Mark Powell (cricketer)
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Mark John Powell was an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 professional cricketer
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...

 for Northamptonshire from the years 2000 to 2004. Since then he has retired from professional cricket to take up a business career in London, England
City of London
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 where he also continued to play club Cricket in the Middlesex Premier League for Finchley between 2006 and 2009.

Career

Mark Powell played a total of 42 Cricket matches for Northamptonshire in First Class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 and One day competitions, as well as appearances for the England Under-15 team in 1996 and the Loughborough UCCE
Loughborough University Centre of Cricketing Excellence
Loughborough MCC University is a cricket coaching centre based at Loughborough University in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England and the name under which the university's cricket team plays.- About :The coaching centre is largely funded by the Marylebone Cricket Club...

 in 2000 to 2002. His First Class high score of 108*
Not out
In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...

 in 2002 was achieved during a record-breaking first wicket partnership of 375, in which Rob White
Robert White (cricketer)
Robert Allan White is an English professional cricketer.White received his upper school education at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire before attending Durham and Loughborough Universities. He currently plays cricket for Northamptonshire. He is a right-handed batsman and can bowl off breaks...

 scored 277.

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