In this quiz, you have to answer ten questions on famous substitutions and replacements in cricket.
The Laws and Playing Conditions of Cricket have their oddities. For a long time, they allowed substitutions, but only in the specific role of an outfielder. It was not until 2017 that they changed the Laws to allow a substitute to keep wicket.
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However, the substitute can still not bat or bowl even if a cricketer in the XI is ruled out of the game for any reason. Consider the Bombay Test of 1964/65, where Norm O’Neill went down with a stomach pain just after the start and could not take any part in the match. Since Australia batted first, O’Neill never took field, effectively reducing the Test to a ten versus eleven contest.
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Concussion (and subsequently, Covid-19) substitutes changed that. Under these cases, the replacement cricketers can bat or bowl, unlike the conventional substitutes. In the 2000s, the ICC had also introduced (and discarded) the ODI Supersub, an idea that was subsequently repackaged as the Impact Player by the BCCI.
And then, there have been the replacements – cricketers stepping in to complete an over, another concept that is perhaps unique to cricket.
Take our quiz to find out how well you know these substitutes and replacements.
Quiz! How well do you know cricket’s famous substitutes and replacements?
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