Apolinaire Liplip Stephen (born 22 June 1995) is a

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er.

Biography

He played in the

2015 ICC World Cricket League Division Six The 2015 ICC World Cricket League Division Six was a limited-overs international cricket tournament that took place in England from 7 to 13 September 2015. The majority of matches were played at grounds in Essex, although two matches took place ...

tournament. In March 2018, he was named in Vanuatu's squad for the

2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Four The 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Four was an international cricket tournament that took place during April and May 2018 in Malaysia. It formed part of the 2017–19 ICC World Cricket League, 2017–19 cycle of the World Cricket League ...

tournament in Malaysia. In August 2018, he was named in Vanuatu's squad for Group A of the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 East Asia-Pacific Qualifier tournament. He was part of Vanuatu's squad for the

2019 Malaysia Cricket World Cup Challenge League A The 2019 Malaysia Cricket World Cup Challenge League A was the inaugural edition of Group A of the 2019–2022 Cricket World Cup Challenge League, a cricket tournament which formed part of the qualification pathway to the 2023 Cricket World Cu ...

tournament. He made his

List A List A cricket is a classification of the Limited overs cricket, limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competit ...

debut, against

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, in the Cricket World Cup Challenge League A tournament on 17 September 2019. In the same month he was named in Vanuatu's

Twenty20 International Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of Twenty20 cricket, in which each team plays a single innings with a maximum of twenty overs. The matches are played between international teams recognized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). ...

(T20I) squad for their series against Malaysia. He made his T20I debut against

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, on 2 October 2019.

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* 1995 births Living people Vanuatuan cricketers Vanuatu Twenty20 International cricketers Place of birth missing (living people) {{Vanuatu-cricket-bio-stub