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Born on November 11, 1994, Sanju Viswanath Samson commonly called Sanju Samson is an Indian cricketer from Trivandrum who is a member of the Indian U-19 cricket team. He is a wicket-keeper batsman.He represents Kerala in domestic cricket.In the IPL he plays for Rajasthan Royals.He is the youngest to score a half-century in the IPL. This he achieved on April 29, 2013 in the match between Rajasthan Royals vs. Royal Challengers Bangalore.
He made his debut for Kerala on November 3, 2011. At the age of 17,he became the youngest to represent Kerala in First class cricket.He had an impressive Domestic season in 2012-2013 scoring 222 runs against Delhi in Vijay Hazare Tournament.He scored 722 runs from 10 innings including 2 centuries.
In the IPL, he was a member of the Kolkata Knight Riders players pool in 2012, but he did not play any matches. In 2013, he signed for Rajasthan Royals. He made his IPL debut against Kings XI Punjab on April 13,2013 after the regular wicket keeper Dishant Yagnik failed to recover from an injury.He impressed with a great catch to remove Rajagopal Sathish off the bowling of James faulkner. He joined Ajinkya Rahane at the middle when his team was facing some anxious moments with the score at 79/4 in 12.5 overs.He scored a composed 27 runs off 23 deliveries and his unbroken partnership with Rahane for 47 runs made sure Rajastan Royals won the match with 4 balls to spare.
Sanju played his second match for Rajastan Royals against the Royal Challengers Bangalore on April 29,2013. Rajasthan Royals were chasing a tough target of 172 when Sanju was promoted up the batting order to No.3. His scored 63 off 41 balls and his partnership with Shane Watson of 68 runs off 46 balls laid the foundation for the Rajasthan Royals’ victory. He won the Man-of-the-match award for his performance which invited praise from all quarters for the quality of the strokes and the composure of the innings.After an uncertain start,the 2 consecutive sixes he hit off Murali Karthik were exquisite with its grace and timing and the commentators termed him ‘a talented individual with great prospects’.

 

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Questions of this week:
1.     How many runs Virat Kohli scored in the IPL-6 match against Delhi Daredevils on May 10, 2013?
2.     For which team Iqbal Abdullah plays in Indian Premier League Season-6?
3.     Name the player whom Parvez Rasool scalped as his first IPL victim?
4.     Who is Dushyant Sharma?
5.     Who won the inaugural match of the ongoing 6th Gufran Memorial T20 Cricket Tournament at Udhampur?
Answers of the last week:
1. Chris Gayle 2.Mombay Indians 3.Parvez Rasool 4. Indian Shooter 5. Manjeet Singh Volleyball Club Poonch
The best entry of this week was received from Sahil Khajuria, Nitco Lane, Talab Tiloo, Jammu.
The other entries of the week were from from Sanjay Dhar from Lane No 1, H No 3, Upper Laxmi Nagar, Jammu, Sumesh Sharma from Bakshi Nagar, Jammu, Anubhav Sambyal from Suchani, Rahya, Samba, Aamir from Doda and Sunil Kumar from Krishna Nagar, Jewel, Jammu.

 

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