The Story of Cricket Class 7 Worksheet English Honeycomb

Q.1. The first Indian Cricket Club was founded in ________.
(a) 1850
(b) 1848
(c) 1844
(d) 1842

Correct options is (b)
The Parsis founded the first Indian cricket club, the Oriental Cricket Club, in Bombay in 1848.

Q.2. What is the specified length of the pitch in cricket, as we know from the prose The Story of Cricket?
(a) 20 yards
(b) 25 yards
(c) 22 yards
(d) 23 yards

Correct options is (c)
The specified length of the pitch in cricket is 22 yards. However, there are no specifications on the size or shape of the ground unlike other sports such as hockey and football.

Q.3. What was the shape of the bat till the middle of 18th century?

The bat was shaped like a hockey stick curving outwards at the bottom.

Q.4. Explain elaborately India’s dominance in world cricket today.

India has the largest viewership for the game of cricket among all the test playing nations. It is also the largest market in the cricketing world. It has made the centre of gravity to shift towards South Asia from the country it originated. The ICC headquarters too were shifted from London to Dubai where it is tax-free. The Indian cricket players are the best paid in international cricket. They are famous and have millions of supporters.

Q.5. Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.
Cricket does not. Ground can be oval like the Adelaide Oval or nearby circular like Chepauk in Chennai. A six at the Melbourne Cricket ground need to clear much more ground than it does at Feroze Shah Kotla in Delhi.
(i) What does the sentence Cricket does not refers to?
(ii) Explain the phrase ‘nearby circular’.
(iii) What are two shapes that a cricket ground can be of?
(iv) What is Chepauk?

(i) It refers that there is no specification in cricket for the size and the shape of the ground.
(ii) It means that the Chepauk stadium in Chennai is not completely, but almost like the shape of a circle.
(iii) A cricket ground can be almost oval or circular.
(iv) Chepauk means Cricket stadium, Cricket ground, and an almost circular stadium.

Q.6. Cricket fundamentally remained true to its origins in rural England because the tools used in the game are:
(a) made up of natural materials
(b) handmade
(c) made up of pre-industrial materials
(d) all of these

Correct option is (a)
Cricket fundamentally remained true to its origins in rural England because Cricket’s most important tools are all made of natural, preindustrial materials. The bat is made with leather, twine, and cork. Even today both bat and ball are handmade, not industrially manufactured.

Q.7. Where did the game of cricket originate, as mentioned in the prose The Story of Cricket?
(a) New Zealand
(b) Australia
(c) India
(d) England

Correct option is (d)
The game of cricket originated in England about 500 years ago from the games that were played with a stick and a ball.

Q.8. How many years ago did cricket originate in England, according to the text The Story of Cricket?
(a) 100 years
(b) 300 years
(c) 400 years
(d) 500 years

Correct option is (d)
The author had mentioned in the text that cricket originated in England about some 500 years ago from the different kinds of stick-and-ball games that were played in England back at that time.

Q.9. Name some stick-and-ball games that you have witnessed or heard of.

Hockey, Cricket, Baseball, Polo, Billiards are a few games.

Q.10. What are the changes the cricket bat has undergone with time?

Initially, the cricket bat was similar to the shape of the hockey bat because the ball was bowled underarm. The bowlers then began to pitch the ball through the air rather than rolling it on the ground. The curved bats were then replaced by the straight ones. Initially, the bat was made by a single piece of wood. These days it consists of two pieces. The blade is made of willow wood while the handle is of cane.