
Arshdeep Singh
Indian cricketer
Date of Birth | : | 05 February, 1999 (Age 26) |
Place of Birth | : | Guna, India |
Profession | : | Cricket Player |
Nationality | : | Indian |
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Arshdeep Singh (আর্শদীপ সিং) is an Indian professional cricketer who plays for the India national cricket team. In Indian domestic cricket, he plays for Punjab and for Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League. Arshdeep is a left-arm medium-fast bowler. He was an integral member of the Indian team that won the 2024 T20 World Cup, and was the joint-highest wicket taker of the tournament. Singh was also a member of the 2025 Champions Trophy and 2018 U19 World Cup winning squads.
Arshdeep made his international debut for the Indian team in July 2022 in a T20I match against England. He bowled a maiden over on debut, becoming just the third Indian bowler to do so on their T20I debut. Arshdeep is the first Indian bowler to take 100 wickets in T20 internationals.
Early life
Arshdeep Singh was born on 5 February 1999 in Guna, Madhya Pradesh, in a Punjabi Jatt Sikh family to Darshan Singh and Baljit Kaur. His father was posted to Guna as a member of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) where he worked for more than 25 years. The family later moved to Kharar near Chandigarh. He used to bicycle 13 kilometres from his home to his school, Guru Nanak Public School, Sector 36, Chandigarh for practice. He started playing gully cricket with neighborhood boys and in 2015 joined Jaswant Rai's cricket academy in Chandigarh. He has an elder brother, Akashdeep Singh, who resides in Brampton and a sister, Gurleen Kaur.
Domestic career
In junior cricket, Arshdeep played in the Katoch Shield tournament. He was part of the Indian under 19 team which won 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup and went on to play for the under-23 national side.
In 2018, he played for Punjab's under-23 cricket team in the CK Nayudu Trophy. Playing against Rajasthan under-23s, he took eight wickets, including a hat-trick, in Rajasthan's second inning and 10 wickets in the match. Arshdeep went on to make his List A debut for Punjab in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 19 September 2018 and in January 2019 made his first-class debut against Vidarbha in the 2019–20 Ranji Trophy.
International career
In June 2021, he was named as one of five net bowlers for India's tour of Sri Lanka. Following a positive case of COVID-19 in the Indian team, he was added to India's main squad for their final two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches of the tour.
In May 2022, he was named in India's T20I squad for their series against South Africa and following month was named in the T20I squad for India's two-match series against Ireland.
In June 2022, Arshdeep was named in India's One Day International (ODI) and T20I squads for their tour of England. In July 2022, he was again named in India's ODI squad, this time for their away series against the West Indies. He made his T20I debut on 7 July 2022, playing against England at Southampton, taking the final two England wickets and bowling a rare maiden over on debut.
He took seven wickets and was Player of the Series in five T20I matches played against West Indies in 2022, and on 8 August 2022 was named in India's squad for the 2022 Asia Cup. In September 2022, he was named in India's squad for the series against South Africa, going on to take five wickets in two T20Is. In a Player of the Match performance during the first T20I against South Africa, Arshdeep took three wickets in his first over, including the wicket of David Miller, whom he clean bowled first ball with a sharp, late inswinger.
Playing style
Arshdeep has received praise from former India cricketers Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar. Tendulkar commended Arshdeep for being balanced, committed, and having the right mindset for T20 cricket. He stated, "What I really like is that if Arshdeep has a plan, he commits to it and that is really, really important in this format as batters are going out and playing those extra shots and some innovative ones. So if you have a plan, commit to it."
Gavaskar praised Arshdeep’s ability to swing the ball and his temperament, comparing him to Jasprit Bumrah, and said, "I do believe that he, like Bumrah, can be a very, very good bowler in red-ball cricket as well. Because if he can move the white ball so well, just imagine what he can do with the red ball. So I think the selection committee would do very well to look at him as an option for the red-ball game as well."
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