Who has won ICC Men’s ODI cricketer of the year award 2021?
- A. Babar Azam
- B. Virat Kohli
- C. Ben Stokes
- D. Joe Root
Correct Answer: A. Babar Azam
405 runs in six matches at an average of 67.50 with two centuries. Babar Azam might have played only six ODIs in 2021, but he made vital contributions in the two series that Pakistan played this year. He was the second-highest run-scorer with 228 runs and was the Player of the Match in both of Pakistan’s wins in the 2-1 series victory against South Africa. The architect of Pakistan’s chase of 274 in the first ODI, Babar made a century and laid the foundation with an 82-ball 94 in the final ODI where the visitors posted 320 batting first.
Correct Answer: C. June 4, 2022
Saudi Arabia on June 4, 2022, welcomed its first batch of Haj pilgrims since before the coronavirus pandemic, which prompted authorities to sharply restrict the annual ritual. The group from Indonesia landed in the city of Madina and was set to travel south to Makkah in the coming weeks to prepare for the Hajj next month, state media reported.
Correct Answer: A. Russia
Russia on 7 November 2023 formally withdrew from a landmark security treaty that limited key categories of conventional armed forces, blaming the United States for undermining post-Cold War security with the enlargement of the NATO military alliance. The 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), signed a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, placed verifiable limits on categories of conventional military equipment that NATO and the then-Warsaw Pact could deploy.
Correct Answer: A. Israel
Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has secured a deal to form a new government. Netanyahu has managed to form a government after tough negotiations with far-right coalition partners. Though Netanyahu’s Likud and like-minded religious-nationalist parties won a comfortable majority, the agreement to form a government was held up by several political disputes.
Correct Answer: B. Nigeria
Correct Answer: B. 29 Feb 2020
Correct Answer: B. Sudan
On 2 January 2022, Hamdok announce his resignation as Prime Minister in a televised speech, saying that the country was at a dangerous turning point and a roundtable discussion was needed to come to a new agreement for Sudan’s political transition to democracy. As part of an agreement with the military after the October Coup, former UN official Hamdok was appointed as the Prime Minister. Now the military coup has again hindered the country’s transition to democratic rule.