Chundangapoyil Puthiyapurayil Rizwan (19 April 1988) is an Indian-born

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er who plays for the

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. He has played for the

since 2019 and was appointed

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captain in 2022.

International career

He made his

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(ODI) debut for the United Arab Emirates against Nepal on 26 January 2019. In January 2019, he was named in the United Arab Emirates'

(T20I) squad for their series against Nepal. He made his T20I debut for the United Arab Emirates against Nepal on 31 January 2019. In December 2020, he was one of ten cricketers to be awarded with a year-long part-time contract by the

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. The following month, in the UAE's first fixture against Ireland, Rizwan scored his first century in an ODI match. In August 2022, Rizwan was appointed to succeeded Ahmed Raza as the UAE's Twenty20 International captain, with his first major tournament being the

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in Oman.

Personal life

Rizwan was born in

Tellicherry Thalassery (), formerly Tellicherry, is a municipality, Commercial City on the Malabar Coast in Kannur district, in the state of Kerala, India, bordered by the districts of Mahé (Pondicherry), Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kasaragod and Kodagu (Karna ...

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

, India. His father moved to the UAE in the 1980s, and when he was two years old the family moved back to

Sharjah Sharjah (; ar, ٱلشَّارقَة ', Gulf Arabic: ''aš-Šārja'') is the third-most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, after Dubai and Abu Dhabi, forming part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. Sharjah is the capital o ...

, where his younger sisters were born. Rizwan later returned to India to study engineering in

Kochi Kochi (), also known as Cochin ( ) ( the official name until 1996) is a major port city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of K ...

, playing cricket for Kerala at under-19 and under-23 level. He moved back to the UAE in 2014 to work as an electrical engineer with Bukhatir Group.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rizwan, Chundangapoyil 1988 births Living people Emirati cricketers United Arab Emirates One Day International cricketers United Arab Emirates Twenty20 International cricketers Cricketers from Kerala People from the Emirate of Sharjah Indian emigrants to the United Arab Emirates Indian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates People from Thalassery