1. Who
wrote a novel,’ Tom Brown’s Schooldays.’
2. Cricket is a batsman’s game. Explain.
Ans : a) Cricket
is a batsman’s game.
b) its rules were made to favour ‘Gentlemen’, who did most of the batting.
c) The captain of
a cricket team was traditionally a batsman:
1.
What is Cricket’s
connection with a rural past?
Ans:A) The rhythms of village life
were slower and cricket’s rules were made before the Industrial Revolution.
B)The size of a cricket ground is
a result of its village origins. Cricket was originally played on country
commons, so there were no designated boundaries or boundary hits.
C)Cricket’s most important tools
are all made of natural, pre-industrial materials. The bat is made of wood as
are the stumps and the bails. The ball is made with leather, twine and cork.
2. Why
Australian cricketer Dennis Lillee was outlawed by the umpires?
Ans: He tried to play an innings
with an aluminium bat.
3.
“The organisation of cricket in England
Ans: A) The rich (amateurs) who
played it for two reasons. One, they considered sport a kind of leisure. To
play for the pleasure of playing and to show an aristocratic value.
B) different entrances for them and doing bating only showed
discrimination in society.
C) The poor who played it for a
living were called professionals. The wages of professionals were paid by
patronage or subscription or gate money.
D) The social superiority of the
amateur was also the reason the captain of a cricket team was traditionally a
batsman, generally Gentlemen.
4.
‘The ‘battle of Waterloo was won on the playing
fields of Eton ’. Justify the statement.
Ans; a) Britain ’s military success was
based on the values taught to schoolboys in its public schools.
b) Team sport like cricket and
rugby teaching to English boys the
discipline, the importance of hierarchy, the skills, the codes of honour and
the leadership qualities that helped them build and run the British empire.
c) The English ruling class to believe
that it was the superior character of its young men, built in boarding schools,
playing gentlemanly games like cricket.
5. The
cricket became hugely popular in the Caribbean .
Why?
Ans; a) Success at cricket became
a measure of racial equality and political progress.
b) Political leaders of Caribbean countries like Forbes Burnham and Eric Williams
saw in the game a chance for self respect and international standing.
c) When the West Indies won its
first Test series against England
in 1950, it was celebrated as a national achievement.
6. Why
cricket remained a colonial game?
Ans;
a) The pre-industrial oddness of cricket made it a hard game to export.
b) It took root only in countries(South Africa , Zimbabwe ,
Australia , New Zealand , the West Indies and Kenya )
that the British conquered and ruled.
c) By local elites who wanted to
copy the habits of their colonial masters, as in India .
7. What was Pentangular tournament? Why did Gandhiji condemn it? When did it come to an end?
Ans; a) Pentangular tournament was played by five teams – the Europeans, the Parsis, the Hindus the Muslims and the Rest, which comprised such as the Indian Christians.
b) Gandhiji strongly condemned the Pentangular as a communally divisive competition that was out of place in a time when nationalists were trying to unite India’s diverse population. As it was a colonial tournament, it tied with the Raj.
8. why it did not become popular in countries of South America?
Ans; a) South American countries were under the influence of American, Spanish and the Portuguese.
b) Unlike other games, cricket remained a British colonial game.
c) The pre-industrial oddness of cricket made it hard game to export. Therefore, it took root only in countries that the British conquered and dominated.
9. How have advances in technology, especially television technology, affected the development of contemporary game of cricket?
Ans; a) Kerry Packer’s innovative ideas helped use television technology to develop the image of cricket as a television sport, a marketable game which could generate huge revenue.
b) Television expanded the audience and broadened the cricket into small towns and villages.
c) One-day International matches got popularity and wide acceptance due to television technology.
7. What was Pentangular tournament? Why did Gandhiji condemn it? When did it come to an end?
Ans; a) Pentangular tournament was played by five teams – the Europeans, the Parsis, the Hindus the Muslims and the Rest, which comprised such as the Indian Christians.
b) Gandhiji strongly condemned the Pentangular as a communally divisive competition that was out of place in a time when nationalists were trying to unite India’s diverse population. As it was a colonial tournament, it tied with the Raj.
8. why it did not become popular in countries of South America?
Ans; a) South American countries were under the influence of American, Spanish and the Portuguese.
b) Unlike other games, cricket remained a British colonial game.
c) The pre-industrial oddness of cricket made it hard game to export. Therefore, it took root only in countries that the British conquered and dominated.
9. How have advances in technology, especially television technology, affected the development of contemporary game of cricket?
Ans; a) Kerry Packer’s innovative ideas helped use television technology to develop the image of cricket as a television sport, a marketable game which could generate huge revenue.
b) Television expanded the audience and broadened the cricket into small towns and villages.
c) One-day International matches got popularity and wide acceptance due to television technology.
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