IPL and Domestic Cricket Static GK: Complete Winners List, Trophies, Records and One-Liners

Introduction

Sports questions in government exams are dominated by cricket, and within cricket, two areas repeat almost every year: the Indian Premier League (IPL) and India's domestic cricket trophies. The IPL is a professional Twenty20 league organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) since 2008, built around city-based franchises that mix Indian and overseas players. Domestic cricket, on the other hand, is the older and deeper structure, running from under-16 age-group tournaments right up to the Ranji Trophy, which decides India's first-class champion.

Examiners like this topic because the answers are precise and verifiable. A question will ask which team won the IPL in a particular season, who holds the Orange Cap, which trophy is played between the Ranji champion and Rest of India, or who a trophy is named after. These are one-mark questions that you either know or you do not, which makes this one of the highest-return chapters in Static GK preparation for SSC, IBPS, RRB, Insurance and State PSC exams.

This article organises everything in one place: the full IPL season-wise record from 2008 to 2026, franchise title counts, cap winners, the master table of Indian domestic trophies with their formats and namesakes, the latest 2025-26 domestic champions, all-time records, and the governance framework that now regulates Indian sport. Mnemonics and one-liners at the end are built for last-minute revision.

Core Concepts You Must Understand First

Before memorising winners, understand how Indian cricket is structured. Most confusion in exams comes from mixing up formats, organising bodies and the level at which a tournament sits.

• Constitutional position of sports: Under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India, "Sports" falls under Entry 33 of the State List (List II). State governments therefore handle grassroots infrastructure and local talent development, while the Union Government looks after international representation and national sports bodies through the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS).
• BCCI: Established in December 1928, the BCCI is the apex, self-funded governing body for cricket in India. It runs both the IPL and the entire domestic calendar.
• Three formats to keep separate: First-class (multi-day red-ball cricket, four or five days), List A (50-over white-ball cricket) and Twenty20 (20 overs per side). Each format has its own flagship domestic tournament.
• The selection pyramid: Ranji Trophy feeds the Test team, Vijay Hazare Trophy feeds the ODI team, and the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy feeds the T20I team and the IPL auction pool.
• Zonal versus state tournaments: Ranji Trophy, Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy are contested by 38 state and regional teams. The Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy are inter-zonal, contested by zone teams such as North Zone, South Zone, East Zone, West Zone, Central Zone and North East Zone.
• Orange Cap and Purple Cap: In the IPL, the Orange Cap goes to the season's highest run-scorer and the Purple Cap to the season's highest wicket-taker. The Most Valuable Player (MVP) award is separate and is decided by a points system covering batting, bowling and fielding.

IPL Winners List (2008 to 2026)

The IPL has completed 19 seasons from 2008 to 2026. Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings remain the joint most successful franchises with five titles each. Royal Challengers Bengaluru won their maiden title in 2025 and successfully defended it in 2026.

Season-Wise Winners, Runners-Up, Captains and Final Venues

IPL Title Count by Franchise (After 2026)

IPL Orange Cap Winners (Highest Run-Scorer)

IPL Purple Cap Winners (Highest Wicket-Taker)

IPL Most Valuable Player and Player of the Series (2008 to 2026)

IPL Editions Affected by Elections and the Pandemic

This is one of the most reliable question areas in the topic, because two different reasons produced editions outside India. Read the reasons carefully.

IPL All-Time Records (Updated to the 2026 Season)

IPL 2026 Season Snapshot

The 2026 edition was the 19th season of the IPL, played from 28 March to 31 May 2026 with 10 teams and 74 matches. Royal Challengers Bengaluru opened their defence at home against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.

• Final result: Gujarat Titans scored 155 for 8 in 20 overs; RCB replied with 161 for 5 in 18 overs to win by 5 wickets at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad.
• Player of the Match in the final: Virat Kohli, 75 not out off 42 balls.
• Best bowling in the final: Rasikh Salam took 3 for 27, with Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar taking two each.
• Awards sweep: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi of Rajasthan Royals won five individual awards in one season, the Orange Cap, MVP, Emerging Player, Super Striker and Super Sixes, a first in IPL history.
• Other awards: Kagiso Rabada took the Purple Cap, Manish Pandey won Catch of the Season, and Punjab Kings received the Fair Play Award.

Indian Domestic Cricket Trophies

Domestic cricket is where questions on trophy names, formats and namesakes come from. The table below is the single most important block of data in this chapter.

Master Reference Table of Senior Domestic Tournaments

Age-Group and University Cricket Trophies

Current Domestic Champions: 2025-26 Season

Recent champions are the most heavily tested part of this topic, because they change every year. Learn this table thoroughly.

Domestic Cricket Records and Anomalies

• Highest team total in the Ranji Trophy: Hyderabad's 944 for 6 declared against Andhra in 1993-94, an innings in which M.V. Sridhar scored 366.
• Lowest team total in the Ranji Trophy: Hyderabad were dismissed for 21 runs by Rajasthan in 2010, with Deepak Chahar taking 8 for 10. The same team holds both the highest and lowest totals.
• Highest individual score in the Ranji Trophy: B.B. Nimbalkar's 443 not out for Maharashtra against Kathiawar in 1948-49. Prithvi Shaw's 379 for Mumbai against Assam in 2022-23 is the second highest.
• All ten wickets in an innings: Pradeep Sunderam of Rajasthan took 10 for 78 against Vidarbha in 1985-86, matching the multi-day feats of Anil Kumble and Jim Laker.
• Most Ranji Trophy runs: Wasim Jaffer, with 12,038 runs.
• Most Ranji Trophy wickets: Rajinder Goel, with 640 wickets.
• Longest unbroken dominance: Mumbai won 15 consecutive Ranji Trophy titles, a record no other team has approached.

Major International Cricket Trophies for Comparison

Governance, Anti-Doping and Match Technology

Recent policy changes around Indian sport have made this section increasingly relevant for both descriptive and objective papers.

• National Sports Governance Act, 2025: This law created a National Sports Board to recognise and regulate national sports federations and a National Sports Tribunal to settle sporting disputes. It also mandates compliance with international charters, including the WADA Code and IOC standards.
• BCCI and the RTI Act: The original draft treated every recognised sports organisation as a public authority under the Right to Information Act, 2005. In the version finally passed by Parliament, this applies only to organisations that receive direct financial assistance from the Union or state governments. Since the BCCI is self-funded, it remains outside the RTI Act, although it must still register and comply as a recognised sports organisation. Earlier, the Central Information Commission had declared the BCCI a public authority in 2018, but that order was stayed by the Madras High Court, and the Law Commission of India in its 275th Report had recommended treating the BCCI as an instrumentality of the state.
• Anti-doping framework: All domestic tournaments operate under the National Anti-Doping Act, 2022. The National Anti-Doping Agency implements the World Anti-Doping Agency Code through the strict liability principle, under which an Anti-Doping Rule Violation stands established once a prohibited substance is detected in a sample, regardless of intent. NADA maintains an Athlete Biological Passport, and when an unusual testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio is flagged, laboratories use Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry to compare carbon isotope ratios and separate natural hormones from synthetic ones.
• Smart Replay System and DRS: Knockout stages of premier tournaments use the Smart Replay System, in which the television umpire receives direct high-frame-rate feeds from eight Hawk-Eye cameras placed around the ground, allowing split-screen review of run-outs, stumpings and catches.
• UltraEdge: Directional microphones inside the stumps separate the sharp spike of ball on bat from the duller sound of pad or clothing, settling caught-behind reviews.
• Pitch and turf science: Pitch blocks use compacted clay soil with a clay content above 30 per cent for uniform bounce. Red-soil pitches, often sourced from Odisha, generate more friction and assist spin, while black-soil pitches last longer. The M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru uses a vacuum sub-air drainage system that pulls surface water through a sand and gravel bed far faster than gravity drainage, allowing play to resume within roughly 30 minutes of heavy rain.
• Cricket and the Olympics: The International Olympic Committee has approved the return of cricket in the Twenty20 format at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, ending an absence of 128 years since Paris 1900. The administrative systems built around India's domestic calendar also support India's bid to host the 2036 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Memory Tricks and Mnemonics

Trick 1: The Champion Sequence 2008 to 2026

Learn the winners as a single chain rather than as isolated years:

RR, DC, CSK, CSK, KKR, MI, KKR, MI, SRH, MI, CSK, MI, MI, CSK, GT, CSK, KKR, RCB, RCB

Story hook: "Royals and Chargers started it. Then Chennai and Mumbai ruled the middle. Finally Titans, Super Kings, Knights and Challengers closed the era, with Challengers going back to back."

Trick 2: The Odd-Year Rule for Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians won every odd year from 2013 to 2019, then added 2020.

• MI: 13, 15, 17, 19, 20. Remember it as "odd years, then one even year to finish."
• CSK: 10, 11, 18, 21, 23. Remember it as "two at the start, then a gap, then three spread out."
• Both totals are 5, and both were achieved under a single captain each, Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni.

Trick 3: The "Two Exits" Rule for IPL Outside India

Two very different reasons pushed the IPL abroad, and exams love to swap them.

• E for Elections: 2009 went fully to South Africa and 2014 partly to the UAE. Both were election years.
• C for COVID: 2020 was fully in the UAE and 2021 was split between India and the UAE.

Memory line: "Elections sent us to Africa first, COVID sent us to the desert later."

Trick 4: The "R-D-I" Ladder for First-Class Trophies

The three first-class trophies stack in a logical ladder from state to zone to national trial:

• Ranji Trophy: state versus state.
• Duleep Trophy: zone versus zone.
• Irani Cup: Ranji champion versus Rest of India.

Since Duleepsinhji was Ranjitsinhji's nephew, the Duleep Trophy naturally sits one step after the Ranji Trophy, exactly as in the family tree.

Trick 5: Overs Decide the Name

• Multi-day, red ball: Ranji, Duleep, Irani.
• Fifty overs, white ball: Vijay Hazare and Deodhar. Both namesakes were batters of the pre-television era, and both tournaments are 50 overs. Link "H and D go halfway to a hundred overs."
• Twenty overs: Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and the IPL. Both are T20, both feed the same talent pool.

Trick 6: Cap Colours by Body Part

"Orange like an orange you eat, so it goes to the batter who eats up runs. Purple like a bruise, so it goes to the bowler who hurts." Orange Cap equals most runs, Purple Cap equals most wickets. Do not reverse them.

Trick 7: Contrast Pairs Worth Memorising

• Ranjitsinhji versus Duleepsinhji: uncle and nephew. Ranji Trophy is state-level, Duleep Trophy is zonal.
• Vijay Hazare versus Vijay Merchant: Hazare gets the senior 50-over trophy, Merchant gets the under-16 trophy. "Hazare is the higher one."
• C.K. Nayudu versus Cooch Behar: Nayudu is under-23, Cooch Behar is under-19. Older cricketer, older age group.
• Chris Gayle versus Virat Kohli: Gayle owns the single-innings records of 175 not out and a 30-ball century. Kohli owns the season and career records of 973 runs and most career runs.
• Dwayne Bravo versus Yuzvendra Chahal: Bravo shares the single-season wicket record of 32. Chahal holds the career wicket record.

Additional Notes

Frequently Confused Facts

• "Mumbai Indians have won the most IPL titles" is only partly right. MI and CSK both have 5 titles and are joint leaders. If a question asks for the single most successful team, the correct answer names both.
• 2009 is not the same as 2020. The 2009 edition in South Africa was moved because of the general elections and was the first and only full IPL outside India in a single foreign country other than the UAE. The 2020 UAE edition was moved because of COVID-19.
• Kohli's 973 runs did not win RCB the title. In 2016, Sunrisers Hyderabad beat RCB in the final. Kohli won the Orange Cap and Player of the Series, not the trophy.
• Punjab Kings' runner-up captains differ by year. George Bailey led them as Kings XI Punjab in 2014, while Shreyas Iyer captained Punjab Kings in the 2025 final. Shikhar Dhawan was not the captain in either final.
• Vijay Hazare Trophy has two "starting years" in circulation. It began in 1993-94 as the Ranji One-Day Trophy but became a national knockout championship in 2002-03, which is why many sources list 2002-03. Read the wording of the question before answering.
• The BCCI is not under the RTI Act. Despite wide reporting when the bill was introduced, the final National Sports Governance Act, 2025 applies RTI only to sports bodies receiving government funds. The BCCI, being self-funded, stays outside.
• Fastest IPL century is still Chris Gayle's 30-ball hundred. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's 35-ball century is the fastest by an Indian and second fastest overall, and should not be confused with the outright record.
• India has no official National Game. Replying to Right to Information queries, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has clarified that the Government of India has not declared any sport as the national game. Neither hockey nor cricket holds that status.
• Duleep Trophy's most successful teams are North Zone and West Zone with 18 titles each, not Central Zone, even though Central Zone won the most recent edition.

Repeating PYQ Patterns

• SSC CGL and CHSL: Latest IPL champion and runner-up, Orange Cap and Purple Cap holders, and "which trophy is associated with which sport" matching questions.
• IBPS PO, Clerk and RRB: Current Ranji Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy champions, and questions on who a trophy is named after. These usually appear in the current affairs block of the General Awareness section and pair well with Banking Awareness revision.
• RRB NTPC and Group D: Inaugural years of the Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and IPL, and the format of each tournament.
• UPSC Prelims and State PSC: Institutional and legal angles, such as the position of sports in the State List, the National Sports Governance Act, 2025, the National Sports Board, and cricket's inclusion in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.
• Insurance and PSU exams: Records-based one-liners such as the highest individual IPL score, the most wickets in IPL history and the highest successful run chase.
• Most repeated single fact: the IPL 2009 South Africa edition and the reason behind it.

Quick Insight

The 2025-26 domestic season was unusual because three of the biggest trophies went to first-time winners: Jammu and Kashmir in the Ranji Trophy, Vidarbha in the Vijay Hazare Trophy and Jharkhand in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Combined with a fifteen-year-old topping the IPL run charts, this signals how quickly the talent base is widening beyond the traditional strongholds of Mumbai, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. For an aspirant, that means "maiden title" questions are likely to keep appearing, so track winners every season through daily current affairs updates rather than relying on older notes, and test yourself regularly with Static GK quizzes.

One-Liners for Quick Revision

IPL One-Liners

• IPL started in 2008 and is organised by the BCCI, the world's richest T20 franchise league.
• First IPL champion 2008: Rajasthan Royals under Shane Warne, beating CSK at the DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai.
• IPL 2009: Deccan Chargers under Adam Gilchrist, beating RCB at the Wanderers, Johannesburg, in the only edition held entirely outside India.
• IPL 2010: Chennai Super Kings under MS Dhoni, their maiden title, beating Mumbai Indians.
• IPL 2011: Chennai Super Kings, the first successful title defence, beating RCB at Chennai.
• IPL 2012: Kolkata Knight Riders under Gautam Gambhir, their first title, beating CSK at Chennai.
• IPL 2013: Mumbai Indians under Rohit Sharma, their maiden title, beating CSK at Eden Gardens.
• IPL 2014: Kolkata Knight Riders, beating Kings XI Punjab at Bengaluru, in a season that began in the UAE due to the Lok Sabha elections.
• IPL 2015: Mumbai Indians, beating CSK at Eden Gardens.
• IPL 2016: Sunrisers Hyderabad under David Warner, beating RCB at Bengaluru, the season of Kohli's 973 runs.
• IPL 2017: Mumbai Indians, beating Rising Pune Supergiant by one run, the narrowest final margin.
• IPL 2018: Chennai Super Kings, beating SRH at the Wankhede on their return from suspension.
• IPL 2019: Mumbai Indians, beating CSK by one run at Hyderabad.
• IPL 2020: Mumbai Indians, beating Delhi Capitals at Dubai in the full UAE edition caused by COVID-19.
• IPL 2021: Chennai Super Kings, beating KKR at Dubai after the season was suspended mid-way in India.
• IPL 2022: Gujarat Titans under Hardik Pandya, champions in their debut season, beating Rajasthan Royals at Ahmedabad.
• IPL 2023: Chennai Super Kings, their fifth title, beating Gujarat Titans at Ahmedabad.
• IPL 2024: Kolkata Knight Riders under Shreyas Iyer, their third title, beating SRH at Chennai.
• IPL 2025: Royal Challengers Bengaluru under Rajat Patidar, maiden title after 18 seasons, beating Punjab Kings by 6 runs at Ahmedabad, with Krunal Pandya as Player of the Match.
• IPL 2026: Royal Challengers Bengaluru, second title and back-to-back, beating Gujarat Titans by 5 wickets at Ahmedabad on 31 May 2026, with Virat Kohli scoring 75 not out off 42 balls.
• Joint most IPL titles: Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings, 5 each; KKR third with 3; RCB fourth with 2.
• Most IPL titles as captain: MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma, 5 each.
• Franchises yet to win a title: Delhi Capitals, Punjab Kings and Lucknow Super Giants.
• Most runs in IPL history: Virat Kohli, the first batter past 9,000 runs, all for RCB.
• Most wickets in IPL history: Yuzvendra Chahal, the first bowler past 200 wickets.
• Most runs in a single IPL season: Virat Kohli, 973 runs in 2016.
• Most wickets in a single IPL season: 32 by Dwayne Bravo in 2013 and Harshal Patel in 2021.
• Highest individual IPL score: Chris Gayle, 175 not out off 66 balls in 2013 with 17 sixes.
• Fastest IPL century: Chris Gayle, 30 balls; fastest by an Indian: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 35 balls in 2025.
• Fastest IPL fifty: KL Rahul, 14 balls in 2018.
• Highest IPL score by an Indian: KL Rahul, 152 not out in April 2026.
• Most sixes in IPL history: Chris Gayle, 357.
• Highest team total in the IPL: Sunrisers Hyderabad, 287 for 3 in 2024.
• Highest successful chase in the IPL and in all T20 cricket: Punjab Kings chasing 265 against Delhi Capitals on 25 April 2026.
• Most Orange Caps: David Warner, three, in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
• Only Indian with back-to-back Purple Caps: Bhuvneshwar Kumar, in 2016 and 2017.
• Youngest Orange Cap winner: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, at 15 years and 65 days in 2026, with 776 runs and 72 sixes.
• IPL 2026 awards: Orange Cap, MVP, Emerging Player, Super Striker and Super Sixes all went to Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, a first in league history.
• IPL 2026 Purple Cap: Kagiso Rabada of Gujarat Titans with 29 wickets, his second after 2020.

Domestic Cricket One-Liners

• Ranji Trophy: first-class, began 1934-35, named after K.S. Ranjitsinhji, trophy donated by Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala, first champions Bombay, contested by 38 teams.
• Most Ranji Trophy titles: Mumbai with 42, followed by Karnataka with 8.
• Ranji Trophy 2025-26 champions: Jammu and Kashmir, their maiden title, beating Karnataka in the final.
• Duleep Trophy: first-class inter-zonal, began 1961-62, named after K.S. Duleepsinhji, nephew of Ranjitsinhji; most successful are North Zone and West Zone with 18 titles each.
• Duleep Trophy 2025-26 champions: Central Zone under Rajat Patidar, their seventh title, beating South Zone by 6 wickets.
• Irani Cup: one-off five-day first-class match, began 1959-60 to mark the Ranji Trophy's silver jubilee, named after Zal R. Irani, played between the Ranji champions and Rest of India.
• Irani Cup 2025-26 winners: Vidarbha, beating Rest of India by 93 runs at Nagpur.
• Vijay Hazare Trophy: List A 50-over championship, began 1993-94 as the Ranji One-Day Trophy, national knockout from 2002-03, named after Vijay Hazare who led India to its first Test win in 1952.
• Most Vijay Hazare Trophy titles: Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, 5 each.
• Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 champions: Vidarbha, their maiden title, beating Saurashtra by 38 runs at Bengaluru.
• Deodhar Trophy: List A inter-zonal, began 1973-74, named after Prof. D.B. Deodhar, the "Grand Old Man of Indian Cricket"; most successful is North Zone with 13 titles; last held in 2023 and won by South Zone.
• Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: premier domestic T20, began 2006-07, named after the first Indian to score a Test century overseas at Old Trafford in 1936; most successful is Tamil Nadu with 3 titles.
• Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025-26 champions: Jharkhand, their maiden title, beating Haryana by 69 runs at Pune, with captain Ishan Kishan scoring 101 in the final.
• The Impact Player substitution rule was trialled in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy before being adopted in the IPL.
• Col. C.K. Nayudu Trophy: under-23 first-class, named after India's first Test captain; Mumbai is the most successful side.
• Cooch Behar Trophy: under-19 multi-day, held since 1945-46, a schools competition until 1986-87 and an under-19 event from 1987-88.
• Vinoo Mankad Trophy: under-19 one-day tournament, the limited-overs filter for ICC Under-19 World Cup selection.
• Vijay Merchant Trophy: under-16 multi-day tournament, the earliest red-ball stage of the pathway.
• Vizzy Trophy: inter-university tournament named after the Maharaja of Vizianagram, linking the Association of Indian Universities to the BCCI pipeline.

Records, Governance and General Awareness One-Liners

• Highest team total in Ranji Trophy history: Hyderabad, 944 for 6 declared against Andhra in 1993-94, with M.V. Sridhar scoring 366.
• Lowest team total in Ranji Trophy history: Hyderabad, 21, dismissed by Rajasthan in 2010; Deepak Chahar took 8 for 10.
• Highest individual score in the Ranji Trophy: B.B. Nimbalkar, 443 not out for Maharashtra against Kathiawar in 1948-49.
• Second-highest individual score in the Ranji Trophy: Prithvi Shaw, 379 for Mumbai against Assam in 2022-23.
• All ten wickets in a domestic first-class innings: Pradeep Sunderam, 10 for 78 for Rajasthan against Vidarbha in 1985-86.
• Most Ranji Trophy runs: Wasim Jaffer, 12,038. Most Ranji Trophy wickets: Rajinder Goel, 640.
• The BCCI was established in December 1928 and is a self-funded apex body.
• Sports appears at Entry 33 of the State List in the Seventh Schedule; the Union handles international representation through the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
• The National Sports Governance Act, 2025 created the National Sports Board and the National Sports Tribunal.
• Under that Act, RTI applies only to recognised sports bodies receiving government financial assistance, so the self-funded BCCI stays outside the RTI Act.
• Domestic cricket follows the National Anti-Doping Act, 2022, with NADA applying the WADA Code and the strict liability principle.
• NADA tracks long-term data through the Athlete Biological Passport and uses Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry to detect synthetic hormones.
• The Smart Replay System feeds eight Hawk-Eye camera angles directly to the television umpire; UltraEdge uses stump microphones for caught-behind reviews.
• The M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, uses a vacuum sub-air drainage system that clears rainwater far faster than gravity drainage.
• The Government of India has not declared any sport as the national game, as clarified in replies to RTI queries.
• Cricket returns to the Olympics in the T20 format at Los Angeles 2028, after 128 years, its only previous appearance being Paris 1900.
• India is bidding to host the 2036 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.
• ICC Cricket World Cup began in 1975; first winner West Indies; India won in 1983 and 2011.
• ICC Men's T20 World Cup began in 2007; India won the inaugural edition in South Africa by beating Pakistan.
• ICC Champions Trophy began in 1998, first won by South Africa, and was originally the ICC KnockOut Tournament.
• The ICC Test Championship Mace goes to the World Test Championship winner; New Zealand won the first cycle in 2021.
• The Ashes dates to 1882-83 and follows England's 1882 defeat at The Oval.
• The Border-Gavaskar Trophy, from 1996-97, is contested by India and Australia in Tests.
• The Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, introduced in 2025, replaced both the Pataudi Trophy and the Anthony de Mello Trophy for India-England Tests, with a Pataudi Medal for the winning captain.

Revise this chapter alongside a timed test so that the winners and namesakes stay in active memory rather than passive recall. Attempt a fresh set of questions on the daily current affairs quiz and follow it with the banking awareness quiz to cover the full General Awareness section.

Aspirants who also face a computer section should pair this revision with the computer awareness quiz, and keep an eye on the latest government job notifications so that preparation and application deadlines stay in step.