Two batsman each on 94 runs. Seven runs needed to win in last 3 balls. Both make 100*. How?

John went to a parrot shop in Mexico, and the parrot owner told him that his parrot is so unique that he repeats everything he hears. John got excited and immediately bought the parrot. John went home and spoke many words, but the parrot does not repeat anything.
He went again to the parrot shop and complaint to the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper never lied. Explain?

Can anyone tell me a word in the English dictionary which has a silent 'z'?

You bought me for dinner but never eat me. What am I?

What word begins and ends with an E, but has only one letter?

A little girl goes to the store and buys one dozen eggs. As she is going home, all but three break. How many eggs are left unbroken?

There is a straight highway. Four different villages lie on that highway. The distance between them is different. The third village is 60km away from the first village; the fourth is 40 km away from the second; the third is 10 km near to the fourth that it is to the second.

Can you calculate the distance between the fourth and the first village ?

What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; That which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?

Today, I celebrated my 32nd birthday but I was born in 1972.
How is this possible?

What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?