Pakistan’s leg-spinner Yasir Shah became the fastest cricketer to take 200 Test wickets breaking an 82-year-old record, beating Australian leg-spinner Clarrie Grimmett’s record of 36 Tests set against South Africa in Johannesburg in 1936.
Yasir achieved this by taking New Zealand’s batsman Will Somerville wicket in Abu Dhabi.
The government appointed Lalit Kumar, a 1995-batch Indian Economic Service (IES) officer as the new government nominee on private sector ICICI Bank.
He would replace Lok Ranjan.
The first India-ASEAN InnoTech Summit was held in New Delhi. It was organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) in association with the Department of Science & Technology (DST) and the Ministry of External Affairs.