CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Ellyse Perry became the first-ever cricketer (male or female) to score 1, 000 runs and pick 100 wickets in T20I format as Australia beat England by seven wickets in Hove on Sunday.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shakib Al Hasan, on Monday, became the first male cricketer to achieve the double of 1, 000 runs and 100 wickets in T20Is.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shakib Al Hasan became the only player to have scalped 100 wickets and score more than 1000 runs in T20Is when he scalped the wicket of Australia’s Ashton Turner during Bangladesh’s fifth and final T20I against the Aussies at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today.

Detailed explanation-4: -Star Indian batter Suryakumar Yadav has became the first Indian player to score 1, 000 T20 International runs in a calendar year. The batter accomplished this feat in his side’s final Super 12 stage match against Zimbabwe in Melbourne cricket ground (MCG), Australia.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the match, Malinga delivered a match winning bowling spell. With the wicket of Colin Munro, Malinga became the first cricketer to take 100 wickets in Twenty20 Internationals, as well as the first ever cricketer to take 100 wickets in all three formats of the game.