Cricket Quiz: History of Cricket
Presenting Cricket Quiz # 5 – a set of six questions on the History of Cricket. Hope you find them interesting and enlightening.
Q.1 The acronym ICC now expands into International Cricket Committee, but that was not always the case. Before the renaming in 1965, what did the letters ICC stand for?
Q.2 The first official international cricket match took place in 1844. Which were the two teams involved in the match?
Q.3 It evolved out of the White Conduit Club in 1787 . Its members revised the laws of cricket in 1788 and gradually took control of the game thereafter. What is ‘it’?
Q.4 Fill up the blanks:
The Gillette Cup that began in 1963 in England was the first major _____ _____ tournament.
Q.5 What was condemned and outlawed by the MCC in 1935?
Q. 6 Stuart Robertson, the marketing manager of the ECB proposed the idea in 2002 and it was put to vote. The proposal was passed by 11 votes to 7. What was Robertson’s proposal all about?
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