Delhi Capitals blistering all-rounder Rovaman Powell won his side match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday by stitching an important partnership with opener David Warner. Earlier this year, Powell scored his maiden T20 international hundred against England in January before being picked by DC for Rs 2.8 crore at the IPL 2022 mega auction in February.

Powell had been explosive coming in down the order with a strike-rate of over 162 in IPL 2022 so far. The Jamaican all-rounder almost lifted his side to a win against Rajasthan Royals needing 36 to win in the final over. But Powell has a shocking past as well.

According to ESPNCricinfo website, Powell has never met his father, who wanted the all-rounder’s mother to undergo an abortion when she was pregnant with Powell. His mother Joan raised him and his sister in a run-down, two-room house in Bannister District near Old Harbour in Jamaica.

“Adjectives are inadequate in describing my mother,” he told the Caribbean Premier League’s ‘Life Stories’ series in 2020. “Whenever I’m down, whenever I’m faced with tough challenges, I just decide that ‘listen, I’m not doing it for myself… I’m doing it for her, I’m doing it for my sister. I’m doing it for the ones I love, just so they can live a better life than I lived when I was a child.”

Powell had earlier revealed that he was confident about hitting six sixes in the final over against the Royals before the controversial delivery where DC skipper Rishabh Pant wanted the players to come off the field after a waist-high ball from Obed McCoy wasn’t called a no-ball.

“To be honest, I was pretty confident (at hitting six sixes in an over). After I got the first two, I was like what can happen from here, and then I got the next one. I was just hoping that it was a no-ball, but the umpire’s decision is final, and we as cricketers take that and move on,” Powell had said.

In February 2017, he was bought by the Kolkata Knight Riders team for the 2017 Indian Premier League for 30 lakhs. In October 2018, he was named in the squad for the Dhaka Dynamites team, following the draft for the 2018–19 Bangladesh Premier League.[14] In July 2020, he was named in the Jamaica Tallawahs squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League. In April 2021, he was signed by Peshawar Zalmi to play in the rescheduled matches in the 2021 Pakistan Super League.[17] In November 2021, he was selected to play for the Kandy Warriors following the players' draft for the 2021 Lanka Premier League.

He made his One Day International (ODI) debut in the second match of the tri-series, against Sri Lanka.[20] 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.[22] Following the conclusion of the Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament, the ICC named Powell as the rising star of the West Indies' squad

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