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                    SUNDAY, september 29, 2013

Born on October 29, 1990, Ashok Menaria is an Indian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and leg-break bowler who plays for Rajasthan. He was born in Udaipur.
Menaria began his competitive cricketing career playing for Rajasthan Under-15, in their winless 2005-06 Polly Umrigar Trophy run. The following season he represented the Under-17s team, and, in a game against Karnakata Under-17s, scored the second-highest innings total in the 2006-07, Vijay Merchant Trophy – starring alongside Ankit Lamba in an unbeaten partnership of 397, himself contributing 227 of these runs.
Following four appearances in Rajasthan Under-19s’ 2008-09 Vinoo Mankad Trophy campaign, Menaria made his first-class debut against Mumbai in November 2008.
Menaria captained India’s 15-man squad for the 2010 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
Ashok Menaria currently plays for the Rajasthan Royals.
In 14 First Class matches, Menaria has scored 1, 125 runs with an average of 56.25, while in 17 List A matches, he has scored 388 runs with an average of 22.82 and in 22 T20 matches, Ashok has scored 327 runs with an average of 19.23. He has scored 4 centuries and 5 half-centuries in First Class matches, 4 half-centuries in List A matches and one fifty in T20 matches. He has taken 4 wickets in First Class matches, one in List A and 3 wickets in T20.

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Questions of this week:
1.     Who is captaining India-A against West Indies-A team in the unofficial 4-Day matches Series being held in India?
2.     For which team Stuart Binny played in Indian Premier League (IPL) Season-6?
3.     Name the College that emerged winner in Inter-Collegiate Football Championship recently?
4.     Who was the top scorer for JKCA Greens against Reds in the ongoing Under-19 boys selection trial matches, organized by JKCA in Jammu?
5.     Who is I S Bindra?
Answers of the last week:
1Yuvraj Singh 2.RCB 3. District Jammu and  District Reasi  4. Sulakhni 5. Ace India shooter.
The best entry of this week was received from Rajat Sharma from Qrt No 543, Type-II, GC, CRPF Campus, Bantalab, Jammu.
The other entries of the week were from Tushar Mahajan, H No-55, Lower Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal, Jammu, Rahul Kapoor of Anand Nagar, Bohri, Jammu, Nipun Verma from Krishna Nagar, Jammu, Sohan Lal from RS Pura, Jammu, Rakesh Singh Sambyal from Samba and Sanjay Dhar, Lane-1, H No-3, Upper Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal, Jammu.