30 Facts About Darren Bravo

Darren Michael Bravo was born on 6 February 1989 and is a Trinidadian cricketer who has played international cricket for the West Indies.

Darren Bravo was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2012 T20 World Cup.

Darren Bravo made his first team debut for Trinidad and Tobago in January 2007 and scored seven in a one-day match against Guyana.

Darren Bravo made his first-class debut three days later against the Leeward Islands and scored eight.

Darren Bravo returned to the under-19 team for the TCL Under-19 Challenge and finished the tournament as leading run scorer, in five matches scoring 419 runs at an average of 59.85.

Darren Bravo played for the side in two matches; the first saw his team dismissed for a one-day record low total of 18, and Darren Bravo was one of six players who was dismissed without scoring.

In October 2008, Darren Bravo was a member of the Trinidad and Tobago squad for the Stanford Series.

On his return to first-class cricket, Darren Bravo scored a second century of the season; against Barbados, he added 111 and shared a 250 run partnership for the fourth wicket with Kieron Pollard.

Darren Bravo failed to pass 30 in his final four matches but still ended the season with 605 runs at 43.21.

In June 2009, Darren Bravo was called up to the West Indies squad for the first two ODIs of the series with India.

Darren Bravo made his international debut in the first ODI at Sabina Park scoring 19 from 16 balls, including two fours from the first two deliveries he faced.

On his Test debut against Sri Lanka, Darren Bravo scored 58 from 159 balls.

Darren Bravo went on to hit 80 in the second Test and 68 in the third Test to help him get a tour average of 68.66.

In February 2011, Darren Bravo was named in West Indies' 15 man squad for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

Darren Bravo joined up with English county cricket side Nottinghamshire for the 2011 County Championship season.

Darren Bravo went on to average 35.42 for Nottinghampshire with two fifties from four first class games.

Darren Bravo's 218 is the highest score by a west Indian in a follow-on innings.

Darren Bravo became the seventh batsman to score a double hundred in a follow on and the first to do so since VVS Laxman in 2001.

In January 2015, Darren Bravo was named in West Indies' original 15 man squad for the 2015 Cricket World Cup but he was later forced to withdraw himself from the tournament due to an injury.

Darren Bravo scored 108 off 177 balls in the first innings and eventually lost the match by an innings.

Darren Bravo was offered a recall to the Test side for the two match series against England in 2020, but declined the offer to play in a country with high rates of coronavirus with players having to live for weeks in a secure bubble.

On 14 March 2021, against Sri Lanka in the third ODI, Darren Bravo scored his first ODI half-century since June 2016, scoring 102 off 132 deliveries.

In September 2021, Darren Bravo was named as one of four reserve players in the West Indies' squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.

In September 2017, Darren Bravo was draft picked by the Comilla Victorians for the upcoming BPL season.

In February 2018, Darren Bravo joined the Multan Sultans in their debut PSL season.

On 3 June 2018, Darren Bravo was selected to play for the Winnipeg Hawks in the players' draft for the inaugural edition of the Global T20 Canada tournament.

Darren Bravo later joined the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in 2022, after playing for the Trinbago Knight Riders since the CPL's inaugural season in 2013.

In January 2020, Darren Bravo was named the new captain of the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force, steering the side to the runner-up spot for the 2020 West Indies Championship.

Darren Bravo eventually returned as the Red Force's captain for the 2023 season of the West Indies Championship.

Darren Bravo thereafter scored a century in each innings in a draw against the Leeward Islands Hurricanes at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua.