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Craig Brathwaite set a record for playing 100 Tests but looking at his batting average 32.65, the discussion has started whether he is the weakest expert batsman ever played 100 Tests. Despite being close to 6000 runs, his average is far behind the rest of the legendary batsmen.
Delhi: West Indies Crag Brathwaite is now named in the list of players who played 100 Tests. This record was made in St. Georgus, Granada Test and till the writing of this report has been a game of first two days in the Test. The 10th cricketer of the West Indies, who made a record of 100 Tests and the list includes big names like Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd, Brian Lara and Gordon Greenies.
In the last few years, he played the identity of West Indies cricket in the Brathwaite Test format and he had 5943 runs with 12 centuries in 99 Tests, at the time of the start of this 100th Test. Expert batsmen who have reached a record of 100 Tests so far, one of the least talked about them can count Brathwaite and the reason for its reason is very funny. See :
Cramp Braithwaite performance in Test format
- In his first 99 Tests, Brathwaite has played the most balls against any other West Indies batsman. He had 14537 balls and after playing Granada’s first innings is a record 14545.
- He was only 14 years old when he said that one day he would play 100 Tests for the West Indies. After 18 years, this dream was fulfilled.
- His first Test and his name is a unique record of getting out at 0 in an innings in his 100th Test.
- In today’s T20 cricket era, a very surprising fact is that they have not played a single T20 match till now. This is not just a record of international cricket, there is no T20 match in their profile even at the domestic level.
- In Test history, alone openers who were not dismissed in both innings of Tests (against Pakistan, Sharjah, 2016).
- In the last 10 years, before this 100th Test, Brathwaite had scored 8 centuries in 77 Tests and the remaining sub openers of the West Indies together scored only 1 century in 79 Tests.
- Carl Hooper and Chris Gayle are only the third Windies cricketer who plays 100 Tests, scorers and 5 wickets.
- The funniest record is that he reached 100 Tests and despite being an expert batsman in the count, his batting average was just 32.83. Out of those who played 100 Tests, this is the most waller record of expert batsmen.
- The interesting thing is that this average fell to 32.65 due to his dismissal in the first innings of the 100th Test.
Brathwaite is the batsman to play 100 Tests?
Due to this poor average, the discussion began that he is the batsman to play 100 Tests? In 100 Tests, his average of less than 32.65 average only Kapil Dev, Sean Pollock, Daniel Vettori, Mark Boucher, Ian Heela, R Ashwin, Chaminda Vas, Wasim Akram, Stuart Broad, Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Shane Warne, Tim Southee, Muralitharan, Nathan Lione, James Anderson, Makhaya Antinea Antin, And Glenn is of McGrag and note that none of these experts are batsmen.
Those whose names are 100 Tests and 12 centuries, the lowest batting average of the 60 cricketers is Brathwaite. Out of those who played 100 Tests or not, according to the average of at least 5000 runs, the average average of Brathwaite is only Kapil Dev (31.05) and Mark Boucher (30.30) and if the record of Brathwaite comes down from them, it will not be surprising.
The truth is that Brathwaite has 5943 runs in Granada till the first innings, that is, he is very close to the record of 6000 runs. If Brathwaite does not do anything amazing, then the record of the worst average of at least 6000 Test runs will be in the name of Brathwaite.
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