Sports GK GK Questions with Answers – Page 24

The first men's T20 World Cup was staged in South Africa in 2007, and India beat Pakistan in the final at Johannesburg under M. S. Dhoni, a match remembered for its last over.

Australia has won the one-day World Cup six times, in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015 and 2023, and its run of three in a row between 1999 and 2007 is unmatched.

England and New Zealand finished level after fifty overs each at Lord's, and the Super Over that followed was tied as well.

The 1987 tournament, sponsored as the Reliance Cup, was the first taken away from England and the first in which an innings was cut from 60 overs to 50, the length used ever since.

India beat Sri Lanka in the final at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on 2 April 2011, and Dhoni, who finished the chase himself, was named player of the match; Yuvraj Singh was player of the tournament.

India beat West Indies in the final on 25 June 1983 at Lord's in London, defending a total of 183 and winning by 43 runs; Mohinder Amarnath was named player of the match and Kapil Dev was the captain who received the trophy on the famous balcony.

The first World Cup was played in England in 1975 over 60 overs an innings, and West Indies beat Australia in the final at Lord's under Clive Lloyd.

The Thai capital has staged the Asian Games on four occasions, more than any other city, and it twice stepped in at short notice when another host withdrew, which is how it built up that record.

The nickname records the spirit in which the meet was set up, a gathering of nations bound by a shared history rather than a contest of blocs, and it fits the Federation motto, Humanity, Equality, Destiny.

Milkha Singh, the quarter-miler known as the Flying Sikh, won the 440 yards at Cardiff in 1958, giving India its first athletics gold at the Commonwealth Games.

Kabaddi entered the Asian Games programme as a medal sport at that edition and India won the gold, which began a long run of Indian success in the event and is the reason the fact is set so often.

Shera, an animated tiger, was chosen as the mascot of the nineteenth Commonwealth Games, whose slogan was Come Out and Play and which remain the only Commonwealth Games hosted by India.

That was the official name from the first edition at Hamilton in 1930 until 1950. The title then changed with the politics of the Commonwealth: British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954, British Commonwealth Games from 1970 and simply the Commonwealth Games from 1978.

The first edition was held there in 1930 under the name British Empire Games, organised by Melville Marks Robinson, and it grew out of a proposal made as far back as 1891 by John Astley Cooper for a festival of the nations of the Empire.

It was set up in 1982 with its headquarters at Kuwait City and took over the running of the Asian Games from that year, which is why the 1982 Delhi Asiad is described as the first Games held under the new body.

The ninth Asian Games at New Delhi in 1982 were the first Games organised under the newly formed Olympic Council of Asia, and their elephant mascot became one of the best remembered images in Indian sport.

His idea led to the formation of the Asian Games Federation at New Delhi in 1949 and to the first Games there in 1951.

The motto was adopted with the first Asian Games of 1951 at New Delhi and it goes with the emblem of a bright rising sun ringed by interlocking circles, which stands for the new energy of the Asian nations after the Second World War.

The first Asian Games were held at the National Stadium in New Delhi in March 1951, two years after the Asian Games Federation was formed in the same city, and eleven nations took part.

The flame itself had been lit at earlier Games, but the relay in which runners carry the torch from Olympia in Greece all the way to the host city began at Berlin, and it has been part of every Olympics since.