Rakesh Kumar (born 3 January 1992) is an Indian

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er. He made his first-class debut on 4 February 2020, for

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in the

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. In the match, he and

Rahul Dalal Rahul Dalal (born 2 February 1992) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Arunachal Pradesh. He was the leading run-scorer in the 2019–20 Ranji Trophy, with 1,340 runs in nine matches, and the only batsman to score more than 1,000 runs in the to ...

shared a 74-run partnership for the 7th wicket against

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. It was the fifth-known instance of a fifty-plus partnership in first-class cricket with one batsman scoring all the runs. He made his

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debut on 11 January 2021, for Arunachal Pradesh in the

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. He made his

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debut on 21 February 2021, for Arunachal Pradesh in the

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* 1992 births Living people Indian cricketers 21st-century Indian sportsmen Arunachal Pradesh cricketers Place of birth missing (living people) {{India-cricket-bio-1992-stub