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 evs magic with mirrors lateral inversion right or left reflection at plane surface

A boy in front of mirror throws ball from right hand and catches with left hand. The direction of image of ball as seen from image of boy is:

  1. Right hand to left hand

  2. Left hand to Right Hand

  3. Right hand to Right Hand

  4. Left Hand to Left Hand
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Due to lateral inversion of boy, left appears on right and right on left. 

Multiple choice physics friction increasing and reducing friction advantages and disadvantages of friction merits and demerits of friction and methods to reduce it

Kabaddi players rub their hands with soil so that they can :

  1. make their skin dry

  2. moisture the hands

  3. get a better grip while holding the opponent

  4. soil the opponent
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

By rubbing their hands with soil, they make their hands rough. A rough surface has more friction which enhances their grip while holding the opponent.

Multiple choice force exerted by collision collisions work, energy and power mechanics physics

In the game of cricket, the stumps falls when the ball strikes them. This is an example of

  1. Contact force

  2. Non contact force

  3. Displacement force

  4. None
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
When a speeding ball strakees stumps, they came in contact with each other, due to that a contact force greater between the two.
This face pushes the $3$ function in the direction of motion of the ball resulting it to fall off. 
option $A$ is correct






Multiple choice force exerted by collision collisions work, energy and power mechanics physics

If a cricket ball hits you, it will hurt much more than a tennis ball would when moving with the same velocity because:

  1. a cricket ball is bigger

  2. a cricket ball has more mass

  3. a cricket ball has less density

  4. none of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Impulse "Ft" is defined as change in momentum.

The ball with more momentum will hurt more. Here, cricket ball will hurt more as it has more momentum (mv) than tennis ball.
This is because cricket ball has more mass and same velocity as that of tennis ball.
So option B is correct.

Multiple choice

Who won the man of the match in the ipl 2008 Final?

  1. Shane warne

  2. Sohail tanvir

  3. Yusuf pathan
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Yusuf Pathan was awarded the Man of the Match in the 2008 IPL final for his all-round performance, contributing significantly with both bat and ball.

Multiple choice

Which 2 teams made their ipl debut in 2011?

  1. Kochi tuskers kerela and pune warriors india

  2. Kochi tusker's Kerala and deccan chargers

  3. Pune warriors india and rajestan royal
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Pune Warriors India were the two new franchises that made their debut in the 2011 IPL season.

Multiple choice

Who was the first Indian batsman to score an ipl century?

  1. Suresh Raina

  2. Manish pandey

  3. Sachin Tendulkar

  4. A b d villers
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Manish Pandey was the first Indian player to score a century in the IPL, achieving this feat for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2009. Suresh Raina and Sachin Tendulkar scored their centuries in later seasons.

Multiple choice

The ipl in total has 40 overs?

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A standard T20 cricket match consists of 20 overs per side, totaling 40 overs for the entire game. This is the format used in the IPL.