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

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 physics force and newton's laws of motion inertia and mass concept of inertia galileo's law and inertia

A tennis ball and a cricket ball, both are stationary. To start motion in them

  1. a less force is required for the cricket ball than for the tennis ball

  2. a less force is required for the tennis ball than for the cricket ball

  3. same force is required for both the balls

  4. nothing can be said
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

According to Newton's laws of motion, an object with more mass requires more force to change the current state. Since, a cricket ball is heavier than a tennis ball, therefore, less force is required to start motion in tennis ball than in cricket ball.

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 physics force and types of force introduction to force what is force? concept of force and its unit

Which of the following actions can be grouped as push?

a. A cricket ball hit by a batsman.
b. A football player kicking the ball.
c. A girl is shutting the open door of a refrigerator. 

  1. Only a

  2. Only a and b

  3. only b and c

  4. a, b and c
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

All the above examples can be grouped as push. As force is applied to move object away from the body.

Multiple choice physics the essence of change forms of energy and energy conservation energy for everything forms of energy

A cricket ball of mass 300 g is bowled towards a batsman with a speed of $\displaystyle 180\quad km\quad { h }^{ -1 }$. The batsman hits the ball such that it bounces back with the same speed. If the force exerted by the bat on the ball is 3000 N, find the duration of the impact is ____ s.

  1. 1

  2. 0.01

  3. 0.1

  4. 0.04
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Change in momentum = F * t. Initial velocity = 180 km/h = 50 m/s. Final velocity = -50 m/s. Change in momentum = m * (vf - vi) = 0.3 kg * (-50 - 50) = -30 kg m/s. Magnitude = 30. t = 30 / 3000 = 0.01 s.

Multiple choice biology skeleton - movement and locomotion gait of animals basics of joints joints and type of joints skeleton, joints and muscles

A cricket player is chasing a ball. Which group of muscles is contributing in this movement

  1. Femur, Malleus, Tibia, Metatarsals

  2. Pelvis, Ulna, Patella, Tarsals

  3. Sternum, Femur, Tibia, Fibula

  4. Tarsals, Femur, Metatarsals, Tibia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
  • Hindlimb is composed of  Femur (thigh bone – the longest bone), tibia and fibula, tarsals (ankle bones – 7 in number), metatarsals (5 in number) and phalanges (digits – 14 in number).
  • When a cricket player is chasing a ball it represents he is running. during running hind limbs assist motion hence muscles off hind limbs contribute to the motion.
  • Hence when a cricket player is chasing a ball. the group of muscles which contribute to this movement are tarsals, femur, metatarsals, tibia.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Tarsals, femur, metatarsals, tibia'.