CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Pakistan leg-spinner Abdul Qadir inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame in 2022.

Detailed explanation-2: -Out of 109 inductees in the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, 82 are from England, Australia and the West Indies, while the other 27 inductees are from the remaining Test playing nations, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

Detailed explanation-3: -Abdul Qadir is the seventh Pakistani to have joined the ICC Hall of Fame after Hanif Mohammad, Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Javed Miandad, Waqar Younis and Zaheer Abbas. He passed away in 2019 due to cardiac arrest. England’s Charlotte Edwards and West Indies great Shivnarine Chanderpaul joined Qadir as other inductees.

Detailed explanation-4: -Qadir became the seventh Pakistani to receive the honour as his compatriots Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Javed Miandad, Zaheer Abbas, and Hanif Mohammad had already been admitted into the ICC Hall of Fame.