Cricket Years Quiz - Statistics

General Stats

Answer Stats

event	year	% Correct
The first Cricket World Cup, hosted by England, is won by West Indies	1975	83%
India wins the first ICC World Twenty20 tournament	2007	82%
Brian Lara becomes the first (and so far only) batsman to score 400 in a test innings	2004	79%
Sachin Tendulkar hits a record 15,921st run in his record, final, 200th, test	2013	79%
The first Twenty20 International: NZ v Australia at Auckland	2005	75%
Muttiah Muralitharan reaches a world-record 800 test wickets	2010	75%
Don Bradman's final innings, scoring 0, leaving his career average at a record 99.94	1948	74%
The first One Day International: Australia vs England at Melbourne	1971	66%
England reclaims the Ashes after using intimidatory Bodyline bowling	1933	62%
Jim Laker takes 19 wickets in a test match, still a first-class, and test, record	1956	61%
The highest first class partnership of 624 runs is set in a test match by Sri Lanka	2006	61%
The first Test match: Australia vs England at Melbourne	1877	60%
Australia beats England by 7 runs, giving birth to the Ashes, cricket's most famous trophy	1882	57%
The first tied Test, when Joe Solomon throws down a single stump to run out Ian Meckiff	1960	42%
Victoria scores a still-record innings of 1107 against NSW	1926	18%
The wickets become an inch higher and an inch wider, to today's size of 31" x 9"	1931	9%