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Full name | Sitanshu Hargovindbhai Kotak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Rajkot, India | 19 October 1972||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1992–2012 | Saurashtra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,24 November 2014 |
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