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kalyan Dheeraj

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· 1 Months ago

Wrong answer. Ans should be 1 (Question: 197443.3 )

It is mentioned in the passage that some players like Shrewsbury treated cricket as a business. So, 2 is wrong.

Also, the author talks about how the way players play is more important instead of accumulating runs. Clearly, 1 is right.

Question:

DIRECTIONS: You have a brief passage with 5 questions each. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Yes, there were giants before the Jam Sahib (the great Indian cricketer, Kumar Shree Ranjit Sinhji, better known to the world of cricket as Ranji). And yet I think it is undeniable that as a batsman, the Indian will live as the supreme exponent of the Englishman’s game. The claim does not rest simply on his achievements although, judged by them, the claim could be sustained. His season’s average of 87 with a total of over 3,000 runs is easily the high-watermark of English cricket. Thrice he has totalled over 3,000 runs and no one else has equalled that record. And is not this achievement astonishing—scoring two double centuries in a single match on a single day—not against a feeble attack, but against Yorkshire, always the most resolute and resourceful of bowling teams?

But we do not judge a cricketer so much by the runs he gets as by the ways he gets them. ‘In literature as in finance,’ says Washington Irving, ‘much paper and much poverty may co-exist.’ And in cricket, too many runs and much dullness may be associated. If cricket is menaced with creeping paralysis, it is because it is losing the spirit of joyous adventure and becoming a mere instrument for compiling tables of averages. There are dull, mechanical fellows who turn out runs with as little emotion as a machine turns out pins. There is no colour, no enthusiasm, no character in their play. Cricket is not an adventure to them; it is business. It was so with Shrewsbury. His technical perfection was astonishing; but the soul of the game was wanting in him. There was no sunshine in his play, no swift surprise or splendid unselfishness. And without these things, without gaiety, daring, and the spirit of sacrifice cricket is a dead thing. Now the Jam Sahib has the root of the matter in him. His play is as sunny as his face. He is not a miser hoarding up runs, but a millionaire spending them, with a splendid yet judicious prodigality. “It is as though his pockets are bursting with runs that he wants to shower with his blessings upon the expectant multitude. It is no difficult to believe that in his little kingdom Nawangar, where he has power of life and death in his hands, he is extremely popular for it is obvious that his pleasure is in given pleasure.

Consider the following statements:

(A)A cricketer’s way of scoring runs holds more significance than the total runs that he scores.

(B)Cricket is never treated as business by any player.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Options:

1 only

B) 2 only

C) Both 1 and 2

D) Neither 1 nor 2

Solution:

Ans: (b)

Monica

· commented

· 1 Months ago

Yes answer should be 1 only

ALPHA

· commented

· 1 Months ago

Exactly answer should be 1 only...

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