Mike Powell (cricketer, born 1975)

Powell playing against Cambridge UCCE, April 2006

Michael James Powell (born 5 April 1975 in Bolton) is an English cricketer and coach who played for and captained Warwickshire County Cricket Club. He also played for Griqualand West in South Africa in the 2001–02 season, and three matches for Otago in New Zealand in the 2005–06 season.

He captained Warwickshire from 2001 to 2003. In the 2001 season, the team were promoted from Division Two to Division One of the County Championship, and in the 2002 season they finished as runners-up in Division One, as well as winning the Benson & Hedges Cup Final at Lord's.

Currently Powell coaches cricket at Loretto School, where he is also Assistant Housemaster for Seton house.[1]

Powell was awarded a Benefit Year in 2008[2] but did not have his contract renewed at the end of that season following an appraisal of the playing staff under new coach Ashley Giles [3]

In February 2010 it was announced that Powell would be working with Cricket Scotland as their new High Performance batting coach with a specific remit of developing and improving young Scottish cricketers.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Sport from Loretto School's website. Retrieved 24 April 2007.
  2. ↑ "" Michael Powell Awarded Warwickshire Benefit 22 October 2007.
  3. ↑ http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/cricket/warwickshire-ccc/2008/08/06/michael-powell-first-to-go-as-warwickshire-get-tough-97319-21475883/
  4. ↑ http://www.cricinfo.com/scotland/content/story/447082.html

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