Born on May 20, 1977, Anjum Chopra is an Indian Women Cricketer. She was born in New Delhi. A sports girl from the start, the first time she stepped on to the ground was at the age of 9. Played her first friendly match with college girls team at the inter college level scoring 20 runs and taking 2 wickets. Later the same year she was selected to play for New Delhi in the under -15 tournament. A sports person, she played various sports at an early age. Represented her school and college team in Athletics, Basketball, swimming. She represented Delhi State team in basketball nationals also. Made her debut in One-day Internationals, in the early age of 17, on 12 February 1995 against New Zealand at Christchurch, New Zealand, and made her debut in Test cricket a few months later, against England at Eden Gardens, Kolkata on 17 November 1995. Only in her second series for India the same year, she was awarded ‘player of the series’ in the one day internationals against the visiting England cricket team scoring runs at an average of 67.5 winning the series 3-2. She is a left-handed batsman and bowls right-arm medium-fast. She has played in 12 Tests and 116 ODIs. Charting out a niche in the male dominated sport in the country, Anjum has broken the glass ceiling to be recognized as the face of women’s cricket. A player, captain, consultant, motivational speaker, author, actor she has worn many hats. A go getter and a perfectionist she has been successful in achieving the desired results for the nation and elevating women’s sports.
Identify the Player:
Write a brief description about him in 250 words.
Questions of this week:
1. Who was the top scorer for India against South Africa in the second One-Dayer at Indore?
2. For which team Mithun Manhas played in IPL-8?
3. Which faction of JKCA fielded the team in the third Ranji Trophy match against Services at Jammu?
4. Who defeated Saina Nehwal in second round of Denmark Open on October 15, 2015?
5. Who is Ranjeet Singh Chib?
Answers of the last week:
1. JP Duminy 2. Delhi Deredevls 3. Ansari faction 4. Martina Hingis 5. Secretary BCCI.
The best entry of this week was received from Anshul Anand from Preet Nagar, Jammu. The other entries of the week were from Sanjay Dhar, Lane No 1, H No-3, Upper Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal Jammu; Nitin Parihar, New Plots, Jammu; Jaipal Singh, Kathua; Bimal Razdan, Gangyal, Jammu and Sourav Chopra, Bakshi Nagar, Jammu.
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