Mandeep Singh

Mandeep Singh (born 18 December 1991) is an Indian cricketer. He plays for Punjab in the top-flight of Indian cricket. A right-hand batsman who also occasionally bowls right arm medium pace, Mandeep has also played for India Blue, and North Zone and for teams in the Indian Premier League. He was the vice-captain of the India under-19 cricket team for the 2010 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup.

On 18 July 2012, he was included in 30 probables for the World T20 tournament to be played in Sri Lanka in September 2012. However, he was not selected in the final 15-member squad.

He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club on 18 June 2016.

Mandeep Singh
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Mandeep during the 2019–20 Vijay Hazare Trophy
Personal information
Born 18 December 1991 (age 31)[1]
Jalandhar, Punjab, India
Nickname Mandy[2]
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Right-arm medium
Role All-rounder
International information
National side
  • India
T20I debut (cap 62) 18 June 2016 v Zimbabwe
Last T20I 22 June 2016 v Zimbabwe
T20I shirt no. 23
Domestic team information
Years Team
2010–present Punjab
2010,2023 Kolkata Knight Riders
2011–2014,2019-2021 Kings XI Punjab (squad no. 23)
2015–2018 Royal Challengers Bangalore (squad no. 9)
2022 Delhi Capitals
Career statistics
Competition T20I FC LA T20
Matches 3 92 120 195
Runs scored 87 6,232 3,616 3,724
Batting average 43.50 49.07 37.27 28.21
100s/50s 0/1 15/33 4/26 0/18
Top score 52* 235 119 99*
Balls bowled 646 495 303
Wickets 1 14 16
Bowling average 342.00 32.71 21.06
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 1/13 2/3 3/21
Catches/stumpings 1/– 71/– 56/– 74/–
Source: Cricinfo, 4 February 2023

Domestic career

Mandeep plays for Punjab in Ranji Trophy & Vijay Hazare Trophy and for North Zone in Zonal Tournament.

In the 2012 season of IPL, Mandeep scored 432 runs from 16 matches, including two half-centuries, and ended the tournament as Kings XI Punjab’s leading run-scorer. He was also adjudged the winner of “Rising Star of the tournament Award”.

He was the highest run scorer in 2015 Vijay Hazare Trophy. On the back of his form in the tournament, he was selected for 2015 tour of Zimbabwe.

In January 2018, he was bought by the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2018 IPL auction. In 2019, he was again bought by Kings XI Punjab and he was retained by the team for IPL 2021 after recently concluded IPL 2020. In February 2022, he was bought by the Delhi Capitals in the auction for the 2022 Indian Premier League tournament.

He was one of the most consistent run scorers in latest editions of Ranji Trophy after missing 2017–18 season. He scored 602 runs in 2018–19, 696 runs in 2019–20, 376 runs in 2021–22 and 463 runs in 2022–23. He averaged more than 50 in each year with cumulative average of 64.76 in this period. Despite this golden patch in his peak age, he was never called up to India national cricket team or called back to India A cricket team.

Personal life

Mandeep Singh’s father was an athletics coach in Jalandhar. He was initially not happy with his son’s cricketing ambition but was later satisfied when saw his son’s cricketing potential. He married Jagdeep Jaswal in 2016. Their son Rajveer Singh was born on 16 January 2021.