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

Biography

Born in Malaysia in 1983, Ganesan made his debut for Malaysia in March 2002, playing one match in the annual Stan Nagaiah Trophy

Stan Nagaiah Trophy

The Stan Nagaiah Trophy is an annual series of one-day cricket matches played between Malaysia and Singapore. It has been played annually since 1995, and is named in honour of Stan Nagaiah, a cricketer from Singapore in the 1950s who also often represented All-Malaya.-Results:-Records:*Highest team...

 series against Singapore. He then played against Thailand and the Maldives in that year's ACC Trophy

ACC Trophy

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 before his first appearance 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.

The following year, he played for Malaysia against the ECB National Academy

ECB National Academy

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 and in the Stan Nagaiah Trophy series. He played twice for a Malaysia Cricket Association President's XI against England A in 2004, making his first-class

First-class cricket

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 debut the same year when he played against Nepal in the ICC Intercontinental Cup

ICC Intercontinental Cup

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.

He then spent almost three years out of the Malaysian side before returning for an ACC Premier League

ACC Premier League

The ACC Premier League, previously known as the ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament was a cricket tournament run by the Asian Cricket Council that was contested by Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates...

 match against the UAE in March 2007. He most recently represented his country in the 2007 Saudara Cup match.