{"id":24184,"date":"2017-04-03T08:48:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T08:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=24184"},"modified":"2017-04-03T08:48:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T08:48:44","slug":"border-gavaskar-trophy-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/border-gavaskar-trophy-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who amongst the following has been selected for the Man of the Series in the recently concluded Border-Gavaskar Test series between India and Australia?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Steve Smith<br \/>\n(b) Ravichandran Ashwin<br \/>\n(c) Ravindra Jadeja<br \/>\n(d) Cheteshwar Pujara<br \/>\n<strong>Answer- (c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On March 28th, 2017, India won the Border Gavaskar Trophy by 2-1, defeating Australia by 8 wickets in the fourth and final Test match.<\/li>\n<li>All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has been chosen for Man of the Series on scoring 127 runs and 25 wickets in this series.<\/li>\n<li>Jadeja also became Man of the Match in the fourth match.<\/li>\n<li>The first match of this series was played in Pune between 23-25 February, 2017, won by Australia by 333 runs.<\/li>\n<li>O\u2019Keefe, Australian bowler who took 12 wickets in this (1st) match has been awarded with Man of the Match title.<\/li>\n<li>The second match of the series was played in Bangalore between March 4-7, 2017, won by India by 75 runs and K.L. Rahul became Man of the Match.<\/li>\n<li>The third match of the series was played in Ranchi between March 16-20, which was a draw and Cheteshwar Pujara, who scored a double century, was selected for the Man of the match.<\/li>\n<li>Highest run scorers in the series: 1. Steve Smith &#8211; 499 runs, 2. Cheteshwar Pujara &#8211; 405 runs 3. KL Rahul-393 runs<br \/>\nMost wicket takers: 1. Ravindra Jadeja &#8211; 25 wickets, 2. R. Ashwin &#8211; 21 wickets, 3. Nathan Lyon &#8211; 19 wickets.<\/li>\n<li>A numbers of records have been formed during this series which are as follows:<\/li>\n<li>It is the 7th consecutive test series victory of team India under Virat Kohli\u2019s leadership.<\/li>\n<li>Team India has defeated all the nine Test teams in the previous domestic series. India after Australia and South Africa is the third team to do so.<\/li>\n<li>In the absence of Virat Kohli, the 33th Test captain Ajinkya Rahane, who hold the captaincy in the fourth Test, became the ninth Indian captain to win his first match.<\/li>\n<li>Cheteshwar Pujara scored 202 runs off 525 balls in second innings of third test and became the first Indian cricketer to face 500 balls in a single Test innings.<\/li>\n<li>India has won four out of the four Test series in 2016-2017 Season.<\/li>\n<li>Ravindra Jadeja is the third player who scored more than 500 runs and took more than 50 wickets, in a Season.<\/li>\n<li>Ravichandran Ashwin broke Dale Steyn\u2019s (78) record of taking the most wickets in a season. He has taken 79 wickets in the season 2016-17.<\/li>\n<li>Total thirteen (13) series of the Border-Gavaskar Test has been played since 1996-97, out of which seven (7) series won by India, five (5) series by Australia while the series in the 2003-04 was a draw.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Related links:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcci.tv\/india-v-australia-2017\/results\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bcci.tv\/india-v-australia-2017\/results<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/india-v-australia-2016-17\/content\/story\/1088751.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/india-v-australia-2016-17\/content\/story\/1088751.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/r-ashwin-india-vs-australia-test-cricket\/1\/912629.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/r-ashwin-india-vs-australia-test-cricket\/1\/912629.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneindia.com\/sports\/cricket\/border-gavaskar-trophy-is-back-here-are-india-s-5-heroes\/3-cheteshwar-pujara-pf25204-2387087.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.oneindia.com\/sports\/cricket\/border-gavaskar-trophy-is-back-here-are-india-s-5-heroes\/3-cheteshwar-pujara-pf25204-2387087.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who amongst the following has been selected for the Man of the Series in the recently concluded Border-Gavaskar Test series between India and Australia? (a) Steve Smith (b) Ravichandran Ashwin (c) Ravindra Jadeja (d) Cheteshwar Pujara Answer- (c) Related facts: On March 28th, 2017, India won the Border Gavaskar Trophy by 2-1, defeating Australia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095],"tags":[2862],"class_list":["post-24184","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\/24184","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=24184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24184\/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\/24096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24184"}],"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=24184"},{"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=24184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}