Rakesh Madhavan (born 23 February 1977) is a Malaysian

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 striki ...

er. A left-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler,CricketArchive profile
/ref> he has played for the Malaysia national cricket team since 1997.

Biography

Born in

Negeri Sembilan Negeri Sembilan (, Negeri Sembilan Malay: ''Nogoghi Sombilan'', ''Nismilan'') is a state in Malaysia which lies on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It borders Selangor on the north, Pahang in the east, and Malacca and Johor to the s ...

in 1977, Madhavan made his debut for Malaysia in the annual Saudara Cup match against Singapore in September 1997. The following year he played in the

Stan Nagaiah Trophy The Stan Nagaiah Trophy is an annual series of one-day cricket matches played between Malaysia and Singapore. It has been played annually since 1995, and is named in honour of Stan Nagaiah, a cricketer from Singapore in the 1950s who also often repr ...

against SingaporeOther matches played by Rakesh Madhavan
at CricketArchive before making his

List A List A cricket is a classification of the 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 competitions in which the numbe ...

debut against Pakistan International Airlines in the Pakistan domestic one-day tournament.List A matches played by Rakesh Madhavan
at CricketArchive He played a second Saudara Cup match in August before representing Malaysia in the cricket tournament at the

1998 Commonwealth Games The 1998 Commonwealth Games ''(Malay: Sukan Komanwel 1998)'', officially known as the XVI Commonwealth Games ''(Malay: Sukan Komanwel ke-16)'', was a multi-sport event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This edition is marked by several unprecedent ...

, hosted in Kuala Lumpur, playing against

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

, Zimbabwe and Jamaica. He finished the year playing in the ACC Trophy, with Malaysia losing to Bangladesh in the final. Over the following years, he became almost an ever present for Malaysia, playing in every Stan Nagaiah Trophy and Saudara Cup match against Singapore until 2005, also playing in the ACC Trophy tournaments of 2000, 2002 and 2004 over the same time period, in addition to a match for Malaysia against the ECB National Academy in February 2003. He also played in the

2001 ICC Trophy The 2001 ICC Trophy was a cricket tournament played in Ontario, Canada in 2001. It was the Cricket World Cup qualification tournament for the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Three spots in the World Cup were on offer and the Netherlands, host nation Canada ...

in Toronto. He made his first-class debut in 2004, playing against Nepal and the UAE in the ICC Intercontinental Cup. He played

ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament The ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament was a three-day cricket tournament run by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), contested between its top-ranking ICC associate members. It was played three times between 2004 and 2006, and then replaced by the ...

matches against Hong Kong in 2004 and against Singapore, Hong Kong and Nepal in 2005. He did not play in the Saudara Cup match of 2006,Scorecard
of 2006 Saudara Cup match at CricketArchive though he did play in that year's Stan Nagaiah Trophy and ACC Trophy, in addition to ACC Premier League matches against Hong Kong and Nepal. He most recently represented his country in the 2007 Saudara Cup.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Madhavan, Rakesh 1977 births Living people People from Negeri Sembilan Malaysian cricketers Malaysian people of Tamil descent Malaysian sportspeople of Indian descent Cricketers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Malaysia Cricketers at the 2010 Asian Games Cricketers at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Malaysia