{"id":131513,"date":"2023-03-23T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=131513"},"modified":"2023-03-23T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:58:05","slug":"nepali-cricketer-asif-sheikh-wins-2022-christopher-martin-jenkins-spirit-of-cricket-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/nepali-cricketer-asif-sheikh-wins-2022-christopher-martin-jenkins-spirit-of-cricket-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepali cricketer Asif Sheikh wins 2022 Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Nepali cricketer Asif Sheikh wins 2022 Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Award:<\/strong> Aasif Sheikh, a Nepalese wicketkeeper, has won the 2022 Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Award for his sportsmanship during a T20 international match. He refused to run out Ireland&#8217;s Andy McBrine, who was tripped over by bowler Kamal Airee. The judges also praised England&#8217;s Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-march-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March 2023 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the BBC established the Spirit of Cricket Award to honor the memory of Christopher Martin-Jenkins, a former MCC president and BBC Test Match Special commentator who was dedicated to promoting the values of the sport. Recently, for the first time ever, the MCC and BBC opened up the award to public nominations. Following this, Sheikh\u2019s behavior while representing Nepal was deemed the most deserving of the award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Marylebone Cricket Club Establishment \u2013 1787<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marylebone Cricket Club Founder \u2013 Thomas Lord<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About International Cricket Council (ICC)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Establishment \u2013 15 June 1909<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chairman \u2013 Greg Barclay<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CEO \u2013 Geoff Allardyce<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Headquarters \u2013 Dubai, United Arab Emirates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepali cricketer Asif Sheikh wins 2022 Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Award: Aasif Sheikh, a Nepalese wicketkeeper, has won the 2022 Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Award for his sportsmanship during a T20 international match. He refused to run out Ireland&#8217;s Andy McBrine, who was tripped over by bowler Kamal Airee. The judges also praised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":131514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5004],"tags":[92,864,59],"class_list":["post-131513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2023","tag-awards-prizes-current-affairs","tag-nepal-current-affairs","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131515,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131513\/revisions\/131515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}