SSC GD Constable GK Questions 2026

In the Ranji Trophy final of the 1946-47 season, Vijay Hazare and Gul Mohammad came together for Baroda against Holkar and put on 577 runs for the fourth wicket, a stand that stood as the highest partnership in first-class cricket anywhere for many years and is still the benchmark figure…

The 2009 season coincided with the general election in India, and because the police could not guarantee security for both the polls and the matches, the whole tournament was shifted to South Africa at short notice.

The Purple Cap is worn through the season by the bowler who has taken the most wickets so far, passing from one player to another as the matches go on, and the bowler who leads at the end keeps it.

In the very first match of the league, on 18 April 2008 at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, the New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman opened for Kolkata Knight Riders against Royal Challengers Bangalore and made 158 not out, which remained one of the highest scores in the competition for years.

Rajasthan Royals, captained by the Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne and widely regarded as the weakest squad on paper that season, won the first title in 2008 by beating Chennai Super Kings in the final.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India announced the league in 2007 and the first season was played from April to June 2008, with Lalit Modi as the first chairman and commissioner and eight city franchises taking part.

The Cooch Behar Trophy is the multi-day inter-state championship for players under the age of nineteen and is named after the Maharaja of Cooch Behar, an early patron of the game in India.

Begun in 2006-07, soon after Twenty20 became an international format, it is the championship in which the state teams play the twenty-over game, and it is named after Syed Mushtaq Ali of Indore, who was the first Indian to score a Test century abroad.

The Irani Cup is a single first-class match in which the team that has just won the Ranji Trophy meets a Rest of India eleven drawn from all the other state teams, and a good performance in it has long been treated as a step towards national selection.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India set up a national first-class championship in 1934 and the first season was played in 1934-35, with Bombay winning the title.

Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, the Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, played for Sussex and for England at the end of the nineteenth century and was among the first cricketers of Indian birth to be ranked with the greatest batsmen of his time.

The seven voyages of Sindbad belong to the Arabian Nights, a collection of tales in Arabic that grew over many centuries from Persian, Indian and Arab sources and has no single author; the same is true of Aladdin and Ali Baba.

A British naval intelligence officer during the Second World War, Fleming turned his experience into fiction and introduced James Bond, the agent with the code number 007, in Casino Royale in 1953, following it with eleven more novels and two collections of stories.

Victor Frankenstein is a student of natural philosophy who assembles a being from dead matter and gives it life, then abandons it in horror; the being itself is never named in the novel and is called the creature, the being or the daemon.

Published from 1888, Chandrakanta tells of the princess Chandrakanta and prince Virendra Singh and of the ayyars, the shape-shifting spies who serve them, moving through a tilism, an enchanted maze of traps and illusions.

He invented the small south Indian town of Malgudi and set almost all his fiction there, beginning with Swami and Friends in 1935, whose schoolboy hero gave the collection Malgudi Days its world.

He created Chacha Chaudhary, the small turbaned old man whose brain is said to work faster than a computer, and his giant companion Sabu from the planet Jupiter, and the strip became one of the most widely read Indian comics in Hindi and in many other languages.

Born in Bombay, Kipling created the boy Mowgli, raised by wolves in the Seoni forests of central India, along with the tiger Shere Khan, the bear Baloo, the panther Bagheera and the python Kaa, in The Jungle Book of 1894.

Published in 1936, Godan is the best known novel of Munshi Premchand, the pen name of Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, and it follows the peasant Hori and his wife Dhania as their small ambition of owning a cow is destroyed by debt, caste and the demands of the landlord.

The film-maker was also a prolific writer for young readers in Bengali, and he created Pradosh Chandra Mitra, called Feluda, who solves cases with his cousin Topshe and the thriller writer Lalmohan Ganguly, nicknamed Jatayu.