Problematics | Scores to settle on cricket pitch

This week on, everyone who solved one or both of last week’s puzzles gets acknowledged here, in the online version of Problematics, while the print version lists those who solved both. Here are this week's puzzles:

The time has come, unfortunately, for tough decisions to be made. So strong has your response been that I needed to make a choice: should I acknowledge every one of you, leaving ourselves with print space for only one puzzle? Or, should I continue with two puzzles, and run myself out of space to list the previous week’s solvers? I choose the middle path: everyone who solved one or both of last week’s puzzles gets acknowledged in the online version of Problematics, while the print version lists those who solved both. And it’s two puzzles as usual, so please keep bombarding me with your mails.

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Puzzle 4.1  

Puzzle 4.2:

If the batter faces every ball remaining in the innings, is it possible for him to score exactly 15 or exactly 10 every over?

Last week's Solvers. 

#Puzzle 3.2:

Mr Kabir Firaque,  While it took a few minutes to solve Puzzle 3.1, Puzzle 3.2 became tricky with so many permutations & combinations.   23883-32847: BETTE DAVIS  42553-23779: HALLE BERRY  96639-25536: WOODY ALLEN  25275-42253: CLARK GABLE  47382-42726: GRETA GARBO  — Musarrat Rai Handa, Faridabad

Solved both puzzles:

Aditya Anand (Mumbai), Biren Parmar (Bay Area, California), Nupur Joshi (Delhi), Natrajan (Bangalore), Rohit Lal (Mumbai), Joy Pandya (Mumbai), Jyoti Bhat (Mumbai), Shriyukta (Noida), Johnny Oommen (Gurgaon), Jasleen Kaur (Delhi), Caroline D'Cruz (Mumbai), Janice D'Souza (Mumbai), Taanvi D (Delhi), Ihit Bhardwaj (Goldcrest High, Navi Mumbai), Iha Bhardwaj (Jaipuriar School, Navi Mumbai), Vineet Jain (Gurgaon), Poonam Sharma (Roopnagar, Punjab), K Hema (Delhi), Vinod Mahajan (Delhi), Col J S Sabharwal (Mohali), Pranvat Kaur, Kanishka, Samant Sood (Ludhiana)

#Puzzle 3.1 only:

C A Shantanu Raich (Mohali), Archit Kapur (Delhi), Dr Kamlesh Kanodia (Delhi), Udita Sainia (Ambala Cantt), Nilesh Anant Doshi (Mumbai), Vijay Kumar (Ghaziabad), Pranjal Malpani, Dr Shashi Bhushan Gupta (Panchkula), Naman Mahajan (Palampur), Udita Jain (Haryana), Aarika Goel (Gurgaon), Narayan Bahuguna (Chandigarh), Mayank Chaudhary (KV KNN Ghaziabad), Dheeraj Aswani (Delhi), Naresh Dhillon, Divya Prakash (Delhi), Gopal Menon (Mumbai), Priya Malik (Gurgaon), Sunil Wanchoo (Gurgaon), Varsha Jain (Mumbai), Rohit Kumar (Delhi), Veena Khanna, Hemant Bhardwaj, Dayaan (New Delhi), K S Sridhar (Mumbai), Rakshit Jain (Ghaziabad), Ashwani Koul (Faridabad), Sandra Danisha (Mumbai), Nandita Singh (All Saints High School, Kalyan, Thane), Ved Prakash Wadhawan (Delhi), Neera Agochiya (Delhi), Iram Kazi (Mumbai), Ex Sgt Atul Jain (IAF, Ghaziabad), Ekansh Singh (Bhiwadi), Sangeeta Chawla (Delhi), Avidha Sharma (Jalandhar), Stuti Patwardhan (Mumbai)

#Puzzle 3.2 only:

Winston D'Souza (Mumbai), Navdeep Kaur, K P Deboo (Mumbai), Gunnika Bhatia (Delhi), Bharathi Govindan (Vasai)

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