Hard Cricket Trivia Quiz

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This Hard Cricket Trivia Quiz has 220 questions: 128 easy, 44 medium and 48 hard. It is a Pro pack, made for fans who know the subject inside out. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.

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10 of the 220 Cricket deep cuts questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.

1. The opening ball of the 2006-07 Ashes at the Gabba was so wide it went straight to second slip. Who bowled it?

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   Steve Harmison

   Andrew Flintoff took it at second slip, and Australia went on to win the series 5-0.

2. Who made 335 not out against Pakistan at Adelaide in 2019, the first Test triple hundred at the ground?

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   David Warner

   Captain Tim Paine declared soon after Warner passed Bradman's 334, so he never got a shot at more.

3. England beat Australia by two runs at Edgbaston in 2005. Who was last out, caught behind off Steve Harmison with three needed?

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   Michael Kasprowicz

   Moments later Andrew Flintoff crouched to console the beaten Brett Lee, the image of that series.

4. Which Australian captain declared on 334 not out at Peshawar in 1998 rather than pass Don Bradman's Australian record?

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   Mark Taylor

   He drew level in the day's final over, declared overnight, and said he was happy to share the record with Bradman.

5. West Indies were bowled out for 27 by Australia at Kingston in 2025. Who took 6 for 9 in his 100th Test?

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   Mitchell Starc

   His five-for took just 15 balls, the fastest in Tests; 27 is the second-lowest Test total ever (as of 2026).

6. In the 2025-26 Ashes, England ended an 18-Test, 14-year winless run in Ashes Tests in Australia. At which ground?

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   MCG

   That Boxing Day Test was over in two days, with 20 wickets on day one, and the ICC rated the MCG pitch unsatisfactory.

7. Australia's 2025-26 Ashes opener at Perth was over inside two days. Who hit a 69-ball hundred?

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   Travis Head

   Australia went on to win the series 4-1.

8. In the first men's T20I (2005), Glenn McGrath pretended to bowl underarm as a joke on the 1981 incident. What did umpire Billy Bowden show him?

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   A red card

   McGrath went back and bowled a normal ball, in a game played in retro kits, with players sporting fake moustaches and wigs.

9. In the first men's T20I in 2005, New Zealand wore 1980s-style beige kits. What did players stick on their faces for fun?

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   Fake moustaches

   Some wore wigs too. Nobody took it too seriously, and Australia won at Eden Park by 44 runs.

10. In 1771 a batter called Thomas White walked out with a bat as wide as what?

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    The wicket

    By 1774 the Laws had capped bat width at four and a quarter inches.

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