West Indies became the first team to win the T20 World Cup for the second time at the 2016 edition. You can find one of the best 2016 T20 World Cup quizzes to test your brains here.
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.
- Carlos Brathwaite hit four sixes to finish off the final and win West Indies the tournament for the second time. Who was the non-striker at that time?
- Darren Sammy
- Jason Holder
- Marlon Samuels
- Dwayne Bravo
- Which two teams made it from the first round to the Super 10 stage of the 2016 World Cup?
- Bangladesh & Afghanistan
- Bangladesh & Zimbabwe
- Bangladesh & Ireland
- Bangladesh & Netherlands
- What was a first that happened in the first round match between Scotland and Hong Kong?
- Scotland won their first ever match in an ICC World Cup game
- Hong Kong became the first side to capture two hat-tricks in a T20 World Cup
- It was a first T20I match in which over 500 runs were scored
- All of the above
- England and West Indies met in the final of the tournament having also faced off in a Super 10 game earlier. What had happened in that encounter?
- England had eased to a win after bowling West Indies out for 85
- Gayle had hit a 100 in West Indies’ easy chase of 183
- West Indies had fallen short of England’s score of 155 by a run
- The match had ended in a tie before West Indies won in the Super Over
- In their opening game of the tournament against New Zealand, how much did India score in their chase?
- 127/5 in 19.5 overs
- 156 all out in 18.4 overs
- 79 all out in 18.1 overs
- 144/1 in 17.3 overs
- Bangladesh needed two runs to win off the final three balls with four wickets in hand against India. What happened next?
- They hit the winning runs off a final ball overthrow
- Mushfiqur Rahim hit a boundary off the very next ball to finish off the game
- India grabbed three wickets off successive balls to win the match
- The match ended in a tie
- Who was declared the man-of-the-tournament in the 2016 T20 World Cup?
- Joe Root
- Marlon Samuels
- Mitchell Santner
- Virat Kohli
- In the high-scoring semifinal between India and West Indies where 192 was chased down, who was the only bowler who conceded just a run a ball (or lower) in that game?
- Ashish Nehra
- Samuel Badree
- Andre Russell
- Jasprit Bumrah
- Which bowler finished the tournament with nine wickets, second-highest for teams which had played from the Super 10 stage onward, and had a competition economy-rate of 5.39?
- Mitchell Santner
- Shakib al Hasan
- Samuel Badree
- Imran Tahir
- Which batter was ruled out of the tournament because of a back injury, then came back to replace another injured player just before the semifinals, played a man-of-the-match-winning knock in that game before getting dismissed for a duck in the final?
- Moeen Ali
- Johnson Charles
- Jos Buttler
- Lendl Simmons
- Two bowlers grabbed a five-wicket haul in the tournament. Who were they?
- Mustafizur Rahman & James Faulkner
- Mitchell Santner & Mohammad Nabi
- Mustafizur Rahman & Mohammad Nabi
- Mitchell Santner & James Faulkner
- Only one team finished the Super 10 stage with zero wins. Which was it?
- Afghanistan
- Zimbabwe
- Bangladesh
- Pakistan
- West Indies’ only loss in this tournament came at the hands of which team?
- Pakistan
- Afghanistan
- Sri Lanka
- South Africa
- Which team chased down a score of 229 to record the second-highest chase in all of T20Is at that time?
- West Indies
- England
- India
- South Africa
- Which batter scored the second century of his career in this tournament with the first having come in the 2007 T20 World Cup?
- Chris Gayle
- Suresh Raina
- Tamim Iqbal
- Shane Watson
Get the answers to this T20 World Cup 2016 Quiz here.
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