T20 Cricket quiz

T20 cricket Quiz:

1. What did Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand host for the first time on 17th February 2005?
 

2. In the first ever T20 international, Glenn McGrath was shown a red card by the umpire, Billy Bowden for an ‘illegal act’. What did McGrath do?
 

3. What did Brett Lee achieve for the first time in T20 cricket against Bangladesh on 16th September 2007 in the T20 World Cup?
 

4. Which cricketer is credited with scoring the first international century in T20 cricket?
 

5. In the just concluded IPL 2010, who scored a 100 of 37 balls to score the fastest century in IPL?
 

6. Who is credited with scoring the first century in an official match of T20 cricket?
 

7. Who won the orange cap in the recently concluded IPL 2010?
 

8. Who won the man of the match award in the first international T20 played by India against South Africa?
 

9. Which team has so far scored the highest team total in an international T20 match?
 

10. What did Stuart Robertson, former CEO of England and Wales Cricket Board, is credited to develop in early 2003?

Quiz answers:

1. The first international T20 match
 

2. McGrath bowled underarm to Kyle Mills

3. He was the first bowler to take a hattrick in a T20 international
 

4. Chris Gayle
 

5. Yusuf Pathan
 

6. Ian Harvey in the Twenty20 Cup, a domestic T20 tournament in England
 

7. Sachin Tendulkar (for scoring the highest number of runs)
 

8. Dinesh Karthik
 

9. Sri Lanka against Kenya in the 2007 T20 World Cup

10. T20 cricket

Compiled by: Geetanav Ojha (Kozhikode)