World Cup Cricket Quizzes Answers

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Cricket Quizzes

Here’re the answers to all the cricket quizzes found on this website!

The 1975 Cricket World Cup Quiz

Get the 1975 ODI World Cup Quiz questions here.

  1. 8
  2. 3
  3. 6
  4. Sunil Gavaskar
  5. Bishen Singh Bedi
  6. South Africa, who was forced to withdraw from the competition because of the apartheid laws
  7. Sri Lanka & East Africa
  8. West Indies added 64 for the last wicket to win it by 1 wicket
  9. Glenn Turner
  10. Gary Gilmour
  11. Sri Lanka in their match against Australia
  12. Viv Richards
  13. Clive Lloyd, who scored a 100 and grabbed a wicket
  14. Alvin Kallicharran (against Australia in the group stages and against New Zealand in the semifinal)
  15. Ken Wadsworth, who was the New Zealand wicket-keeper passed away the following year
  16. All those statements are true
  17. Javed Miandad

The 1979 Cricket World Cup Quiz

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  1. Prudential
  2. Sri Lanka & Canada
  3. 15
  4. Kim Hughes
  5. Canada
  6. India
  7. 289
  8. Finished their innings against England with the lowest ever run-rate for a completed innings, scoring 45 in 40.3 overs
  9. Sudath Pasqual
  10. Dav Whatmore
  11. Alan Hurst
  12. Collis King
  13. Mike Hendrick (with 10 wickets at 14.9)
  14. Glenn Turner

The 1983 Cricket World Cup Quiz

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  1. Teams played each other twice in the group stage as against once earlier
  2. Nevill Ground
  3. Zimbabwe
  4. England and Pakistan
  5. Ian Gould
  6. Garfield Sobers
  7. St. Helen’s Rugby and Cricket Ground, Swansea
  8. They lost two matches, to West Indies and to Australia
  9. It was a virtual quarterfinal but with Pakistan needing to better their run-rate
  10. Viv Richards
  11. Ashantha de Mel & Madan Lal
  12. Graeme Hick
  13. Winston Davis
  14. Intikhab Alam
  15. Kevin Curran
  16. 33 by Graeme Fowler
  17. Richie Benaud
  18. Krish Srikkanth & Viv Richards
  19. John Traicos
  20. Martin Snedden
  21. He scribbled a few words on paper and ate them

The 1987 Cricket World Cup Quiz

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  1. Reliance World Cup
  2. Matches were reduced to 50-overs-a-side
  3. Netherlands
  4. National Stadium, Karachi
  5. All of the above
  6. Greg Dyer
  7. Graham Gooch
  8. David Houghton
  9. John Traicos
  10. Sunil Gavaskar
  11. All of the above
  12. Zero
  13. Allan Lamb
  14. Courtney Walsh
  15. Maninder Singh
  16. Mohammad Azharuddin
  17. Ram Babu Gupta
  18. Bombay & Lahore
  19. Steve Waugh
  20. He bagged the wickets of both the opposing captains in the semifinal and final

The 1992 Cricket World Cup Quiz

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  1. Benson & Hedges World Cup
  2. India & Pakistan
  3. All of the above
  4. Most Productive Overs Method
  5. Netherlands
  6. MCG, Melbourne
  7. David Boon
  8. India and England
  9. Six
  10. Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe
  11. Lavington Sports Ground, Albury
  12. Pakistan needed to beat New Zealand and hope for West Indies to lose their last game
  13. 63
  14. 5
  15. Wasim Akram
  16. Zimbabwe
  17. They would have needed five to win
  18. David Boon & Rameez Raja
  19. Pakistan & Zimbabwe
  20. Captain Martin Crowe’s inability to lead the side during Pakistan’s chase

The 1996 Cricket World Cup Quiz

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  1. Sri Lanka
  2. None
  3. Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
  4. 3
  5. Kenya, Netherlands & UAE
  6. Sri Lanka
  7. Steve Palframan
  8. West Indies
  9. Gary Kirsten
  10. India
  11. Aravinda de Silva
  12. Mark Waugh
  13. Navjot Singh Sidhu
  14. Nolan Clarke
  15. Clive Lloyd
  16. Anil Kumble
  17. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
  18. Nathan Astle
  19. He went out to bat without a helmet and was hit on his head by Allan Donald
  20. It was the first of his two hit-wicket dismissals in his World Cup career

The 1999 Cricket World Cup Quiz

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  1. It was played with a second round of league games for the first time
  2. Netherlands
  3. Points from the first round were carried forward to the Super Sixes
  4. The two countries were officially at war at this time
  5. Javagal Srinath
  6. Geoff Allott
  7. Amay Khurasiya
  8. Carl Bulfin
  9. He was accused of and convicted in a court of law
  10. Scotland
  11. Grant Flower
  12. Zimbabwe
  13. Saqlain Mushtaq
  14. Zimbabwe
  15. They deliberately batted slowly to try and get West Indies to qualify for the Super Six
  16. Bangladesh
  17. Hansie Cronje
  18. Ajay Jadeja
  19. Malcolm Marshall
  20. Courtney Walsh & Curtly Ambrose

The 2003 Cricket World Cup Quiz

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  1. Kenya
  2. 14
  3. Shane Warne
  4. Brett Lee
  5. Sourav Ganguly
  6. Doug Brown
  7. All of the above
  8. Teams carried forward all the points against other Super Six teams and quarter of the points from non-qualifiers
  9. Bangladesh
  10. Jason Gillespie
  11. Ashish Nehra & Shane Bond
  12. Parthiv Patel
  13. Abdul Razzaq
  14. Tendulkar & Ganguly
  15. Sri Lanka
  16. John Davison
  17. Sri Lanka
  18. Kenya became the only non-Test playing nation to make the semis
  19. New Zealand
  20. Taufeeq Umar

The 2007 Cricket World Cup Quiz

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  1. 11
  2. Ireland & Bermuda
  3. Brad Haddin
  4. Habibul Bashar
  5. Malachi Jones
  6. West Indies
  7. Netherlands
  8. 5
  9. All of the above
  10. They had wrongly forced the players to return to ‘complete’ the final in darkness
  11. Mello did not have a race, species, age or gender
  12. Kensington Oval, Bridgetown
  13. Dan van Bunge
  14. Anderson Cummins
  15. Bermuda & Kenya
  16. Nathan Bracken
  17. Michael Clarke
  18. Ireland & Zimbabwe
  19. South Africa
  20. He scored the most ducks in the tournament

The 2011 Cricket World Cup Quiz

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  1. Afghanistan
  2. Bangabandhu Stadium, Dhaka
  3. 1996
  4. Hyderabad
  5. Simon Taufel
  6. Pakistan
  7. Bangladesh
  8. Javed Miandad
  9. Canada
  10. He was replaced in the squad because of an injury and then came back to replace an injured player
  11. Kane Williamson
  12. Sri Lanka
  13. Tim Southee
  14. Imran Tahir
  15. Bangladesh defeated England for the first time in a CWC game
  16. He had the best economy-rate in the tournament for a bowler completing his quota
  17. Tendulkar
  18. New Zealand
  19. The match referee Jeff Crowe did not hear what SL captain Sangakkara had called out
  20. A decision to reverse lbw decisions even if was hit over 2.5 meters from the crease

The 2015 Cricket World Cup Quiz

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  1. Afghanistan
  2. Steven Finn
  3. Chris Gayle
  4. He captained in the only match he played
  5. The match was played for the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy
  6. Six Fours in an over
  7. One
  8. Virat Kohli
  9. First century for UAE in World Cup
  10. England
  11. Marlon Samuels
  12. India
  13. Michael Clarke
  14. UAE
  15. Mahmudullah

The 2019 Cricket World Cup Quiz

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  1. Ten
  2. Gulbadin Naib
  3. New Zealand
  4. Five
  5. Most sixes by a batter in an ODI innings
  6. Trent Boult
  7. Kane Williamson
  8. Afghanistan
  9. Vijay Shankar
  10. Mitchell Starc
  11. Kumar Dharmasena
  12. Mark Wood
  13. Jofra Archer
  14. Rohit Sharma
  15. Steve Elworthy

The 2023 Cricket World Cup Quiz

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  1. Ten
  2. Netherlands
  3. England
  4. Rohit Sharma
  5. Sachin Tendulkar
  6. Mohammad Shami
  7. Tom Latham
  8. Sri Lanka
  9. Glenn Maxwell
  10. Ibrahim Zadran
  11. New Zealand
  12. Aiden Markram
  13. Travis Head
  14. Mitchell Marsh
  15. South Africa

 

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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