Kennar Lewis (born 18 August 1991) is a Jamaican cricketer who has played for both the Jamaica national team and the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel in West Indian domestic cricket. He is a right-handed

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. Lewis made his

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debut for Jamaica in October 2011, playing against the

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during the 2011–12 Regional Super50.List A matches played by Kennar Lewis
CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 September 2016. He opened the batting with

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on debut, and top-scored for Jamaica with 28 runs as his team won by seven wickets. Lewis played another four Regional Super50 matches during the 2011–12 season, including Jamaica's win over

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in the tournament final. He also played three matches in the

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.Twenty20 matches played by Kennar Lewis
CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 September 2016. He returned to Jamaica's squad for the 2013–14 Regional Super50, but played only a single match, the semi-final against Trinidad and Tobago in which his team were bowled out for just 49 runs. For the

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season, Lewis signed with the Red Steel, as the second-youngest member of the squad (after

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). He played two matches, against the Antigua Hawksbills and the

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, and opened the batting with Irishman Kevin O'Brien in both, but scored just five runs and was subsequently dropped. He made his first-class debut for Jamaica in the

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on 28 February 2019. In June 2021, he was selected to take part in the

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tournament in the United States following the players' draft. In the

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, he finished the season as the top run-scorer for the Jamaica Tallawahs. This success led to his first selections in overseas T20 franchise leagues: by the

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in the

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, and the

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in the

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. He also had a successful season for the Northern Warriors in the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Kennar 1991 births Living people Jamaica cricketers Jamaican cricketers Jamaica Tallawahs cricketers Trinbago Knight Riders cricketers Kandy Falcons cricketers Expatriate cricketers in Sri Lanka