Gagan Khoda (born 24 October 1974) is a former Indian

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er. He played two

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s in 1998. Despite scoring 89 runs in one of those two innings, he never made it to the Indian team after those two matches.He is from

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community. He has been given due recognition now after his appointment as a National Selector by the BCCI on 9 November 2015, representing the Central Zone in the Selection Committee. Now has two children called aaryaman Khoda and aaryaveer Khoda.

Domestic career

In domestic cricket, he represented

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and

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. Khoda, enjoyed an outstanding junior career before making a century on debut in the Ranji Trophy in 1991–92. A score of 237 in the Ranji quarter-final in 1994–95 further established him as a promising youngster. Now he has two son called Aaryaveer and Aaryaman . Now actively retired from cricket, Gagan focuses his time and energy on running an outlet of India's largest laundry and dry-cleaning chain, UClean.

International career

He represented India in two One Day Internationals and scored 89 against Kenya and was Man of the Match. He scored 26 against Bangladesh in Coca-Cola tri-series 1997/98. He was one of the new openers that India had tried out. He also played in the

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in Malaysia, without much impact.

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* 1974 births Cricketers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games India One Day International cricketers Indian cricketers Living people Rajasthan cricketers Central Zone cricketers India national cricket team selectors Commonwealth Games competitors for India {{India-cricket-bio-1970s-stub