Ramesh Powar

Ramesh Powar

India

Full name Ramesh Rajaram Powar
Born May 20, 1978, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Current age 28 years 284 days
Major teams India, Indian Board President's XI, Mumbai, Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI, Reebok XI
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
ODIs	18	11	4	117	54	16.71	182	64.28	0	1	10	1	1	0
First-class	76	96	13	2652	131	31.95			4	14			35	0
List A	79	55	15	770	80*	19.25			0	3			17	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
ODIs	18	868	663	24	3/24	3/24	27.62	4.58	36.16	0	0	0
First-class	76	15624	7262	271	7/44		26.79	2.78	57.65		15	2
List A	79	3799	2974	103	5/53	5/53	28.87	4.69	36.88	3	1	0

Career statistics
ODI debut	Pakistan v India at Rawalpindi - Mar 16, 2004
Last ODI	India v West Indies at Chennai - Jan 27, 2007
First-class span	1999/00 - 2006/07
List A span	2000/01 - 2006/07

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.