Ricardo Lloyd Powell (born 16 December 1978) is a former

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er who played for West Indies at international level. He represented

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as well as

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from 1997 to 2005. Powell was a member of the West Indies team that won the

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Domestic career

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

in 2003 to his wife's native country of

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. Powell took a hiatus from the game after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. He made his

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debut at

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in Coolidge,

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when

played against Cayman Islands national cricket team in Stanford 20/20.

International career

He was the youngest

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to score an ODI

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. He made 2,000 ODI runs at a

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of 96.66, which is the highest strike rate of a West Indian player with more than 1000 ODI runs and he also emulated

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by hitting 8 sixes in an ODI innings against

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in 1999 at

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which was a West Indian ODI record. He also hit seven sixes in another ODI against

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that same year. In total, he hit 75 sixes in 100 ODI innings, a ratio equal to that of

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. Such stunning performances from the 20-year-old led to comparisons with the great

but for some reason the selectors seemed to pigeon-hole him as a One Day player, and he found himself in and out of the side, and being shunted up and down the batting order. He played 109 One Day matches for the

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and 2 Tests matches in his career against

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in 1999 and

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in 2004 in which

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became first batsman to score 400 runs in

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US career

He played the game professionally and resides in the

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where he played cricket with the

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and works as a Cricket Analyst with

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. In June 2016, Powell was named as new chairman of USA selection panel. The panel includes

Asif Mujtaba Mohammad Asif Mujtaba (Urdu: آصف مجتبیٰ, born 4 November 1967) is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer who played in 25 Test matches and 66 One Day Internationals from 1986 to 1997. During the, 1994–95 period he briefly ser ...

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, Amer Afzaluddin and

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. His first assignment is to select USA senior men's for

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which will be hosted

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as well as Under-17 squads. In June 2021, he was selected to take part in the

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tournament in the United States following the players' draft.

Personal life

He is married to

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TV Talk show host, blogger and international chef Alicia Basila Powell. The couple have three children, daughter, Ricole Powell, and two sons, Ricardo Powell Jr and Ross Powell. They all now reside in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States of America

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Powell, Ricardo 1978 births Living people Jamaican cricketers West Indies One Day International cricketers West Indies Test cricketers Trinidad and Tobago cricketers Jamaica cricketers Jamaican cricket coaches People from Saint Elizabeth Parish