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Baseball and Cricket
From Lord's to the World Series, test your eye for wickets, walks and home runs across two great bat-and-ball games.
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medium
20 questions
~6 min
What this quiz asks
- How many innings make up a standard professional baseball game?
- The cricket series known as the Ashes is played between England and which country?
- In baseball, what is the hit called when the batter rounds all four bases in one go, usually by clearing the outfield fence?
- In cricket, what name is given to the set of three stumps topped by two bails?
- In cricket, what do the initials LBW stand for?
- Which London ground, owned by Marylebone Cricket Club, is known as the 'Home of Cricket'?
- In baseball, a batter who is hit by a pitch is out.
- In baseball, how many balls (pitches outside the strike zone) earn the batter a walk to first base?
- In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's colour line playing for which team?
- The Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to which rival club after the 1919 season?
- Babe Ruth began his major league career as a pitcher.
- Select ALL of these that are fielding positions in cricket.
- Which short form of cricket, first played in English county cricket in 2003, gives each side just 20 overs?
- In what year was the first men's Cricket World Cup played?
- Did the West Indies win both of the first two men's Cricket World Cups, in 1975 and 1979?
- Don Bradman ended his Test career in 1948 with which batting average?
- In Major League Baseball, how far is the pitcher's rubber from home plate?
- In 1974, who broke Babe Ruth's career record of 714 home runs?
- Select ALL of these teams that played in the first modern World Series, in 1903.
- Order these bat-and-ball milestones from earliest to most recent.