The IPL starts today in Chennai. In the IPL, a maximum of four overseas players figure in any team in a match. A quiz on some of their wonderful exploits over the last 16 editions

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Who is the only overseas player to have the Orange Cap thrice, which is the most by any player in IPL history?

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Who is the only overseas player to hold the wicket keeping record of five dismissals in an innings, the most by a wicket keeper in an innings?

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Who is the only overseas player to have scored a century in an IPL final?

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Which overseas player holds the record for having played the most number of matches for a single franchise and also the record for holding on to more than 100 catches in IPL history?

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I am the only overseas player to have taken five or more wickets in an innings twice. In fact, I achieved this feat in the same season against the same opponent. Who am I?

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Who holds the record for having won the most number of ‘player of the match’ awards?

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Who is the overseas player to have played in the most finals?

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Who is the only overseas player from a non-test playing nation to have been part of the final?

Questions and Answers to the previous day’s daily quiz: 1. This person said about Achebe, “There was a writer named Chinua Achebe…in whose company the prison walls fell down.” Ans: Nelson Mandela

2. Achebe rejected this honour conferred by the Nigerian government twice. Ans: Commander of the Order of the

Federal Republic

3. The title of Things Fall Apart

from this poem by this poet. Ans: The Second Coming; William Butler Yeats

4. The writer of the book Weep Not, Child. Ans: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

5. Along with Things Fall Apart, these books form the African Trilogy. Ans: Arrow of God and No Longer At Ease

Visual: Identify this author. Ans: Nadine Gordimer

Early Birds: K.N. Viswanathan| Prashant Nain| Sunil Kannada| Muhammed Shahid Suri| Animesh Mohan

AFP Visual question: I have received an IPL award which no other overseas cricketer has won. Who am I and what is the award?