Aashish Rakesh Kapoor (; born 25 March 1971) is a former Indian

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er who played in four

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and 17

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s from 1994 to 2000. A right-arm

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ner and right-handed lower-order batsman, he was a member of the

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squad. Kapoor began his playing career at the St Mary's School and Santhome HSS in Chennai. In the

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schools tournament in 1987–88, he scored four hundreds in a row, including a 116 before lunch against Padma Seshadri. This won him the Best Schoolboy Cricketer award from TNCA and later the JC Mukherjee award for the best U-17 cricketer. For South Zone in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Kapoor scored 103 & 58* against Central Zone and 130 against the North. He then started playing for

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in the senior league.Indian Express, 17 December 1988 In December 1988 in the Under-19 Ghulam Ahmed trophy (South Zone of the

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), Kapoor scored 304 (420 minutes, 354 balls, 24 fours and a six) against Goa. He added 408 for the first wicket with J. Ramdas.

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