Gowkaran Roopnarine (born 24 February 1982) is a

Guyana Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic British West Indies. entry "Guyana" Georgetown, Guyana, Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the co ...

born

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er. A left-handed

batsman In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball, ball with a cricket bat, bat to score runs (cricket), runs and prevent the dismissal (cricket), loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since Septembe ...

and

wicket-keeper In cricket, the wicket-keeper is the Cricket player, player on the fielding (cricket), fielding side who stands behind the wicket, ready to stop Delivery (cricket), deliveries that pass the batsman, and take a Caught, catch, Stumped, stump the ...

,Gowkaran Roopnarine
at CricketArchive he has played for the

United States national cricket team The United States men's national cricket team is the team that represents the United States in international cricket. The team was formerly organized by the United States of America Cricket Association (USACA), which became an List of Interna ...

since 2005,Teams played for by Gowkaran Roopnarine
at CricketArchive including four

List A List A cricket is a classification of the Limited overs cricket, limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competit ...

matches.

Biography

Born in Guyana in 1982, Gowkaran Roopnarine first played for the US in the

2005 ICC Trophy The 2005 ICC Trophy was a cricket tournament held in Ireland between 1 July and 13 July 2005. It was an international one-day tournament played over 50 overs per side between 12 Associate Members of the International Cricket Council. It served a ...

. After playing in a warm-up match against

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,Other matches played by Gowkaran Roopnarine
at CricketArchive he played four matches in the tournament proper, scoring 98 in the ninth place play-off against

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,Scorecard
of Oman v USA, 11 July 2005 at CricketArchive his highest List A score. He played in the following years

ICC Americas Championship The ICC Americas Championship is a one-day cricket tournament organised by ICC Americas for non-Test national cricket teams in the Americas affiliated with the International Cricket Council. As well as providing the opportunity for national te ...

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, and most recently represented his country in Division Five of the

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References

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