Anshuman Rath (born 5 November 1997) is an Hong Kong-born Indian

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er who previously played and led the

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. In September 2019, he retired from Hong Kong national team to pursue a career in India. In August 2021, he became eligible to play as a local player in India after giving up his Hong Kong citizenship to get Indian passport, and is currently representing

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in the 2021–22 Indian domestic cricket season.

Personal life

Anshuman Rath's home is based in Satyanagar,

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, India and he belongs to an

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family. In the late 1990s, his father left India for business and settled in Hong Kong. Anshuman was born in the year 1997 in Hong Kong. He started playing cricket at the age of four with Tarang, when his father introduced him to the sport. He attended

West Island School West Island School (WIS; ) is a co-educational, private, international secondary school in Hong Kong which provides an English-language education to students of all abilities from age eleven to eighteen with a "modern liberal education" based on ...

International career

He made his

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(ODI) debut for Hong Kong on 8 November 2014 against Papua New Guinea in Australia. He made his

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debut for Hong Kong against Nepal at the

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tournament on 15 July 2015. He made his first-class debut for Hong Kong against the United Arab Emirates in the 2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup tournament on 11 November 2015. On 16 February 2017 in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship match against the Netherlands, he scored his maiden

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century and added 197 runs for the third wicket with

Babar Hayat Babar Hayat (born 5 January 1992) is a Pakistani-born Hong Kong cricketer, who plays for the Hong Kong cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman and a former captain of the national team. International career Babar made his T20I cricket comple ...

. This was a List A record for Hong Kong and a record for any wicket in a World Cricket League match. In December 2017, he scored his first century in an ODI match, when he made 143

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against

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in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship. It was also the highest individual score by a Hong Kong batsman in an ODI match. He finished as the leading run-scorer in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship, with a total of 678 runs from 10 matches. In August 2018, he was named the vice-captain of Hong Kong's squad for the

2018 Asia Cup Qualifier The 2018 Asia Cup Qualifier was a cricket tournament that was held in Malaysia from 29 August to 6 September 2018. The event served as the qualifier for the 2018 Asia Cup. The top two teams from the group stage met in the final, with the winner ...

tournament. However, prior to the tournament, he replaced

as captain, after Hayat stepped down from the role. Hong Kong won the qualifier tournament, and he was then named as captain of Hong Kong's squad for the

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. In April 2019, he was named as the captain of Hong Kong's squad for the

2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two The 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two was an international cricket tournament that took place in April 2019 in Namibia. It was contested between six teams; Canada, Hong Kong, Oman, Papua New Guinea, the United States and tournament hos ...

tournament in Namibia. He was the leading run-scorer in the tournament, with 290 runs in six matches. He and

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scored 174 against India, the highest partnership for Hong Kong in ODIs. Hong Kong lost the match by 26 runs but the fight was praised by the Indian team.

T20 franchise career

In June 2019, he was selected to play for the Edmonton Royals franchise team in the

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tournament.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rath, Anshuman 1997 births Living people Hong Kong cricketers Hong Kong One Day International cricketers Hong Kong Twenty20 International cricketers Place of birth missing (living people) Hong Kong people of Indian descent Sportspeople of Indian descent People educated at Harrow School Alumni of West Island School Wicket-keepers