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In this quiz<\/a><\/strong>, you have to answer ten questions about the jersey numbers of cricketers.<\/p>\n Jersey numbers have not been a feature in cricket as they have in other sports like basketball, football and more. Football in particular has a rich tradition of kit numbers representing various positions on the pitch, while in basketball, the No.23 of Michael Jordan has come virtually define the player.<\/p>\n Quiz! How well do you know these teenage Test cricketers?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Despite Test cricket first being played in 1877, jersey numbers did not make an appearance until nearly thirty years into the lifespan of one-day cricket, when they were used at the 1999 World Cup (although the 1995-96 World Series Cup did have players sporting numbers as well). They were subsequently introduced to Test cricket in 2019.<\/p>\n Quiz! Batters with the most fourth-innings hundreds in Test cricket<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n They have been around long enough now for some players to be associated with a certain number \u2013 think MS Dhoni with No.7, Virat Kohli with No.18 or Rohit Sharma with No.45.<\/p>\n Quiz! Highest individual scores in men\u2019s Twenty20 cricket<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This quiz, though is about the rather more wacky shirt numbers \u2013 from zeroes and triple-digit numbers to sentimental as well as downright strange reasons for picking a number. How well do you know these stories?<\/p>\n Please refresh the page if the quiz does not load properly.<\/p>\n How well do you know cricket’s jersey numbers? <\/p>\n Follow Wisden for all cricket updates, including <\/strong>live scores<\/a><\/strong>, match stats, <\/strong>quizzes<\/a><\/strong> and more. Stay up to date with the <\/strong>latest cricket news<\/a><\/strong>, player updates, team <\/strong>standings,<\/a><\/strong> match highlights, <\/strong>video analysis<\/a><\/strong> and <\/strong>live match odds<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this quiz, you have to answer ten questions about the jersey numbers of cricketers. Jersey numbers have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-186555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}