The 2022 T20 Cricket World Cup Quiz

Written by Suneer Chowdhary in Quiz,T20 World Cup

The 2022 T20 World Cup Quiz

With the pandemic causing a bit of a mayhem in cricket scheduling, the ICC had no option but to organise back to back T20 World Cups. The 2022 edition of the tournament was the second in as many years and below is a cricket quiz for this tournament.

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. How many teams participated in the 2022 T20 World Cup?
    1. 14
    2. 16
    3. 18
    4. 20
  2. Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and __________ were the venue cities for this competition. Fill in the blanks.
    1. Darwin
    2. Canberra
    3. Geelong
    4. Ballarat
  3. Two teams in this tournament were coached by former England cricketers. Which were the two sides?
    1. Afghanistan & Sri Lanka
    2. England & Sri Lanka
    3. England & Scotland
    4. Sri Lanka & Scotland
  4. Which was the biggest upset of the tournament from the results mentioned below?
    1. Namibia beat Sri Lanka by 55 runs
    2. UAE beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets
    3. Zimbabwe beat West Indies by six runs
    4. Afghanistan beat England by five wickets
  5. India won four of their five group stage games to make it to the semifinals where they lost to England. Which other team defeated them in the group games?
    1. Sri Lanka
    2. South Africa
    3. Pakistan
    4. Australia
  6. Virat Kohli top-scored for India in three of the five group stage games. Who was India’s highest scorer in the other two games during that phase?
    1. Rohit Sharma
    2. Hardik Pandya
    3. KL Rahul
    4. Suryakumar Yadav
  7. Which of the following statements are true about India from the 2022 T20 World Cup?
    1. They lost their second match by 10 wickets in successive T20 World Cups
    2. They became the first team to make five T20 WC semifinals without making it to the final
    3. The top-scoring batter and the top-scoring bowler both was from the Indian side
    4. They became the first team in the T20 World Cup to lose all tosses
  8. South Africa looked to have all but sealed their semifinal spot in this tournament with five points from their first three games. What happened next?
    1. They tied with Pakistan on points and were knocked out on net run-rate
    2. They lost to Pakistan and Netherlands and got knocked out
    3. They scraped through to the semifinal with a Super Over win over Zimbabwe
    4. They eased to the semifinal by topping the table with nine points
  9. Which of the following statements is true about West Indies in the 2022 T20 World Cup?
    1. They failed to qualify for the tournament
    2. They finished last in their first round group
    3. They finished third in their second round group, narrowly missing out on the semifinals
    4. They made the semifinal of the tournament
  10. Group 1 of the second round of this T20 World Cup saw three teams tie out at the top of the table with seven points apiece. Two teams qualified for the semifinal, which was the third side that missed out?
    1. New Zealand
    2. England
    3. Sri Lanka
    4. Australia
  11. Two Indians were involved as head coaches during this tournament. India were coached by Rahul Dravid, who was the other?
    1. S Sriram
    2. Robin Singh
    3. Venkatesh Prasad
    4. Ashish Kapoor
  12. Of all the sides that played in the 2022 T20 World Cup, only one team finished the tournament without a single win. Which was this?
    1. UAE
    2. Namibia
    3. Scotland
    4. Afghanistan
  13. Which player finished this tournament at a whopping average of 98.66, leaving the second best strike-rate far behind at 60.5 with those who made at least 100 runs?
    1. Virat Kohli
    2. Suryakumar Yadav
    3. Jos Buttler
    4. Kusal Mendis
  14. 20 bowlers took at least eight wickets in this competition. Only one bowler finished with BOTH, a bowling average of less than 10 (8.54) and an economy-rate of less than six an over (5.34). Whom are we talking about?
    1. Sam Curran
    2. Shaheen Shah Afridi
    3. Arshdeep Singh
    4. Anrich Norjte
  15. Which of the following is true about Sam Curran’s five-wicket haul in this tournament that he grabbed against Afghanistan in a group game?
    1. It was the first ever five-fer by an English bowler
    2. It was the fourth-best figures in a T20 World Cup game ever
    3. It was Curran’s best bowling figures across all three formats of the international game
    4. All of the above

Get the answers to this T20 World Cup 2022 Quiz here.

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Suneer Chowdhary

When Suneer's career as a wicket-keeper-batsman did not take off, he lived it vicariously through Rahul Dravid. Later he became an ICC-accredited journalist who covered multiple 50-over and T20 World Cups.

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