Interesting Facts About India Vs Australia In World Cups

Top 10 interesting facts about India-Australia in ICC Cricket World Cups:-

1. This will be the first ever meeting between the sides in the semi-finals of a World Cup. Previously they had faced in league, super six, quarter-final and final.
2. There have been 10 World Cup encounters between the two and Australia hold 7-3 advantage.
3. Australia have never lost a World Cup semi-final. They tied one game against South Africa in 1999 and won 5 (1975, 1987, 1996, 2003, 2007).
4. India captain MS Dhoni holds 100 per cent World Cup record against his opponents having led the team to victory in 2011 quarter-finals.
5. So far in the tournament, India have been unbeaten (7 in 7) while Australia lost only one game, to New Zealand.
6. Ajay Jadeja is the only Indian World Cup centurion against Australia. Ricky Ponting is the leader for the hosts with 2.
7. The players who featured in 2011 match and are part of current squads - Michael Clarke, Shane Watson, Brad Haddin, Mitchell Johnson, Dhoni, Virat Kohli, R Ashwin and Suresh Raina.
8. India will play first time in Sydney in the current World Cup while Australia's will be second visit after defeating Sri Lanka in group stage.
9. 9. If India win on Thursday, it will a record for them - making two successive finals. Previous final appearances - 1983 (won), 2003 (lost), 2011 (won). Australia have played in 6 finals - 1975 (lost), 1987 (won), 1996 (lost), 1999 (won), 2003 (won), 2007 (won).
10. If this semi-final is abandoned then India will progress to the final as they finished higher (Pool B No. 1) in the group phase. Australia were No. 2 in Pool A.

Statistics of India Vs Australia in World Cups:-

Most Runs:

• Australia - 303 (5 Innings, Average 101) - Ricky Ponting
• India - 194 (6 Innings, Average 32.33) - Sachin Tendulkar

Highest Scores:

• Australia - 140* - Ponting in 2003 final
• India - 100* - Ajay Jadeja in 1999 

Most Hundreds:-

• Australia - 2 - Ponting. 1 each for Trevor Chappell, Mark Waugh, Geoff Marsh
• India - 1 - Jadeja

Most Wickets:

• Australia - 8 - Steve Waugh and Craig McDermott
• India - 9 - Kapil Dev

Most Matches:

• Australia - 5 - Allan Border, Steve Waugh, Ponting
• India - 6 - Tendulkar

Highest Totals:

• Australia - 359/2 in 50 overs in 2003
• India - 289/6 in 50 overs in 1987 

Lowest Totals:

• Australia - 129 all out in 38.2 overs in 1983
• India - 125 all out in 41.4 overs in 2003

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Question 1. Which Cricketer Hits Highest Score in World Cup History?
a. Martin Guptil
b. Chris Gayle
c. Rohit Sharma
d. Aaron Finch

New Zealand's Martin Guptill made the highest score in World Cup history with 237 not out against West Indies to send his team into the semi-finals. His 163-ball innings in Wellington featured 11 sixes and 24 fours and beat the 215 made by West Indies' Chris Gayle earlier in the tournament.

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ICC Cricket World 2015 Quiz

Question 1. Which Cricketer Hits Highest Score in World Cup History?
a. Martin Guptil
b. Chris Gayle
c. Rohit Sharma
d. Aaron Finch

Martin Guptil

Question 2. Total number of team playing in world Cup 2015–
a. Fourteen
b. Twelve
c. Sixteen
d. ten

Fourteen

Question 3. Which Cricketer become the first player to hit four consecutive One Day Centuries in World Cup 2015?
a. Kumar Sangakkara
b. AB De Villers
c. Shikhar Dhawan
d. Brendon McCullum

Brendon McCullum

Question 4. India's played quarter-final of World Cup 2015 with-
a. Pakistan
b. West Indies
c. Bangladesh
d. Australia

Bangladesh

Question 5. The first match of ICC World Cup 2015 played between-
a. India vs Pakistan
b. New Zealand vs Sri Lanka
c. Australia vs England
d. Ireland v West Indies

New Zealand v Sri Lanka

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Nick Name of Indian Places:-

Nick Name	Place
Golden City	Amritsar
Manchester of India	Ahmedabad
City of seven islands	Mumbai
Sorrow of Bengal	Damoda river
Sorrow of Bihar	Kosi River
Blue Mountains	Nilgiri
Queen of Arabian Sear	Kochi
Space City	Bengaluru
Garden City of India	Bengaluru
Silicon valley of India	Bengaluru
Electronic City of India	Bengaluru
Pink City	Jaipur
Gateway of India	Mumbai
Twin City	Hyderabad-Sikandarabad
City of festivals	Mudurai
Deccan Queen	Pune
City of Buildings	Kolkata
Dakshin Ganga	Godavari
Old Ganga	Godavari
Egg bowls of Asia	Andhra Pradesh
Soya region	Madhya Pradesh
Manchester of the South	Coimbator
City of Nawabs	Lucknow
Venice of the east	Kochi
Queen of the Mountains	Mussoorie (Uttarkhand)
Sacred river	Ganga
Hollywood of India	Mumbai
City of Castles	Kolkata
State of five rivers	Punjab
City of weavers	Panipat
City of lakes	Srinagar
Steel city of India	Jamshedpur (called Tatanagar)
City of Temples	Varanasi
Manchester of the north	Kanpur
City of Rallies	New Delhi
Heaven of India	Jammu & Kashmir
Boston of India	Ahmedabad
Garden of spices of India	Kerala
Switzerland of India	Kashmir
Abode of the God	Prayag (Allahabad)
Pittsburg of India	Jamshedpur

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List of Noble Prize Winners 2014:-

Noble Prize Winners for the year 2014:

• Physics: Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura (A team of Japanese scientists) (For the invention of blue LEDs – which allow for energy efficient white lighting)
• Chemistry: Eric Betzig (USA), William E. Moerner and Stefan W. Hell (Germany) (For the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy)
• Physiology (Medicine): John O’Keefe (US-British), May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser (Norway)(For their discovering how the brain navigates)
• Literature: Patrick Modiano (France) (For the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life world of the occupation)
• Peace: Kailash Satyarthi (India) and Malala Yousafjai (Pakistan) (To Kailash Satyarthi for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and to Malala Yousafjai for the right of all children to education)
• The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences: Jean Tirole (France) (For research on market power and regulation that has helped policy-makers to understand how to deal with industries dominated by a few companies.)

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October Current Affairs Quiz 2014:-

Here is the Top 30 Current Affairs Quiz of October 2014 has been developed to help the students prepare on varied topics of current affairs. The quizzes have been prepared keeping in mind the requirements of various competitive exams like UPSC, SSC, Banking, MBA and others.

Top 30 Current Affairs Questions of October 2014:-

1. Who is appointed as new chairman of Prasar Bharti?
Ans- Surya Prakash

2. Which one of the following named as Most valuable player in Asian Games?
Ans-Mary Kom

3. Who is appointed as new Chief Economic Advisior?
Ans- Arvind Subramanium

4. Which Best Bank Award for Business Intelligence Initiatives among small banks?
Ans-Karur Vysya Bank

5. International Day for the Eradication of Poverty was observed on..........?
Ans- 17 October 2014

6. Which Bollywood actor appointed as UNICEF goodwill Ambassador for South Asia?
Ans-Amir Khan

7. Who has won Man Booker Prize 2014?
Ans- Richard Flanagan (Australia)- Noble(The Narrow Road to the Deep North)

8. According to Sixth economic census, which state has highest number of Hired workers?
Ans- Arunachal Pradesh
9. Which Bank launched Facebook based money transfer platform kaypay?
Ans- Kotak Mahindra Bank

10. Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2014 report released, What is India's Position in it?
Ans- 55 (out of 120 countries)

11. Who has won the 2014 economics Nobel Prize ?
Ans- French economist Jean Tirole

12. Which International Organisation Launches Global Infrastructure Fund to cater the needs of emerging economies and developing Countries?
Ans World Bank

13. Who won Best Central Bank Governor Award by euro-money?
Ans- Raghuram Rajan

14. Who has been honoured with National Kishore Kumar Award for 2012-13?
Ans-Sameer

15. New Chief Minister of Maharashtra?
Ans- Devendra Fadnavis

16. 10th Edition of World Islamic Economic Forum held at- ?
Ans- Dubai

17. Who has appointed as New Product Chief of Google?
Ans- Sundar Pichai

18. Who has been re-elected as Brazil Prime Minister?
Ans- Dilma Rousseff

19. Who won the prestigious Sakharov human rights prize 2014 ?
Ans- gynaecologist Denis Mukwege Mukengere

20. Who creates record of maximum victory margin in Lok Sabha elections ?
Ans- Pritam Munde (Gopinath Munde’s second daughter)

21. India was re-elected to which council of UN? 
Ans- United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the period of 2015 to 2017.

22. Who is Appointed as Prime Minister of Yemen?
Ans- Khaled Bahah

23. Who has won legislative assembly elections for the 11th time to become longest serving MLA in India?
Ans- Ganpatrao Deshmukh

24. Organisation headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi is.....?
Ans- Bachpan Bachao Andolan

25. Who has been won the  Noble Prize for Peace?
Ans- Kailash Satyarthi(India) and Malala Yousafzai(Pakistan)

26. Who has been won the  Noble Prize for Literature?
Ans- French writer Patrick Modiano

27. Who has been won the Noble Prize for chemistry?
Ans- Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy."

28. WWho has been won the Noble Prize for Physics?
Ans- Japanese scientists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano and American Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel prize for Physics for inventing a new energy efficient and environmentally friendly light source, the LED.

29. Who has been won the  Noble prize for Medicine?
Ans- John O Keefe, May‐Britt Moser and Edvard I Moser for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.

30. What is India's Rank in most desirable place to work?
Ans- 18th (US tops the list)

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Top Current Affairs of 25th September 2014:-

Read Top Current Affairs of 25th September 2014. These Current Affairs from India, World, Economy, Ecology, Science and Technology, Sports, Business and others. This current affairs material is prepared by Experts and is useful for all competitive exams preparation.

5. Who is the chief-minister of Goa?
A. Mr Manohar Parrikar
B. Mamata Baneerjee
C. Tarun Gogoi
D. Omar Abdullah



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