[1] A right-handed batsman and off spin bowler,[2] he played for the Malaysia national cricket team between 1996 and 2002.
[3] Born in Port Dickson in 1974,[2] Jeevandran Nair first played for Malaysia in one match of the 1996 Stan Nagaiah Trophy series against Singapore, also playing in that year's Saudara Cup match.
[4] He made his List A debut in March 1998,[5] after playing in that year's Stan Nagaiah Trophy series,[3] playing three matches in the Wills Cup, a Pakistani domestic one-day competition.
[5] He played in his second, and final, Saudara Cup match in August[3] before representing Malaysia in the cricket tournament at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, hosted in Kuala Lumpur, where he played against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
[5] Following the Commonwealth Games he played in the 1998 ACC Trophy in Nepal, before spending almost four years out of the Malaysian national side.