In ‘the’ triumph of the one-day ‘game’, ‘triumph’ means :

(i) superiority of test cricket

(ii) inferiority of test cricket

(iii) achievement and success over test cricket

(iv) popularity among viewers.

Write True or False against each of the following sentences.

(i) Indian joined the world of Test Cricket before independence.

(ii) The colonisers did nothing to encourage the Parsis in playing cricket.

(iii) Palwankar Baloo was India’s first Test captain.

(iv) Australia played its first Test against England as a sovereign nation.

A ‘professional’ cricket player is one who makes a living by playing cricket. Find the opposite of professional in the last paragraph.

“-------the men for wohom the world is a stage.”

(i) It refers to the famous cricket fields in the world.

(ii) It means that there are many cricket playing countries in the world.

(iii) It implies that cricketers are like actors and every cricket ground is like the stage on which drama of a cricket match is enacted the world over.

Name some stick-and-ball games that you have witnessed or heard of.