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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.
17 National Winners – these students are the top 17 students who have scored the highest marks in the examinations, irrespective of their state of origin. 37 State Winners [8] – these students are selected as state representatives, having scored the highest marks in their states. The TV series is in three stages: Preliminaries – 9 episodes
[5] Since 1910 successful students in the examinations have been told their rankings privately, and not all Senior Wranglers have become publicly known as such. In recent years, the custom of discretion regarding ranking has progressively vanished, and all Senior Wranglers since 2010 have announced their identity publicly.
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.
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.
Desmond Haynes (left) has the highest score of any batsman on ODI debut. A cricketer scoring a century (100 runs or more) on their One Day International (ODIs) debut is regarded by critics as a significant achievement. [1] [2] As of December 2024, 18 players from 11 different international teams have accomplished this feat.