Test your basic cricket knowledge including rules, players, formats, and famous cricket terms.
Questions
10
Reward
80
XP
35
Entry
35
Cricket has a reputation for being impenetrable to newcomers, and it is largely undeserved. The core of the game is small: two sides, a set number of deliveries, a set number of ways to be dismissed, and a scoring system that rewards hitting the ball past a rope. Everything that makes it look complicated sits on top of that. This quiz is the entry point to our cricket coverage and stays firmly in the basics. Ten questions on how many players, how many deliveries in a set, what hitting the boundary is worth, how many dismissals end an innings, and which specialist position stands behind the stumps. It also touches on the different formats the sport is played in, which is the one genuinely confusing thing about it, and a couple of historical facts. If this feels easy, the Master Challenge in this category is twenty questions and rated Hard, and it goes after records, laws and fielding positions instead.
Background and what to expect. No answers given away.
The batting side tries to score; the bowling side tries to dismiss them. Once enough batters are out, the innings ends and the roles reverse. That is the whole structure, and everything else is detail layered on top.
A side fields eleven players, and since a batter needs a partner at the other end, the number of dismissals that ends an innings is one fewer than the number of players. That relationship is worth understanding rather than memorising.
Batters score by running between the wickets, or by striking the ball to the boundary rope, which is worth a fixed amount without any running required. Clearing the rope entirely without bouncing is worth more.
Those two boundary values are the most fundamental numbers in the sport and both appear here.
The same sport is played over five days, over a single day, and in a short evening format designed for television. They differ in duration, tactics, clothing and even the colour of the ball used, because the longest format is played across daylight hours and the shortest often under floodlights.
This is where new viewers get confused, and it is the section of the quiz most likely to catch someone out.
Of the eleven fielders, one stands directly behind the stumps wearing gloves and pads, catching what the batter misses. It is the only specialised fielding role in the sport and it has its own name.
Everyone else is simply a fielder placed somewhere, and those placements have their own extensive vocabulary covered in the harder cricket quiz.
The formats are the only real difficulty. Cricket is played in three international versions of very different lengths, and the details that distinguish them, including something as basic as the colour of the ball, are the questions people get wrong.
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