Cricket 2014 - A Quick Review

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Friends, here are some important updates of Cricket from the year 2014 from Competitive Exams' point of view. Happy Reading :)

ICC :

• ICC – International Cricket Council
• Headquarters – Dubai
• 1st Chairman of ICC – N. Srinivasan (India)
• President of ICC – Mustafa Kamal (Bangladesh)
• Present CEO of ICC – David Richards (South Africa)

BCCI :

• BCCI – Board of Control for Cricket in India
• Headquarters – Mumbai
• Established – 1929
• Coach of the Indian Cricket Team  - Dunkan Fletcher (Zimbabwe)

Host Countries :

• ICC World Test Championship Host Countries :
• 2017 – London (1st)
• 2021 – India (2nd)
  
• ICC Men’s ODI World Cup Host Countries :
• 2015 – New Zealand & Australia
• 2019 – England
• 2023 – India
• ICC Men’s T 20 World Cup Host Countries :
• 2014 – Bangladesh
• 2016 – India
• 2018 – Australia
• ICC Women’s ODI World Cup Host Countries :
• 2017 – England
• 2021 – New Zealand
• ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Host Countries :
• 2014 – Bangladesh
• 2018 – West Indies
• 2022 – South Africa   
• U 19 World Cup :
• 2016 – Bangladesh
• 2018 – New Zealand
• 2020 – South Africa
• 2022 – West Indies 

Winners & Runners :

• Champions League Twenty-20 , 2014
• Winners : Chennai Super Kings (15.4 Corers)
• Runner : Kolkata Knight Riders (8 Crores)
• Man of the Series : Suresh Raina (234 Runs)
• Most Wickets : Sunil Narine (12)
• IPL – 7, 2014 :
• IPL-7, 2014 Winner – Kolkata Knight Riders (15 Crores)
• Runner : Kings XI Punjab (10 Crores)
• Man of the Series : Glen Maxwell
• Man of the Match : Manish Pandey
• Stadium : M. Chinna Swamy Stadium, Bengaluru
• Orange Cap Award : Robin Utthapa
• Purple Cap Award : Mohit Sharma
• Men’s T20 World Cup 2014 : Sri Lanka defeat India to win the maiden title.
• Man of the match in the final – Sangakkara
• Player of the tournament – Virat Kohli
• Women’s World T20 – 2014 : Australia defeat England in the final to win the title for the third time in a row.
• Asia Cup Title 2014 : Sri Lanka defeat Pakistan to win the title
• Note : It is their fifth Asia Cup success, equalling the record of India
• ICC U-19 World Cup 2014 : South Africa beats Pakistan to lift the title, held in Dubai.
• Ranji Trophy 2014 : Karnataka beat Maharashtra to lift the title. Karnataka have won the trophy for the seventh time. 
• India beat Pakistan by five wickets in the final of the Blind Cricket World Cup 2014 at the Wally Wilson Cricket Ground in Cape Town, South Africa. 
• It was the 4th edition of the Blind Cricket World Cup.
• Indian Captain Shekar Naik. 
• South Africa won the inaugural edition of the Blind Cricket world Cup in 1998. 
• Deodhar Trophy : East Zone lifts Deodhar trophy 2014 by beating West Zone by 24 runs.  
• Indian team wins the Asia Cup championship for deaf 2014 by defeating Sri Lanka by 8 runs. 
• Indian Cricketer Virat Kohli has been placed among 5 ambassadors for 2015 World Cup by ICC along with Mitchell Johnson, Brendon McCullum, Kumar Sangakkara and Shane Watson.
• Indian Crickter Virat Kohli becomes Fastest Cricketer to score 6000 Runs in ODIs.
• Chennai Super Kings won the Champions League T-20 Trophy 2014 by beating Kolkata Knight Riders.
• Sachin Tendulkar and Steve Waugh choosen for Prestigious cricketers’ Panel “Bradman Honorees”
• Irany Trophy 2014 : Karnataka won by defeating Rest of India
• India Claim U-19 Asia Cup title by defeating Pakistan in the final .
• Vijay Hazare Trophy 2014 : Karnataka won the title by defeating Railways
• Grant Flower named as Pakistan batting coach
• Saeed Ajmal become top bowler in ODI ranking. He is followed by Dale Steyn and Sunil Narin while Ravindra Jadeja is at fourth.
• Sunil Gavaskar appoints (HDFC chairman) Deepak parekh as his special advisor for 7th edition of IPL
• BCCI recommends Ravichandran Ashwin (off-spinner) for Arjuna Award
• Kumar Sangakkara, the cricketer of Sri Lankan national team became the second person in the history of Cricket to score a triple century and a century in the same test match, he joined Graham Gooch, the former skipper of England team.
• AB de Villers named South African Circketer of the year.
• Corey Anderson of New Zealand set up a new record in One Day International Cricket of scoring fastest century (in just 36 balls) against West Indies.
• Kathy Cross (New Zealand) has became the First Woman to be included in ICC (International Cricket Council’s) Umpires’ panel.
• Marvan Atapattu : Srilankan New Cricket Coach  
• Legendary Indian Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has been honoured as “Cricketer of the Generation” in ESPN Crick Info Awards 2013.
• Australian batsman Philip Hughes died after being struck on his head during a Sheffield Game at the Sydney Cricket Ground. 
•  Duleep Trophy 2014 : Central Zone lift Duleep Trophy beating South Zone by nine runs.
• Indian batsman Rohit Sharma created ODI World record by scoring 264 runs against Sri Lanka at Kolkata’s Eden Garden on 13th November 2014. 
• He also became the first ever batsman to score two double centuries in ODI. He broke Virendra Sehwag’s record to become highest individual scorer in ODIs.

Note : Pdf version of Complete Sports 2014 will be available soon for download.

Useful Links :

• Check Quick Review of Tennis 2014 from here
• Check Quick Review of Badminton 2014 from here
• Check List of Heads 2014 from here
• Download Complete List of Appointments 2014 from here
• Download Complete List of Obituaries (Deaths) 2014 from here

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