Aasif Sheikh ( ne, आसिफ शेख) (born 22 January 2001) is a Nepalese

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er, who plays as right-handed

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. He made his debut for

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

against

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in April 2021. He represents the Armed Police Force Club of the Kathmandu Mayor's Cup and Pokhara Paltan of the

Pokhara Premier League Pokhara Premier League ( ne, पोखरा प्रिमियर लिग) is a franchise Twenty20 cricket tournament held in Nepal. The tournament is managed by Queen's Event Management. The league is an auction-based tournament where pl ...

Playing career

Aasif plays for

Panchakanya Tej Panchakanya Tej or Panchakanya Tez or TEJ ( ne, पन्चकन्या तेज) was a franchise team in the Nepal Premier League and the 2016 Everest Premier League. The team was captained by Nepalese player Sharad Vesawkar. The head coa ...

in the

Everest Premier League Everest Premier League (EPL) ( ne, एभरेष्ट प्रिमियर लिग) is a franchise Twenty20 cricket tournament organized by EPL Pvt. Ltd., a private group in Nepal run by Aamir Akhtar alongside his team including Kie ...

. He scored an unbeaten 111 runs in the final of the 2016 Everest Premier League as his team won the maiden EPL title. He was the leading run-scorer of the tournament, where he scored 202 runs in six matches at an average of 44.00. He led the Nepalese Under-19 team in the 2018 Quadrangular Cricket Tournament in India. Later, he was named the skipper of the

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for the

2018 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup The 2018 Under-19 Asia Cup was the 7th edition of ACC Under-19 Cup. The cricket tournament was held in Bangladesh from 29 September to 7 October at Chittagong and Cox's Bazar Cox's Bazar (; bn, কক্সবাজার, Kôksbajar; ) ...

. He also played for the Under-19 side in the

2019 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup The 2019 Under-19 Asia Cup was the 8th edition of ACC Under-19 Cup. The cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each c ...

. He was the second leading run-scorer in the 2021 Prime Minister Cup, where he scored 206 runs in five innings at an average of 41.20. He was selected in the 18-member national team for the closed camps for the T20I series against

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but the tour was eventually postponed due to the increasing COVID-19 cases in

. Aasif was subsequently selected in the 15 members national squad for the

2020–21 Nepal Tri-Nation Series The 2020–21 Nepal Tri-Nation Series was a Twenty20 international cricket tournament that took place in April 2021 in Nepal. The participating teams were Nepal, Malaysia and the Netherlands. The matches were all played at the Tribhuvan Universit ...

and made his T20I debut against

. He scored an unbeaten half-century and put up a record-breaking first-wicket partnership of 116 runs for Nepal in T20Is guiding his team to a 9-wicket victory. He scored 42 runs in the second match of the series against

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and shared another century stand with a fellow opener

Kushal Bhurtel Kushal Bhurtel ( ne, कुशल भुर्तेल, born 22 January 1997) is a Nepalese cricketer. In November 2019, he was named in Nepal's squad for the 2019 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup in Bangladesh. He made his List A debut for Nepal, a ...

. He scored 154 runs in the series at an average of 38.50 and a strike-rate of 138.73. In August 2021, Aasif was named in Nepal's

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(ODI) squad for their series against Papua New Guinea in Oman, and their squad for round six of the

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tournament, also in Oman. He made his ODI debut on 7 September 2021, for Nepal against

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sheikh, Aasif Living people 2001 births Nepalese cricketers Nepal One Day International cricketers Nepal Twenty20 International cricketers People from Birgunj