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| Full name | Ravindranath Rampaul | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1984-10-15)15 October 1984 (age 41) Preysal,Trinidad and Tobago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right armfast medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 282) | 26 November 2009 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 13 November 2012 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 118) | 22 November 2003 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 7 November 2015 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 13) | 28 June 2007 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 4 November 2021 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I shirt no. | 14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2017 | Trinidad and Tobago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2017 | Barbados Tridents | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Derbyshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Trinbago Knight Riders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Colombo Stars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ravindranath Rampaul (born 15 October 1984) is a formerTrinidadiancricketer who plays as a pace bowler. He's played for theWest Indies,Trinidad and Tobago andIPL sideRoyal Challengers Bangalore. Rampaul has also featured forCPL outfitsBarbados Tridents andTrinbago Knight Riders along with EnglishCounty cricket teamsSurrey andDerbyshire. Rampaul was a notable member of the Windies side that won the2012 T20 World Cup.
Rampaul played youth cricket for West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago, playing at the World Under-15 Challenge in England in2000, and at the 2002 Under-19 World Cup, before breaking the record wicket tally in the regional youth tournament in West Indies after taking 45 wickets in five matches during the 2002 tournament. The following season, he took 27 wickets, as Trinidad and Tobago won their first youth title since 1987. By that time, however, he had also made his first-class debut, playing threeBusta Cup matches for Trinidad and Tobago during the2001–02 season and taking six wickets.[1]
After playing six further matches during the2002–03 season, and taking 18 wickets, with onlyMarlon Black taking more forTrinidad and Tobago that season,[2] Rampaul was selected forWest Indies Under-19s in the2003–04 Red Stripe Bowlone-day tournament. Rampaul was leading wicket-taker for the U-19 team, as his eight wickets was double that of any other,[3] and after the tournament completed, Rampaul was called up to represent West Indies in theirtour of Zimbabwe in October and November.[4]
Rampaul went wicketless in his first game, sending down 13 no-balls in 30 overs,[5] and was not selected for either of the two Test matches. However, after taking two wickets, including openerDion Ebrahim, in the one-day warm-up match againstZimbabwe A,[6] Rampaul played in four of the five ODIs. He failed to take a wicket in the series, which West Indies eventually claimed 3–2 with a win in the final game, and Rampaul was the most expensive West Indian bowler among those bowling more than four overs per game,[7]
Rampaul also went to theSouth African leg of the tour, and recorded his first five-wicket-haul in first-class cricket, taking five of the first six wickets in a tour match againstFree State. They were 86 for six after West Indies had posted 618, and Rampaul ended with figures of five for 55.[8] Rampaul played all three tour games, but once again was left out of the Test matches. After "impressing" in a one-day tour match againstSouth Africa A,[9] he was left out of the team for the first ODI, but replacedVasbert Drakes for the second match. Rampaul picked up the wicket ofJacques Kallis for 16, and contributed 24 runs, as West Indies lost by 16 runs. He removed Kallis again in the final ODI, when West Indies nearly leveled the 5-match series to 2 games apiece. Kallis though, in scoring 135, helped the South Africans to a 3-2 series triumph. Rampaul's figures of 2-56 from his 10 overs, was lauded as a "marvellous late effort"[10]
After once again playing in the Under-19 World Cup, taking nine wickets as West Indies reached the final but ultimately lost toPakistan, Rampaul played in all five ODIs againstEngland at home, taking four wickets but once again being the most expensive of the regular bowlers.[11] Between 1 October 1998 and 14 July 2006 onlyTino Best conceded morewides andno-balls per ten overs in ODIs for the West Indies.[12]
Rampaul was selected in a 13-man squad to play the first home Test againstBangladesh,[13] but was not selected to play, and one month later, he was struck with injury. He had played three matches during the2004NatWest Series. He later picked up two wickets,Geraint Jones andAndrew Strauss, for 34 in a seven-wicket win overEngland.[14] However due to a shin injury he took no further part in the series, and flew home before the Test matches.[15]
Rampaul returned to cricket when he turned up in Trinidad league cricket in February 2005,[16] and represented Trinidad and Tobago again during the2005–06 KFC Cup in October, where he played four matches and was Trinidad and Tobago's leading wicket-taker along withSamuel Badree.[17] However, Rampaul sustained a leg injury,[18] and did not play any games during thefirst-class Carib Beer Series, which his team won.
In July 2006, Rampaul was awarded a cricket scholarship by the AustralianHigh Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago, and attended coaching sessions in Australia.[19]
Rampaul becameIreland's overseas player for the2008 Friends Provident Trophy.[20] He helped them win their first FP Trophy game for two years againstWarwickshire.[21] In six matches for Ireland Rampaul took 10 wickets at an average of 28.70, with best bowling figures of 3/40.[22][23]
Pakistantoured the West Indies in April and May 2011 for a T20I, five ODIs, and two Tests. Osman Samiuddin remarked that during the Tests Rampaul "ran in precisely with the enthusiasm of a man unable to believe how his career has suddenly soared, racing in so the dream doesn't suddenly end".[24] Rampaul was the West Indies leading wicket-taker in the two test series, with eleven dismissals at an average of 20.90.[25] India began atour of the West Indies in June. Rampaul was fined 10 per cent of his match fee for the first Test for questioning the umpire's decision when he was given out.[26] He eventually earned ten wickets in the three-match test series at an average of 24.90.[27]
A shoulder injury in March prevented Rampaul from playing domestic cricket for Trinidad and Tobago;[28] a bout ofdengue fever the same month prevented him from playing in the ODI series against Australia.[29] He began club cricket towards the end of the month and hoped to represent Trinidad and Tobago to prove his fitness to the national selectors.[30] At last Rampaul was included in the team for the third and final Test after an injury to fellow fast bowlerFidel Edwards.[31]
In September 2021, Rampaul was named in the West Indies' squad for the2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[32]
During March 2016 Rampaul signed a two-year contract to play forSurrey County Cricket. On his debut for the side, he picked up 5 for 93, atTrent Bridge against Nottinghamshire in theEnglish County Championship. Rampaul was a member of the Surrey side which reached the final of the2017 Royal London One Day Cup. In October 2017, Rampaul joinedDerbyshire, in a three-year deal.[33][34][35]
In 2004, at the age of 19, Rampaul was regularly bowling in excess of 81 miles per hour (130 km/h)[36] and by 2011 the usual pace of his deliveries was pushing 90 miles per hour (145 km/h).[37] Rampaul is well known for hisswing bowling, in the words ofESPNcricinfo's Daniel Brettig, "Sending the ball down at brisk pace, Rampaul maintains an immaculate seam position, maximising his chances of early deviation through the air or off the pitch".[38]
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