Rovman Powell

Rovman Powell muscling a slog sweep against India in 2019

**Rovman Powell** is a Jamaican cricketer who captains the West Indies in Twenty20 International cricket. In December 2018, he first captained the West Indies in a One-Day International against Bangladesh.

## Domestic and Franchise Career

Powell made his List A debut in January 2015, playing for the Combined Campuses against Guyana in the 2014–15 Regional Super50. He took 3/20 and scored 31 runs on debut and was named man of the match. Powell made his first-class debut in the 2015–16 Regional Four Day Competition, playing for Jamaica against Guyana. For the 2015–16 Regional Super50, he returned to the Combined Campuses. In his team's final two matches, he scored twin half-centuries, 71 against the Windward Islands and 63 not out against Guyana. He played a key role in Jamaica's march to the final of the 2016-17 Regional Super50. In the semi-final against Trinidad and Tobago, he smashed 95 runs from 45 balls (including 9 sixes and 6 fours), before taking 5-36; these were both career-best List A performances, leading to him being named man-of-the-match. He was then selected by the Jamaica Tallawahs in the 6th round of the 2017 CPL player draft and the Kolkata Knight Riders in the 2017 Indian Premier League auction.

In October 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) awarded him a white-ball contract for the 2018–19 season and was also named for the Dhaka Dynamites team for the 2018-19 Bangladesh Premier League. In October 2019, he was named as the captain of Jamaica's squad for the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament. He was the leading run-scorer for Jamaica in the tournament, with 412 runs in eight matches. In 2020, Powell was named as captain for the Jamaica Tallawahs. In 2022, Powell was bought by the Delhi Capitals for the 2022 Indian Premier League. In 2023, he was traded from the Jamaican franchise to the Barbados Royals for Hayden Walsh Jr..

### Domestic Teams

* Combined Campuses and Colleges (Regional Super50) = 2015-16
* Jamaica Scorpions (Regional Four Day Competition) = 2015-present
* Jamaica Tallawahs (Caribbean Premier League) = 2016-2022
* Comilla Victorians (Bangladesh Premier League) = 2016
* Kolkata Knight Riders (Indian Premier League) = 2017-19
* Dhaka Dynamites (Bangladesh Premier League) = 2017-18
* Peshwar Zalmi (Pakistan Super League) = 2021; 2023-present
* Kandy Warriors (Lanka Premier League) = 2021
* Multan Sultans (Pakistan Super League) = 2022
* Delhi Capitals (Indian Premier League) = 2022-present
* Dubai Capitals (International League T20) = 2023
* Barbados Royals (Caribbean Premier League) = 2023

## International Career

He made his One Day International (ODI) debut in the second match of the tri-series, against Sri Lanka. He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for the West Indies against Pakistan on 26 March 2017. In February 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) named Powell as one of the ten players to watch ahead of the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament. Following the conclusion of the Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament, the ICC named Powell as the rising star of the West Indies' squad after scoring his maiden One Day International hundred however he was left out the 2019 Cricket World Cup Squad. When the West Indies toured Bangladesh in December 2018, he was named as captain of the ODI squad of West Indies. In January 2022, in the third match against England, Powell scored his first century in T20I cricket, with 107 runs from 53 balls. On March 25, 2023, he made his first appearance as T20I captain following Nicholas Pooran.