Question

Cricket is a global passion, played everywhere from Test match arenas to village greens, tropical beaches
and dusty back lots. Cricket is the world's second most popular spectator sport after football.
2. The origin of cricket is somewhere in the Dark Ages. All research concedes that the game derived from a
very old, widespread and uncomplicated pastime by which one player served up an object, be it a small piece
of wood or a ball, and another hit it with a suitably fashioned club. Cricket was first recorded in 16th-century
England, and it was played in grammar schools, farm communities and everywhere in between. But things
really took off when 18th-century nobles realised it was a great sport.
3. The oldest surviving set of cricket laws date from 1744 – printed on a handkerchief, naturally. It's now in
the MCC Museum at Lord’s in London. The oldest permanent fixture is the annual Eton v Harrow match,
played since 1805. A young Lord Byron turned out for Harrow in the first match, though history doesn't
record how poetic – or “mad, bad and dangerous” – his bowling was.
5. The first international match was in 1877 when Australia beat England in Melbourne. The match was
dubbed a “Test”, since the gruelling nature of playing over five days was deemed the ultimate “test” for any
side. But it was Australia’s first win on English soil – in 1882 at The Oval in London – that led to matches
between the two nations being christened the Ashes. Following the defeat, newspapers published an obituary
mourning “the death of English cricket”, adding that “the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to
Australia”.
6. A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with
international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, usually 50. The Cricket World Cup is
played in this format. The international one-day game is a late twentieth-century development. The first ODI
was played on 5 January 1971 between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

i. According to the passage, how did the game of Cricket originate?
ii. Where can we find the oldest sets of Cricket laws?
iii. Which match did Lord Byron play?
iv. When was the first international match played?
v. Which countries played that match?
vi. Why were the matches between Australia and England titled “The Ashes”?
vii. In which format is the Cricket world cup played ?
viii. When did the ODIs begin?
ix. Which word in paragraph no.5 means the same as ‘exhausting’?

Answer 1

1. The origin of the game has been derived from old , widespread and uncomplicated pastime in which one player served up an , object be it small piece of ball and another hit with a suitably fashioned club.

Answer 2

1. Somewhere around the dark ages.

2. The oldest surviving set of cricket laws date from 1744 – printed on a handkerchief.

3. I'm pretty sure it's harrow

4. The first international match was in 1877 when Australia beat England in Melbourne.

5. Australia and England

6. They played matches between the two nations being christened the Ashes.

7. The international one-day game

8. The first ODI was played on 5 January 1971 between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

9.a fixed number of overs I think

Hope this helps!