Dipendra Singh Airee ( ne, दिपेन्द्र सिंह ऐरी; born 24 January 2000) is a Nepalese

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er. In August 2018, he was one of the eleven cricketers to play in Nepal's first ever One Day International (ODI) match, against the

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Career

He made his List A debut for

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against

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in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship on 11 March 2017. Prior to his List A debut, he was named in Nepal's squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. In

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, he was captain of the

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. He scored 88 runs and took 4/39 against

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in the group A match and was adjudged

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. He scored 88 runs to push the total score to 185/8. India were 91/1 after which he led the attack forcing a collapse to 166 all out. India U-19 team were the defending champions and the victory was considered an upset by cricket critics. In January 2018, he was named in Nepal's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. In July 2018, he was named in Nepal's squad for their One Day International (ODI) series against the Netherlands. These were Nepal's first ODI matches since gaining ODI status during the

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. He made his

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(T20I) on 29 July 2018 in the 2018 MCC Tri-Nation Series, against the

. He made his ODI debut for Nepal against the

on 1 August 2018. In August 2018, he was named in Nepal's squad for the

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tournament. In October 2018, he was named in Nepal's squad in the Eastern sub-region group for the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Asia Qualifier tournament. In June 2019, he was named in Nepal's squad for the Regional Finals of the

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tournament. He made his first-class debut on 6 November 2019, for

against the

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(MCC), during the MCC's tour of Nepal. Later the same month, he was named as the vice-captain of Nepal's squad for the

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in Bangladesh. He was also named in Nepal's squad for the cricket tournament at the

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. The Nepal team won the bronze medal, after they beat the Maldives by five wickets in the third-place playoff match. In September 2020, he was one of eighteen cricketers to be awarded with a central contract by the

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. In December 2021, Airee along with

Gyanendra Malla Gyanendra Malla ( ne, ज्ञानेन्द्र मल्‍ल; born 16 September 1990) is a Nepalese professional cricketer and the former captain of the Nepal national Team. He is a right-handed batsman and an occasional wicket-keepe ...

were sacked as vice-captain and captain respectively, over disciplinary issues, with the

(CAN) appointing

Sandeep Lamichhane Sandeep Lamichhane ( ne, सन्दीप लामिछाने, ; born 2 August 2000) is a Nepalese cricketer who captained the Nepalese national team, A right-arm leg spin bowler, Lamichhane has played for Twenty20 franchise sides acro ...

as the new national captain. On 26 March 2022, in the second match of a two-match series against Papua New Guinea, Airee scored his first century in an ODI match with 105 runs. On 2 April 2022, in the final round-robin match of the tri-series, Airee scored his first century in T20I cricket, with 110

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against

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Airee, Dipendra Singh 2000 births Living people Nepalese cricketers Nepal One Day International cricketers Nepal Twenty20 International cricketers South Asian Games bronze medalists for Nepal South Asian Games medalists in cricket