Omari Sheldon Allen (born 19 July 1990) is a West Indian

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 striki ...

er. Allen is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm

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. He was born in

Montserrat Montserrat ( ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, with r ...

. In 2006,

was invited to take part in the 2006 Stanford 20/20, whose matches held official

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status. Allen made a single appearance for Montserrat in their first-round match against

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, with their first-class opponents winning the match by 8 wickets. He wasn't required to bat in Montserrat's total of 115/8, while during Guyana's innings he wasn't called upon to bowl. As of 2009, he was playing minor matches for Montserrat.

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