Quiz! How Well Do You Know These Facts About The Over, The Unit Of Cricket?

In this quiz, you have to answer ten questions about the over, the unit of cricket.

Until limited-overs cricket, a bowling side had to bowl out the opposition to get a chance. True, declarations were there – but that decision lay entirely with the batting side.

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Limited-overs cricket introduced a second resource – balls. The ball can be considered the unit of cricket, but – unlike the inter-over phases – little takes place between two balls. The bowler changes after an over, as does the field. The strike flips over to the other batter. The sight-screens are adjusted.

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From bowlers’ quotas to asking rates to the duration of a day in Test cricket, many things are defined by the over. For something of this significance, it is surprising that it took so long for the ICC to stipulate the number of balls per over in international cricket to six.

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Quiz! How well do you know these facts about the over, the unit of cricket?

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