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Full name Ramesh Rajaram Powar
Born May 20, 1978, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Current age 30 years 141 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
Relations Brother - KR Powar
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
2
2
0
13
7
6.50
18
72.22
0
0
2
0
0
0
ODIs
31
19
5
163
54
11.64
260
62.69
0
1
12
2
3
0
First-class
90
113
15
2991
131
30.52
5
15
39
0
List A
107
75
16
1045
80*
17.71
0
4
23
0
Twenty20
6
2
1
33
28*
33.00
27
122.22
0
0
5
1
2
0
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
90
18614
8797
311
7/44
28.28
2.83
59.8
17
2
List A
107
5271
4156
133
5/53
5/53
31.24
4.73
39.6
3
1
0
Twenty20
6
6
96
126
4
2/22
2/22
31.50
7.87
24.0
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
England Lions v West Zone at Vadodara, Feb 11-14, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2000/01
Last List A
Bengal v Mumbai at Visakhapatnam, Apr 7, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Tamil Nadu v Mumbai at Ahmedabad, Apr 16, 2007 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Chennai Super Kings v Kings XI Punjab at Mumbai, May 31, 2008 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
