Musheer Khan (born 27 February 2005) is an Indian

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who plays for

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. He made his

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

debut on 27 December 2022 for Mumbai in the

2022–23 Ranji Trophy The 2022–23 Ranji Trophy was the 88th season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India. It was played from 13 December 2022 and was finished on 19 February 2023. Madhya Pradesh cricket team, Madhya Pradesh were th ...

. As a right-handed batsman

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, Khan represented the

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as a member of the

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. In December 2023, he was selected for the 2024 ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup squad for the Indian U-19 youth team. Indian team finished runner's up in the

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in which Khan scored two centuries. In March 2024, Musheer broke

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's record to become the youngest Mumbai batter to score a hundred in the Ranji Trophy final. In September 2024, he debut in

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for India B against India A at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. In his debut match Musheer Khan hits his third First-Class century.

Early life

Musheer was born in 2005 at Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. and he was brought up in the suburbs of

. His family hails from

Azamgarh Azamgarh is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the headquarters of Azamgarh division, which consists of Ballia, Mau and Azamgarh districts. Azamgarh is situated on the bank of Tamsa River (Tons). It is located east of the ...

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. He spent most of his childhood in

Azad Maidan Azad Maidan (formerly known as ''Bombay Gymkhana Maidan'') is a triangular-shaped maidan (sports ground) in the city of Mumbai, India. It is located on of land near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station. It is a regular venue for inter-scho ...

with Naushad Khan, his father and coach. Musheer is the younger brother of the fellow

batsman

Sarfaraz Khan Sarfarāz Khān ( 1700 – 29 April 1740), born ''Mīrza Asadullāh'', was a Nawab of Bengal. Sarfaraz Khan's maternal grandfather, Nawab Murshid Quli Khan of Bengal (Bengal, Bihar and Orissa) nominated him as the direct heir to him as there ...

who is 8 years older than Musheer.

References

डेब्यू मैच में ही Musheer Khan ने तोड़ा Sachin Tendulkar का ये रिकॉर्डSarfraz के भाई Musheer Khan ने जड़ा शतक, डेब्यू मैच में किया बड़ा कारनामा

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Musheer 2005 births Living people Indian cricketers 21st-century Indian sportsmen Mumbai cricketers