Ronsford Rodwick Beaton (born 17 September 1992) is a Guyanese cricketer who plays for the Guyanese national side in West Indian domestic cricket, and also for the Trinbago Knight Riders franchise in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). He is a right-arm fast bowler.
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Full name | Ronsford Rodwick Beaton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1992-09-17) 17 September 1992 (age 29) Montserrat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National side |
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ODI debut (cap 182) | 20 December 2017 v New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 23 December 2017 v New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011–2016 | Guyana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Guyana Amazon Warriors (CPL) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017-present | Trinbago Knight Riders (CPL) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 | Dhaka Dynamites (BPL) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Beaton was born on the island of Montserrat, but moved to Guyana as a child, and was raised in the village of Reliance, in the Pomeroon-Supenaam region.[1] He attended high school in Georgetown, at the Abram Zuil Secondary School, and later went on to the Guyana School of Agriculture.[2] Beaton played for the West Indies under-19s at the 2012 Under-19 World Cup in Australia, and finished third in his team's wicket-taking.[3] He had made his first-class debut for Guyana the previous year, during the 2010–11 Regional Four Day Competition.[4] Beaton has since been a regular for Guyana in both the long and short forms of the game, as well as for his CPL franchise. He has also made several appearances for West Indies A.[5][6]
For the 2018 CPL competition, he was reselected by the Trinbago Knight Riders in the 10th round of the player draft.[7] In October 2019, he was named in Guyana's squad for the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament.[8]
In May 2017, he was named in the West Indies' Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against Afghanistan, but he did not play.[9] In November 2017, he was named in the West Indies' One Day International (ODI) and T20I squads for their series against New Zealand.[10] He made his ODI debut for the West Indies against New Zealand on 20 December 2017.[11] However, he was later ruled out of the T20I squad due to injury.[12]