{"id":74716,"date":"2019-05-16T11:19:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=74716"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:19:38","slug":"kumara-sangakara-becomes-the-first-non-british-mcc-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/kumara-sangakara-becomes-the-first-non-british-mcc-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumara Sangakara becomes the first non-British MCC president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<strong>Question: Kumara Sangakara becomes the first non-British MCC president. He belongs to which country?<\/strong>\n<br>(a)\tIndia\n<br>(b)\tPakistan\n<br>(c)\tBangladesh\n<br>(d)\tSri Lanka\n<strong><br>Answer: (d)\n<br>Related facts:<\/strong>\n\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Kumar Sangakara\nhas been appointed as the president of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).<\/li><li>He becomes the\nfirst non-British MCC president. His tenure of one year will start from\nOctober, 2019. He will succeed Anthony Wreford.<\/li><li>Sangakara is already an honorary life member of MCC and he is\nan influential figure in the world cricket committee for the past seven\nyears.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li>Sangakara was the\nformer Sri Lankan captain, batsman and wicketkeeper. He retired playing cricket\nin 2017. 12,400 runs have been scored by Kumara Sangakara in 134 test matches. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About MCC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>MCC, which owns Lord\u2019s and acts as the guardian of the laws\nof the game, was founded in 1787.<\/li><li>MCC lists 168 presidents in its history and this number\nincludes one member of the royal family, 13 knights and six baronets but, until\nnow, no one from overseas. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cricket\/kumar-sangakkara-to-become-first-non-british-president-of-mcc\/story-1EHReeg0VRAfWlMIXJcagJ.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cricket\/kumar-sangakkara-to-become-first-non-british-president-of-mcc\/story-1EHReeg0VRAfWlMIXJcagJ.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Kumara Sangakara becomes the first non-British MCC president. He belongs to which country? (a) India (b) Pakistan (c) Bangladesh (d) Sri Lanka Answer: (d) Related facts: Kumar Sangakara has been appointed as the president of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He becomes the first non-British MCC president. His tenure of one year will start from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-74716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74716","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=74716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74716\/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\/74717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74716"}],"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=74716"},{"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=74716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}