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Answers of the Textbook QuestionsI. Comprehension Check
1. Cricket is originally a/an (i) Indian game. (ii) British game. (iii) international game. Mark the right answer. 2. “There is a historical reason behind both these oddities.” In the preceding two paragraphs, find two words/phrases that mean the same as ‘oddities’. 3. How is a cricket bat different from a hockey stick? Answers: (i) Cricket is Originally a British Game. (ii) Peculiarities, Curious Characters (iii) A hockey Stick is Curved at the bottom while the Cricket Bat is Flat and Broad. II. Comprehension Check Write True or False against each of the following sentences. 1. India joined the world of Test cricket before Independence. 2. The colonisers did nothing to encourage the Parsis in playing cricket. 3. Palwankar Baloo was India’s first Test captain. 4. Australia played its first Test against England as a sovereign nation. Answers: (i) True (ii) True (iii) False (iv) False III. Comprehension Check 1. A ‘professional’ cricket player is one who makes a living by playing cricket. Find the opposite of ‘professional’ in the last paragraph. 2. In “the triumph of the one-day game”, ‘triumph’ means the one-day game’s superiority to Test cricket. (i) inferiority to Test cricket. (ii) achievement and success over Test cricket. (iii) popularity among viewers. Mark the right answer. 3. “...the men for whom 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 a stage on which the drama of cricket is enacted the world over. Mark the right answer. Answers: (i) Amateur (ii) Popularity Among viewers (iii) It Implies that cricketers are like actors and every cricket ground is like a Stage on Which the Drama of Cricket is enacted the World Over. Working with the Text 1. Name some stick-and-ball games that you have witnessed or heard of. 2. The Parsis were the first Indian community to take to cricket. Why? 3. The rivalry between the Parsis and the Bombay Gymkhana had a happy ending for the former. What does ‘a happy ending’ refer to? 4. Do you think cricket owes its present popularity to television? Justify your answer. 5. Why has cricket a large viewership in India, not in China or Russia? 6. What do you understand by the game’s (cricket) ‘equipment’? 7. How is Test cricket a unique game in many ways? 8. How is cricket different from other team games? 9. How have advances in technology affected the game of cricket? 10. Explain how cricket changed with changing times and yet remained unchanged in some ways. Answers 1. Hockey, Baseball, Golf. 2. Because they were the First Indian Community to adopt Western ways and lifestyle. 3. It refers to the Beating of Bombay Gymkhana by a Parsi cricket team in 1889. 4. Yes. Telecast of Cricket Matches has greatly increased the number of viewers in distant places. There is now a global market for cricket. 5. Cricket is not a popular game in communist countries like China or Russia, So, Very Few People watch Test matches. 6. The ‘equipment’ refers to the things required to play the game. Some are tools others are Protective. Bats , Balls Stumps are tools, whereas pads and gloves and Helmets are Protective Equipments. 7. Cricket Game is Unique in the sense that even though a test match is played for five days, It ends in a draw.Another a Strange Feature of Cricket is the play ground. it can be any Size.only the length of Pitch is Specified. 8. Cricket is Different From other team games because it goes on for a longer time. Secondly it has variety like Test Cricket, One-day International and Now even T-20 match. 9. The invention of vulcanized rubber made possible the use of pads. Satellites have also enlarge the reach of telecast of matches. 10. Earlier the bat was made of one piece, today it has a separate blade and handle. Home Work Online |