Born on February 5, 1990, Bhuvneshwar Kumar is an Indian international cricketer. He plays for Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket, and Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League. Kumar is a right-arm medium-fast bowler who swings the ball, and a useful lower order right-handed batsman, which makes him a bowling all-rounder.
Kumar belongs to a Gurjar family of Western Uttar Pradesh and was born on 5 February 1990 to Kiran Pal Singh and Indresh in Meerut.
Kumar plays for Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket. He has also played for Central Zone in the Duleep Trophy. Kumar made his first-class debut at the age of 17 against Bengal.
Kumar was included in the playing eleven of the first T20I match against Pakistan at Bengaluru following Parvinder Awana’s poor showing in the previous series against England. He took 3 wickets for 9 runs in 4 overs in the match with an economy rate of 2.25 and thus broke the record for the best bowling figures on T20I debut. He took the wickets of Nasir Jamshed, Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Akmal.
He opened his account in ODIs by taking a wicket in the very first ball that he bowled, dismissing Mohammad Hafeez of Pakistan. Kumar’s debut wickets in T20Is, ODIs and Tests have all been bowled and is the first ever bowler to do so. In his debut Test series, he took 6 wickets in four matches against Australia in the 2013 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Following his good performances in the 2008/09 Ranji season, he was handed an IPL contract by Royal Challengers Bangalore. In 2011, he was signed by Pune Warriors India. In 2014, he was picked up by Sunrisers Hyderabad.
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Write a brief description about him in 250 words.
Questions of this week:
1. Who top scored for India in the second Test match of ongoing series against England?
2. For which team Akshar Patel played in IPL-7?
3. Which Indian female wrestlers won gold medals in the ongoing Commonwealth Games at Glasgow?
4. Who won gold medal in 65 kg free style wrestling event in the ongoing Commonwealth Games?
5. Who is Surinder Singh Bagal?
Answers of the last week:
1. Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2.None 3. Sanjita Chanu 4. 19 runs 5. former J&K Ranji Trophy cricketer.
The best entry of this week was received from Tushar Mahajan, H No-55, Lower Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal, Jammu.
The other entries of the week were from Abhimanyu Gupta, H No 71/2 Upper Roopnagar, Jammu.; Sanjay Dhar, R/o Lane No-1, H-No 3, Upper Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal, Jammu; Ramesh Pandita from sector-2, Durga Nagar, Jammu;. Sunil Singh Sambyal from Samba and Pritam Singh of Mishriwala, Jammu.
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