General Awareness

Cricket History and Facts

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Sports and Cricket History questions test your knowledge of players, major tournaments, and historical sports records. This includes cricket milestones, hockey league facts, and archery scores. Regular practice ensures better scores in the general awareness section of exams.

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Cricket History and Facts Questions

Multiple choice

Which leg spinner took the most wickets?

  1. Rashid Khan

  2. Adam Zampa

  3. Yuzvendra Chahal

  4. Imran Tahir
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Yuzvendra Chahal is the highest wicket-taking leg-spinner in the history of the IPL.

Multiple choice

When Delhi beat Hyderabad, who was man of the match?

  1. Marcus Stoinis

  2. Shikhar Dhawan

  3. Kagiso Rabada

  4. Shimron Hetmyer
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Marcus Stoinis has had several impactful performances against Delhi's opponents. In one notable IPL match, his all-round performance earned him the Man of the Match award in a game involving these teams.

Multiple choice

What is Lokesh Rahul's highest score?

  1. 153(88)

  2. 202(116)

  3. 132(69)

  4. 146(72)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Lokesh Rahul's highest score in the IPL 2020 season was 132 not out against Royal Challengers Bangalore. This innings was played off 69 balls.

Multiple choice

Who won the purple cap?

  1. Jasprit Bumrah

  2. Kagiso Rabada

  3. Trent Boult

  4. Ravichandran Ashwin
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Kagiso Rabada won the Purple Cap in IPL 2020 for taking the most wickets in the tournament. He finished with 30 wickets.

Multiple choice

Who won the orange cap?

  1. Devdutt Padikkal

  2. Lokesh Rahul

  3. AB de Villiers

  4. Deepak Hooda
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Lokesh Rahul won the Orange Cap in IPL 2020 for scoring the most runs in the tournament. He scored 670 runs.

Multiple choice

Who was named player of the tournament?

  1. Jofra Archer

  2. Lokesh Rahul

  3. Isuru Udana

  4. Kagiso Rabada
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Jofra Archer was named the Most Valuable Player (Player of the Tournament) for IPL 2020 due to his all-round performance for Rajasthan Royals.

Multiple choice

Who smashed the most sixes in IPL 2020?

  1. Chris Gayle

  2. Mayank Agarwal

  3. Ishan Kishan

  4. Jason Holder
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Ishan Kishan hit the most sixes in the IPL 2020 season. He hit 30 sixes throughout the tournament.

Multiple choice business economics and quantitative methods measures of dispersion and skewness shortcut method for calculating mean deviation about mean mean deviation about mean and median range and mean deviation

The average runs of a cricketer in four innings is $32$. How many runs he should score in the fifth inning so that his averages score becomes $50$ runs?

  1. $132$
  2. $122$
  3. $128$
  4. $126$
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Total runs in 4 innings = 4 * 32 = 128. Total runs needed for 5 innings = 5 * 50 = 250. Runs needed in 5th inning = 250 - 128 = 122.

Multiple choice maths calculating and mental strategies 3 finding percentage of a number how many in all? problems on percentage

Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given.
The average age of eleven cricket players is 20 years. If the age of the coach is also included, the average age increases by 10%. The age of the coach is

  1. 48 year

  2. 44 year

  3. 40 year

  4. 36 year
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Average of 11 players $= 20$ years.
Sum of age of 11 players $= 20 \times 11 = 220$
Average age of players and coach $1.1 \times 20 22$ years
Sum of ages of players & coach $= 22 \times 12 = 264$ years.
Age of coach $= 264 - 220 = 44$ years. 

Multiple choice

First indian cricketer to hit 300 sixes in T20 matches across all tournaments?

  1. Rohit sharma

  2. virat kholi

  3. MS Dhoni

  4. Suresh Raina
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Rohit Sharma holds the record for being the first Indian cricketer to hit 300 sixes in T20 matches across all tournaments. He achieved this milestone through his aggressive batting style and consistent performance in IPL and other T20 formats. Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, and Suresh Raina, while accomplished T20 players, did not reach this six-hitting milestone first.

Multiple choice

Which team won the IPL 2018 trophy?

  1. Mumbai Indians

  2. Chennai superkings

  3. Royal challengers bangalore

  4. Kolkata knight riders
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Chennai Super Kings won the IPL 2018 trophy, defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad in the final. This was CSK's third IPL title and their comeback season after serving a two-year suspension. Mumbai Indians have won multiple IPL titles but not in 2018, while RCB and KKR have also won IPL finals but in different years.

Multiple choice sports: nationalism and commerce the story of cricket history and sport: the story of cricket history social science

Statement I: Cricket emerged as a colonial game.
Statement II: Cricket was started in England.

  1. Statement I is true, Statement II is false

  2. Statement II is true, Statement I is false

  3. Both Statements are true, Statement II provides explanation to Statement I

  4. Both Statements are true, Statement II does not provide explanation to Statement I
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Cricket is a colonial game that originated in England and was spread to colonies like India, making both statements true and the second statement a direct explanation for the first.