A. Maxwell Patrick O’Dowd is a Dutch international cricketer who was born in New Zealand and joined the Netherlands national cricket team in June 2015. He made his debut for the Netherlands national cricket team in June 2015. Through his participation in three different iterations of the ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup, he has shown his ability to bat as an opening batsman with his right hand. On March 4, 1994, O’Dowd was born in Auckland, which is located in New Zealand.
His father, Alex O’Dowd, was a first-class cricket player in New Zealand for the Auckland and Northern Districts teams. Additionally, he was a club cricket player and coach for HBS Craeyenhout in the Netherlands. Because of his mother, O’Dowd has a Dutch passport. He returned to Auckland and enrolled at Westlake Boys High School after spending the first twelve years of his life in the Netherlands.
During the month-long 2012 European Challenge Series, O’Dowd was a member of the under-19 national cricket squad for the Netherlands. His tournament includes two half-centuries (against Jersey and Guernsey) and a five-wicket haul (5/20) against Jersey. He also took five wickets against Guernsey. When O’Dowd returned to New Zealand for the 2012–13 season, he participated in the National Under-19 Tournament as a member of the Auckland under-19s and played every match for them.
During the year 2013, he participated in club cricket in England. Additionally, during the same year, he played for Nottinghamshire in a single match in the Second Eleven Championship. While playing for Auckland A during the 2014–15 New Zealand season, O’Dowd was a regular member of the team. In the North Sea Pro Series, a professional league that includes teams from both the Netherlands and Scotland, he secured a contract to play for the Northern Hurricanes club for the 2015 season.
Max O’Dowd Biography
| Name | Max O’Dowd |
| Full Name | Maxwell Patrick O’Dowd |
| Date of Birth | 4 March 1994 |
| Place of Birth | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Other Names | NA |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Father’s Name | Alex O’Dowd |
| Mother’s Name | NA |
| Siblings | NA |
| Spouse | NA |
| Marriage Date | NA |
| Children | NA |
| Role | Batting |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right-arm off-spin |
| ODI Debut | June 19, 2019 vs. Zimbabwe |
| Test Debut | NA |
| T20 Debut | July 01, 2015, vs. Nepal |
| Favourite Food | NA |
| Favourite Actor | NA |
| Favourite Actress | NA |
| Favourite Colour | Blue |
| Retirement | Still Playing |
He was chosen to participate in the first-ever Euro Twenty20 Slam cricket competition, which took place in July 2019, and he was assigned to play for the Rotterdam Rhinos club. However, the event was canceled the month after it was scheduled to take place. Within the context of the Intercontinental Cup, O’Dowd made his debut with the senior team for the Netherlands in a match against Papua New Guinea in June 2015. He was out to Willie Gavera for a five-ball duck in the second innings after scoring 14 runs in the first innings before being removed by Loa Nou. In the second inning, he was successful in scoring 14.
In first-class cricket, he was sent on to bowl during the second innings of Papua New Guinea’s batting, and he ended up taking the wicket of Lega Siaka with his fourth delivery. He finished with a score of 1/44. The original roster for the match did not include O’Dowd as a member of the team. In the Twenty20 International match that took place on July 1, 2015, O’Dowd made his debut for the Netherlands against Nepal. Both the World Twenty20 Qualifier in 2015 and the World Championship League Championship match against Papua New Guinea were scheduled to take place with him included in the Dutch sides.
On September 14, 2015, he made his debut in the WCL Championship against Scotland, which was his first game in the List A. However, he did not make it into the playing eleven for the One Day International (ODI) series that the Netherlands played against Nepal in July of 2018. He was chosen to the squad for the series. In June 2019, he was selected to be a member of the One-Day International team for the Netherlands’ series against Zimbabwe. On June 19, 2019, he scored his first one-day international against Zimbabwe.
The Netherlands selected him to be a member of their team for the 2019 ICC Twenty20 World Cup Qualifier event, which will take place in the United Arab Emirates. In April 2020, he was one of seventeen cricketers residing in the Netherlands who were selected to be a part of the senior squad for the team. The Dutch team that will compete in the Nepal Tri-Nation Series in 2020–21 was announced to include O’Dowd in March of 2021. A contest versus Malaysia, which was the second encounter of the tournament.
Batting & Fielding Stats
| FORMAT | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODIs | 46 | 46 | 2 | 1403 | 90 | 31.88 | 1918 | 73.14 | 0 | 10 | 144 | 22 | 7 | 0 |
| T20Is | 69 | 67 | 5 | 1842 | 133* | 29.70 | 1531 | 120.31 | 1 | 13 | 186 | 45 | 21 | 0 |
| FC | 5 | 8 | 0 | 326 | 126 | 40.75 | 612 | 53.26 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| List A | 60 | 58 | 3 | 1643 | 90 | 29.87 | 2299 | 71.46 | 0 | 11 | 161 | 27 | 17 | 0 |
| T20s | 84 | 80 | 6 | 2060 | 133* | 27.83 | 1739 | 118.45 | 1 | 14 | 205 | 53 | 23 | 0 |
Bowling
| FORMAT | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODIs | 46 | 6 | 75 | 75 | 1 | 1/16 | 1/16 | 75.00 | 6.00 | 75.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T20Is | 69 | 9 | 76 | 119 | 3 | 1/7 | 1/7 | 39.66 | 9.39 | 25.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FC | 5 | 9 | 444 | 321 | 6 | 2/26 | 3/32 | 53.50 | 4.33 | 74.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| List A | 60 | 12 | 237 | 224 | 4 | 1/16 | 1/16 | 56.00 | 5.67 | 59.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T20s | 84 | 10 | 88 | 135 | 3 | 1/7 | 1/7 | 45.00 | 9.20 | 29.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
In a Twenty20 International match, O’Dowd became the first batter for the Netherlands to hit a century. He did so by scoring 133 runs without being out from 73 balls. After Tom Cooper, he became the second batsman in history to register half-centuries in each of his first three one-day international matches, which took place in May 2021 during the inaugural one-day international match between the Netherlands and Scotland. O’Dowd was the player who scored the most runs during the West Indies tour of the Netherlands in 2022. He accomplished this by scoring 179 runs over three matches, including 89 runs in the last game.
Van Beek gave out the double fist pump, fully conscious of the enormity of the wicket, and almost did not bother to turn around to observe Langton Rusere’s verdict after he had already made his judgment. A second casualty of the Powerplay, which crippled a Nepali hit back and silenced more or less a full house of Nepali supporters who had already waited ten years for their chance in the Twenty20 World Cup. After Tim Pringle and Logan van Beek each took three wickets, Max O’Dowd hammered an unbroken half-century to help the Netherlands begin their Twenty20 World Cup campaign with a six-wicket win against Nepal in Dallas, Texas on Tuesday. The match marked the Netherlands’ first victory in the tournament.
