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

Though cricket's protective equipment has been influenced by technology but its playing equipment still is made of __________.

  1. pre-industrial material

  2. natural product

  3. hand-made goods

  4. all of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Cricket’s most important tools are all made of natural, pre-industrial materials. The bat is made of wood as are the stumps and the bails. The ball is made with leather, twine and cork. Even today both bat and ball are handmade.

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

Which club became the first to revise the laws and the guardian of cricket's regulation in 1788?

  1. YMCA

  2. BCCI

  3. ICC

  4. MCC
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was founded in 1787. In 1788, the MCC published its first revision of the laws and became the guardian of cricket’s regulations. The MCC’s revision of the laws brought in a series of changes in the game that occurred in the second half of the eighteenth century. 

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

Read the following statements and choose the right option.
Statement I: Certain materials were used to make the cricket bat, but these materials could not be adapted.
Statement II:Australian cricketer Dennis Lillee tried to play an innings with an aluminum bat, only to have it outlawed by the umpires.

  1. Statement I is true and statement II is false

  2. Both the statements are wrong

  3. Statement I is false and Statement II is true

  4. Both the statements are true
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

It consists of two pieces, the blade which is made out of the wood of the willow tree and the handle which is made out of cane. Unlike golf and tennis, cricket has refused to remake its tools with industrial or man-made materials: plastic, fibreglass and metal have been firmly rejected.  Australian cricketer Dennis Lillee tried to play an innings with an aluminium bat, only to have it outlawed by the umpires. 

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

Cricket connection shows the predominance of the ________.

  1. rural life

  2. urban life

  3. elite life

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

Cricket’s connection with a rural past can be seen in the length of a Test match. Originally, cricket matches had no time limit. The game went on for as long as it took to bowl out a side twice. In the same way, cricket’s vagueness about the size of a cricket ground is a result of its village origins. Cricket was originally played on country commons, unfenced land that was public property. 


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

The stick and ball games played in England some 500 years ago was _______.

  1. hockey

  2. baseball

  3. cricket

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

Nearly 500 years ago, cricket developed in rural England out of several stick and ball games. Till the 18th century, cricket bats were curved like hockey sticks. The game was originally played on unfenced land in English villages with no defined boundaries.

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

The width of the cricket bat was specified to be _________.

  1. four inches

  2. five inches

  3. six inches

  4. seven inches
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The MCC’s revision of the laws brought in a series of changes in the game that occurred in the second half of the eighteenth century. The weight of the ball was limited to between 5½  to 5¾ ounces, and the width of the bat to four inches. 

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

In the early phase of Indian first class cricket, teams were not organised on geographical basis but on __________.

  1. gender basis

  2. communal basis

  3. caste basis

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

 The early history of Indian first class cricket, teams were not organised on geographical principles and it was not till 1932 that a national team was given the right to represent India in a Test match. Cricket in colonial India was organised on the principle of race and religion. 

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

The victory of West Indies over England in the first Test series in 1950 was celebrated as __________.

  1. political achievement

  2. social achievement

  3. national achievement

  4. international achievement
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

 When the West Indies won its first Test series against England in 1950, it was celebrated as a national achievement, as a way of demonstrating that West Indians were the equals of white Englishmen.