Raiphi Vincent Gomez (born 16 October 1985) is an Indian

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 st ...

er who played for

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and Puducherry in domestic cricket. He is an

all-rounder An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a handful of batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are cons ...

who bats right-handed and bowls right arm medium-fast. He was bought by Rajasthan Royals ahead of the 2009 season of

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making him the second

player to be part of an IPL franchise after Sreesanth. Raiphi has also represented India U-17 team and India U-19 team. Gomez represented Kochi Tuskers Kerala in IPL 2011. After KTK's termination, he was selected to play for

Pune Warriors India Pune Warriors India were a franchise Twenty20 cricket team that represented the city of Pune in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The team was one of two IPL franchises from the Indian state of Maharashtra, the other being Mumbai Indians. It was ...

in the 5th edition of IPL. In December 2018, he was selected for cricket association of Pondicherry as a guest player in Ranji trophy.

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