Kraigg Brathwaite

Kraigg Clairmonte Brathwaite^[1] (born 2 December 1992, Black Rock, St Michael, Barbados)^[1] is an international cricketer from Barbados who is part of the West Indian cricket team. He is an all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls off break. On 6 November 2011, he became only the second West Indian to score two Test fifties before his 19th birthday when he made 63 (212) against India in Delhi.^[2]

Career

Brathwaite had scored 28 centuries in local cricket in Barbados before being included in West Indian under-15 team competing in the Clico International Under-15 Cricket Championships in 2008. He made his first-class cricket debut for Combined Campuses and Colleges against his home country Barbados on 3 April 2009 where he made 73 runs opening the batting. Later that month, he was selected for the Barbados team to play Guyana at Providence Stadium.

In June 2009, Brathwaite was called into the West Indian squad for the series of Test matches against Bangladesh as a replacement for players participating in a strike called by the West Indies Players' Association.^[3]

Brathwaite was a student at Combermere School in Saint Michael, Barbados.

In August 2012, Brathwaite led West Indies under-19 team in the Under-19 World Cup in Australia. In September 2013, Brathwaite toured with West Indies A to India for an unofficial test series he finished with a total of 334 in 6 innings with an average of 55.66. This included two half-centuries and a hundred. In November 2013 Brathwaite got a test recall for West Indies' test match series against New Zealand in December replacing an injured Chris Gayle after attempting a run a in the second One-Day International against India. Brathwaite is also a member of Sagicor High Performance Centre in Barbados. Before Brathwaite reached New Zealand he went through some trouble getting the necessary visa to fly to New Zealand: he had to wait 2 weeks before he was able to fly. On Brathwaite's return to the West Indies he scored 45 and 7.

In January 2014 Brathwaite was announced as Barbados' Regional 4-day captain. Brathwaite was part of the Barbados Regional super 50 2014 squad which won the competition and had scores of 2,29*,55* and 36 against Trinidad,Leeward Islands,Guyana and Trinidad respectively.Brathwaite started off the first-class season as captain well,taking Barbados to the top of the table.Barbados has played 5 matches which Brathwaite made 85 and 15 vs Winward Island,19 and 5 vs Guyana,91 vs Combined Campuses and Colleges(CCC),0 vs Trinidad and 21 and 91 vs Jamaica.

His best bowling figure in a test innings is 6/29 which came against Sri Lanka at P Sara Oval, Colombo in 2015.

In December 2015, at the Blundstone Arena in Hobart in the 2nd innings of the 1st test of the Sir Frank Worrell Trophy series vs Australia, Brathwaite was last man out for a belligerent 94. His 94 accounted for 63.51% of the West Indies total of 148, the 4th highest percentage of runs in a completed innings in Test Match history.

He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for the West Indies against Pakistan on 30 September 2016.^[4]

On 1 November 2016, Brathwaite carried his bat in the first innings becoming the fifth player for the West Indies to do so by scoring 142 not out against Pakistan at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.^[5] In the second innings, he became the first opener to remain unbeaten in both innings of a Test.^{[6] [7]}

Records

Test centuries

Kraigg Brathwaite's Test centuries
#	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year	Result
1	129	11	New Zealand	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	Queen's Park Oval	2014	Won
2	212	13	Bangladesh	Kingstown, Saint Vincent	Arnos Vale Ground	2014	Won
3	106	16	South Africa	Port Elizabeth, South Africa	St George's Park	2014	Drawn
4	116	19	England	St. George's, Grenada	National Cricket Stadium	2015	Lost
5	142*	34	Pakistan	Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	Sharjah Cricket Stadium	2016	Won

Test five wicket hauls

#	Figures	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year	Result
1	6/29	24	Sri Lanka	Colombo, Sri Lanka	P. Sara Oval	2015	Lost

Career best performances

as of 24 October 2015

International Awards

Test Cricket

Man of the match awards

• In this table Ct., refers to the Catches and St. refers to the Stumping

#	Series	Season	Match Performance	Result
1	2nd Test – New Zealand in West Indies Test Series	2014	1st Innings – 129 (258 balls: 13x4) 2nd Innings - 1 ct., 14* (34 balls: 1x4)	West Indies won by 10 wickets.[8]
2	1st Test – Bangladesh in West Indies Test Series	2014/15	1st Innings – 212 (447 balls, 14x4) 2nd Innings - 4* (6 balls: 1x4)	West Indies won by 10 wickets.[9]
3	2nd Test – West Indies in South Africa Test Series	2014/15	1st Innings – 106 (186 balls, 12x4, 0x4) 2nd Innings - DNB	Match drawn[10]
4	3rd Test – West Indies v Pakistan in UAE Test Series	2016/17	1st Innings – 1 ct., 142* (318 balls: 11x4) 2nd Innings - 1-0-5-0, 60* (109 balls: 6x4)	West Indies won by 5 wickets.[11]

Player of the Series awards

• In this table Ct., refers to the Catches and St. refers to the Stumping

#	Series	Season	Match Performance	Result
1	Bangladesh in West Indies Test Series	2014	324 runs including double century. (2 Matches).	West Indies Won the series 2–0[12]

References

External links

• Cricinfo profile
• Official Barbados Cricket Association Articles and Statistics