Raju Khadka is a Nepalese cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace

Fast bowling

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 bowler, he played for the Nepal national cricket team between 1998 and 2004, including two first-class

First-class cricket

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 matches. He captained

Captain (cricket)

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 the side between 2002 and 2004.

Biography

Born in Nepal

Nepal

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 in 1975, Raju Khadka first played for Nepal in the 1998 ACC Trophy

ACC Trophy

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, which was held in Nepal. He played in the tournament again in 2000 and 2002, captaining the side to a runners-up slot in the latter tournament.

He made his first-class début in 2004, playing in the 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup

2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup

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 against the UAE and Malaysia. Later in the year, he played in the ACC Trophy in Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur

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 and ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament

ACC Premier League

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 matches against Singapore and the UAE. The match against the UAE was his last for Nepal.