Sports: nationalism and commerce - class-VIII
Description: sports: nationalism and commerce | |
Number of Questions: 88 | |
Created by: Rekha Rai | |
Tags: sports: nationalism and commerce social science history history and sport: the story of cricket |
Where did Cricket originate in India?
Name the hockey player from India who won many Olympic gold medals.
Cricket in 19th century India was linked to __________.
The first among the Indian communities to set up a cricket club was ______.
Statement I: Cricket emerged as a colonial game.
Statement II: Cricket was started in England.
Read the following statements and choose the right option.
Statement I: The rich who afford to play cricket for pleasure were called amateurs because they played for leisure and aristocratic value.
Statement II: The poor played cricket in England to impress the aristocratic people and they were known as gentlemen.
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was founded in_________.
The pitch of the cricket is________.
Though cricket's protective equipment has been influenced by technology but its playing equipment still is made of __________.
Which club became the first to revise the laws and the guardian of cricket's regulation in 1788?
Read the following statements and choose the right option.
Statement I: Certain materials were used to make the cricket bat, but these materials could not be adapted.
Statement II:Australian cricketer Dennis Lillee tried to play an innings with an aluminum bat, only to have it outlawed by the umpires.
Cricket connection shows the predominance of the ________.
The stick and ball games played in England some 500 years ago was _______.
The width of the cricket bat was specified to be _________.
In the early phase of Indian first class cricket, teams were not organised on geographical basis but on __________.
The victory of West Indies over England in the first Test series in 1950 was celebrated as __________.
The English Test team was led by a professional, the Yorkshire batsman, _______.
In the early days of cricket, playing cricket by the coloniser was a sign of _________.
The first cricket played in India was in ________ in 1721.
The first community to play cricket in India was ____________.
Which of the following former British colonies was not a cricket playing nation?
Which of the following is not a cricket playing country?
The captain of the cricket team was traditionally a batsman and a gentleman because of _________.
In which year did India start playing Test cricket?
The first Indian club, the Calcutta Cricket Club was established in the year __________.
Who was India's first cricket Test captain?
When was the Calcutta Cricket Club established?
Why was Paiwankar Baloo not made the captain of the Indian cricket team?
The first world cup was staged in the year ___________.
The stumps in the game of cricket should be __________.
Which country did Learie Constantine belong to?
Where is the Adelaide Oval ground located?
What is Eton?
What should be the weight of the cricket ball?
Where was the first Indian cricket club established?
Who founded the Oriental Cricket Club in 1884?
In which year did India entered the world of Test Cricket?
Which game was exported from the colonies to Britain?
There were revision of laws by MCC between 1770s and 1780s. They were:
The West Indies win in Test Series England in 1950, had two ironical features. They were :
Who was Kerry Packer?
How did cricket boards become rich?
What were the rich who played cricket for pleasure called?
By the end of 19th century, cricket had become a game of ______.
The reason that cricket has originated from the villages is/are:
The poor who played cricket for a living were called __________.
What was the term 'tournament' called initially?
In which of these countries was cricket established as a popular sport?
Cricket was invented in _______.
There was a quarrel between the Bombay Gymkhana (a Whites only club) and the Parsi club, because
India entered the world of test cricket in _____.
When was the First World Cup successfully staged?
In Ranji Trophy teams represent
Cricket in colonial India was organised on the principle of _______________.
Cricket was said to represent ____________________.
The ICC headquarters shifted from London to _____.
Spread of the cricket game was confined to ______________.
Test Cricket celebrated 100 years in the year
Pakistan's contribution to advancing the cricket game is
Who among the following introduced the world to One-Day Internationals?
Which was the first cricket club established in India?
National game of India is
Which among the following is a colonial sport condemned by Mahatma Gandhi?
Who among the following condemned pentangular cricket along with Mahatma Gandhi?
The cricket ball is made of
______ is a traditional popular game in India.
Early cricket clubs in India were established on the basis of religion. Which one of the following did not exist?
Mahatma Gandhi supported which of the following games ?
A Parsi team beat the Bombay Gymkhana at cricket in _____.
Pentangular tournament which was a colonial sport is
Which was the first Indian cricket club that was founded by the Parsis?
The game polo was invented by
Which was the first Indian community to play Cricket?
The rich who played cricket for pleasure were called
MCC stands for
What was the term tournament called initially during the colonial period?
Where is the headquarter of International Cricket Council located?
Who believed that a sport was essential for a balance between the body and the mind?
How many times has India won the Olympic gold medals in hockey?
At which of the following places was the world's first cricket club formed?
Which of the following is a national game of Bangladesh?
Where is the headquarters of International Cricket Council?
Consider the following statements and identify the correct response from the options given thereafter:
a) Cricket, in Victorian England, was an all season leisure game for aristocrats.
b) The captain of the team was traditionally a batsman in Victorian England as amateurs played only as batsmen.
c) Len Hutton was the first professional Yorkshire Batsman to lead the English test team.
d) There was a clear social hierarchy between the batsmen and the bowlers in Victorian England.
The first hockey club in India was started in
Which country has pioneered two great advances in bowling viz. the Doosra and the Reverse Swing?
Our forefathers did wonderfully well without the fashionable sport of today these words were spoken by
The first black captain for the Caribbean team was ____________.
Find the wrong statement about Cricket.