Cricket (Sports) Part-II

Total Questions: 52

11. How many Test matches between India and West Indies were drawn this year? [M.P.P.C.S.(Pre) 1997]

Correct Answer: (c) Four

12. India levelled the ODI series against England (1993) at which city? [R.A.S./R.T.S. (Pre) 1993]

Correct Answer: (b) Gwalior

13. Which player belongs to Madhya Pradesh in the Indian Cricket team that visited England in 1996? [M.P.P.C.S.(Pre) 1996]

Correct Answer: (c) Narendra Hirwani

14. Kapil Dev's 400th Test wicket was : [R.A.S./R.T.S. (Pre) 1992]

Correct Answer: (d) Mark Taylor
Solution:In his 115th Test Match in 1992, Kapil Dev took his 400th test wicket with the wicket of Mark Taylor against Australia. In his test career, Kapil Dev took 434 wickets playing 131 test matches. In March 2010, he was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame. In January 2017, he was inducted into Legends Club 'Hall of Fame' at the Cricket Club of India (CCI).

In February 2019, England's Stuart Broad and South Africa's Dale Steyn broke his record of 434 wickets in International Test Matches. Now, Kapil Dev has reached at the 9th place in the list of highest wicket-takers in Tests. Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan holds the records of taking the most 800 wickets in Tests.

15. The second-youngest player to score a century in the history of Test Cricket is: [M.P.P.C.S.(Pre) 1994]

Correct Answer: (d) Sachin Tendulkar
Solution:When the question was asked in 1994, this record belonged to Sachin Tendulkar. On August 9, 1990, at the age of 17 and 107 days, Sachin became the second-youngest player to score a century in test cricket, playing an unbeaten 119 against England at Manchester. On February 8, 1961, Mushtaq Mohammad became the youngest player (17 years 78 days) to score a century in Tests.

Currently, the record of youngest player to score century in Test Cricket belongs to Mohammad Ashraful of Bangladesh. He scored his maiden century at Colombo (6th September 2001) against Sri Lanka at the age of 17 years and 61 days. Thus, Sachin Tendulkar is now at the third place.

16. Match List-I (Cricketer) with List-II (Country) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: [I.A.S. (Pre) 2003]

List-I (Cricketer)List-II (Country)
(A) Barry Richards1. England
(B) Ted Dexter2. West Indies
(C) Alan Davidson3. South Africa
(D) Charlie Griffith4. New Zealand
5. Australia

Code:

ABCD
(a)3251
(b)5142
(c)3152
(d)5241
Correct Answer: (c)

17. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? [I.A.S. (Pre) 1999]

Correct Answer: (d) Sunil M. Gavaskar - Highest aggregate of runs in Test Cricket
Solution:The record of the highest 10,122 runs scored by Sunil M. Gavaskar in Test Cricket was broken by Allan Border of Australia in the match played against New Zealand on February 26, 1993. Currently, Sachin Tendulkar holds this record. England's Jim Laker took a total of 19 wickets in the Test match played at Old Trafford during the Ashes series in 1956, which is a record.

Brian Lara of West Indies holds the record for scoring the highest individual score in an innings in Test Cricket. He scored 400 not out against England in 2004 in Antigua. Currently, Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakara and Mahela Jayawardene hold the record of the highest partnership in an innings in Test Cricket.

They both shared 624 runs for the third wicket in Colombo against South Africa in 2006. When the question was asked the record was in the name of Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasurya and Roshan Mahanama, who shared 576 runs for the second wicket against India in 1997-98.

18. Consider the following statements related to Pakistan-India Test series, 2004: [U.P. Lower Sub. (Pre) 2004]

(1) India won the series 2-1.

(2) Indian team won this test series on Pakistan soil for the first time in 52 years.

(3) In this series 'Man of the Series' award was given Virender Sehwag.

(4) Anil Kumble got most wickets in this series.

Choose the correct answer from the codes given below :

Correct Answer: (a) 1, 2, 3 and 4

19. Which country among the following has been involved in two tied matches in Test Cricket? [I.A.S. (Pre) 2002]

Correct Answer: (a) Australia
Solution:The Australian team was involved in both tied test matches in the history of test cricket. These matches were -

1. In 1960 against West Indies at Brisbane.

2. In 1986 against India in Chennai.

20. Consider the following statements: [U.P. Lower Sub. (Pre) 2004]

1. Brian Lara is the first batsman in the world to score 400 runs in an innings.

2. Brian Lara set the above record against England in Antigua.

3. West Indies won the test match in which Brian Lara made the above record by an innings and fourteen runs.

Which of the above statements are correct?

Correct Answer: (a) 1 and 2
Solution:In the fourth test match of 'The Wisden Trophy' played between West Indies and England at St. John's Antigua between 10th-14th April 2004, Brian Lara set an individual innings record of 400 runs in Test cricket, which is still a world record. The match was drawn; hence statement-3 is incorrect.