29 March 2013

Question Of The Day #20: Cricket Politics

Weekly Theme: Cricket

 Connect to a politician, and how is he related to cricket?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

 The person in the left is Harish Salve and in the right picture Allan border (Australia) is with the 1987 Reliance World Cup trophy.
Connect is: Father of Harish Salve i.e Narendra Kumar Salve who was president of BCCI when India won the world cup in 1983 and also due to his efforts India got the hosting of world cup jointly with pakistan. To recognize his services BCCI also started the NKP Salve challenger trophy.
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7 comments:

  1. Bhairav29 March 2013 at 17:29

    Narendra Kumar Salve aka N.K.P Salve

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  2. Bhairav29 March 2013 at 17:31

    Narendra Kumar Salve aka N.K.P. Salve. He was former Union minister and president of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) (1982–1985), he was instrumental in bringing the Cricket World Cup outside England and to the Indian subcontinent in 1987

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  3. Madhavanarayanan R29 March 2013 at 18:05

    Harish Salve - one of India's leading lawyers - was elected President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India for a term

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  4. Anand29 March 2013 at 18:13

    NKP Salve, who had brought the 1987 cricket world cup to India

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  5. Vikas Kashyap29 March 2013 at 18:28

    The person in the left is harish salve and in the right picture Allan border(Australia) is with world cup trophy.
    Connect between these two picture is father of harish salve i.e Narendra Kumar Salve who was president of BCCI when India won the world cup in 1983 and also due to his efforts India got the hosting of world cup jointly with pakistan. To recognize his services BCCI also started NKP Salve challenger trophy.

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  6. Madhavanarayanan R29 March 2013 at 19:33

    Harish Salve's father N.K.P Salve was instrumental in bringing the Cricket World Cup outside England and to the Indian subcontinent in 1987.

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  7. Quizzing Club30 March 2013 at 08:23

    Right answer!

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