Who among the following retired from test cricket by bagging a wicket on the last ball of his career?
- (a)AB de Villiers
- (b)Michael Hussey
- (c)Quinton de Kock
- (d)Ross Taylor
Correct — D, Ross Taylor. The New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor played his final Test in January 2022, against Bangladesh at Christchurch. Only an occasional bowler, he was handed the ball late in the match and took a wicket with the very last delivery he bowled in Test cricket, a fitting end to a long career. That last-ball wicket is the detail the question turns on.
- (a)AB de Villiers — The South African great retired earlier (2018) and is remembered as a batsman-wicketkeeper, not for a last-ball wicket on retirement.
- (b)Michael Hussey — The Australian batsman retired from Tests in 2013; his farewell is not associated with taking a wicket off his final delivery.
- (c)Quinton de Kock — A South African wicketkeeper-batsman who stepped away from Tests, not a bowler who signed off with a last-ball wicket.
Ross Taylor was one of New Zealand's most prolific batsmen across all formats and part of the side that won the inaugural World Test Championship in 2021. His retirement from Tests in early 2022 became memorable because, as a part-time bowler, he claimed a wicket with the last ball he bowled in the format.
This is a sports current-affairs item where three of the four are noted batsmen with unrelated retirements; the distinctive fact of a last-ball wicket points specifically to Ross Taylor's January 2022 farewell Test.
- Ross Taylor is a former New Zealand international batsman.
- His final Test was against Bangladesh at Christchurch in January 2022.
- He took a wicket with the last ball he bowled in Test cricket.
- New Zealand, with Taylor in the side, won the first World Test Championship final in 2021.
- Assuming the most famous batsman in the list is the answer rather than reading the specific 'last-ball wicket' clue.
- Confusing retirements across different years and countries.
As a sports current-affairs item hinging on a distinctive detail of a player's retirement.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Ross Taylor, who retired from Test cricket in January 2022, represented which country?
- (a)New Zealand
- (b)Australia
- (c)South Africa
- (d)England
Answer(a) New Zealand — a long-serving batsman across all three formats.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which team won the final of the first-ever ICC World Test Championship in 2021?
- (a)New Zealand
- (b)India
- (c)Australia
- (d)England
Answer(a) New Zealand — they beat India in the inaugural WTC final at Southampton.