Personal Life

O'Dowd was born on March 4, 1994 in Auckland, New Zealand. His father Alex O'Dowd played first-class cricket in New Zealand for Auckland and Northern Districts and played and coached club cricket in the Netherlands for HBS Craeyenhout.

O'Dowd holds a Dutch passport through his mother. He lived in the Netherlands until he was twelve, before returning to Auckland and attending Westlake Boys High School.

Domestic and Franchise Career

O'Dowd played for the Netherlands national under-19 cricket team in the month-long 2012 European Challenge Series. His tournament included a five-wicket haul (5/20) against Jersey and two half-centuries (against Jersey and Guernsey).

Back in New Zealand for the 2012–13 season, O'Dowd played every game for the Auckland under-19 team in the National Under-19 Tournament. He played club cricket in England in 2013 and also appeared in a single Second Eleven Championship match for Nottinghamshire in the same season. O'Dowd played regularly for Auckland A during the 2014–15 New Zealand season. For the 2015 season, he signed with the Northern Hurricanes franchise in the North Sea Pro Series, a professional league representing teams from the Netherlands and Scotland are.

In July 2019, he was selected to play for the Rotterdam Rhinos in the first edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament. However, the following month the tournament was canceled.

International Career

In June 2015, O'Dowd made his senior Netherlands team debut in an Intercontinental Cup match against Papua New Guinea. He scored 14 in the first innings before being sent off by Loa Nou, and in the second innings Willie Gavera had to make a five-ball duck. He was brought on to bowl in Papua New Guinea's second innings and took the wicket of Lega Siaka with his fourth ball in first-class cricket, finishing with 1/44. O'Dowd was not named in the first squad for this game.

O'Dowd made his Twenty20 International debut for the Netherlands on 1 July 2015 against Nepal. He was named in the Netherlands squad for both the WCL Championship match against PNG and the 2015 World Twenty20 Qualifier. He made his List A debut on September 14, 2015 in the WCL Championship against Scotland.

In July 2018, he was called up to the Netherlands One Day International (ODI) squad for the series against Nepal, but did not feature. In June 2019, he was named in the Netherlands' ODI squad for the series against Zimbabwe. He made his ODI debut for the Netherlands on June 19, 2019 against Zimbabwe.

In September 2019, he was named in the Netherlands squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. In April 2020, he was named to the team's senior squad as one of seventeen Netherlands-based cricketers.

In March 2021, O'Dowd was named in the Netherlands squad for the 2020–21 Nepal Tri-Nation Series. In the second match of the tournament against Malaysia, O'Dowd scored 133 not out from 73 balls and became the first Netherlands batsman to score a century in a T20I match. In May 2021, in the first ODI between Netherlands and Scotland, he became the second batsman after Tom Cooper to score a half-century in each of his first three ODI matches.

In September 2021, O'Dowd was named in the Netherlands squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.

During the West Indies tour of the Netherlands in 2022, O'Dowd was the top scorer with 179 runs in three matches, including 89 in the final match.