{"id":20885,"date":"2017-01-24T09:03:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T09:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=20885"},"modified":"2017-01-24T09:03:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T09:03:19","slug":"younis-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/younis-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Younis Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who became the first player in the history of Test cricket to score centuries in 11 countries?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Azhar Ali<br \/>\n(b) Hashim Amla<br \/>\n(c) Younis Khan<br \/>\n(d) Steve Smith<br \/>\n<strong>Ans:(c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Younis Khan became the first player in the history of Test cricket to score centuries in 11 countries, including the United Arab Emirates.<\/li>\n<li>The 39-year-old Pakistani smashed his 34th century at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Australia.<\/li>\n<li>With this he joined the list of players who made 34 century namely Sunil Gavaskar, Mahela Jayawardene and Brian Lara at 6th place.<\/li>\n<li>Rahul Dravid and Younis are only two players with centuries in all ten Full Member nations (excluding the UAE).<\/li>\n<li>It should be known that Dravid never played in the UAE, Mohammad Yousuf,, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene also had centuries in ten countries.<\/li>\n<li>Sachin Tendulkar holds the world record for most centuries (51 century) in Test cricket.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/cricket\/2017\/01\/05\/pakistans-younus-khan-becomes-first-batsman-score-test-hundreds\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/cricket\/2017\/01\/05\/pakistans-younus-khan-becomes-first-batsman-score-test-hundreds\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1306567\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1306567<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/australia-v-pakistan-2016-17\/content\/story\/1075647.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/australia-v-pakistan-2016-17\/content\/story\/1075647.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who became the first player in the history of Test cricket to score centuries in 11 countries? (a) Azhar Ali (b) Hashim Amla (c) Younis Khan (d) Steve Smith Ans:(c) Related facts: Younis Khan became the first player in the history of Test cricket to score centuries in 11 countries, including the United Arab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101],"tags":[2448],"class_list":["post-20885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fsper","tag-sports-personality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}