Navdeep Singh Poonia (born 11 May 1986) is a Scottish
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
player. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler. He has played
One Day Internationals for
Scotland
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, and was selected for his country for the
2007 Cricket World Cup
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. He has also played for
Warwickshire
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in English county cricket. He currently plays for
Pelsall Cricket Club
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in the West Midlands.
In the
2008 ICC World T20 Qualifier against
Bermuda
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, Navdeep Poonia played the patient innings of unbeaten 38 off 54 balls without hitting even a single boundary or a six, which is also the longest ever T20I innings by any player without hitting a single six or a boundary. He's also the only player to record a 30+ score in T20I history without scoring a boundary or a six.
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Cricket Archive profile
Living people
1986 births
Scotland One Day International cricketers
Scottish cricketers
Scotland Twenty20 International cricketers
Warwickshire cricketers
Warwickshire Cricket Board cricketers
Staffordshire cricketers
Cricketers from Glasgow
Scottish people of Indian descent
British Asian cricketers
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