Carlos Brathwaite

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Carlos Brathwaite

Personal information
Full name	Carlos Ricardo Brathwaite
Born	18 July 1988 (age 27) Lodge Road, Christ Church, Barbados
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm fast-medium
Role	All-rounder
International information
National side	West Indies
Test debut (cap 306)	26 December 2015 v Australia
Last Test	3 January 2016 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 161)	18 October 2011 v Bangladesh
Last ODI	7 November 2015 v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no.	8
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2011–present	Barbados
2011	Combined Campuses and Colleges
2013	Barbados Tridents
2014	Antigua Hawksbills
2015	St Kitts and Nevis Patriots
2016–present	Delhi Daredevils
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 2 7 38 26 Runs scored 130 71 1,471 425 Batting average 43.33 10.14 27.24 20.23 100s/50s 0/2 0/0 1/8 1/1 Top score 69 18 109 113 Balls bowled 258 240 4,322 900 Wickets 1 3 88 28 Bowling average 162.00 75.33 22.93 24.75 5 wickets in innings 0 0 2 0 10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a Best bowling 1/30 2/35 7/90 4/41 Catches/stumpings 0/– 2/– 20/– 7/–
Source: CricketArchive, 29 April 2016

Carlos Ricardo Brathwaite (born 18 July 1988) is a West Indian cricketer from Barbados. Brathwaite made his Twenty20 International 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.^[1] During the West Indies tour of Sri Lanka in 2015, he scored 113 from 58 balls against Sri Lanka Board President's XI and shared a 193-run partnership for the eighth wicket with Andre Russell at Colts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo, to help his side recover from 7 for 109 to 318 in a 50-over game.
He made his Test debut for the West Indies in the Second Test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 26 December 2015.^[2]
Needing 19 to win in the last over against England, Brathwaite scored four consecutive sixes in the first four balls of the over in the final of 2016 ICC World Twenty20 to enable the West Indies to win their second World Twenty20 title.^[3] This was his debut World Cup. He was the first player for the West Indies to score four consecutive sixes in a T20I match.^[4]
In April 2016, he made his Indian Premier League debut with franchise Delhi Daredevils,^[5] having been bought at auction for Rs. 4.2 crore (having had a base price of Rs. 30 lakh).^[6]
He also spent a number of years playing domestic cricket in Ireland, with Dublin-based Leinster Cricket Club, with whom in 2009 he won the Bob Kerr Irish Senior Cup, defeating Donemena CC in the final.^[7]

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