Gidron Pope

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Gidron Pope
Personal information
Full nameGidron Dameon Pope
Born (1996-11-24) 24 November 1996 (age 22)
Mount Greenan, Saint Vincent
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm off-spin
Role All-rounder
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2016 Windward Islands
2016 St Lucia Zouks
Source: CricketArchive, 29 March 2016

Gidron Dameon Pope (born 24 November 1996) is a Vincentian cricketer who plays for the Windward Islands and the St Lucia Zouks in West Indian domestic cricket. He plays as an all-rounder, bowling right-arm off-spin and batting left-handed.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Country in the Caribbean

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an multi island Anglo-Caribbean country in the Lesser Antilles island arc, in the southeast Windward Islands, which lies in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean. The sovereign state is also frequently known simply as Saint Vincent.

Windward Islands cricket team

The Windward Islands cricket team is a cricket team representing the member countries of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control. The team plays in the West Indies Professional Cricket League under the franchise name Windward Islands Volcanoes.

St Lucia Zouks T20 franchise based in Saint Lucia

St Lucia Zouks are the representative team of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) of cricket. It is one of the six teams created in 2013 for the inaugural season of the tournament. The Zouks won only 4 games out of 14 in the first two seasons finishing last and second last in the tournament respectively. The 2016 season showed their best record yet, winning 6 out of 10 games and finishing third in the league, the Zouks' highest CPL T20 finish to date.

Pope was a member of the West Indies under-19s team that won the 2016 Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh, appearing in all six of their matches. [1] He scored 232 runs, including 60 against England and 76 against Fiji, and took seven wickets, including 4/24 against Fiji. Among his teammates, only Shamar Springer took more runs and only Alzarri Joseph took more wickets (although Shamar Springer and Keemo Paul took the same number as Pope). [2] In March 2016, Pope was selected to make his first-class debut for the Windward Islands, playing against Jamaica in the 2015–16 Regional Four Day Competition. [3]

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2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup

The 2016 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was an international limited-overs cricket tournament held in Bangladesh from 22 January to 14 February 2016. It was the eleventh edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and the second to be held in Bangladesh, after the 2004 event.

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He made his List A debut for the Windward Islands in the 2018–19 Regional Super50 tournament on 17 October 2018. [4] In October 2019, he was named in the West Indies Emerging Team for the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament. [5]

List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the number of overs in an innings per team ranges from forty to sixty, as well as some international matches involving nations who have not achieved official ODI status. Together with first-class and Twenty20 cricket, List A is one of the three major forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

The 2018–19 Regional Super50 was the 45th edition of the Regional Super50, the domestic limited-overs cricket competition for the countries of the Cricket West Indies (CWI). The tournament started on 3 October 2018. The players' draft for the tournament took place in May 2018. The Windward Islands were the defending champions.

The 2019–20 Regional Super50 is the 46th edition of the Regional Super50, the domestic limited-overs cricket competition for the countries of the Cricket West Indies (CWI). The tournament started on 6 November 2019, with the final scheduled to take place on 1 December 2019. The tournament features the six regular teams of West Indian domestic cricket, the Combined Campuses and Colleges team and the West Indies Emerging Team. The national teams of the United States and Canada are also taking part. Combined Campuses and Colleges are the defending champions.

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References

  1. ↑ Under-19 ODI matches played by Gidron Pope – CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  2. ↑ ICC Under-19 World Cup, 2015/16 - West Indies Under-19s / Records / Batting and bowling averages – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  3. ↑ First-class matches played by Gidron Pope – CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Group A (D/N), Super50 Cup at Tarouba, Oct 17 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  5. ↑ "Strong squad named for WI Emerging Players in Super50 Cup". Cricket West Indies. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
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