Born on October 29, 1988, Ramdayal Punia is a Ranji Trophy Cricketer from Jammu and Kashmir, who has played 36 First Class, 31 List A and 20 Twenty20 matches played so far in his Career. In his 36 First Class matches, Ramdayal has taken 112 wickets, with seven 5 wicket hauls and 6/50 as his best. As a batsman, Ramdayal has scored 1039 runs, with one century and four half centuries, Averaging 26.64 in his 50 innings. Unbeaten 124 runs is his highest score in First Class matches. In List A Career, Ramdayal has played 31 matches and took 44 wickets, with 3/39 as his best, while in 28 innings of List A matches, he has scored 325 runs, with an average of 15.47. In twenty T20 matches, Ramdayal has taken 17 wickets, with 3/32 as his best. He is a bowling all-rounder and has the distinction of being the highest wicket-taker for J&K from last 3 seasons. He took 32 wickets in Ranji Trophy last season and 30 in the last but one season. He has the ability to bat lower down the order. His natural out-swinging ability and the skill of bringing the ball in makes him lethal. The speedster is simply the bowling spearhead for Jammu and Kashmir.
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Questions of this week:
1. Who was the top scorer from J&K in the Vijay Hazare Trophy match played against Karnataka recently?
2. Who is the president of J&K Amateur Kabaddi Association?
3. How many outstanding sportspersons were presented cash award during the investiture ceremony organized by J&K State Sports Council in Jammu recently?
4. Name the teams that lifted titles in Senior State Basketball Championship recently?
5. Who is Rajiv Shukla?
Answers of the last week:
1.Parvez Rasool 2. Th Rachpal Singh, former MLA Kalakote 3. Shubham Pundir 4. Surya Bhanu Partap Singh 5. J&K’s former Handball Captain of India.
The best entry of this week was received from Sourav Chopra, 126 Bakshi Nagar, Jammu.
The other entries of the week were from Satish Kumar, New Plots, Jammu; Vinod Koul, 144/H, Durga Nagar, Jammu; Arvind Sharma, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu; Prakash Singh Jasrotia, Sainik Colony, Jammu and Sanjay Dhar, Lane No 1, H No-3, Upper Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal, Jammu.
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