Carlos Brathwaite

Carlos Ricardo Brathwaite (born 18 July 1988) is a cricketer from Barbados and a former captain of the West Indies Twenty20 International (T20I) team.[2] He was a key member of the West Indies team that won the 2016 T20 World Cup, and his most notable innings was when he helped the team to win the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 Final with an innings of 34 not-out off 10 balls. Brathwaite hit the winning six to help the West Indies clinch their second T20 world title.

Carlos Brathwaite
Carlos Brathwaite in 2019
Personal information
Full name
Carlos Ricardo Brathwaite
Born (1988-07-18) 18 July 1988
Christ Church, Barbados
NicknameRicky[1]
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
RoleAll-rounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 306)26 December 2015 v Australia
Last Test21 July 2016 v India
ODI debut (cap 161)18 October 2011 v Bangladesh
Last ODI14 August 2019 v India
T20I debut (cap 53)11 October 2011 v Bangladesh
Last T20I6 August 2019 v India
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2010/11–presentBarbados
2010/11, 2018/19–2019/20Combined Campuses and Colleges
2013Barbados Tridents
2014Antigua Hawksbills
2015–2019St Kitts and Nevis Patriots
2016–2017Delhi Daredevils
2016/17Sydney Thunder
2017–2018Khulna Titans
2017/18, 2020/21Sydney Sixers
2018Sunrisers Hyderabad, Kent
2019Lahore Qalandars, Kolkata Knight Riders
2020Peshawar Zalmi
2020–presentJamaica Tallawahs
2021Multan Sultans, Warwickshire, Manchester Originals
2022–presentKandy Falcons
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 3 44 41 39
Runs scored 181 559 310 1,522
Batting average 45.25 16.44 14.76 27.67
100s/50s 0/3 1/1 0/0 1/9
Top score 69 101 37* 109
Balls bowled 408 1,825 709 4,472
Wickets 1 43 31 88
Bowling average 242.00 41.06 32.67 23.84
5 wickets in innings 0 1 0 2
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 1/30 5/27 3/20 7/90
Catches/stumpings 0/– 11/– 19/– 20/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 14 August 2019

International career

Brathwaite made his T20I debut for the West Indies against Bangladesh on 11 October 2011. He made his One Day International debut seven days later in the same series.[2]

He made his Test debut for the West Indies in the Second Test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 26 December 2015.[3]

Needing 19 to win in the last over of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 final against England, Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes in the first four balls of the over to enable the West Indies to win their second World Twenty20 title.[4] This was his debut World Cup. He was the first player for the West Indies to hit four consecutive sixes in a T20I match.[5]

In August 2016, Brathwaite was named the captain of the West Indies team for their Twenty20 International matches against India in Florida later that month.[6]

On 8 March 2018, during the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier match against Papua New Guinea at the Old Hararians in Harare, Brathwaite took his first five-wicket haul in ODIs.[7][8]

In April 2019, he was named in the West Indies' squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup.[9][10] On 22 June 2019, in the match against New Zealand, Brathwaite scored his first century in ODIs. He was caught on the boundary for what would have been a match-winning six.[11]

Domestic and T20 franchise career

In April 2016, he made his Indian Premier League (IPL) debut for Delhi Daredevils.[12][13] He spent a number of years playing domestic cricket in Ireland, with Dublin-based Leinster Cricket Club, and in 2009 he won the Bob Kerr Irish Senior Cup, defeating Donemena CC in the final.[14]

In January 2018, he was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2018 IPL auction[15] and in May was signed by Kent County Cricket Club to play in the 2018 Vitality Blast tournament in England.[16]

In October 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) awarded him a white-ball contract for the 2018–19 season.[17][18] Later the same month, he was named in the squad for Khulna Titans following the draft for the 2018–19 Bangladesh Premier League[19] and in October captained Combined Campuses and Colleges to their first Regional Super 50 title.[20] In December 2018, he was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for the 2019 Indian Premier League.[21][22]

In October 2019, Brathwaite was again named as captain of Combined Campuses for the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament.[23] In July 2020, he was named in the Jamaica Tallawahs squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League[24][25] and in October was drafted by the Dambulla Viiking for the inaugural edition of the Lanka Premier League.[26]

Brathwaite signed for Birmingham Bears for the 2021 T20 Blast[27] and in July 2022 was signed by the Kandy Falcons for the 2022 Lanka Premier League.[28]

Personal life

Carlos Brathwaite married his longtime girlfriend Jessica Felix in June 2018. The couple have a daughter.[29]

References
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  3. "Scorecard: 2nd Test: Australia v West Indies at Melbourne, Dec 26–30, 2015". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
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  5. Vaishali Bhardwaj (3 April 2016). "T20 World Cup final 2016: Carlos Brathwaite hits four sixes in a row to help West Indies beat England by four wickets". Evening Standard. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  6. "Carlos Brathwaite named West Indies T20 captain". ESPN Cricinfo. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  7. "Windies avoid scare to edge out PNG". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  8. "Holder and Brathwaite ward off PNG threat". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  9. "Andre Russell in West Indies World Cup squad, Kieron Pollard misses out". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  10. "Andre Russell picked in West Indies' World Cup squad". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  11. "New Zealand beat West Indies by five runs: Cricket World Cup 2019". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  12. "KKR bowl; Brathwaite debuts for Daredevils". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  13. "The Hindu: Who is Carlos Brathwaite?". Retrieved 4 April 2016.
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  15. "List of sold and unsold players". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  16. "Billings' Twenty20 links help Kent seal Brathwaite deal". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  17. "Kemar Roach gets all-format West Indies contract". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  18. "Cricket West Indies announces list of contracted players". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
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  20. "Marooners came to win title, says captain Brathwaite". stabroeknews.com. Stabroek News. 31 October 2018.
  21. "IPL 2019 auction: The list of sold and unsold players". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  22. "IPL 2019 Auction: Who got whom". The Times of India. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  23. "Selection to CCC Marooners squad means a lot for Akshaya Persaud". Guyana Times. Archived from the original on 1 November 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  24. "Nabi, Lamichhane, Dunk earn big in CPL 2020 draft". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  25. "Teams Selected for Hero CPL 2020". Cricket West Indies. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  26. "Chris Gayle, Andre Russell and Shahid Afridi among big names taken at LPL draft". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  27. "Carlos Brathwaite: Birmingham Bears sign West Indies all-rounder for T20 Blast". BBC. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  28. "LPL 2022 draft: Kandy Falcons sign Hasaranga; Rajapaksa to turn out for Dambulla Giants". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  29. "Carlos Brathwaite and his wife blessed with baby girl, name her Eden Rose". Retrieved 10 February 2022.
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