Date of birth | 9 March 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Maharashtra, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 84 kg (13 st 3 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nasser Hussain (born 9 March 1980) is the former Indian rugby union player and the former captain of the Indian National Rugby Union Team.[1][2] He plays for the Bombay Gymkhana Club in Mumbai, India, and has also played abroad for Tynedale R.F.C. & Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His international debut was on 26 October 1998 in Singapore against the host country. He is nicknamed as El-Nino. As of 2008, he has 26 test caps and has scored 16 tries for his country.[3][4]