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    VT Daily Trivia: ICC Cricket — Tests, ODIs & T20Is

    Ten click-to-reveal questions on Tests, ODIs and T20Is.

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    Click an option for each question to reveal whether you’re right. Correct feedback appears in green; wrong feedback appears in red.

    1) Which team has won the most ICC Men’s Cricket World Cups?
    Wrong — another team leads the all-time list.
    Correct — Australia has the most titles, including triumphs in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015 and 2023.
    Wrong — the West Indies won the first two editions but do not hold the overall record.
    Wrong — England won in 2019 but isn’t top of the pile.
    2) Who holds the highest individual score in men’s One-Day Internationals?
    Correct — Rohit Sharma’s 264 for India against Sri Lanka in 2014 remains the ODI benchmark.
    Wrong — Guptill’s World Cup 2015 epic is second on the list.
    Wrong — a double-ton, yes, but not the record.
    Wrong — this isn’t the top mark.
    3) The first men’s T20 International was played in 2005 between which teams?
    Correct — Australia faced New Zealand at Eden Park, Auckland, on 17 February 2005.
    Wrong — that matchup came later in T20I history.
    Wrong — they popularized T20 domestically, but not the first T20I.
    Wrong — not the inaugural T20I fixture.
    4) What is the highest team total in men’s Test cricket?
    Correct — Sri Lanka’s 952/6d at Colombo (RPS) in August 1997 remains unmatched.
    Wrong — a famous total, but not the highest anymore.
    Wrong — massive, but still short of the record.
    Wrong — not the top Test total.
    5) Which bowler took four wickets in four balls during a Cricket World Cup match?
    Correct — Malinga produced four in four for Sri Lanka against South Africa at the 2007 World Cup.
    Wrong — world-class, but not the four-in-four man at the World Cup.
    Wrong — legendary, yet this specific feat isn’t his.
    Wrong — prolific wicket-taker, different record.
    6) The first day-night (pink-ball) Test match took place in 2015 between which teams?
    Correct — Adelaide Oval hosted the historic pink-ball Test between Australia and New Zealand in November 2015.
    Wrong — England’s first pink-ball Test came later.
    Wrong — India’s inaugural pink-ball Test was in 2019.
    Wrong — not the first day-night Test pairing.
    7) Who won the inaugural ICC Champions Trophy (then the ICC KnockOut) in 1998?
    Correct — South Africa beat the West Indies in the final to claim the 1998 title in Dhaka.
    Wrong — not the winners of the first edition.
    Wrong — Sri Lanka won later, not in 1998.
    Wrong — Pakistan’s first Champions Trophy win came in 2017.
    8) Which team holds the highest innings total in men’s T20 Internationals?
    Wrong — that was once a record but has since been surpassed.
    Correct — Nepal’s 314/3 against Mongolia in 2023 set a new T20I team total record.
    Wrong — huge, but not the highest.
    Wrong — not the current record holder.
    9) Who has scored the most runs in men’s Test cricket?
    Wrong — Ponting is among the top scorers, but not number one.
    Correct — Sachin Tendulkar’s tally of 15,921 runs is the benchmark in Test cricket.
    Wrong — an all-time great, but not the top run-getter.
    Wrong — prolific, yet still short of the record.
    10) In limited-overs matches, what does the DLS method stand for?
    Correct — DLS updates the original Duckworth–Lewis rain-rule with Professor Steven Stern’s refinements.
    Wrong — those are surnames of Australian cricketers/coaches, not the formula’s authors.
    Wrong — close, but the modern name includes “Stern.”
    Wrong — that’s not the official expansion.
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