36 Facts About Kraigg Brathwaite

Kraigg Clairmonte Brathwaite was born on 1 December 1992 and is a Barbadian cricketer who captains the West Indies in Test cricket.

Kraigg Brathwaite has effectively stood as stand-in-captain in place of Jason Holder in seven test matches before becoming the permanent captain of the test team taking over from Holder.

Kraigg Brathwaite has formed a notable close friendship with Barbados veteran singer Rihanna and it is revealed that both of them are friends from school days at Combermere School.

Kraigg 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.

Kraigg Brathwaite scored 122 on his debut for West Indies U15 team.

Kraigg Brathwaite made his first-class cricket debut at the age of 16 for Combined Campuses and Colleges against his home country Barbados on 3 April 2009 where he made 73 runs opening the batting.

Kraigg Brathwaite was included in the West Indian U19 squad for the 2010 ICC U19 Cricket World Cup in New Zealand and he emerged as the leading run-scorer for the West Indies after scoring 335 runs in 6 innings including 4 fifties at a healthy average of 67.

Kraigg Brathwaite was the second leading run-scorer of the tournament after South Africa's Dominic Hendricks.

In September 2013, Kraigg 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.

In January 2014 Kraigg Brathwaite was announced as Barbados' Regional 4-day captain.

Kraigg 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.

Kraigg Brathwaite started off the first-class season as captain well, taking Barbados to the top of the table.

Barbados has played 5 matches which Kraigg Brathwaite made 85 and 15 against Windward Islands, 19 and 5 against Guyana, 91 vs Combined Campuses and Colleges, 0 against Trinidad, and 21 and 91 against Jamaica.

In November 2020, Kraigg Brathwaite made his highest first-class score, with 246 against New Zealand A at Queenstown.

In June 2009, Kraigg 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.

Kraigg Brathwaite made his test debut against Pakistan on 20 May 2011 and opened the batting alongside Lendl Simmons.

In November 2013, Kraigg 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.

Kraigg Brathwaite is a member of Sagicor High Performance Centre in Barbados.

Kraigg Brathwaite was declared the player of the match award for his first innings double century which ensured a comfortable ten wicket victory for the West Indies after enforcing follow-on to the visiting side.

Kraigg Brathwaite registered the best bowling figures by anyone who had taken one or no wickets at all in their first 20 test matches.

In December 2015, at the Blundstone Arena in Hobart in the 2nd innings of the 1st test of the Sir Frank Worrell Trophy series against Australia, Kraigg Brathwaite was last man out for a belligerent 94.

Kraigg Brathwaite made his One Day International debut for the West Indies against Pakistan on 30 September 2016.

On 1 November 2016, Kraigg 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.

Kraigg Brathwaite was later cleared to bowl again by the International Cricket Council at international level.

Kraigg Brathwaite batted for a duration of six hours during his marathon innings of 134 and he put on a crucial record breaking 246 run stand with Shai Hope for the fourth wicket.

In June 2020, Kraigg Brathwaite was named in the West Indies' Test squad, for their series against England.

In December 2020, Kraigg Brathwaite was named as the captain of the West Indies' Test squad for their series against Bangladesh.

Kraigg Brathwaite scored 126 in the first innings of the second test to bring up his first test century as captain of the West Indies and it effectively ended his lean patch with the bat in tests.

Kraigg Brathwaite followed it up with a well composed 85 runs in the second innings in a test match which ended up in a draw and he was awarded man of the match for his batting efforts throughout the test match.

Kraigg Brathwaite scored 160 in the first innings, his tenth test century and occupied the crease for a whopping 700 minutes by batting for 11 hours.

Kraigg Brathwaite remained unbeaten on 56 facing 184 balls on the final day of the test match and received the player of the match award for his long marathon efforts with the bat in both the innings which helped West Indies to snatch a tense draw from the jaws of defeat when heading into the final hours of the day's play.

Kraigg Brathwaite spent 15 hours and 45 minutes at the crease in both the innings of the match and broke his own West Indies record of having spent the most number of minutes at the crease.

Kraigg Brathwaite meanwhile set a new record for facing the most number of deliveries by a West Indian batter in a test match when he faced a record 673 deliveries across both the innings of the match.

Kraigg Brathwaite set a record for the third longest ever marathon batting in a test match by a batter in terms of minutes, spending 955 minutes at the crease just behind Hanif Mohammad's 970+ minutes which was set in 1958 against West Indies at Barbados and Stephen Fleming's 956 minutes in 2003 against Sri Lanka.

On 6th February 2023, Kraigg Brathwaite scored his 12th test century against Zimbabwe.

Kraigg Brathwaite scored 182 runs and put record breaking 336 run partnership with Tagenarine Chanderpaul.