Ricardo Powell

{{short description|Jamaican cricketer (born 1978)}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Ricardo Powell | image = Ricardo Lloyd Powell.jpg | fullname = Ricardo Lloyd Powell | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1978|12|16}} | birth_place = [[St Elizabeth, Jamaica]] | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm offbreak | role = Batsman

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| column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]

| column2 = [[One Day International|ODI]]

| column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]

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| catches/stumpings4 = 69/– | source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/52681.html | date = 26 June | year = 2016 | medaltemplates =  {{MedalSport|Men's [[Cricket]]}} {{MedalCountry|{{cr|WIN}}}} {{MedalCompetition|[[ICC Champions Trophy]]}} {{Medal|W|[[2004 ICC Champions Trophy|2004 England]]|}} }}

'''Ricardo Lloyd Powell''' (born 16 December 1978) is a former [[Jamaica]]n [[cricket]]er who played for West Indies at international level. He represented [[Jamaica national cricket team]] as well as [[Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team]] from 1997 to 2005. Powell was a member of the West Indies team that won the [[2004 ICC Champions Trophy]].

== Domestic career ==

Powell was 19 when he made his [[first-class cricket|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 [[Saint George Parish, Antigua and Barbuda|Coolidge]], [[Antigua]] when [[Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team]] played against [[Cayman Islands national cricket team]] in [[Stanford 20/20]].<ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/stanford/content/story/253679.html Powell boost for Trinidad and Tobago]</ref><ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/story/137403.html Powell to make Trinidad & Tobago debut]</ref>

== International career ==

He was the youngest [[West Indian cricket team|West Indian]] to score an [[One Day International|ODI]] [[century (cricket)|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.

He also hit seven sixes in another ODI against [[India cricket team]] at [[Toronto]] that same year. In total, he hit 75 sixes in 100 ODI innings, a ratio equal to that of [[Viv Richards]]. Such stunning performances from the 20-year-old led to comparisons with the great [[Viv Richards]] 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.<ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/92905.html Why Sarwan, Gayle & Co. were not in Kenya]</ref>

He played 109 One Day matches for the [[West Indies cricket team]] and 2 Tests matches in his career against [[New Zealand cricket team]] in 1999<ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63868.html st Test: New Zealand v West Indies at Hamilton, Dec 16–20, 1999]</ref> and [[England cricket team]] in 2004 in which [[Brian Lara]] became first batsman to score 400 runs in [[Test cricket]].<ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/64080.html 4th Test: West Indies v England at St John's, Apr 10–14, 2004]</ref>

== US career ==

He played the game professionally and resides in the [[United States]] where he played cricket with the [[Indian Lions Cricket Club]] and worked as a Cricket Analyst with [[ESPN]] from 2012-2014.

In June 2016, Powell was named as new chairman of USA selection panel. The panel includes [[Asif Mujtaba]], [[Michael Voss (cricketer)|Michael Voss]], [[Amer Afzaluddin]] and [[Barney Jones]]. His first assignment is to select USA senior men's for [[ICC World Cricket League Division Four]] which will be hosted [[Los Angeles]] as well as Under-17 squads.<ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/usa/content/story/1029291.html?CMP=chrome Powell to chair new USA selection panel]</ref><ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/usa/content/story/1008749.html ICC announces four national advisory groups to implement US strategy]</ref> In June 2021, he was selected to take part in the [[Major League Cricket#Minor League Cricket|Minor League Cricket]] tournament in the United States following the players' draft.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usacricket.org/media-release/all-27-teams-complete-initial-roster-selection-following-minor-league-cricket-draft/ |title=All 27 Teams Complete Initial Roster Selection Following Minor League Cricket Draft |work=USA Cricket |date=10 June 2021 |access-date=11 June 2021}}</ref>

== Personal life == He is married to [[Caribbean]] TV talk show host Alicia Powell.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ricardo and Alicia Powell take Basia to TV |url=http://mobile.jamaicagleaner.com/20090525/flair/flair1.php |access-date=30 April 2026 |work=Jamaica Gleaner |date=25 May 2009}}</ref>

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