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question_answer1) What does 'bat' mean?
question_answer2) Why did the earlier cricket bats look like hockey sticks?
question_answer3) Give peculiarity of a Test Cricket Match.
question_answer4) Give a curios characteristic of cricket.
question_answer5) Why was cricket codified?
question_answer6) When were the first laws of cricket drawn?
question_answer7) How are stumps kept in cricket?
question_answer8) What must be the weight of cricket ball?
question_answer9) When and where was the first cricket club formed?
question_answer10) Who became the guardian of cricket's regulations?
question_answer11) What changes were made in bowling between 1760s and 1770s?
question_answer12) What was the limit of bat and bowl?
question_answer13) When was the law of leg before introduced?
question_answer14) Give any two important changes made in cricket in 19th century.
question_answer15) Originally what was the time limit of a cricket match?
question_answer16) How were boundary laws followed in a cricket game?
question_answer17) How is a cricket ball made?
question_answer18) How is a cricket bat manufactured?
question_answer19) Who were amateurs?
question_answer20) Who were professionals?
question_answer21) Why was cricket called a batsmen game?
question_answer22) What do you know about Eton School?
question_answer23) What was the significance of cricket according to Thomas Arnold, headmaster of famous school?
question_answer24) Which ideal of amateur was glorified in cricket?
question_answer25) In which colonies was cricket established as a popular sport by the White settlers?
question_answer26) When was the first Non-White club of cricket was established in West Indies?
question_answer27) How was victory of West Indies against England in 1950 celebrated?
question_answer28) When did the first Black player of West Indies lead their team:?
question_answer29) When was the first Indian Cricket club formed?
question_answer30) Which was the first Indian Community to play cricket?
question_answer31) Which was the first Parsi cricket club?
question_answer32) Who founded these Parsis clubs?
question_answer33) What was the conflict between Bombay Gymkhana Club and Parsis Club?
question_answer34) Name the teams of Quadrangular tournament.
question_answer35) Name the teams of Pent angular tournament.
question_answer36) Who all condemned the Pent angular Tournament of cricket?
question_answer37) What is Decolonization process?
question_answer38) What does ICC stand for, historically and currently?
question_answer39) Which countries dominated ICC?
question_answer40) Name the countries which played cricket with S. Africa, a racist state.
question_answer41) Name the Test playing countries that refused to play with South Africa, a racist state.
question_answer42) Why was 1971 considered a landmark year in History of Cricket?
question_answer43) When was the first World Cup of One Day International played?
question_answer44) Who introduced cricket in media?
question_answer45) What innovative ideas were introduced by Kerry Packer?
question_answer46) How did cricket become marketable game?
question_answer47) How did television channels earn revenue?
question_answer48) How has television coverage changed cricket?
question_answer49) Why has cricket's centre of gravity shifted to South Asia?
question_answer50) To which place did the headquarters of ICC shift?
question_answer51) Which two great advances in bowling were made in Pakistan?
question_answer52) How were these innovations of Pakistan bowlers greeted by Britain and Australia?
question_answer53) What are the peculiarities of Test cricket?
question_answer54) What important changes were introduced in cricket in the 19th century?
question_answer55) 'Cricket's connection with a rural past can be seen in the length of a Test Match.' How far is this statement true?
question_answer56) How is the vagueness about the size of a cricket ground also a result of its village origins?
question_answer57) Which protective material shows technological change in cricket?
question_answer58) Mention any three provisions of Laws of Cricket' written in 1744.
question_answer59) What kind of cricket was played by women?
question_answer60) How did cricket remain a colonial game?
question_answer61) How was cricket dominated by the White elites in British colonial territories like the West Indies?
question_answer62) What were the two ironies behind the victory of West Indies against England?
question_answer63) Give a brief description of cricket clubs in India.
question_answer64) Why is Test cricket called a unique game ? How is it different from other team games?
question_answer65) Who were the famous Indian cricketers during the British rule and when were the Pent angular teams formed?
question_answer66) When did India enter the world of Test cricket?
question_answer67) How did decolonisation affect the development of cricket?
question_answer68) Why was the ICC renamed?
question_answer69) Why was the ICC headquarters shifted from London to Dubai?
question_answer70) When and where was the world's first cricket club formed?
question_answer71) What changes were brought in protective equipment?
question_answer72) How did cricket become popular in West Indies?
question_answer73) What were the first written 'Laws of Cricket'?
question_answer74) What kind of changes were introduced by MCC in the second half of 18th century?
question_answer75) What do you know about cricket's equipment? What is so special about it?
question_answer76) Differentiate between Amateurs and Professionals.
question_answer77) Analyse the origins of Indian cricket.
question_answer78) Who introduced cricket into the media? How were One-day Internationals (ODIs) introduced?
question_answer79) What role did the television play in revolutionising the game of cricket?
question_answer80) How were new techniques introduced by the sub continental teams?
question_answer81) How did material of bat change over time?
question_answer82) How did cricket enter India?
question_answer83) "The organisation of cricket in England reflected the Nature of English Society" Mention any five suitable facts to justify the statement.
question_answer84) How were values drawn from games like cricket?
question_answer85) What role did television play in revolutionising the game of cricket?
question_answer86) The specified length of the cricket pitch is (a) 21 yards (b) 22 yards (c) 23 yards (d) 20 yards
question_answer87) The full form of MCC is (a) Melbourne Cricket Club (b) Montfort Cricket Club (c) Marylebone Cricket Club (d) Manchester Cricket Club
question_answer88) The first non-White cricket club was formed in (a) India (b) West Indies (c) South Africa (d) United States
question_answer89) What was the only White cricket club in India called? (a) The Bombay Gymkhana (b) The British Gymkhana (c) The Calcutta Gymkhana (d) The Madras Gymkhana
question_answer90) Which television tycoon televised cricket for the first time? (a) Perry Packer (b) Kerry Packer (c) Terry Packer (d) Jerry Parker
question_answer91) The office of the ICC headquarters was shifted from London to (a) West Indies (b) India (c) Wales (d) Dubai
question_answer92) What does the word 'bat' mean?
question_answer93) In which country was the game of cricket invented?
question_answer94) What is the length of the pitch for cricket game?
question_answer95) When and where was the world's first cricket club formed?
question_answer96) When was the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) founded?
question_answer97) What was the initial weight of a cricket ball?
question_answer98) Who were known as amateurs?
question_answer99) Which game was usually played by girls in Britain at the end of the 19th century?
question_answer100) Who were known as professionals?
question_answer101) What is the weight of the cricket ball after the new cricket regulations published by MCC?
question_answer102) Name the first black player who captained the West Indian team.
question_answer103) Which community was the first to start playing cricket in India?
question_answer104) Which was the first Indian cricket club?
question_answer105) When were the cricket's rules made?
question_answer106) When did India enter the world of Test cricket?
question_answer107) Which city has International Cricket Council's headquarters?
question_answer108) Who introduced the 'World Series Cricket'?
question_answer109) Why were the first laws of cricket drawn up?
question_answer110) When was first One Day Cricket World Cup played?
question_answer111) Why was the 'Reverse Swing' was introduced in the subcontinent?
question_answer112) In the game of cricket who is always given the benefit of doubt?
question_answer113) Who was SA Brelvi?
question_answer114) Who are Mulattos?
question_answer115) Which factor is responsible to create a global market for cricket?
question_answer116) Name the cricket club founded by the parsis in Bombay in 1848.
question_answer117) Which cricket tournament was later named as the 'Ranji Trophy'?
question_answer118) Name the Australian player who tried to play with and Aluminium bat?
question_answer119) In which year was South Africa excluded from the international cricket?
question_answer120) What was Pentangular Tournament?
question_answer121) In colonial India, on what basis was cricket organised?
question_answer122) (a) Who were the amateurs and professionals? (b) The rich were amateurs for two reasons. Mention the two reasons. (c) 'The laws of cricket always give the benefit of doubt to the batsman'. Why?
question_answer123) When were the 'Laws of Cricket' drawn up ? What was stated in the written laws of cricket? Or Examine any three provisions of the 'laws of Cricket' drawn up in 1744. Or State any three important provisions of the first written 'Laws of Cricket' drawn up in 1744.
question_answer124) What does the sports curriculum of a 19th century girl's school tell us about the behaviour considered proper for girls at that time?
question_answer125) (a) Which Indian community was the first to play cricket in India and why? (b) Name the five teams that participated in the Pentangular Tournament.
question_answer126) (a) Who was Kerry Packer? (b) What innovations did Kerry Packer introduced which changed the nature of the game? Or Mention any three innovations introduced by Kerry Packer that made cricket more attractive for the spectators.
question_answer127) 'One hundred and fifty years ago, the first Indian cricketers, the Parsis, had to struggle to find an open space to play in'. Explain.
question_answer128) (a) Who was India's first Test captain? (b) When did India enter the world of Test Cricket? (c) Which was India's first cricket club? Who founded it and when?
question_answer129) Describe three main differences between amateurs and professionals? Or Mention any five differences between amateurs and professionals. Or Distinguish between Amateurs and professionals.
question_answer130) It's often said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. This means that Britain's military success was based on the values taught to school boys in its public schools. Eton was the most famous of these schools. The English boarding school was the institution that trained English boys for careers in the military, the civil service and the church, the three great institutions of imperial England. Read the above passage and answer the following questions (a) Why it is said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing ground of Eton? (b) What values do you learn from the given passage?
question_answer131) Why is cricket considered to be a colonial game?
question_answer132) Till the last part of the 19th century, sports and vigorous exercise for girls was not a part of their education. By the 1890s, school began acquiring playgrounds and allowing girls to play some of the games earlier considered male preserves. Read the given passage and answer the following questions (a) Why some games were considered male preserves? (b) What values do you imbibe from the given passage?
question_answer133) Describe any three changes that have taken place in the game of cricket in the 20th century.
question_answer134) What does the word 'circus' refer to? Describe the innovations introduced by Packer to make cricket more interesting. Which format of the present day cricket was not suggested by Packer?
question_answer135) Why it is said that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton? Explain. Or 'The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton". Explain the statement. Or " The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton". Justify the statement by giving three reasons.
question_answer136) 'Test cricket is unique game in many ways'. Justify the statement by giving any three peculiarities of Test cricket? Or How is Test cricket unique and different from other games?
question_answer137) (a) Who were the amateurs and professionals? (b) The rich were amateurs for two reasons. Mention the two reasons. (c) 'The laws of cricket always give the benefit of doubt to the batsman'. Why?
question_answer138) When were the 'Laws of Cricket' drawn up ? What was stated in the written laws of cricket? Or Examine any three provisions of the 'laws of Cricket' drawn up in 1744. Or State any three important provisions of the first written 'Laws of Cricket' drawn up in 1744.
question_answer139) What does the sports curriculum of a 19th century girl's school tell us about the behaviour considered proper for girls at that time?
question_answer140) (a) Which Indian community was the first to play cricket in India and why? (b) Name the five teams that participated in the Pentangular Tournament.
question_answer141) (a) Who was Kerry Packer? (b) What innovations did Kerry Packer introduced which changed the nature of the game? Or Mention any three innovations introduced by Kerry Packer that made cricket more attractive for the spectators.
question_answer142) 'One hundred and fifty years ago, the first Indian cricketers, the Parsis, had to struggle to find an open space to play in'. Explain.
question_answer143) (a) Who was India's first Test captain? (b) When did India enter the world of Test Cricket? (c) Which was India's first cricket club? Who founded it and when?
question_answer144) Describe three main differences between amateurs and professionals? Or Mention any five differences between amateurs and professionals. Or Distinguish between Amateurs and professionals.
question_answer145) It's often said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. This means that Britain's military success was based on the values taught to school boys in its public schools. Eton was the most famous of these schools. The English boarding school was the institution that trained English boys for careers in the military, the civil service and the church, the three great institutions of imperial England. Read the above passage and answer the following questions (a) Why it is said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing ground of Eton? (b) What values do you learn from the given passage?
question_answer146) Why is cricket considered to be a colonial game?
question_answer147) Till the last part of the 19th century, sports and vigorous exercise for girls was not a part of their education. By the 1890s, school began acquiring playgrounds and allowing girls to play some of the games earlier considered male preserves. Read the given passage and answer the following questions (a) Why some games were considered male preserves? (b) What values do you imbibe from the given passage?
question_answer148) Describe any three changes that have taken place in the game of cricket in the 20th century.
question_answer149) What does the word 'circus' refer to? Describe the innovations introduced by Packer to make cricket more interesting. Which format of the present day cricket was not suggested by Packer?
question_answer150) Why it is said that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton? Explain. Or 'The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton". Explain the statement. Or " The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton". Justify the statement by giving three reasons.
question_answer151) 'Test cricket is unique game in many ways'. Justify the statement by giving any three peculiarities of Test cricket? Or How is Test cricket unique and different from other games?
question_answer152) Test cricket is a unique game in many ways. Discuss some of the ways in which it is different from other team games. How are the pecularities of Test cricket shaped by its historical beginnings as a village game?
question_answer153) Describe one way in which in the 19th century, technology brought about a change in equipment and give one example where no change in equipment took place.
question_answer154) Explain why cricket became popular in India and the West Indies. Can you give reasons why it did not become popular in countries like South America? Or Explain why cricket became popular in the colonies. Give suitable examples.
question_answer155) Give brief explanations for the following. (a) The Parsis were the first Indian community to set up a cricket club in India. (b) Mahatma Gandhi condemned the Pentangular Tournament. (c) The name of ICC was changed from the Imperial Cricket Conference to the International Cricket Conference. (d) The shift of the ICC headquarters from London to Dubai.
question_answer156) How have advances in technology, especially television technology affected the development of contemporary cricket?
question_answer157) "The history of gymkhana cricket led to first class cricket being organised on communal and racial lines." Explain. Or How far is it correct to say that the history of Gymkhana cricket led to first class cricket being organised on communal and racial lines?
question_answer158) A sound body means one which bends itself to spirit and is always a ready instrument at its service. Such bodies are not made, in my opinion, on the football field. They are made on cornfields and farms. I would urge you to think this over and you will find innumerable illustrations to prove my statement. Our colonial-born Indians are carried away with this football and cricket mania. These games may have their place in certain circumstances... Why do we not take the simple fact into consideration that the vast majority of making who are vigorous in body and mind are simplest agriculturists, that they are strangers to these games and they are the salt of the Earth?' Read the given passage and answer the following questions (a) What, according to Gandhiji, is a sound body and where is it made? (b) Which games are manias amongst colonial-born Indians? (c) Whom does Gandhiji refer to as the salt of the Earth? (d) What values do you learn from the given passage?
question_answer159) "The British used cricket to carry out their racial policy in their colonies". Justify by giving examples. Or "The cricket in the clonial India reflected the British policy of divide and rule". Justify the statement with five suitable examples.
question_answer160) In the matter of protective equipment, cricket has been influenced by technological changes. Prove this statement with suitable arguments. Or "Cricket has changed with changing times and yet fundamentally remained true to its origin in rural England". Justify this statement with examples.
question_answer161) Critically examine the significance of the victory of West Indies in first Test Series against England in 1950.
question_answer162) 'The cricket's most important tools are all made of natural pre-industrial materials.' In the light of this statement which of the following statements is/are true? (a) The bat is made of wood as are the stumps (b) The ball is made with leather, twine and cork (c) The material of bat changed slightly, over time
question_answer163) Match of following List I List II A. Adelaide Qval 1. Delhi B. Chepauk 2. Kolkata C. Eden Gardens 3. Chennai D. Feroz Shan Kotla 4. Australia Codes A B C D (a) 4 3 2 1 (b) 2 3 4 1 (c) 4 2 3 1 (d) 2 1 4 3
question_answer164) The famous Ranji Trophy was earlier known as (a) National Tournament (b) National Cricket Championship (c) National Cricket Tournament (d) None of the above
question_answer165) Which of the following countries was excluded from international cricket for policy of racial segregation? (a) South Africa (b) West Indies (c) Sri Lanka (d) Zimbabwe
question_answer166) Many important changes occurred during the 19th century. Which of the following is not a part of these changes? (a) The rule about the no ball was introduced (b) The exact circumference of the ball was specified (c) Boundaries were introduced where previously all shots had to run (d) None of the above
question_answer167) Which of the following statements is/are correct about the game of cricket? (a) One of the peculiarities of Test cricket is that a match can go on for five days and still end in a draw (b) The laws simply lay down that the umpire shall agree with both captains on the boundaries of the playing area (c) The cricket remained a colonial game, limited to countries that had once been part of the British Empire (d) All of the above
question_answer168) Match the following List I List II A. Quadrangular 1. Players for the Rest, the fifth tem, comprised of all communities B. Pentangular 2. Editor of newspaper the Bombay Chronicle C. Vijay Hazare 3. Tournament played by five teams D. SA Brelvi 4. Tournament played by four teams Codes A B C D A B C D (a) 4 3 1 2 (b) 3 4 2 1 (c) 1 2 3 4 (d) 2 1 3 4
question_answer169) The wood of? tree is used in making of bats. (a) willow (b) sandal (c) teak (d) sal
question_answer170) In colonial India or what basis was cricket organised?
question_answer171) The first one day International was played between which two countries in 1971 ?
question_answer172) Which bowling technique did pakistan pioneer?
question_answer173) When was the privileged position of England and Australia in ICC scrapped in favour of equal membership.
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