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RECORDS OF THE ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015
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Australian pacer Mitchell
Starc and New Zealand pacer
Trent Boult finished with the
most number of wickets in the
World Cup 2015. Both
grabbed 22 wickets.
Martin Guptill made a name
for himself by becoming the
highest run-scorer of the
tournament accumulating
547 runs.
Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara took batting to a new
height as he became the first
man to score four back to
back centuries in one-day
cricket as he bid adieu to limited overs. He went past 500runs for the second time in
the tournament which also
made him only the second
man after Sachin Tendulkar
to get to the milestone.
South African skipper AB de
Villiers made the fastest 150

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runs (in 64 balls) against
West Indies.
South African JP Duminy
claimed a hat-trick to become the first South African to achieve the feat in a
World Cup and only the
second spinner after Pakistan's Saqlain Mushtaq.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni had
already achieved what no
other Indian captain could
by winning 100 one-day
matches as captain of India.

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Also, Australia played in their record
seventh final, having won four
(1987, 1999, 2003 and 2007) and lost
two (1975, 1996).

Steven Smith's became the
only player to achieve the
distinction of scoring a fifty
in the quarter-final, a hundred in the semi-final and a
fifty in the final.

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the Melbourne Cricket Ground between
co-hosts New Zealand and Australia in
front of a record crowd of 93,013 people!

The final match of the
World Cup took place at

Western Disturbances Causing Havoc

India usually doesn’t receive much

winter season pulse crops have been

rainfall as the winters end. But this
year has been different, much to the

destroyed.

delight for the common people. But

Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan were

this freak weather has caused the
farmers in the Northern Part of Inida,

lashed by rains, damaging the crops

a lot of heart ache and losses.

and flattening the wheat which was
due for harvest. The farmers have
suffered about 50% loss in crops.

This monsoon in India has been
caused because of intense solar

The rains have affected Rabi crops
like wheat, Jawar, Gram. Even

heating.

Grapes and Mangoes plantations
have been affected.

This year, India received an average
of 28 mm of rain fell across the coun-

The rain in the coming week will be

try (358% above normal) between

more devastating. As the country is

February 26 to March 4 .

already importing large volumes of
pulses, these changes in weather

The increased amount of rainfall has
had severe impact, as much of the

have
growth.

reduced

the

agricultural

The agricultural minister has informed that 8
percent or 12 million acres of the country’s
winter crops have been damaged by the rain.
The country’s exposure to climate changes
can jeopardize development. The new government should not risk by turning a blind
eye to this imperative challenge.