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 1. Which Indian historian and cricket lover wrote ‘A Corner of a Foreign Field’?

(A) William Dalrymple

(B) Ramchandra Guha

(C) Barun De 

(D) Devdutt Pattnaik

 

2. Which city played host to 1996 World Cup semi-final between India and Sri Lanka?

(A) Chennai

(B) Mumbai

(C) Kolkata

(D) Delhi

 

3. Which word is used for a particular leg spinners delivery?

(A) Flubber

(B) Flopper

(C) Flipper

(D) Fleecer

 

 

4. In the IPL, who became the head coach of CSK in 2009 after playing for them in 2008?

(A) Paddy Upton 

(B) Stephen Fleming

(C) Shane Warne

(D) John Wright

 

5. What is signaled by the umpire tapping his shoulder after the batsmen have finished completing their runs off a ball?

(A) Penalty Run

(B) Leg Bye

(C) Dead Ball 

(D) Short Run

 

6. Who is the most successful ODI captain of all time?

(A) Sourav Ganguly

(B) Ricky Ponting

(C) Clive Lloyd

(D) M S Dhoni

 

7. Who scored over 1710 Test runs in 1976, a record that stood for thirty years?

(A) Martin Crowe

(B) C Gavaskar

(C) Viv Richards 

(D) G Boycott

 

8. Who was the first batsman declared run out by a third umpire in cricket?

(A) Sachin Tendulkar

(B) Rahul Dravid

(C) Robin Uthappa 

(D) Ravi Shastri

 

9. Who is the inventor of ‘Helicopter shot’?

(A) Yuvraj Singh

(B) S Sresanth

(C) M S Dhoni 

(D) Santosh Lal

 

(Santosh Lal the close friend of M S Dhoni and former Ranji Teammate.)

 

10. Who is the king of IPL?

(A) Virat Kohli

(B) Sachin Tendulkar

(C) Yuvraj Singh

(D) M S Dhoni

Answer Key :

1.(b)   2.(c)   3.(c)  4.(b)  5.(d)   6.(b)    7.(c)    8.(a)    9.(d)    10.(d)