Time running out for Powell
Wed, Mar 25, '15
IN normal circumstances, Kieran Powell might have been with the West Indies World Cup team in Australia and New Zealand, as he had been on the tour of New Zealand just over a year earlier.
Applied to West Indies cricket, normal is not an adjective that immediately springs to mind.
An ocean away, the tall, elegant left-handed opener from Nevis, at 26 in the prime of a sportsman’s life, was in Sri Lanka, turning out for the Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club in the Premier League.
According to his father, Carlisle Powell, a former West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) director, it is an arrangement developed out of his friendship with the legendary Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitheran, the Tamil Union’s most illustrious player, and brokered by his manager Emma Everett, who also represents his former teammates Dwayne Bravo and Denesh Ramdin and Sir Richie Richardson, now West Indies team manager.
