Michael James Powell is an English

England

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 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er and coach who played for and captained Warwickshire County Cricket Club

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

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. He also played for Griqualand West

Griqualand West cricket team

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 in South Africa

South Africa

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 in the 2001–02 season, and three matches for Otago

Otago Volts

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 in New Zealand

New Zealand

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 in the 2005–06 season.

He captained Warwickshire from 2001 to 2003. In the 2001 season

2001 English cricket season

The 2001 English cricket season saw Yorkshire win the County Championship for the first time since 1968. Australia again won the Ashes, this time largely due to some fine performances by Adam Gilchrist....

, the team were promoted from Division Two to Division One of the County Championship

County Championship

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, and in the 2002 season

2002 English cricket season

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 they finished as runners-up in Division One, as well as winning the Benson & Hedges Cup Final at Lord's.

He also coaches cricket at Loretto School

Loretto School

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 as a full time post also manning the Seton house boarding facility as the assistant house master Powell will also be manning the 3rds cricket team under the leadership of Grant Mullen.

Powell was awarded a Benefit Year in 2008 but did not have his contract renewed at the end of that season following an appraisal of the playing staff under new coach Ashley Giles

Ashley Giles

Ashley Fraser Giles MBE is a retired English cricketer. Giles played the entirety of his 14-year first-class career at Warwickshire County Cricket Club where he is now employed as Director of Cricket...

 

In February 2010 it was announced that Powell would be working with Cricket Scotland

Cricket Scotland

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as their new High Performance batting coach with a specific remit of developing and improving young Scottish cricketers.