Mohammad Ariffin Ramly is a Malaysian 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

Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...

 bowler, he has played for the Malaysia national cricket team since 2002.

Biography

Born in Malaysia in 1986, first represented Malaysia at Under-15 level, playing in the ACC Under-15 Trophy in Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...

 in July 2000. He played in the ICC Under-17 Asia Cup the same month and in the ACC Under-17 Asia Cup the following year. He made his debut for the Malaysian senior side in the annual Saudara Cup

Saudara Cup

The Saudara Cup is an annual cricket match played between Malaysia and Singapore. It has been played since 1970, with Malaysia winning twelve times, Singapore winning eight times, including the most recent match in 2007. The other matches have all been drawn. The name of the tournament comes from...

 match against Singapore in August 2002.

In 2003, after playing one match in the Stan Nagaiah Trophy

Stan Nagaiah Trophy

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 series, he played for Malaysia Under-19s in the Youth Asia Cup in Karachi

Karachi

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. The following year, he played for a Malaysia Cricket Association Invitation XI against England A, and a Stan Nagaiah Trophy match against Singapore before taking part in the ACC Trophy

ACC Trophy

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. He made his first-class

First-class cricket

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 debut in September 2004, playing against the UAE in the ICC Intercontinental Cup

ICC Intercontinental Cup

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. He finished the year with an ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament

ACC Premier League

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 match against Hong Kong

Hong Kong cricket team

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.

The following year, after playing in the Saudara Cup match, he represented Malaysia Under-19s in the ACC Under-19 Cup. He played in the Stan Nagaiah Trophy in 2006, before playing once in that year's ACC Trophy, the seventh place play-off against Qatar. He most recently played for Malaysia in the Saudara Cup match of 2006.