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Full name | Ajay Vrajlal Lalcheta | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Porbandar, Gujarat, India |
22 October 1983 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Slow left-arm orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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T20I debut (cap 15) | 21 November 2015 v Hong Kong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 9 March 2016 v Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 10 March 2016 |
Ajay Vrajlal Lalcheta (Gujarati: અજય લાલચેતા) (born 22 October 1983 in Porbandar, Saurashtra) is an Omani cricketer of Indian origin.
Lalcheta played underage cricket in India before emigrating to Oman, making his debut for the Omani national side at the 2011 ACC Twenty20 Cup. He played five matches at the 2012 World Twenty20 Qualifier in the United Arab Emirates, which were accorded full Twenty20 status.
Lalcheta played several seasons for Saurashtra underage representative sides. He is a left-handed batsman and left-arm orthodox spinner. He made his debut for the Saurashtra under-16s in November 1998, aged 15, in the 1998–99 Vijay Merchant Trophy. In that tournament, he scored 187 runs, behind only Mahesh Bhutia (204 runs) for Saurashtra, most of which came in an innings of 87 against the Maharashtra under-16s. Lalcheta went on to play at under-19 and under-22 level for Saurashtra, with his last match in an Indian domestic tournament coming in November 2005, in the C. K. Nayudu Trophy.
After emigrating to Oman, Lalcheta made his debut for the national side at the 2011 ACC Twenty20 Cup, where Oman finished third to qualify for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier in the United Arab Emirates. At the ACC Twenty20 Cup, he took eight wickets at an average of 12.00, behind only Aamer Kaleem and Hemal Mehta (10 wickets each) for Oman.