In this quiz, you have to answer ten questions on Bangladesh-Sri Lanka cricket matches.
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Cricketing rivalries are often built around contexts that stretch beyond the sport or even any sport. Cricket being largely a British colonial sport made England the team to beat for most. Political tension made India and Pakistan arch rivals, while Pakistan and Afghanistan have shared a similar relationship of late.
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The 15th-century Wars of the Roses between Lancaster and York lent their name to Lancashire-Yorkshire cricketing contests. The Karachi-Lahore rivalry spills over to cricket when their PSL franchises, the Kings and the Qalandars, take to the field. Rivalries are also built around geographical proximity – Australia and New Zealand, Surrey and Middlesex, Melbourne Renegades and Stars. There are also pure cricketing contests, built around intense on-field clashes for supremacy over time – India and Australia, CSK and MI, and so on.
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The rivalry between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka does not come under any of these categories. It is as unique as it is intense, for it has its root in a dance. How well do you know cricket’s naagin-dance rivalry?
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Quiz! How well do you know the Bangladesh-Sri Lanka ‘naagin derby’?
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