The 2009 T20 Cricket World Cup Quiz

Following the grand success of the 2007 T20 World Cup, its second edition was held in 2009 in England. Below is one of the most interesting T20 World Cup cricket quizzes for the 2009 edition.

The answers to this quiz can be found on another page linked below, so you don’t have to worry about reading it by mistake. Here we go with the questions.

1. Three venues were used to host the 2009 T20 World Cup. Lord’s and The Oval were two of them. Which was the third?
   1. The Rose Bowl, Southampton
   2. Trent Bridge, Nottingham
   3. Leeds, Headingley
   4. Old Trafford, Manchester
2. Which team pulled out of the 2009 T20 World Cup one year before the start of the tournament because of political reasons?
   1. Zimbabwe
   2. Kenya
   3. Namibia
   4. West Indies
3. Ireland, Netherlands and which third team qualified to feature in this T20 World Cup?
   1. Bermuda
   2. Canada
   3. Kenya
   4. Scotland
4. Which team won five matches in a row only to be knocked out in the semifinal despite being heavy favourites to go all the way?
   1. India
   2. Australia
   3. South Africa
   4. West Indies
5. India began the defence of their campaign with an opening win over Bangladesh. Which other team(s) did they beat in the tournament other than Bangladesh?
   1. None
   2. Ireland
   3. Ireland & West Indies
   4. Ireland & England
6. Which bowler finished top of the Indian bowling tables with seven wickets to his name at an average of 9.71 – the best for those who had taken at least seven wickets in the tournament?
   1. Pragyan Ojha
   2. Zaheer Khan
   3. Harbhajan Singh
   4. Rohit Sharma
7. Which bowler picked up the most wickets in the tournament (10 wickets) for one of the 2009 World T20 semifinalists and would then go on to grab six wickets in the 50-over World Cup in 2023?
   1. Wayne Parnell
   2. Pat Cummins
   3. Roelof van der Merwe
   4. Angelo Mathews
8. Pakistan went on to win the second ICC title of their career in the 2009 T20 World Cup. What one of the most glaring similarities between this win and their triumph in the 1992 World Cup?
   1. They lost to India on their way to the title win
   2. They beat New Zealand in the semifinal again
   3. Intikhab Alam was their manager-coach again
   4. Inzamam-ul-Haq was their top-scorer in the semifinal at both
9. Bangladesh was one of the Test-playing nations which was knocked out of the tournament in the very first round. Which other Test-playing team did not make the Super Eight stage?
   1. All the remaining made it through
   2. Australia
   3. England
   4. New Zealand
10. Who won the player-of-the-match award in both, the semifinal and the final?
    1. Shahid Afridi
    2. Younis Khan
    3. Umar Gul
    4. Shoaib Malik
11. Which batter smashed an unbeaten 63 in his team’s score of 101 to make 62.38% of his team’s score, a world record at that stage?
    1. T Dilshan
    2. Sanath Jayasuriya
    3. Shahid Afridi
    4. Chris Gayle
12. Sri Lanka’s coach in this tournament also helped a team win the IPL on two occasions and then a national side clinch the 50-over World Cup. Whom are we referring to?
    1. Dav Whatmore
    2. Trevor Bayliss
    3. Mickey Arthur
    4. Stephen Fleming
13. How many centuries were hit in the 2009 World T20 Cup?
    1. 0
    2. 1
    3. 2
    4. 3
14. Which Indian batter, who had made 148 runs in the 2007 T20 World Cup, topped the country’s run-scoring charts in the 2009 edition?
    1. MS Dhoni
    2. Suresh Raina
    3. Yuvraj Singh
    4. Rohit Sharma
15. Which team was booed at Lord’s during their game against India in this tournament?
    1. England
    2. West Indies
    3. South Africa
    4. Australia

Get the answers to this T20 World Cup 2009 Quiz here.

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