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November 2021 Cricket Quiz

November 2021 Cricket Quiz
By Dan Liebke • Issue #30 • View online
November 2021 Cricket Quiz
Test how well you remember the past month of cricket by taking the November 2021 cricket quiz.
1. What moment during Australia’s T20 World Cup-winning campaign had fans most rubbing their eyes in shocked disbelief?
A. David Warner hitting a double-bounced ball for six
B. Glenn Maxwell making back-to-back scores of 0* (0)
C. Mark Waugh on Fox Cricket claiming that 8 12s are 76
D. Cricket Australia announcing a tour of Pakistan for next year

2. Which current cricket world champion’s victory doesn’t count and why?
A. Australia in the T20 World Cup, because the team that chased always won, so winning the coin toss effectively decided the final
B. New Zealand in the World Test Championship, because they only qualified by playing so many games at home and other teams being penalised for slow over rates
C. England in the ODI World Cup, because of a Ben Stokes deflection and an unfair boundary countback tie-breaker rule.
D. All of the above
3. Which bowling spell that took place in Australia during the month was the most astonishing?
A. James Pattinson’s fiery 5/71 against New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield
B. Amanda-Jade Wellington’s 5/8 against the Brisbane Heat in the WBBL Finals
C. Gurinder Sandhu’s career best figures of 6/57 from 21 overs against South Australia in the Sheffield Shield
D. The spell that Jemma Barsby cast on herself during the WBBL that enabled her to bowl ambidextrously
A witch!
A witch!
4. What has been the most ludicrous aspect of the Ashes build-up?
A. Shane Warne’s semi-annual declaration that Mitchell Starc must be dropped from the Australian side
B. England having most of their warm-up games rained out
C. Media claims that Mark Wood is ‘firing shots at Australia’s baggy greens’.
D. A series between the actual top two ranked Test teams being the undercard for it
5. Who was most inconvenienced by Tim Paine’s sudden resignation of the Australian Test captaincy?
A. Cricket Australia, who had to find a new captain just a few weeks out from the Ashes
B. Big Ant Studios, who had to add new digital art to their Cricket 22 computer game
C. The Barmy Army, who lost close to half the songs in their repertoire
D. His mobile phone network plan provider
6. Which sudden cricketing farewell was the most emotionally draining for fans?
A. AB de Villiers
B. Dwayne Bravo
C. Tim Paine
D. Jokes about Mitch Marsh
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Dan Liebke

Every Friday, I go through my big list of cricket ideas, and churn out a first draft of something I've got in there. It won't be polished. It may not be interesting. I make no promises. But I'm going to throw something up and see what works and what (infinitely more likely) does not.

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