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4Born on September 8, 1990, Murugan Ashwin is an Indian cricketer who plays for Tamil Nadu.He made his List A debut on December 11, 2015 in the 2015-16 Vijay Hazare Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on January 2, 2016 in the 2015-16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He was bought at the 2016 Indian Premier League auction by the Rising Pune Supergiants for 4.5 crores, which was 45 times the original base price of 10 lakhs. He is playing for Rising Pune Supergiants in the ongoing IPL-2016 and is performing well for his team.
He helped his IPL team register a convincing victories over their rivals in two matches of the ongoing Indian Premier League. Having a unique bowling action, experts rate him a high quality bowler and a hard nut to crack. He dominated the bowling department more than once during the ongoing IPL matches, even in presence of the greats like Ravichandran Ashwin and likes, who are as part of the Rising Pune Supergiants team. Presently, Murugan Ashwin is showing all those skills which are required to blossom at the highest levels. Apart from his bowling talent, Murugan is also a utility lower-order batsman.  Experts believe that if Murugan continues to bowl with same zeal and zest and continue performing like this, time is not far away that he will get the National selectors nod for representing the Country.

 

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Questions of this week:
1.    Who was named man of the match in IPL-2016 match between Delhi Daredevils and Rising Pune Supergiants on May 5, 2015?
2.    Who is the president of Hockey J&K?
3.    Name the players who were recommended for Awards by the BCCI recently?
4.    How many wickets Abdul Qayoom (Bagaw) has taken in First Class Cricket?
5.    Who is Anirudh Choudhary?
Answers of the last week:
1. Gujarat Lions 2. SM Bali 3. Sania Mirza 4. 112 wickets 5. Former General Secretary BCCI.
The best entry of this week was received from Romesh Jasrotia, Hiranagar, Kathua.
The other entries of the week were from Sanjay Dhar, Lane-1, H.No-3, Upper Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal, Jammu; Ashok Dass, Channi Himmat, Jammu; Parul Gupta, Bakshi Nagar, Jammu; Rajeev Kumar, Krishna Nagar, Jammu and Irfan Khan, Ustad Mohalla, Jammu.