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Several individuals have consistently scored highly and/or earned medals on the IMO: Zhuo Qun Song (Canada) is the most highly decorated participant [87] with five gold medals (including one perfect score in 2015) and one bronze medal. [88] Reid Barton (United States) was the first participant to win a gold medal four times (1998–2001). [89]
The first selection, usually in November, consist of a multiple-choice exam with 20 problems. One is given 5 points for each correct answer, 1 point for each unanswered problem and 0 point for a wrong answer. Approximately 10% of the competing students are selected for the second selection, which is held in January.
The highest team total before 400 runs was reached was the 398/5 scored by Sri Lanka against Kenya on 6 March 1996 at Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy. [ 6 ] The 400 marks were first broken during a notable match between South Africa and Australia , with both teams passing 400 runs in their respective innings.
Until December 1997, no player had achieved a score of 200 in ODIs. The highest individual score up to that point was 194 by Saeed Anwar of Pakistan, scored on 21 May 1997 against India at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. [14] On 16 December of the same year, the Australian woman cricketer Belinda Clark broke the 200-run mark.
Sunil Gavaskar was the first player to cross the 10,000 run mark in Tests. Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. In the chase to achieve top scores, West Indian Garfield Sobers retired in 1974 as the most prolific run scorer in Test cricket, with a total of 8,032 runs. The record stood for nine years, until it was ...
Scoring 149 runs from 104 deliveries, including eight sixes and thirteen fours, Gilchrist made the highest score and quickest century in the final of the World Cup. [13] Australia won every ODI match in which Gilchrist scored a century, and he retired with 16 to his name, scoring at a rate of more than one run per delivery in 13 of them.
His highest strike-rate when scoring a century was 117.43, achieved when he scored 128 not out against the Netherlands during the 2007 Cricket World Cup. [20] He is the only South African to have scored over 10,000 runs in ODI cricket, [ 21 ] while his 17 ODI centuries rank him second behind the 21 scored by Herschelle Gibbs among his countrymen.
It is often known as Bollywood and is one of the largest film producers in India as well as a major centre of film production worldwide. [140] [141] The following table lists the top 10 highest-grossing Hindi films produced in the Hindi film industry.