hat-trick in world test series? Answer Fred Spofforth
  17. What is the name of the player have hit century in each innings in a test series? Answer Sunil Gavaskar
  18. Who was the captain won the toss of all the five test matches? Answer Don Bradman
  19. When did 1st India and Pakistan test series held? Answer 1989
  20. Which is the name of the country capable of win 60 Over, 50 Over and 20 Over world Cup? Answer India
  21. Who was the Lucky captain do that? Answer MS Dhoni
  22. Who was the player made exact numbers of runs in test series as same his birthday date? Answer Alec Stewart
  23. Who was the player 1st time represent his country (Kenya) in International Cricket? Answer Aasif Karim
  24. What is number of highest scores collected in a one over? Answer 77
  25. Who was the bowler giving 77 Runs in a over? Answer Wellington RH Vance
  26. What is the name of the player holding the record for playing must numbers of test matches? Answer Adam Gilchist
  27. When did 1st time in history a test match played on same day? Answer 2000 (England Vs West indies)
  28. Who was the player capable to take hat-trick wicket in his birthday? Answer Peter Siddle
  29. Who was the 1st cricketer, who has been hanged for Murder? Answer Leslie Hylton
  30. Who were two cricketers has taken more wickets than their total runs? Answer Chris Martin and BS Chandrasekhar
  31. Who was the player takes 19 wickets in a test series? Answer Jim Laker
  32. Who was the player who scored centuries in semifinal and final of a world cup? Answer Mahela Jayawardene
  33. Who holds the record of four consecutive man of the match awards in a single ODI tournament? Answer Saurav Ganguli
  34. What is the name of the player who represented both Australia and Netherland in International Cricket Series? Answer Dirk Nannes
  35. Who was the player hits total 6 numbers of sixes in his entire carrier? Answer Sir Don Bradman
  36. “Who scored highest every cricket series Format ends with “19” (319, ODI is 219 and in T20s in 119 (in IPL).
  37. )” Answer Virender Sehwag
  38. Who hits 1st international century in Sachin Tendulkar’s bat? Answer Sahid Afridi
  39. When did 3rd ODI between India and Australia held? Answer Rajiv Gandhi international Stadium, Hydrabad
  40. Who was the 1st Indian youngest captain? Answer Mansoor Ali Khan (21 Years)
  41. What are the names of Indian Cricketer have been stumped out in test matches in their entire carrier? Answer Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar
  42. Who was the 1st cricketer, who hit 1st bass as sixer in test series? Answer Chris Gyale
  43. Who was the 1st woman cricketer played 200 ODI? Answer Mithali Raj
  44. Who was the man taking 10 wickets in a test series? Answer Richard Stokes
  45. Who was the 1st cricketer who has been awarded top three ICC awards in a single year? Answer Virat kohli
  46. Who was the 1st captain to claim all ICC trophies in International cricket? Answer MS Dhoni
  47. Where did cricket 1st played? Answer Sheep grazing land of South England
  48. The Word “Cricket”, Where does it came from? Answer The old English Word “Cryce” and “Rick”.
  49. When did the official law of cricket written? Answer 1788
  50. What was the name of 1st cricket team? Answer Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
  51. When did they played 1st match? Answer Lord’s field England
  52. Who 1st time introduced cricket in India? Answer The British India Company
  53. When did cricket bats made using cane handle covered with layered Rubber? Answer 1853
  54. When did International Cricket Association was founded? Answer 1909
  55. Which countries were members of that association? Answer South Africa, England and Australia
  56. When Did 1st world cup played? Answer 1975
  57. When and Where 1st one day match was played? Answer 1971, Melbourne, Australia
  58. For the spared of Cricket, when did the 1st match of north countries verse South countries played? Answer 1836
  59. All-England XI was founded by whom and when? Answer William clark in 1846
  60. When did MCC allow the hand to be raised as high as the shoulder for the bowler? Answer 1835
  61. When did first “no Ball” sign given by umpire? Answer 1862
  62. In Which year the law “Leg-Before the Wicket” introduced? Answer 1774

Cricket Trivia Conclusion:

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