Ashish Sinha (born 16 September 1990) is an Indian cricketer, politician and advocate. He is the son of

Arun Kumar Sinha Arun Kumar Sinha is an Indian politician and a Member of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Bihar. Sinha has won the Bihar Legislative Assembly The Bihar Legislative Assembly, also known as the Bihar Vidhan Sabha, is the lower house of the ...

, BJP MLA from Kumhrar Assembly seat. He is the former president of Patna University Students Union (PUSU). He made his first-class debut for

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...

against

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on 8 December 2010. Ahead of the

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, he transferred from Jharkhand to

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

. He made his

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debut for Bihar in the

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on 20 September 2018. He was in controversy when he was selected as a player in

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for Bihar.

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* 1990 births Living people Indian cricketers Bihar cricketers Jharkhand cricketers Place of birth missing (living people) {{India-cricket-bio-1990-stub