In this quiz, you have to answer ten questions on unusual stoppages during cricket matches.
February 8, 1879. New South Wales were hosting the touring English side. Home batter Billy Murdoch, a national batting star of the era, was adjudged run out by umpire George Coulthard.
Many in the crowd were unhappy with the decision. An unrest followed, then escalated, resulting in the Sydney Riots – a full-fledged city-wide incident that prevented any further cricket on that day.
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Throughout history, cricket matches at all levels have been interrupted many times for myriad reasons. Sometimes the weather – rain, mostly, but not always – played spoilsport. There have been invasions, not necessarily by human beings. And then, there have been outright bizarre interruptions.
Consider the 1989 game between Old Cliftonians and Stowe Templars at Bristol. As Simon Hazlitt prepared to bat, an enormous mackerel fell from the sky and splattered all across the ground. It was theorised that a seagull had stolen it from the sealion pen of Bristol Zoo and could not carry it until a point.
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Take our quiz to test your knowledge on unusual stoppages during cricket matches.
Quiz! How well do you know cricket’s curious delays and stoppages?
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