Kraigg Brathwaite made his 86th consecutive look for the West Indies in Take a look at cricket when he led his staff within the first Take a look at towards Bangladesh, which started in Jamaica on Saturday. With that, he broke the document of the dwelling legend Gary Sobers, coinciding with the event of Barbados’s Independence Day.
Sobers featured in 85 Exams on the trot to carry the document earlier than that.
“It means lots,” Brathwaite mentioned about his achievement, as quoted by Windies Cricket on their web site.
“I’m extraordinarily grateful as a result of on this era, there’s lots of T10 and T20 cricket, however Take a look at cricket is the actual take a look at. On the finish, I’ll really feel like I’ve executed a very good job for the West Indies,” he added.
The opening day of the Take a look at noticed solely 30 overs bowled due to rain and moist outfield. After profitable the toss and opting to bat first, Bangladesh reached 69 for two at stumps.
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“My objective — I’ll always remember — was to play 100 Take a look at matches,” Brathwaite, who made his Take a look at debut in 2011, mentioned. “Not simply to play, however to earn 100 (Take a look at) caps for the West Indies. That’s what my life has been about. Take a look at cricket is every thing to me, and I can by no means be on this place with out placing God first.”
He has up to now scored 5769 runs in 183 innings throughout 95 Exams, together with 12 lots of and 30 fifties.
“You already know, it is simply exhausting work,” he mentioned. “Onerous work through the years, figuring out what to enhance, figuring out areas to work on while you get again residence. To succeed at this stage for a very long time, solely exhausting work and perseverance will get you thru…To now be tying Sir Garfield Sobers’s document — that’s what exhausting work does.”
Brathwaite additionally went on to select the innings that he reckons is his finest up to now.
“The hundred I obtained towards South Africa in 2014, after they have been the world’s primary staff — that was particular. I used to be simply 24 or 25 on the time. The hundred towards Australia in 2022 was additionally superb as a result of they have been primary then too. But when I had to decide on, I would say the Headingley hundred in 2017. We gained that sport after rebounding from a heavy defeat within the pink-ball Take a look at. Beating England that day was particular for us as West Indians,” he mentioned.
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