Tuesday 14th March 2023
Difficulty: Hard
Cricket (Quiz #116)
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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20.1m) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
1. How many ways are there of being "out" in cricket?
2. A "duck" occurs when a batter is dismissed with a score of zero. What is a "diamond duck"?
3. The wicket consists of three stumps and two bails. But over the years, various versions of cricket have used different numbers of stumps. Which of these has NOT been used in an official format of the game?
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