Sundeep Jora (Nepali: सन्दीप जोरा; born 20 October 2001) is a Nepalese cricketer.[1][2] He made his international cricket debut on 28 January 2019 against UAE in third ODI match of the series.[3][4] He is the youngest player to score a T20I fifty.[5]
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Full name | Sundeep Jora | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (2001-10-20) 20 October 2001 (age 20) Kanchanpur, Nepal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Only ODI (cap 19) | 28 January 2019 v UAE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut (cap 24) | 31 January 2019 v UAE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 10 October 2019 v Oman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 10 October 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Nepal against the United Arab Emirates on 31 January 2019.[6] He scored 53 not out to become the youngest male cricketer to score a half-century in a T20I match, at the age of 17 years and 103 days.[7] In April 2019, he was named in Nepal's squad for the Asia qualification tournament for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.[8] He also featured in The 2019–20 Oman Pentangular Series.
In November 2019, he was named in Nepal's squad for the 2019 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup in Bangladesh.[9] Later the same month, he was also named in Nepal's squad for the cricket tournament at the 2019 South Asian Games.[10] The Nepal team won the bronze medal, after they beat the Maldives by five wickets in the third-place playoff match.[11]