{"id":24518,"date":"2017-04-12T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T08:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=24518"},"modified":"2017-04-12T08:28:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T08:28:38","slug":"wisdens-leading-cricketer-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wisdens-leading-cricketer-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisden\u2019s Leading Cricketer in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Which Indian players have been given the title of &#8216;Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World&#8217; before Virat Kohli?<\/strong><br \/>\n(A) Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag<br \/>\n(B) Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly<br \/>\n(C) VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid<br \/>\n(D) Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Related facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On April 5, 2017; Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World title was given to Indian captain Virat Kohli for the year 2016.<\/li>\n<li>It is notable that last year Virat Kohli scored an average of 75.93 in Tests, an average of 92.37 in international one-day matches and an average of 106.33 in international T20 matches.<\/li>\n<li>Prior to Virat Kohli, the title has been given to Virender Sehwag (for the year 2008 and 2009) and Sachin Tendulkar (year 2010).<\/li>\n<li>It is important that this title was established in the year 2004; Australian Cricketer Ricky Ponting was awarded the title for the first time in 2003.<\/li>\n<li>It is known that the British annual sports magazine Wisden Cricketers Almanack has given place to Virat Kohli on the cover page of the 2017 issue.<\/li>\n<li>Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World (Female) title has been given to Australian player Ellyse Perry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Related Links:-<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisdenindia.com\/cricket-news\/kohli-named-wisdens-leading-cricketer-in-the-world-for-2016\/248376\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wisdenindia.com\/cricket-news\/kohli-named-wisdens-leading-cricketer-in-the-world-for-2016\/248376<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/england\/content\/story\/1090049.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/england\/content\/story\/1090049.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/aajtak.intoday.in\/sports\/story\/kohli-named-by-wisden-as-leading-cricketer-in-the-world-1-921655.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/aajtak.intoday.in\/sports\/story\/kohli-named-by-wisden-as-leading-cricketer-in-the-world-1-921655.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which Indian players have been given the title of &#8216;Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World&#8217; before Virat Kohli? (A) Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag (B) Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly (C) VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid (D) Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev Ans: (a) Related facts:- On April 5, 2017; Wisden Leading Cricketer in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101],"tags":[2448],"class_list":["post-24518","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\/24518","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=24518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24518\/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\/24307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24518"}],"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=24518"},{"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=24518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}