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Ramesh Powar

India

Full name Ramesh Rajaram Powar

Born May 20, 1978, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra

Current age 31 years 51 days

Major teams India, India Blue, Indian Board President's XI, Kings XI Punjab, Mumbai, Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI, Reebok XI

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Relation Brother - KR Powar

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	2	2	0	13	7	6.50	18	72.22	0	0	2	0	0
ODIs	31	19	5	163	54	11.64	260	62.69	0	1	12	2	3
First-class	100	127	17	3152	131	28.65			5	15			44
List A	109	77	16	1063	80*	17.42			0	4			23
Twenty20	15	6	4	56	28*	28.00	49	114.28	0	0	7	1	5

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	2	4	252	118	6	3/33	3/36	19.66	2.80	42.0	0	0	0
ODIs	31	29	1536	1191	34	3/24	3/24	35.02	4.65	45.1	0	0	0
First-class	100		20555	9873	355	7/44		27.81	2.88	57.9		20	3
List A	109		5349	4247	133	5/53	5/53	31.93	4.76	40.2	3	1	0
Twenty20	15	14	222	258	9	2/11	2/11	28.66	6.97	24.6	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	Bangladesh v India at Chittagong (CDS), May 18-22, 2007 scorecard
Last Test	Bangladesh v India at Dhaka (SBNS), May 25-27, 2007 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	Pakistan v India at Rawalpindi, Mar 16, 2004 scorecard
Last ODI	India v Australia at Kochi, Oct 2, 2007 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut	1999/00
Last First-class	South Zone v West Zone at Chennai, Feb 5-9, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	2000/01
Last List A	Saurashtra v Mumbai at Rajkot, Feb 18, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Tamil Nadu v Mumbai at Ahmedabad, Apr 16, 2007 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Chennai Super Kings v Kings XI Punjab at Durban, May 20, 2009 scorecard

Profile

A stocky offspinner who is more than handy with the bat, Ramesh Powar has been a consistent performer in domestic cricket for the last four seasons, and was crucial to Mumbai's Ranji Trophy success in the 2002-03 season. His 20 wickets with his flighted stuff was useful enough, but even more crucial was the runs he contributed. He never batted higher than No. 7 - sometimes going in as low as No. 10 - but ended up with the second-highest aggregate for Mumbai in the tournament, scoring 418 runs at more than 46, with most of those runs coming when his team was in strife. His domestic exploits soon caught the selectors' notice, and he made to the Indian squad for the tour to Pakistan. Both his offspin and his batting stood the test in the couple of one-day internationals he played, but even more impressive was his combative attitude, as he bravely tossed the ball up on batting shirtfronts, and didn't bat an eyelid while striking some lusty blows against the pace of Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami. An ideal bits-and-pieces player, Powar returned to the one-day side early in 2006, now armed with a new delivery - a drifter - which helped him to 63 domestic wickets in 2005-06, after 54 the previous season. Again he impressed with both bat and ball, although some critics made disparaging remarks about his waistline, causing him to tempt fate: "I've never missed a game owing to fitness problems." Almost inevitably, he then twisted an ankle and missed the first two ODIs in the West Indies in June 2006.
S Rajesh July 2006

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