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Kieran Powell - ketchim - 11-26-2018
HAS never gotten over that episode with Richard Pybus.
and the gangsters that were after him in the Islands...
dats all I have to say !
Kieron Powell - ketchim - 11-26-2018
https://www.news18.com/cricketnext/news/kieran-powell-says-authorities-scuppered-his-return-to-cricket-735025.html
Goes back to 2014 :angry:
Powell said that in his subsequent conversation with Pybus, he was accused of "walking off the job"
and was told that he needed to return to grassroots cricket in order to make his way back into the regional squad.
"During my conversation with Pybus, he stated that he had made numerous attempts to contact me but had been unsuccessful,"
Kieron Powell - ketchim - 11-26-2018
"Pybus insisted that I write a letter to him outlining my plans to return to cricket.
He also pressed me to divulge details of my personal issue which I did not wish to discuss.
He then went on to imply, in my opinion, that my future position in the squad would be compromised
if I was not willing to disclose this information, which I felt was coercive, intrusive and unjust."
Kieran Powell and Garfield Robinson First Post - ketchim - 11-26-2018
ketchim post=366941 Wrote:and the gangsters that were after him in the Islands...
pos Wrote:He also pressed me to divulge details of my personal issue which I did not wish to discuss.I thought EVERYONE knew this
Powell was then banished to Sri Lanka where Muralitharan helped him into a Club
He then tried out with Baseball
Kieron Powell - ketchim - 11-26-2018
http://www.howstat.com.au/cricket/Statistics/Matches/MatchScorecard.asp?MatchCode=2075
Evidence : Before that Dick Pybus versus this same Bangladesh squad !
Player of Match: K O A Powell 117 and 110
Result: West Indies won by 77 runs
Kieron Powell - ketchim - 11-26-2018
https://cricket.yahoo.net/news/bangladesh-vs-west-indies-batting-103840357
FIRSTPOST Garfield Robinson 26 Nov 2018, 05:38 AM
Garfield, I wish you would remind sports fans but "hard to fathom" is disingenuous.
Foreign Coach Richard Pybus destroyed Kieran Powell :
WE both know that ....
Kieran Powell - ketchim - 11-26-2018
Take Kieran Powell, for example. The tall left-hander recklessly ran down the wicket at a flighted delivery
the 16th of the innings as well as the first he faced. Aiming a big hit over mid-wicket, he was expecting turn
from a ball that continued in a straight line. He missed, and was out stumped, embarrassingly.
He was the first batsman in Test history to be stumped off the first ball he received.
Powell's carelessness was hard to fathom. One can understand the batsman's desire to wrest the upper hand early
against bowling he knew would be difficult in the conditions. But surely he could have tried to assess the level
of the threat before premeditatedly advancing down the wicket as he did. It is hard to recall a more wasteful effort.
Kieran Powell - ketchim - 11-26-2018
Chairman, what is Garfield name/handle on this Board ?
he does not post anymore ?
Kieran Powell - chairman - 11-26-2018
he hasnt in a long time
Kieran Powell - ketchim - 11-27-2018
I don't think Powell should be given any further opportunities!
no malice and without prejudice.
Just runs as an opener and mental fortitude !
Recall how we all said Sarwan was mentally weak to deal with Hilaire and Opisss ??