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Should have been in Pakistan

In reply to sudden

It has to be Darren Bravo
Against Australia 34.28
Against England 23.56
Against India 34.42
Against Bangladesh 62.77
Against sri Lanka 50.00
Against Pakistan 38.00

He is the best player of spin bowling ever.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/darren-bravo-277472/bowling-batting-stats

In reply to openning

De same Darren Bravo Allyuh drop fuh Brooks and Raymon Reifer?

In reply to imusic

If Darren had continued, he would have scored at least 150 on that track.

In reply to tc1

Still less than what Brooks and Raymon would have scored

In reply to tc1

2010 68.66
2011 49.94
2012 37.07
2013 37.40
2014 37.50
2015 35.77
2016 31.78
2017
2018
2019 13.25
2020 8.00

Best against any type of bowling is Sir Kraigg 'Slow Poke' Brathwaite.

De man is a genius against spin... he did things Lara dreamt of doing.

In reply to anthonyp

De maan can beat de bowling better than de Master Blaster heself.

In reply to Seechy

Kraigg does make Gary Sobers look like Courtney Walsh…..such is his breathtaking genius. The range of his strokeplay is beyond the comprehension of mere mortals

I know that Daren Bravo is approaching 36 years of age but personally, I would have done everything possible to mend bridges and get him back into the test side a while ago. His talent has been sorely missed. Sad state of affairs.

In reply to 4REALQUICKS

CWI have too much pride for that. Steve Waugh said the first time he saw Sarwan, it reminded him of Gregg Chappell. Look what they did to him. People trying to cuss out Swallow and Skerrit. They inherited a toxic organization which I think they have done very well under the circumstances. They have not been perfect, but it is absolutely nothing compared to the idiocy of the Cameron, Hunte and Hillaire years. Those two administrations set us back 70 years in cricket

Sarwan remains one of my favourite batsmen to watch. When in form, there was a silkiness about his play that was amazing. He was the perfect foil for Lara's brilliant but belligerent strokeplay

In reply to PalsofMine

exactly, that's why they had so many big partnerships

In reply to PalsofMine & Jumpstart

Great Partnerships hunt in Pairs.

Jordan had his Pippen, Ambi had his Walsh and Lara had his Chanderpaul, and Sarwan

In reply to Acid

Telling yuh. McGrath and Gillespie, Donald and Pollock, Waz and waqar, Whispering Death and The Hitman

In reply to PalsofMine

Sarwan is probably one of three players to master Murali at his peak: Lara, Thorpe and Sarwan. And unlike Thorpe, he didn’t labor through it. It was domination. That hundred in the oval is one of the best innings I’ve ever watched.

I remember the 2009 series, I had ducked university to watch the first and last day. On the first day, Sarwan, who already had scored over 500 runs for the series, was fielding at the boundary, and it had men telling him how their daughters were single and blah blah blah.

This is why I continue to harp on Chris Gayle’s team. We had a rell good thing going on there. I doh know how them dunces in CWI/WICB/WICBC didn’t see the same thing that everyone was seeing. Yes we lost to a great SA team but that team performed creditably in every series they played save that one. We lost a massive opportunity. And people saw something was building that’s why they came out to the games. The oval for that final test of that England series was full for the first four days and was almost full for the final day which was a Tuesday. But when all you can see is the perimeter of your own tiny territory, then you’ll never see the big picture

In reply to openning

If Bravo had played the last 4 years imagine his avg would be approaching -15, here are the facts, we all can agree that KB is not the most talented batsman, he has a career avg of 33.00. Darren Bravo is the most talented batsman accordingly to many of this mb with a Bradman avg of 36.00.

In reply to Jumpstart

I remember the 2009 series, I had ducked university to watch the first and last day.

You still in school from 2009-2025, are you another master at deception. You are a slow poke like KB.

In reply to tc1

no.....i studied electrical engineering first dummy. i passed all the math courses, but wasn't good at any of the electrical, electronic or programming courses and dropped out. I completed business admin degree afterwards but quality jobs were difficult to come by so i decided to study civil engineering, which is a lot more agreeable

In reply to tc1

kb is talentless and clearly does not work hard on his game. there have been players of limited talent who have made the most of their limited talent and gotten even more out of it because of hard work. Steve Waugh, Misbah ul Haq, Andrew Strauss, Alastair Cook etc. Certainly not people who people would pay money to watch, but they all average over 40 and ul haq, cook and waugh average over 45. kraigg is comfortable because nobody is holding him accountable for poor performances. kraigg went to county cricket and was dismissed twice in one day....nothing could encapsulate incompetence more than that

In reply to Jumpstart

A couple of months ago , you said that Calc was giving you trouble, if you pass all the maths requirement as a pre-eng student, you would have completed all your maths courses for any Engineering discplines.

Anyway good luck with your CE studies.

In reply to tc1

i don't recall that and if something give you trouble, i don't believe that's a sign of incompetence and i did pass the course. I actually applied for exemptions but was told too much time had elapsed to get one

In reply to Acid

Absolutely! And they worked well as a trio too. If Sarwan and Lara didn't have a big partnership, then Lara and Chanderpaul would do. If Lara failed, then Sarwan and Chanderpaul would combine (like in the 418 chase, 4th innings chase against SL, and many other occasions.) Gayle and Sarwan also went big at the top of a few occasions.

Century partnerships are few and far between these days.

In reply to Seechy

YES....they had some really good partnerships indeed

In reply to Seechy

Lara and Sarwan actually had more bigger partnerships than the lara/chanderpaul combo. In 58 innings, lara and sarwan had 12 century partnerships. for some context, tendulkar and dravid top that list, and batted together in 143 innings.....and only had 20 century partnerships

In reply to imusic

Why Phill had Daren carrying water for about 2 years round the test team when it was blatantly obvious that WI needed a number 3 bat.

In reply to sudden

Agreed. Since Hetty can play spin so well....has he learnt to not miss a flight yet?

In reply to Jumpstart

I believe it to be the environment, I have been writing about it since I followed the young man.
My Antiguan brother told me about it in 2002, this guy has taken every coaching course as a hobby, and after returning to Antigua, he saw the standard of the coaching and stayed away from cricket for his health.
Some people are enablers and want to be seen, Kraigg and others are surrounded by many of them.
Fuzzy accused me of joining with my brother the Musicman, when I criticized Kraigg for batting two days and scoring 175 not out against England, that is unacceptable.
My experience as a Suzuki parent taught me about children's development and training, cricket is a professional sport, it is treated as a sport of the 50s.

In reply to openning

Exactly....head to the top of the class. west indies still getting on like its the 80s where marshall and co hadda run down video footage of players. today, you have analysts directing your technique frame by frame......and it has been that way for some time..i remember watching a series review of the 95 frank worrell trophy and Bobby Simpson talking about the times they anticipated lara would make an error from the footage they studied. is like what we really doing in the west indies boy?

So no love for Hety

...sodden

Just like your 6 exwives did to you ...no love

Just took your money.

In reply to Jumpstart

The Sarwan and Lara combo was indeed a more fruitful combo than Lara and Chanderpaul. 12 centuries at an average of 55 compared to 9 centuries at an average of 47. Sarwan and Lara combined well, in particular, in Sri Lanka 2001 for 3 century partnerships, 2 double century partnerships against England, at the ARG and Edgbaston, in 2004.

What is particularly poignant is that Sarwan, Lara, and Chanderpaul feature in the most successful partnerships, after Greenidge, Haynes, and Richardson, who were the most successful for WI in terms of runs scored. This highlights the prowess and reliability of these 3 mainstays of the middle order in the mid-1990s to early-2010s.

In reply to Seechy

Runs machine.

In reply to imusic

You crying for Bravo when he messed up himself by letting devious Dave fool him

In reply to Jumpstart

True. Cameron and Bassarath geez.

In reply to sudden

he was when he was younger and slimmer and quicker on his feet. His playing of spin was the first thing that impressed me when I saw him in the U19 World Cup

In reply to openning

Nothing a good sports psychologist couldn't fix.

In reply to Jumpstart

Overseers left to watch over the plantation.

In reply to Jumpstart

Now we can put Lara's greatness into perspective!

In reply to Acid

I feel, Bishop not breaking down, off the top of my head he was probably in the top tier of fastest to 50, we would have prolonged our decline.

43 matches 161 @ 24.27. I maybe wrong, as it look to be fastest to 100.