Born on October 13, 1993 in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, Hanuma Vihari is an Indian cricketer who plays for Hyderabad in Indian domestic cricket. He is a right-hand batsman and occasional right arm off break bowler. He was a member of the India Under-19 cricket team that won the 2012 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Australia.
Vihari played for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League in 2013. In one of the league matches against Royal Challengers Bangalore in Hyderabad, Vihari opened the bowling attack as an off-spinner and removed Chris Gayle for just 1. He also scored an unbeaten 46 in the same match while chasing. Sunrisers ultimately won this match through a super-over.
Vihari has played 15 First Class matches, wherein he has scored 743 runs with an average of 33.77, while in 14 List A matches, Vihari has scored 417 runs with an average of 37.90. In 7 T20 matches, Vihari has scored 95 runs with an average of 15.83 runs per match. He has scored 1 century and 3 half-centuries in First Class matches and 3 half-centuries in List A matches.
As a part-time bowler, Vihari has taken 4 wickets in First Class matches in 354 balls, while in List A and T20 matches, he has taken one and five wickets respectively. His best bowling in First Class matches has been 2/69, while in First Ckass matches, he has 1/33 as his best bowling figures and in T20 matches, his best performance has been 3/28 in 4 overs.
Vihari has 16 scalps including catches and stumpings in First Class matches, while in List A matches, he has 3 victims behind the wicket and in T20 matches, he has taken four catches/stumpings.
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Questions of this week:
1. Who won the inaugural match of the ongoing Salute & Tribute T20 Cricket Tournament at Parade?
2. For which team Siddharth Kaul played in Indian Premier League Season-6?
3. By which margin Mumbai Indians defeated Chennai Super Kings in the IPL-6 final?
4. Who has been elected general secretary of J&K Judo Association recently?
5. Who is Iqbal Abdulla?
Answers of the last week:
1. Poonch 2. Sunrisers Hyderabad 3. 82 runs 4. Surinder Singh Bunty 5. Cricketer who plays for KKR in IPL.
The best entry of this week was received from Rahul Mussa, Block-C, TRT, Nagrota.
The other entries of the week were from Sanjay Dhar from Lane No 1, H No 3, Upper Laxmi Nagar, Jammu, Mohammad Irfan, Ramzanpura Janipur, Aryan Koul from Gole Gujral, Jammu, Ravinder Sharma of Gandhi Nagar, Jammu and Arun Sharma, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu.