{"id":43451,"date":"2018-03-20T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=43451"},"modified":"2018-03-20T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T10:00:18","slug":"nidahas-twenty-20-tri-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/nidahas-twenty-20-tri-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Nidahas Twenty-20 Tri Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who amongst the following was chosen the &#8216;Player of the Series&#8217; on March 18<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018, in the Nidahas Twenty-20 Tri Series?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Rohit Sharma<br \/>\n(b) Shikhar Dhawan<br \/>\n(c) <em>Washington Sundar <\/em><br \/>\n(d) Yuzvendra Chahal<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (c)\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nRelated Facts:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>India-Sri Lanka-Bangladesh \u201cNidahas Twenty-20 Tri Series\u201d concluded in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (March 6<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 18<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018)<\/li>\n<li>This series was organized in honor of the completion of 70 years of Sri Lanka\u2019s independence.<\/li>\n<li>In Sinhalese language Nidahas means &#8216;freedom&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Sponsor-Hero<\/li>\n<li>Finals match venue: R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<li>In final, India won the prestigious tournament by defeating Bangladesh by 4 wickets.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Man-of-the-match\u2019 in final &#8211; Dinesh Karthik (India), made 29 runs on 8 balls.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Player of the Series&#8217; &#8211; Washington Sunder together with Yuzvendra Chahalfor most 8-8 wickets.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Most runs in tournament&#8217; &#8211; Kusal Perera (Sri Lanka), 204 runs.<\/li>\n<li>In the first match, India&#8217;s Vijay Shankar made his international T20 debut.<\/li>\n<li>In the third match Bangladesh made their highest score (215 runs) in T20.<\/li>\n<li>Sri Lanka lost the third match and became the first country to face defeat in 50 matches in T20.<\/li>\n<li>In the fourth match K.L. Rahul became the first Indian cricketer to be hit wicket in the T20 (bowler- Jeevan Mendis, Sri Lanka).<\/li>\n<li>In the 6<sup>th<\/sup> match, Kusal Perera (Sri Lanka) became the first batsman to score five T20 half centuries against the same opposition team (Bangladesh).<\/li>\n<li>India became the first team to win after chasing the target of the highest runs (167 runs) given to win the T20 final.<\/li>\n<li>India&#8217;s Dinesh Karthik became the first cricketer to get win for his team by making a six at last ball in any T20 International final.<\/li>\n<li>Nobody had done this before.<\/li>\n<li>Although there are four cricketer prior to Kartik who made their team won by making six at the last ball.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference: <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/engine\/series\/1133811.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/engine\/series\/1133811.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/18547\/scorecard\/1133823\/bangladesh-vs-india-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/18547\/scorecard\/1133823\/bangladesh-vs-india-final\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/engine\/series\/1133811.html?view=records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/engine\/series\/1133811.html?view=records<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/_\/id\/22715208\/stats-sixes-galore-prolific-pair-kusals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/_\/id\/22715208\/stats-sixes-galore-prolific-pair-kusals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who amongst the following was chosen the &#8216;Player of the Series&#8217; on March 18th, 2018, in the Nidahas Twenty-20 Tri Series? (a) Rohit Sharma (b) Shikhar Dhawan (c) Washington Sundar (d) Yuzvendra Chahal Answer: (c)\u00a0 Related Facts:\u00a0 India-Sri Lanka-Bangladesh \u201cNidahas Twenty-20 Tri Series\u201d concluded in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (March 6th \u2013 18th, 2018) This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095],"tags":[2862],"class_list":["post-43451","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\/43451","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=43451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43451\/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\/43399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43451"}],"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=43451"},{"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=43451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}