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Full name | Ricardo Lloyd Powell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
St Elizabeth, Jamaica |
16 December 1978 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm offbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National side |
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Test debut (cap 231) | 16 December 1999 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 10 April 2004 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 94) | 16 May 1999 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 7 August 2005 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 34 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1997–2003 | Jamaica (squad no. 34) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003–2006 | Trinidad & Tobago (squad no. 34) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: [1], 26 June 2016
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Ricardo Lloyd Powell (born December 16, 1978 in St Elizabeth, Jamaica) is former Jamaican cricketer who played for West Indies in international level. He represented Jamaica national cricket team as well as Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team from 1997 to 2005.
He is widely regarded by many West Indian greats including Michael Holding as a wasted talent. Curiously, he has been known to perform much better against India national cricket team than any other international team, a trait he shares with others such as Aaqib Javed.
Powell was 19 when he made his first-class debut in the 1996–96 season and followed it up with a List A debut in the following year in 1998–99 season.
Powell moved from Jamaica in 2003 to his wife's native country of Trinidad. Powell took a hiatus from the game after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. He made his Twenty20 debut at Stanford Cricket Ground in Coolidge, Antigua when Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team played against Cayman Islands national cricket team in Stanford 20/20.
He was the youngest West Indian to score an ODI century. He made 2,000 ODI runs at a strike rate of 96.66, which is the highest strike rate of a West Indian player with more than 1000 ODI runs and he also emulated Gordon Greenidge by hitting 8 sixes in an ODI innings against India cricket team in 1999 at Singapore which was a West Indian ODI record.