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50 free Indian Cricket trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Indian cricket runs on stories: a captain's 175 that rescued a World Cup campaign from 17 for 5, a follow-on that turned into one of the greatest Test wins ever played, a leg-spinner who took all ten wickets in an innings, and a six that ended a 28-year wait for a second world title. This quiz covers the men's and women's national teams from the first Test at Lord's in 1932 to the 2025 Champions Trophy: the 1983 and 2011 World Cup wins, the captains who shaped each era, batting and bowling records, famous grounds and the tied Test, IPL firsts and the board that runs it all. It is written for fans who know the famous names and want the stories behind them, and for quiz hosts who need verified questions with a clear explanation for every answer. Every question cites the page that establishes it.
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Q 01Which two-time defending champion did India dismiss for 140 in the 1983 World Cup final at Lord's?
West Indies
West Indies had won the first two World Cups and needed only 184, yet were bowled out for 140 in 52 overs, a 43-run defeat still ranked among cricket's great upsets.
Q 02Whose unbeaten 175 against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup came after India had collapsed to 17 for 5?
Kapil Dev
Kapil Dev's 175 not out off 138 balls included six sixes and an unbeaten 126-run ninth-wicket stand with Syed Kirmani, a world record that stood for 27 years.
Q 03Which India captain is the only one to win the World T20, the 50-over World Cup and the Champions Trophy?
MS Dhoni
MS Dhoni lifted the 2007 World T20, the 2011 World Cup and the 2013 Champions Trophy, and in the 2011 final he promoted himself up the order and finished unbeaten on 91.
Q 04Which Indian hit six sixes in one over off Stuart Broad at the 2007 World T20 in Durban?
Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh reached fifty off just 12 balls in that innings, then the fastest in any form of international cricket, and was later player of the tournament at the 2011 World Cup.
Q 05Which opener holds the highest men's ODI score, 264, made at Kolkata in 2014?
Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma's 264 came off 173 balls, and he remains the only player with three double centuries in ODIs.
Q 06Who scored a record 50th ODI century in the 2023 World Cup semi-final against New Zealand?
Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli passed Sachin Tendulkar's 49 centuries with Tendulkar watching from the stands, and his 765 runs that tournament are the most ever in a single World Cup.
Q 07Who became the first Indian to score a Test triple century, with 309 against Pakistan at Multan?
Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag did it again four years later with 319, reaching 300 off 278 balls, the fastest triple century in Test history.
Q 08Which opener was the first batter to reach 10,000 Test runs, doing so against Pakistan in 1987?
Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Gavaskar also holds the record for most runs in a debut series, 774 at an average of 154.80 in the Caribbean in 1971.
Q 09Which leg-spinner took all ten Pakistan wickets in a Test innings at Delhi in 1999?
Anil Kumble
Anil Kumble's 10 for 74 made him only the second bowler after Jim Laker to take all ten, and three years later he bowled in Antigua with a fractured jaw and dismissed Brian Lara.
Q 10Whose 281 at Kolkata in 2001 won a Test after India had followed on, ending Australia's 16-match streak?
VVS Laxman
VVS Laxman broke India's long-standing Test record score of 236 not out and shared a 376-run stand that lasted the entire fourth day.
Q 11Which Pakistan batter was caught scooping to short fine leg to end the 2007 World T20 final?
Misbah-ul-Haq
Misbah-ul-Haq had hit a six to leave Pakistan needing six from four balls before the gamble, and India's five-run win at the Wanderers gave the new format its first world champion.
Q 12India's tied 2007 World T20 group match against Pakistan in Durban was settled by which tie-breaker?
Bowl-out
A bowl-out had five bowlers from each side aim at unguarded stumps; India hit three times and Pakistan none, and the ICC replaced the method with the Super Over in 2008.
Q 13Which franchise, the cheapest buy in the 2008 auction, won the first IPL under captain Shane Warne?
Rajasthan Royals
Q 21Whose 137 for Australia in the 2023 World Cup final ended India's unbeaten run through the tournament?
Travis Head
Travis Head was player of the match as Australia chased 241 to win by six wickets, India's only defeat in 11 games that tournament.
Q 22Against which side did India record its first World Cup victory, by ten wickets at Headingley in 1975?
East Africa
East Africa, a combined team drawn from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia, was India's only victim that year; the other two group games were lost to England and New Zealand.
Q 23Which Indian captain retired in 2022 as the leading run-scorer in all women's international cricket?
Mithali Raj
Rajasthan Royals cost US$67 million, the least of the eight franchises, and won the final off the very last ball.
Q 14Which New Zealander hit 158 not out for Kolkata Knight Riders in the very first IPL match in 2008?
Brendon McCullum
Brendon McCullum faced just 73 balls for what was then the highest Twenty20 score ever, and Kolkata won the opening match by 140 runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Q 15Which IPL franchise was suspended for 2016 and 2017 over a betting scandal, then won the title on its return?
Chennai Super Kings
Chennai Super Kings returned in 2018 and won immediately, their third title after 2010 and 2011.
Q 16Which city's Narendra Modi Stadium, with 132,000 seats, is the largest cricket ground in the world?
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad's ground rose on the site of the old Motera stadium, demolished in 2015, and reopened in 2020 before staging the 2023 World Cup final.
Q 17Which ground's 1996 World Cup semi-final was awarded to Sri Lanka after rioting fans halted play?
Eden Gardens
Eden Gardens is the oldest and second-largest cricket stadium in India, and it was match referee Clive Lloyd who awarded the semi-final to Sri Lanka.
Q 18The second tied Test in history, between India and Australia in 1986, was played in which city?
Madras
Madras's Chepauk ground saw Dean Jones make 210 and India's last man fall lbw with one run needed, only the second tie in more than a century of Tests.
Q 19Which ground hosted the rain-shortened 2013 Champions Trophy final that India won by five runs?
Edgbaston
Edgbaston's final was delayed almost six hours and cut to 20 overs a side, and Ravindra Jadeja's 33 and two wickets earned him man of the match.
Q 20In which city did India play the whole 2025 Champions Trophy, beating New Zealand in the final?
Dubai
Dubai staged every India game because the team would not travel to host nation Pakistan, and India chased 252 in the final with four wickets to spare.
Mithali Raj is the only woman to have captained India in more than one ODI World Cup final, in 2005 and 2017, losing both.
Q 24Which seamer, the first woman to 200 ODI wickets, bowled her last international at Lord's in 2022?
Jhulan Goswami
Jhulan Goswami finished with 255 wickets from 204 ODIs, the most in the women's game, and India marked her farewell with a 16-run win over England.
Q 25Who hit 171 not out against Australia in the 2017 Women's World Cup semi-final at Derby?
Harmanpreet Kaur
Harmanpreet Kaur's 115-ball assault took India into the final, and eight years later she captained India to its first Women's World Cup title.
Q 26Which team did India beat by 52 runs in the 2025 Women's World Cup final to win a first world title?
South Africa
South Africa lost at the DY Patil Stadium on 2 November 2025, with Shafali Verma named player of the match and Deepti Sharma player of the tournament.
Q 27Who was named man of the match in both the semi-final and the final of the 1983 World Cup?
Mohinder Amarnath
Mohinder Amarnath made 26 and took three wickets in the final, and his father Lala was independent India's first Test captain.
Q 28Which future Test batter shared an unbroken 664-run stand with Sachin Tendulkar in a Bombay school match?
Vinod Kambli
Vinod Kambli later scored 224 and 227 in consecutive Tests in 1993, against England and then Zimbabwe.
Q 29Which India captain made centuries in his first three Tests and was later banned for life over match-fixing?
Mohammad Azharuddin
Mohammad Azharuddin's 2000 life ban followed a CBI report, and a high court overturned it in 2012, long after his playing days were over.
Q 30Whose unbeaten 89 at the Gabba in 2021 chased down 328 and sealed India's Test series win in Australia?
Rishabh Pant
Rishabh Pant was also the first Indian wicketkeeper to score Test centuries in both England and Australia, and his Gabba chase completed a 2–1 series win.