Lovepreet Singh (born 5 December 2002) is a
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 comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er who plays for the
United Arab Emirates national cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm
leg spin bowler.
Personal life
Singh was born on 5 December 2002 in
Jalandhar, India.
He moved to the UAE with his family at the age of three, after his father secured work in
Fujairah. The family settled in
Al Dhaid and he grew up playing
tape ball cricket in the streets.
Career
Singh attended the Goltay Cricket Academy in
Dubai where he was coached by
Shahzad Altaf. After impressing with the bat in a 50-over tournament in
Ajman, in May 2023 he was named in the UAE national squad for
an ODI series against the West Indies. He is the first
Sikh
Sikhs ( or ; pa, ਸਿੱਖ, ' ) are people who adhere to Sikhism, Sikhism (Sikhi), a Monotheism, monotheistic religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Gu ...
to play international cricket for the UAE.
[
Singh made his ]One Day International
A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World C ...
(ODI) debut against the West Indies on 7 June 2023.
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2002 births
Living people
Cricketers from Jalandhar
Emirati cricketers
United Arab Emirates One Day International cricketers
Indian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates