Anureet Singh (born 2 March 1988) is an Indian

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er. He is married to Aanchal Kathuria. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who plays for

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. He represented the

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till the 2018–19 season and

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in the 2019–20 season. Singh made his cricketing debut in 2007, playing for Railways Under-22s in the CK Nayudu Trophy, scoring a duck in his debut innings. He played six innings in total in the competition. He returned to the Under-22s team the following year, slotting into a tail end position in the lineup, and thriving, scoring 34 in his first game, and 30 not out in his second. Singh made his first-class debut in November 2008 against

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, batting as a number eleven and catching centurion

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in the first innings in which he fielded. He was picked up by

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in the 2014

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auctions. In October 2017, he took his fifteenth five-wicket haul in

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, bowling for Railways against

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in the

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. He was the leading wicket-taker for Railways in the 2017–18 Ranji Trophy, with 20 dismissals in five matches. In January 2018, he was bought by the

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(#44) in the 2018 IPL auction.

References

External links

Anureet Singh
at ESPNcricinfo

s profile page on Wisden

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