Mulewa Dharmichand
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Mulewa Dharmichand is an India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n born Singapore
Singapore
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an cricket
Cricket
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er. A right-handed batsman and off spin
Off spin
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 bowler, he has played for the Singapore national cricket team since 2004, having previously played Under-19 Test matches for India Under-19s and first-class cricket
First-class cricket
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 for Karnataka
Karnataka cricket team
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.

Biography

Born in Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 in 1984, Mulewa Dharmichand played for Karnataka at Under-16, Under-19 and Under-22 levels before making his first-class debut for them in a Ranji Trophy
Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between different city and state sides, equivalent to the County Championship in England and the Sheffield Shield in Australia...

 match against Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu cricket team
The Tamil Nadu Cricket Team ; , competes in the Super League of the Ranji Trophy, the top cricketing competition in India. The team finished as runners-up behind Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy in the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons establishing themselves as one of the strongest teams in the country...

 in November 2000. He played three Test matches for India Under-19s against England Under-19s in January 2001.

He played his only List A match for Karnataka against Goa
Goa cricket team
The Goa cricket team has never been an overly strong team in the Ranji Trophy. Confined to the plate group, Goa bottomed the table in 2005/06 by not achieving a win in their 5 matches, losing 3 matches. In 2006/07 they again finished bottom of the plate group without a win this time losing 4...

 in January 2002, and his first-class career with them came to an end in November that year with Ranji Trophy matches against Maharashtra
Maharashtra cricket team
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 and Bihar.

He first played for Singapore in the Stan Nagaiah Trophy
Stan Nagaiah Trophy
The Stan Nagaiah Trophy is an annual series of one-day cricket matches played between Malaysia and Singapore. It has been played annually since 1995, and is named in honour of Stan Nagaiah, a cricketer from Singapore in the 1950s who also often represented All-Malaya.-Results:-Records:*Highest team...

 series against Malaysia in 2004, playing in the event again the following two years. He played in the ACC Trophy
ACC Trophy
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 in Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
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 in 2006, and in the Saudara Cup
Saudara Cup
The Saudara Cup is an annual cricket match played between Malaysia and Singapore. It has been played since 1970, with Malaysia winning twelve times, Singapore winning eight times, including the most recent match in 2007. The other matches have all been drawn. The name of the tournament comes from...

 match against Malaysia the same year.

In 2007, he played in the Saudara Cup match and in the ACC Twenty20 Cup
ACC Twenty20 Cup
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, whilst in 2008 he played in the Stan Nagaiah Trophy series, Division Five
2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five
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 of the World Cricket League
World Cricket League
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 in Jersey
Jersey
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, and most recently represented his adopted country in the 2008 ACC Trophy, where he played in the fifth place play-off against Malaysia.
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