As the Covid-19 pandemic takes hold, many are choosing to stay in to avoid contracting or conveying the novel Coronavirus, with social distancing widely encouraged, and cricket fans are no exception.
Ben Gardner picks out the five best cricket quizzes on Sporcle to tear your hair out over if you find yourself with a spare evening.
With evening schedules suddenly free, Sporcle offers a perfect solution, with the trivia website hosting a near-limitless supply of quizzes and games, including many cricket-themed puzzlers. Below is a selection of the best and trickiest the site has to offer:
Can you name the teams to have played men’s ODIs?
A seemingly simple one to start, until you realise you haven’t brushed up on the 1996 World Cup in a while and you have no idea why a team would have played its first ODI in 1975 and yet only managed two more in the intervening period. Still, any self-respecting cricket fan should be scoring in the 90 per cent bracket.
