100 Cricket Quiz Questions & Answers — IPL & World Cup

Cricket Basics & Rules — 20 Questions

1. How many players are in a cricket team? (11)
2. What are the three formats of international cricket? (Test, ODI (One Day International), and T20 (Twenty20))
3. How many overs are in a standard ODI? (50 overs per side)
4. How many overs are in a T20 match? (20 overs per side)
5. What is a "wicket" in cricket? (Both the set of stumps the batsman defends and the act of dismissing a batsman)
6. What is a "century"? (Scoring 100 runs in a single innings)
7. What is a "duck"? (A batsman scoring 0 runs before being dismissed)
8. What is a "golden duck"? (Being dismissed on the first ball without scoring)
9. What is a "hat-trick" in cricket? (A bowler taking three consecutive wickets in three balls)
10. What is "LBW" in cricket? (Leg Before Wicket — when the ball would have hit the stumps but is blocked by the batsman's leg)
11. What is a "no-ball"? (An illegal delivery — bowler oversteps the crease or bowls dangerously)
12. What is a "wide"? (A delivery too wide for the batsman to reach — results in an extra run)
13. What is a "bye"? (Runs scored when the ball passes the batsman and wicketkeeper)
14. What is a "six" in cricket? (Hitting the ball over the boundary without bouncing — worth 6 runs)
15. What is a "four" in cricket? (The ball reaching the boundary after bouncing — worth 4 runs)
16. What is the DRS? (Decision Review System — technology allowing teams to challenge on-field decisions)
17. What does DRS use? (Ball-tracking (Hawk-Eye), edge detection (Snickometer/UltraEdge), and thermal imaging)
18. What is a "Powerplay" in limited-overs cricket? (Overs where fielding restrictions apply — only 2 fielders allowed outside the circle)
19. What is the "Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method"? (A mathematical formula resetting targets in rain-affected matches)
20. What is a "Super Over"? (A one-over-per-side tiebreaker in T20/ODI cricket)

World Cup & Major Tournaments — 20 Questions

21. When was the first Cricket World Cup? (1975 — held in England)
22. Which country has won the most ODI World Cups? (Australia — 6 times)
23. Who won the 2023 ODI World Cup? (Australia — defeating India in the final)
24. When did India win their first World Cup? (1983 — under Kapil Dev, defeating West Indies)
25. When did India win their second World Cup? (2011 — under MS Dhoni, at home in Mumbai)
26. What is the ICC T20 World Cup? (International Cricket Council's global T20 championship — held every two years)
27. Who won the 2024 T20 World Cup? (India — defeating South Africa in the final)
28. What is the ICC Champions Trophy? (A shorter ODI tournament featuring the top 8 ranked teams)
29. What is the Ashes? (A Test series between England and Australia — contested since 1882)
30. What is the origin of the Ashes urn? (After England lost to Australia in 1882, a satirical obituary said English cricket was "dead" — a small urn was given as the "ashes")
31. What is the Border-Gavaskar Trophy? (Test series between Australia and India)
32. What is Test cricket's most prestigious achievement? (Being ranked #1 in the ICC Test rankings)
33. What was the first ICC World Test Championship final? (2021 — New Zealand defeated India)
34. Who won the 2023 World Test Championship? (Australia — defeating India)
35. What is the ICC World Cup "Super 8"? (The knockout stage in the T20 World Cup format)
36. What country hosted the 2016 T20 World Cup? (India)
37. What is the Caribbean Premier League (CPL)? (T20 franchise cricket league for the Caribbean)
38. What is the SA20? (South Africa's T20 franchise league — launched 2023)
39. What is "The Hundred"? (England's 100-ball cricket competition — launched 2021)
40. Which team won the inaugural World Cup in 1975? (West Indies — defeating Australia)

IPL & Franchise Cricket — 20 Questions

41. What does IPL stand for? (Indian Premier League)
42. When was the IPL founded? (2008)
43. Who founded the IPL? (Lalit Modi and the BCCI)
44. Which IPL team has won the most titles? (Mumbai Indians — 5 titles)
45. What is the IPL auction? (Annual event where franchises bid for players from a player pool)
46. What is the IPL salary cap? (Teams have a maximum spend limit per season — approximately ₹100 crore)
47. Who has scored the most IPL runs? (Virat Kohli — over 8,000 runs)
48. Who has taken the most IPL wickets? (Dwayne Bravo — over 180 wickets)
49. What is the highest individual IPL score? (175* by Chris Gayle — for Royal Challengers Bangalore, 2013)
50. What is "death bowling" in T20? (Bowling in the final overs (16–20) to minimize runs — requires yorkers and variations)
51. What is a "Super Kings"? (Chennai Super Kings — one of the most successful IPL franchises)
52. Who captains/captained Chennai Super Kings to most titles? (MS Dhoni)
53. What is the "Purple Cap" in IPL? (Awarded to the tournament's leading wicket-taker)
54. What is the "Orange Cap" in IPL? (Awarded to the tournament's leading run-scorer)
55. What is a "franchise player" in IPL? (A capped Indian player retained by a team across auctions)
56. What is the Kolkata Knight Riders franchise owner's famous connection? (Co-owned by Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood superstar)
57. What is the Big Bash League? (Australia's T20 franchise competition)
58. What is the PSL? (Pakistan Super League — Pakistan's T20 franchise competition)
59. What is a "reverse sweep"? (A batsman switching hands/stance to play a sweep shot to the off side)
60. What is a "switch hit"? (Switching from right-handed to left-handed stance mid-delivery)

Legendary Players — 20 Questions

61. How many international centuries has Sachin Tendulkar scored? (100 — 51 in Tests, 49 in ODIs)
62. What is Don Bradman's Test batting average? (99.94 — the highest in history)
63. How many Test wickets did Muttiah Muralitharan take? (800)
64. How many Test wickets did Shane Warne take? (708)
65. What is Shane Warne famous for? (Leg spin bowling — reviving the art; his "Ball of the Century" to Mike Gatting in 1993)
66. Who is Virat Kohli? (Indian batting legend — one of the greatest ODI/Test batsmen of modern era)
67. What is Kohli's most notable record? (Most ODI centuries after Sachin; fastest to 8,000, 9,000, 10,000 ODI runs)
68. Who is MS Dhoni? (Indian wicketkeeper-batsman and captain — led India to 2007 T20 WC, 2011 ODI WC, 2013 Champions Trophy)
69. What is MS Dhoni famous for technically? (The helicopter shot — a high-lofted flick off the legs)
70. Who is Brian Lara? (West Indian batsman — holds record for highest individual Test innings: 400* vs England)
71. Who is Sir Garfield Sobers? (West Indian all-rounder — widely regarded as the greatest all-rounder ever)
72. Who is Sir Vivian Richards? (West Indian batsman — considered one of the most destructive batsmen in history)
73. Who is Kapil Dev? (Indian all-rounder — led India to the 1983 World Cup; 434 Test wickets)
74. Who is Wasim Akram? (Pakistani left-arm fast bowler — master of swing bowling)
75. Who is Glenn McGrath? (Australian fast bowler — 563 Test wickets; supreme accuracy)
76. Who is AB de Villiers? (South African batsman — known as "Mr 360°" for batting all around the wicket)
77. Who is Kumar Sangakkara? (Sri Lankan — one of the greatest Test batsmen; 4 consecutive World Cup centuries in 2015)
78. Who is Rohit Sharma? (Indian opener — highest ODI individual score: 264)
79. Who is Jasprit Bumrah? (Indian fast bowler — one of the best in all formats)
80. Who is Babar Azam? (Pakistan's top batsman — former #1 ranked ODI/T20 batsman)

Cricket Records & History — 20 Questions

81. What is the highest team total in Test cricket? (Sri Lanka — 952/6 declared vs India, 1997)
82. What is the highest team total in ODIs? (England — 498/4 vs Netherlands, 2022)
83. What is the highest T20 team total? (Nepal — 314/3 vs Mongolia, 2023 — for ICC T20s between major nations: 278/3 by Afghanistan)
84. What is the lowest team total in Test history? (New Zealand — 26 all out vs England, 1955)
85. Who scored the highest individual Test innings? (Brian Lara — 400* vs England, 2004)
86. Who scored the highest individual ODI innings? (Rohit Sharma — 264 vs Sri Lanka, 2014)
87. Who scored the highest individual T20 innings? (Hazratullah Zazai — 162* for Afghanistan)
88. What is the fastest century in Test cricket? (Misbah-ul-Haq tied with Viv Richards — 56 balls)
89. What is the fastest ODI century? (AB de Villiers — 31 balls vs West Indies, 2015)
90. What is the fastest T20 century? (Rohit Sharma — 35 balls)
91. What is a "Mankad" in cricket? (A runout where the bowler dismisses the non-striker backing up before delivery)
92. What is cricket's "Spirit of Cricket"? (MCC's preamble to the laws emphasizing fair play, respect, and sportsmanship)
93. What is the MCC? (Marylebone Cricket Club — custodians of the Laws of Cricket, based at Lord's)
94. Where is Lord's Cricket Ground? (London, England — "The Home of Cricket")
95. What is the MCG? (Melbourne Cricket Ground — largest cricket stadium in the world)
96. What is "corridor of uncertainty"? (Bowling on the fourth-stump line — batsman uncertain whether to play or leave)
97. What are the "Three Lions" of cricket? (Informal reference to England cricket — derived from England's national emblem)
98. What is the ICC? (International Cricket Council — governing body of world cricket)
99. When did women's cricket World Cup begin? (1973 — two years before the men's)
100. Who is the greatest women's cricketer? (Ellyse Perry (Australia) and Mithali Raj (India) are frequently cited)