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| Full name | Keemo Mandela Angus Paul | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 February 1998 Guyana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut(cap 315) | 12 July 2018 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 9 February 2019 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut(cap 184) | 15 March 2018 v Afghanistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 18 June 2023 v USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut(cap 71) | 1 April 2018 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 7 August 2022 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–present | Guyana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2020 | Guyana Amazon Warriors | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Delhi Capitals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020/21 | Hobart Hurricanes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021/22 | Colombo Stars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–present | Saint Lucia Kings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Keemo Mandela Angus Paul (born 21 February 1998) is a Guyanese cricketer who plays for the West Indies cricket team. He made his international debut for the team in 2018. [1] In August 2019,Cricket West Indies named him as the T20 Player of the Year. [2]
He made his List A debut on 16 January 2015 in the 2014–15 Regional Super50 tournament. [3]
In December 2015,Paul was named in the West Indies squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. [4] During the tournament,Paul attracted some controversy when he mankaded a batsman in the last over of the final group match between the West Indies and Zimbabwe. [5] The West Indies won the match and consequently finished second in their group,qualifying for the quarter-finals and eventually going on to win the tournament. [6] He took 7 wickets throughout the competition,including 2 in the final against India,as well as averaging more than 40 with the bat for the tournament. [7]
He made his first-class debut for Guyana in the 2016–17 Regional Four Day Competition on 18 March 2017. [8] He made his Twenty20 debut for Guyana Amazon Warriors in the 2017 Caribbean Premier League on 5 August 2017. [9] In October 2017,he scored his maiden century in first-class cricket,batting for Guyana against Jamaica in the 2017–18 Regional Four Day Competition. [10]
In June 2018,he was named the Emerging Cricketer of the Year at the annual Cricket West Indies' Awards. [11] In October 2018,Cricket West Indies (CWI) awarded him a development contract for the 2018–19 season. [12] [13]
In December 2018,he was bought by the Delhi Capitals in the player auction for the 2019 Indian Premier League. [14] [15] In June 2019,he was selected to play for the Montreal Tigers franchise team in the 2019 Global T20 Canada tournament. [16] In July 2020,he was named in the Guyana Amazon Warriors squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League. [17] [18]
On 9 March 2018,Paul was added to the West Indies squad for the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament,after Sheldon Cottrell suffered an injury. [19] He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for the West Indies against Afghanistan in the World Cup Qualifier on 15 March 2018. [20]
In March 2018,he was named in the West Indies squad for their Twenty20 International (T20I) series against Pakistan. [21] He made his T20I debut for the West Indies against Pakistan on 1 April 2018. [22]
In July 2018,he was named in the West Indies Test squad for the series against Bangladesh. [23] He made his Test debut for the West Indies on 12 July 2018. [24] In December 2018,in the third and final T20I against Bangladesh,Paul took his first five-wicket haul in T20Is. [25]
In May 2019,Cricket West Indies (CWI) named him as one of ten reserve players in the West Indies' squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup. [26] [27]