Karthik Palaniapan Meiyappan (born 8 October 2000) is an Indian-born

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er who plays for the United Arab Emirates national cricket team as a right-arm leg spin bowler. He made his

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(ODI) debut for the UAE in 2019 and also represented the UAE at the

2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup The 2020 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was an international limited-overs cricket tournament that was held in South Africa from 17 January to 9 February 2020. It was the thirteenth edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and the second to be ...

. Meiyappan made history being the first ever UAE player to take a hat-trick, the first UAE player to take a hat-trick in a

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, and the first player to take a hat-trick from an ICC associate member against an ICC full member.

Personal life

Meiyappan was born in Chennai, India. He grew up in Chennai,

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and Dubai, before his family settled in Dubai permanently in 2012. He attended The Winchester School, Jebel Ali, alongside his UAE teammate Aryan Lakra.

Career

Meiyappan captained the United Arab Emirates national under-19 cricket team at the

2019 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup The 2019 Under-19 Asia Cup was the 8th edition of ACC Under-19 Cup. The cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each c ...

in Sri Lanka, having also played at the

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in Bangladesh. In December 2019, he was named in the

(ODI) squad for the

2019 United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series The 2019 United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series was the third round of the 2019–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 cricket tournament and took place in the United Arab Emirates in December 2019. It was a tri-nation series between Scotland, th ...

. He made his ODI debut for the UAE, against the United States on 8 December 2019. Later the same month, he was named in the UAE's squad for the

. In December 2020, he was one of ten cricketers to be awarded with a year-long part-time contract by the Emirates Cricket Board. In October 2021, he was named in the UAE's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for the

2021 Summer T20 Bash The 2021 Summer T20 Bash was a series of Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket matches played in the United Arab Emirates in October 2021 between Ireland, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Scotland and the United Arab Emirates. The UAE played one match ...

tournament. He made his T20I debut on 8 October 2021, for the UAE against Ireland. He was named in UAE's squad for the

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in Australia. In his team's second match of the group stage of the tournament against

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

, he took a hat-trick by dismissing Bhanuka Rajapaksa,

Charith Asalanka Kariyawasam Indipalage Charith Asalanka (born 29 June 1997) is a Sri Lankan professional cricketer who plays all three formats of the game for the national team and also serves as the vice-captain of the national team in T20I. A left-handed bat ...

, and Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka. This was the first T20I hat-trick by a UAE player, the fifth at a T20 World Cup, and the first hat-trick taken by a player from an ICC associate member against an ICC full member.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Meiyappan, Karthik 2000 births Living people Emirati cricketers United Arab Emirates One Day International cricketers United Arab Emirates Twenty20 International cricketers Cricketers from Chennai Indian emigrants to the United Arab Emirates Indian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates Sportspeople from Dubai