Q 01/05

Which is the only cricket fielder allowed to wear gloves?

A) First slip

B) Short leg

C) Silly point

D) Wicket-keeper

Answer · why

D) Wicket-keeper

Wicket-keeper: any other fielder who wilfully stops the ball with a cap or anything else that isn't part of the body hands the batting side five penal...

Q 02/05

The 22 yards of a cricket pitch equal exactly one of which old land-measuring unit?

A) Chain

B) Furlong

C) Rod

D) League

Answer · why

A) Chain

Chain: surveyors measured land with Edmund Gunter's 22-yard chain of 100 links, handy because ten square chains make exactly one acre.

Q 03/05

What did cricket add in 1775 after a bowler's deliveries kept passing clean through the wicket?

A) A crossbar

B) A third stump

C) A larger ball

D) Thicker stumps

Answer · why

B) A third stump

A third stump: Lumpy Stevens beat batter John Small three times in one match, the ball slipping through the gap each time, and Small survived to win t...

Q 04/05

What is an over called when the bowler concedes no runs?

A) Dot ball

B) Yorker

C) Googly

D) Maiden

Answer · why

D) Maiden

Maiden: byes and leg byes don't spoil one, because those extras aren't charged to the bowler.

Q 05/05

Which is the most common way for a batter to be dismissed in Test cricket?

A) Bowled

B) Run out

C) Stumped

D) Caught

Answer · why

D) Caught

Caught: it accounts for more than half of all Test dismissals, which is why close catchers such as the slips wait behind the bat for an edge.