Girls Can’t Play Cricket Questions & Answers

Hi Everyone!! This article will share Girls Can’t Play Cricket Questions & Answers.

In my previous posts, I have shared the questions & answers of The Demon and The Dancer, An Adventure, Mina’s Letter and The Magpie’s Lesson so, you can check these posts as well.

Girls Can’t Play Cricket Questions & Answers

Word Galaxy

  • cricket set – the things one needs to play cricket such as bat, ball, pad and gloves
  • cheer your favourite team – clap and shout to encourage your team
  • stumps – wooden sticks with rounded ends that form the wicket
  • bails – small pieces of wood kept on top of the stumps
  • clean bowled – the bails fell off the stumps
  • whizzed past him – flew past him
  • nervous – scared
  • techniques – skills
  • toss – throwing up of a coin
  • fair – honest

Question 1: Choose the correct option:

(a) On his birthday, Sumit got a________.

i. doll
ii. cricket set
iii. cricket team

(b) The girls got angry with the boys because the________.

i. boys did not include them in their game.
ii. boys always fought with them.
iii. girls wanted to play by themselves.

(c) Sudha was taught to play cricket by________.

i. Rajan
ii. her mother
iii. Priti

(d) The boys laughed when they saw the girls playing cricket because they________.

i. had always defeated the girls in cricket
ii. always made fun of the girls
iii. thought that cricket was a boys’ game.

(e) Rajan realized he would have to try his best because________.

i. the girls’ team was much better than he expected
ii. he was the last one to bat
iii. the girls’ team always won matches.

Question 2: Why do you think the boys did not ask the girls to play with them?

Answer: The boys thought that the girls would not play cricket so they did not ask them to play.

Question 3: Do you think we can do anything well if we practise enough?

Answer: Yes, we can do anything well if we practise enough because practise makes a man perfect.

Girls Can’t Play Cricket Questions & Answers

Question 4: What lesson did the girls teach the boys?

Answer: The girls taught the boys two lessons. One is that there is no difference between what a boy and a girl can do. The second is that we can achieve anything if we put our efforts to it.

Question 5: Who won the match? What did the boys decide?

Answer: The girls’ team made thirty-one runs and won the match. The boys decided to play together with the girls from that day.

Question 6: What moral does the story give you?

Answer: The story teaches us that we should never underestimate anyone and girls are no less than boys.

Question 7: Read and answer the questions:
“Let’s go to the playground and show the boys.”

(a) Who said these words and to whom?

Answer: Sudha said these words to her mother and Priti.

(b) What did the speaker want to ‘show’ the boys?

Answer: The speaker wanted to ‘show’ the boys that ‘girls can play cricket’.

(c) Circle the word that you think would best describe how the speaker was feeling when she/he spoke these words. (sad/determined/anxious)

Answer: Determined

Question 8: Read and answer the questions:
“All right, Aunty. But please be careful.”

(a) Who said these words and to whom?

Answer: Sumit said these words to Sudha’s mother.

(b) What was ‘Aunty’ planning to do?

Answer: Aunty was planning to prove the boys that ‘girls can play cricket’.

(c) Why do you think the speaker said these words?

Answer: I think the speaker said these words because according to the speaker girls can’t play cricket and he didn’t want to hurt them.

So, these were Girls Can’t Play Cricket Questions & Answers.

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