27 Facts About Ravi Rampaul

Ravindranath Rampaul was born on 15 October 1984 and is a Trinidadian cricketer who plays as a pace bowler.

Ravi Rampaul was a notable member of the Windies side that won the 2012 T20 World Cup.

Ravi Rampaul played youth cricket for West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago, playing at the World Under-15 Challenge in England in 2000, 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.

Ravi Rampaul went wicketless in his first game, sending down 13 no-balls in 30 overs, and was not selected for either of the two Test matches.

However, after taking two wickets, including opener Dion Ebrahim, in the one-day warm-up match against Zimbabwe A, Ravi Rampaul played in four of the five ODIs.

Ravi Rampaul went to the South 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 against Free State.

Ravi Rampaul played all three tour games, but was left out of the Test matches.

Ravi Rampaul picked up the wicket of Jacques Kallis for 16, and contributed 24 runs, as West Indies lost by 16 runs.

Ravi Rampaul removed Kallis again in the final ODI, when West Indies nearly leveled the 5-match series to 2 games apiece.

Ravi Rampaul was selected in a 13-man squad to play the first home Test against Bangladesh, but was not selected to play, and one month later, he was struck with injury.

Ravi Rampaul had played three matches during the 2004 NatWest Series.

Ravi Rampaul later picked up two wickets, Geraint Jones and Andrew Strauss, for 34 in a seven-wicket win over England.

However, Ravi Rampaul sustained a leg injury, and did not play any games during the first-class Carib Beer Series, which his team won.

In July 2006, Ravi Rampaul was awarded a cricket scholarship by the Australian High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago, and attended coaching sessions in Australia.

Ravi Rampaul became Ireland's overseas player for the 2008 Friends Provident Trophy.

Ravi Rampaul helped them win their first FP Trophy game for two years against Warwickshire.

Osman Samiuddin remarked that during the Tests Ravi 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".

Ravi Rampaul was the West Indies leading wicket-taker in the two test series, with eleven dismissals at an average of 20.90.

Ravi 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.

Ravi Rampaul eventually earned ten wickets in the three-match test series at an average of 24.90.

Ravi Rampaul began club cricket towards the end of the month and hoped to represent Trinidad and Tobago to prove his fitness to the national selectors.

At last Ravi Rampaul was included in the team for the third and final Test after an injury to fellow fast bowler Fidel Edwards.

In September 2021, Ravi Rampaul was named in the West Indies' squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.

Ravi Rampaul was a member of the Surrey side which reached the final of the 2017 Royal London One Day Cup.

In October 2017, Ravi Rampaul joined Derbyshire, in a three-year deal.

In 2004, at the age of 19, Ravi Rampaul was regularly bowling in excess of 81 miles per hour and by 2011 the usual pace of his deliveries was pushing 90 miles per hour.

Ravi Rampaul is well known for his swing bowling, in the words of ESPNcricinfo's Daniel Brettig, "Sending the ball down at brisk pace, Ravi Rampaul maintains an immaculate seam position, maximising his chances of early deviation through the air or off the pitch".