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Welcome to the contest department. The Cricket Project runs a variety of contests. The aim of these contests to motivate increased participation and quality in cricket articles by offering a form of friendly competition for project members making improvements to them. The project offers the following contests:

  • Fortnight and monthly based collaborations.
  • Annual WikiCup focused on improving articles and new article creation.
  • A monthly photo competition.
  • The world's largest cricket quiz (discontinued).

A number of prizes are available for winners as well. Add your name here to receive updates about the contests in your talkpages.

Contest coordinators

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Contest coordinators 'umpire' our contests to make sure they are run fairly. The role is voluntary, with no elections required. If you would like to volunteer, please list your username below:

Cricket Collaboration of the Fortnight

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Main page: Cricket Collaboration of the fortnight

The Cricket Collaboration of the Fortnight was an articles for improvement process held on a fortnight basis in 2005. It is set to be revived from January 2025 onwards.

Cricket Collaboration of the Month

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Main page: Cricket Collaboration of the Month

The Cricket Collaboration of the Month was an articles for improvement process held on a monthly basis in 2007. It is set to be revived from February 2025 onwards.

Cricket WikiCup

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Main page: Cricket WikiCup

The Cricket WikiCup (CWC) is set to begin in March 2025. It was preceded by General article expansion contest and New article contest in May 2021.

Cricket Picture of the Year

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Main page: Cricket Picture of the Year

The Cricket Picture of the Year (CPOTY) is an annual competition where project members are invited to submit cricket-related photographs. These will then be judged by members of the cricket project, who will vote to decide the winners. The winning photograph, along with the top 10 photos will be featured in the project newsletter, The Stump Sapient.

Image eligibility criteria
  • Image must have accurate licence information and be available in Commons; NFCC files won't be accepted.
  • Image must be related to a Cricket event / player / organization etc.
Competition stages
  1. Nomination period: Users are welcome to submit their nominations for the "Cricket Picture of the Year".
  2. Voting round 1: Nominations will be open for public voting to choose the top 12 images.
  3. Voting round 2: Top 12 images will be open for another round of public voting to choose the winners.
Prizes
  • A barnstar will be presented to the top 12 candidates and their nominators.
  • Special Gold, Silver and Bronze barnstars will be presented to the top 3 winners along with a file assessment as well.
  • Top 12 images will be featured on the project newsletter with the winners being highlighted.


2024 Cricket POTY

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Main page: 2024 Cricket Picture of the Year

The inaugural edition of the CPOTY is being held in October and November 2024. Nomination are being taken from 15 to 31 October 2024.

Place your nominations for the contest here between 15 to 31 October 2024. Use the following format: 

| File:<file name> | Nominated by [[User:{{SUBST:REVISIONUSER}}|]] on <date>
Submit your nominations here

Cricket Quiz

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The Cricket Project quiz is the largest cricket quiz in the world. It is a fun way to test your knowledge of cricket. But no Googling!!! At the end of each year, the user with the most correct answers will be crowned the 'Wikiproject Cricket Quiz Champion', earning themselves the Champions Trophy.

Rules

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  1. Anyone can answer a quiz question, but to ask a question you must first earn the right by being the first person to answer the previous one correctly. If the current question is still open and you think you know the answer, post your answer below and wait for an adjudication from the person who placed the question. Remember to sign your post with ~~~~.
  2. If you are the first person to post the correct answer, the asker will post a message below your answer confirming you gave the correct response.
  3. You now have the baton and should post a new question as quickly as possible. If you do not post a new question within a reasonable time frame, a comment should first be made, then anyone can either put out a general invite for a new question, or post one themselves.

Question guidelines

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  1. If you're finding no-one can get the answer to your question, consider offering clues or replacing your question with an easier one. The aim is to keep the quiz moving.
  2. Remember that you have an international audience. Keep quiz questions relevant to international cricket in some way.

Leaderboard

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Questions

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Q1481

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What happened to this quiz?

3 years and no questions at all ? did you guys just run out of questions?

anyway, i got one

which is the cheapest 9 wicket hall in FC cricket? 117.217.177.96 (talk) 07:35, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's alive! :) I have an idea that the cheapest 9 wicket analysis is 9-7, but without looking it up I can't remember who it was by. JH (talk page) 08:51, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Q1482

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Who was the first cricketer to wear an helmet in international cricket?

Was it an Australian against the West Indian giant quicks? VasuVR (talk, contribs) 16:17, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@VasuVRYes you are correct he is an Australian and his second name is also a rhyming word of "gallop"Abishe (talk) 04:33, 31 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Graham Yallop did ring a bell on the question. However, when some articles on internet claim Dennis Amiss used the first helmet, was not sure. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 09:20, 31 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Q1483

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Who will win the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy ?

  • Please vote by using your signature
  1. England Abishe (talk) 10:24, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  2. India
  3. Australia
  4. New Zealand
  5. South Africa
  6. Bangladesh
  7. Pakistan I win the quiz. Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 10:17, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Sri Lanka

Q1484

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On which bowler's ball, Sir Don Bradman completed his 100th First-Class century by scoring a single ? Aditya tamhankar (talk) 10:00 18 September 2019, (IST)

Gogumal Kishenchand

Q1485

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Who was the first-ever substitute in a first-class cricket match? StickyWicket (talk) 12:50, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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