Chetan Suryawanshi (born 24 February 1985) is an Indian-born Singaporean cricketer who was a captain for the

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. Singapore is his adoptive country and he has been playing for it since 2004. Born in

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, Suryawanshi has been playing cricket since a very young age. His native village is Velu in Satara district. Suryawanshi is a right-handed

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and a right-arm

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pace bowler, although his primary role is

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. He is often seen bowling his overs and then doing wicket keeping for the other bowlers in the same match. He has led Singapore's national team, most recently during the ICC World Cricket League Division 3 in Uganda. In one of the crucial

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tournaments, Suryawanshi was Singapore's leading run scorer in the tournament, with 204 runs. He scored a record 100 in 36 balls in the same tournament. Suryawanshi has also represented Singapore in the

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. He was the captain of the 2011 Maharashtra Premier League for Devgiri Emperor which emerged as winners of the tournament, with Suryawanshi securing the Man of the Series Award. On 13 February 2014, Suryawanshi took a hat-trick and scored 101 against Malaysia in the Malaysian Tri-Series tournament. He became the first cricketer to take a hat-trick and score a century in an international 50-overs match. In August 2018, he was named the captain of Singapore's squad for the

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tournament. In October 2018, he was named in Singapore's squad in the Eastern sub-region group for the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Asia Qualifier tournament. Later the same month, he was named as the captain of Singapore's squad for the

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tournament in Oman. Ahead of the tournament, he was named as the player to watch in Singapore's squad. In July 2019, he was named in Singapore's

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(T20I) squad for the Regional Finals of the

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tournament. He made his T20I debut for Singapore against

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on 22 July 2019.

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Chetan Suryawanshi
on CricketArchive

on ESPNcricinfo {{DEFAULTSORT:Suryawanshi, Chetan 1985 births Living people Singaporean cricketers Indian cricketers Cricketers from Pune Indian emigrants to Singapore Singaporean sportspeople of Indian descent Singapore Twenty20 International cricketers Wicket-keepers Cricketers at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Singapore