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Cricket History and Facts

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Cricket History and Facts Questions

Multiple choice

Who is the only Indian cricketer to have scored a triple century in Test cricket?

  1. Virender Sehwag

  2. Sachin Tendulkar

  3. Rahul Dravid

  4. Sourav Ganguly
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Virender Sehwag is the only Indian cricketer to have scored a triple century in Test cricket, which he achieved against South Africa in 2008.

Multiple choice

Which Indian cricketer holds the record for taking the most wickets in Test cricket?

  1. Anil Kumble

  2. Kapil Dev

  3. Zaheer Khan

  4. Ishant Sharma
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Anil Kumble holds the record for taking the most wickets in Test cricket, with a total of 619 wickets.

Multiple choice

Who is the only Indian cricketer to have taken 10 wickets in a Test match?

  1. Anil Kumble

  2. Kapil Dev

  3. Zaheer Khan

  4. Ishant Sharma
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Anil Kumble is the only Indian cricketer to have taken 10 wickets in a Test match, which he achieved against Pakistan in 1999.

Multiple choice

Which Indian cricketer holds the record for scoring the most runs in One Day International (ODI) cricket?

  1. Sachin Tendulkar

  2. Rahul Dravid

  3. Sourav Ganguly

  4. Virat Kohli
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Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for scoring the most runs in ODI cricket, with a total of 18,426 runs.

Multiple choice

Who is the only Indian cricketer to have scored a double century in ODI cricket?

  1. Sachin Tendulkar

  2. Virender Sehwag

  3. Rohit Sharma

  4. Sourav Ganguly
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Sachin Tendulkar is the only Indian cricketer to have scored a double century in ODI cricket, which he achieved against South Africa in 2010.

Multiple choice

Which Indian cricketer holds the record for taking the most wickets in ODI cricket?

  1. Anil Kumble

  2. Kapil Dev

  3. Zaheer Khan

  4. Javagal Srinath
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Anil Kumble holds the record for taking the most wickets in ODI cricket, with a total of 337 wickets.

Multiple choice

Who is the only Indian cricketer to have taken 10 wickets in an ODI match?

  1. Anil Kumble

  2. Kapil Dev

  3. Zaheer Khan

  4. Javagal Srinath
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Anil Kumble is the only Indian cricketer to have taken 10 wickets in an ODI match, which he achieved against West Indies in 1993.

Multiple choice

Which Indian cricketer holds the record for scoring the most runs in Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket?

  1. Virat Kohli

  2. Rohit Sharma

  3. Suresh Raina

  4. Shikhar Dhawan
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Virat Kohli holds the record for scoring the most runs in T20I cricket, with a total of 3,308 runs.

Multiple choice

Who is the only Indian cricketer to have scored a century in all three formats of international cricket (Test, ODI, and T20I)?

  1. Sachin Tendulkar

  2. Rahul Dravid

  3. Sourav Ganguly

  4. Virat Kohli
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Virat Kohli is the only Indian cricketer to have scored a century in all three formats of international cricket (Test, ODI, and T20I).

Multiple choice

Which Indian cricketer holds the record for taking the most wickets in T20I cricket?

  1. Jasprit Bumrah

  2. Bhuvneshwar Kumar

  3. Ravichandran Ashwin

  4. Yuzvendra Chahal
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Jasprit Bumrah holds the record for taking the most wickets in T20I cricket, with a total of 64 wickets.

Multiple choice

Who is the only Indian cricketer to have taken a hat-trick in T20I cricket?

  1. Jasprit Bumrah

  2. Bhuvneshwar Kumar

  3. Ravichandran Ashwin

  4. Yuzvendra Chahal
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Jasprit Bumrah is the only Indian cricketer to have taken a hat-trick in T20I cricket, which he achieved against Australia in 2016.

Multiple choice

Which Indian cricketer holds the record for scoring the most runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL)?

  1. Virat Kohli

  2. Rohit Sharma

  3. David Warner

  4. Suresh Raina
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Virat Kohli holds the record for scoring the most runs in the IPL, with a total of 6,624 runs.

Multiple choice

Who is the only Indian cricketer to have won the IPL title three times as a captain?

  1. Rohit Sharma

  2. MS Dhoni

  3. Gautam Gambhir

  4. Virat Kohli
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Rohit Sharma is the only Indian cricketer to have won the IPL title three times as a captain, with the Mumbai Indians in 2013, 2015, and 2017.

Multiple choice

Which Indian cricketer holds the record for taking the most wickets in the IPL?

  1. Lasith Malinga

  2. Dwayne Bravo

  3. Harbhajan Singh

  4. Ravichandran Ashwin
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Lasith Malinga holds the record for taking the most wickets in the IPL, with a total of 170 wickets.

Multiple choice

Who is the all-time leading run-scorer in Test cricket?

  1. Sachin Tendulkar

  2. Ricky Ponting

  3. Jacques Kallis

  4. Brian Lara
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Sachin Tendulkar is the all-time leading run-scorer in Test cricket with 15,921 runs.