Rakesh Madhavan is a Malaysian cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. A left-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace

Fast bowling

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 bowler, he has played for the Malaysia national cricket team since 1997.

Biography

Born in Negeri Sembilan

Negeri Sembilan

Negeri Sembilan, one of the 13 states that constitutes Malaysia, lies on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia, just south of Kuala Lumpur and borders Selangor on the north, Pahang in the east, and Malacca and Johor to the south....

 in 1977, Madhavan made his debut for Malaysia in the annual 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 Singapore in September 1997. The following year he played 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...

 against Singapore before making his List A debut against Pakistan International Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines cricket team

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 in the Pakistan domestic one-day

One-day cricket

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 tournament.

He played a second Saudara Cup match in August before representing Malaysia

Malaysia at the 1998 Commonwealth Games

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 in the cricket tournament

Cricket at the 1998 Commonwealth Games

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 at the 1998 Commonwealth Games

1998 Commonwealth Games

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, hosted in Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...

, playing against Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Jamaica

Jamaica national cricket team

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. He finished the year playing in the ACC Trophy

ACC Trophy

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, with Malaysia losing to Bangladesh in the final.

Over the following years, he became almost an ever present for Malaysia, playing in every Stan Nagaiah Trophy and Saudara Cup match against Singapore until 2005, also playing in the ACC Trophy tournaments of 2000, 2002 and 2004 over the same time period, in addition to a match for Malaysia against the ECB National Academy

ECB National Academy

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 in February 2003. He also played in the 2001 ICC Trophy

2001 ICC Trophy

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 in Toronto

Toronto

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.

He made his first-class

First-class cricket

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 debut in 2004, playing against Nepal and the UAE in the ICC Intercontinental Cup

ICC Intercontinental Cup

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. He played ACC Fast Track Nations Tournament

ACC Premier League

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 matches against Hong Kong

Hong Kong cricket team

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 in 2004 and against Singapore, Hong Kong and Nepal in 2005.

He did not play in the Saudara Cup match of 2006, though he did play in that year's Stan Nagaiah Trophy and ACC Trophy, in addition to ACC Premier League

ACC Premier League

The ACC Premier League, previously known as the ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament was a cricket tournament run by the Asian Cricket Council that was contested by Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates...

matches against Hong Kong and Nepal. He most recently represented his country in the 2007 Saudara Cup.