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Full name | Suresh Navaratnam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Selangor, Malaysia |
7 October 1975 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Right-arm medium pace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1998–2004 | Malaysia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 23 April 2004 Malaysia v Nepal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last First-class | 17 September 2004 Malaysia v UAE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
List A debut | 9 September 1998 Malaysia v Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last List A | 14 September 1998 Malaysia v Jamaica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 13 January 2008
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Suresh Navaratnam (born 7 October 1975) is a Malaysian cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he has played more than 100 times for the Malaysia national cricket team since making his debut in 1993, scoring more runs and taking more wickets than any other player for Malaysia.
Born in Selangor in 1975, Navaratnam made his debut for Malaysia in 1993, playing in that year's Saudara Cup match against Singapore. He represented Malaysia at the 1994 ICC Trophy in Nairobi,Kenya, also playing again in the Suadara Cup match that year.
He played in the Stan Nagaiah Trophy series against Singapore for the first time in 1995, also playing in the Saudara Cup match that year. He repeated these tournaments the following year, also playing for a Malaysia Invitation VIII in the International Super 8s and in the first ACC Trophy. Malaysia hosted the ICC Trophy in 1997 and Navaratnam played in seven matches in the tournament. He also played in that year's Saudara Cup match.
In 1998, after played in the Stan Nagaiah Trophy and Saudara Cup Navaratnam made his List A debut, playing matches against Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Jamaica as part of the cricket tournament in the 1998 Commonwealth Games, hosted in Kuala Lumpur. This was followed by the ACC Trophy in Nepal. His last appearance for Malaysia in the 1990s was in the Stan Nagaiah Trophy series of 1999.