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Dipendra Singh Airee is a Nepalese cricketer who has played 52 ODI matches and 45 T20I matches in his career he also remains one of the eleven players to be part of Nepal's first ODI match which happened in August 2018 against the Netherlands.
Dipendra Singh made his List A debut for Nepal in the 2015-17 ICC World Cricket League Championship on 11th March 2017 prior to his List A debut he was part of Nepal's squad in the 2016 Under-19 Cricket WC and he also captained the Nepal side in ACC Under-19 Asia Cup in 2017.
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Nepal U-19 side defeated India U-19 side in the ACC 2017 U-19 Asia Cup with the help of a stunning all-round performance from the skipper Dipendra Singh who scored 88(101) with the bat and picked 4/29 with the ball. The victory was considered to be a huge landmark for their side as India were the defending champions.
Dipendra Singh was named in Nepal's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament in January and later they went on to get ODI status in August when he was seen playing against Netherlands. He made his T20I debut in the Tri-Nation series against the Netherlands at Lord's venue in July 2018.
Dipendra Singh after making his ODI debut against the Netherlands has been included in the squad for the 2018 Asia Cup qualifier tournament, and he also got included in Nepal's squad for the 2018-19 ICC World Twenty20 Asia qualifier tournament. He also played in the ICC Men's T20 WC Asia Region Final which happened in July 2019.
Dipendra Singh later made his FC debut for Nepal against MCC in November 2019 and in the same month he also got the responsibility of being the vice-captain of the Nepal squad for the 2019 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. He was also part of the Nepal team which won a bronze medal in the 2019 South Asian Games.
In September 2020, he was awarded a central contract by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN). As of now in his ODI career, he has one century and three fifties to his name where he has scored 889 runs from 51 innings in this format. He got his only ODI hundred while playing against PNG in March 2022.
In T20Is he has scored 1155 runs from 40 innings at an impressive strike rate of 136.84 with an average of 37.25 currently. He has smashed six fifties and one century in his career. He smashed a century against Malaysia in April 2022 while playing the Tri-Nation T20 series and notably, in the Asian Games 2023 (today) he went on record the fastest-ever fifty from just 9 balls in T20I history.
