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In this quiz<\/a>, you have to answer ten questions on floodlit day-night cricket.<\/p>\n Also play: The ultimate quiz on the Eden Gardens, Kolkata<\/a><\/p>\n When the second day\u2019s play ended at The Oval on that day in 1889, Surrey still needed 25. Yorkshire needed two wickets (one, technically, for the injured Maurice Read would not bat). At a quarter past six, it was near-dark, but both sides agreed to continue on a pitch illuminated by gas lamps on the streets around the ground. Surrey won the match 45 minutes later. <\/p>\n Also play: The ultimate quiz on The Oval cricket ground, Kennington<\/a><\/p>\n The contest, usually referred to as the \u201cGas-lamp game,\u201d is the first known instance of cricket under artificial lights. Cricket has come a long way from there: these days, it is difficult to come across day-only matches in limited-overs cricket between major nations.<\/p>\n Also play: The ultimate Lord\u2019s Cricket Ground quiz<\/a><\/p>\n Take our quiz to test your knowledge on cricket under floodlights.<\/p>\n Also play: Quiz! How well do you know the Melbourne Cricket Ground?<\/a><\/p>\n Quiz! How well do you know day-night cricket under floodlights? <\/p>\n Please refresh this page if the quiz does not load properly.<\/p>\n Follow Wisden for all cricket updates, including live scores<\/a>, match stats, quizzes<\/a> and more. Stay up to date with the latest cricket news<\/a>, player updates, team standings,<\/a> match highlights, video analysis<\/a> and live match odds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this quiz, you have to answer ten questions on floodlit day-night cricket. Also play: The ultimate quiz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-404448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}