{"id":21157,"date":"2017-01-28T12:51:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T12:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=21157"},"modified":"2017-01-28T12:51:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T12:51:28","slug":"icc-desert-t20-challenge-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/icc-desert-t20-challenge-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Desert T20 Challenge-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Which of the following team won the 2017 Desert T20 Challenge?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Ireland<br \/>\n(b) Hong Kong<br \/>\n(c) Scotland<br \/>\n(d) Afghanistan<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (d)<br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The 2017 Desert T20 Challenge was an international Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that was held in Dubai and Abu Dhabi from 14 to 20 January 2017<\/li>\n<li>The eight Associate Members that have T20I status participated in the tournament.<\/li>\n<li>Papua New Guinea declined to participate and was replaced by Namibia (who does not have T20I status).<\/li>\n<li>Final- Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai<\/li>\n<li>Winner-Afghanistan (10 wickets)<\/li>\n<li>Runner Up-Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Player of the Series- Mohammad Nabi (Afghanistan)<\/li>\n<li>During this tournament Mohammad Shahzad Afghanistan&#8217;s wicketkeeper-batsman become the first player to score two T20I fifties on the same day.<\/li>\n<li>He scored 80 runs in the semi-final win over Oman, and 52 in finals against Ireland.<\/li>\n<li>Coach of Afghanistan cricket team is Lalchand Rajput and Captain is Asghar Stanikzai (ODI &amp; T20I).<\/li>\n<li>Nawroz Mangal captained the team in Finals.<\/li>\n<li>Recently Nawroz Mangal declared his retirement from the cricket.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Desert_T20\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Desert_T20<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/desert-t20-challenge\/content\/series\/1074956.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/desert-t20-challenge\/content\/series\/1074956.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2017_Desert_T20_Challenge\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2017_Desert_T20_Challenge<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiatimes.com\/sports\/afghanistan-s-mohammad-shahzad-sets-new-t20-record-for-most-50s-in-an-icc-tournament-goes-past-virat-kohli-269996.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.indiatimes.com\/sports\/afghanistan-s-mohammad-shahzad-sets-new-t20-record-for-most-50s-in-an-icc-tournament-goes-past-virat-kohli-269996.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following team won the 2017 Desert T20 Challenge? (a) Ireland (b) Hong Kong (c) Scotland (d) Afghanistan Ans: (d) Related facts: The 2017 Desert T20 Challenge was an international Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that was held in Dubai and Abu Dhabi from 14 to 20 January 2017 The eight Associate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095],"tags":[2862],"class_list":["post-21157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crkt","tag-cricket-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157\/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\/20966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21157"}],"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=21157"},{"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=21157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}