Carlos Brathwaite Character Analysis
If only the West Indies team was picked to optimize their players' strengths
By Zaheer E. Clarke
A tall, lissome and athletic 17-year-old young man from Chelsea Road in Bay Land, Barbados was once picked as a fast bowler to represent the West Indies Test team. By today's standards, he would have been thought too young to have a glass of red wine much less be handed a red ball to pelt at batsmen in international cricket. Unsurprisingly, in his first match at Sabina Park, like most fast bowlers, he was placed in the lower order to bat, specifically at number nine in the lineup. At the end of a career spanning 18 years for West Indies, this young man played 93 matches in all. Interestingly, that first match turned out to be the first and last …show more content…
In final over of the World Cup finals, Braithwaite facing an improbable situation, sent West Indian fans ecstatic in everlasting joy with four swipes, each for six, to snatch the …show more content…
Unfortunately for the last match against India at Sabina Park, though having the best career batting average in the team of 45, with three half-centuries in five innings, Brathwaite was dropped. Brathwaite, as many have indicated, has been picked as a bowling all-rounder, however, he is the best batsman in the team.
The selectors need to adjust how they view Brathwaite's role in the team and optimize obviously his batting talent. Sri Lanka did it with Angelo Mathews, a bowling all-rounder whose batting talent rose to prominence in 2014 when he topped Test batting averages for batsmen with 1000 plus runs. In a similar vein, Australia adjusted Steven Smith's role in the team from a legspinner who could bat a bit coming in at number eight in their lineup to their number three batsman and captain. Smith is now the number one batsman in the world averaging almost 60 in
By Zaheer E. Clarke
A tall, lissome and athletic 17-year-old young man from Chelsea Road in Bay Land, Barbados was once picked as a fast bowler to represent the West Indies Test team. By today's standards, he would have been thought too young to have a glass of red wine much less be handed a red ball to pelt at batsmen in international cricket. Unsurprisingly, in his first match at Sabina Park, like most fast bowlers, he was placed in the lower order to bat, specifically at number nine in the lineup. At the end of a career spanning 18 years for West Indies, this young man played 93 matches in all. Interestingly, that first match turned out to be the first and last …show more content…
In final over of the World Cup finals, Braithwaite facing an improbable situation, sent West Indian fans ecstatic in everlasting joy with four swipes, each for six, to snatch the …show more content…
Unfortunately for the last match against India at Sabina Park, though having the best career batting average in the team of 45, with three half-centuries in five innings, Brathwaite was dropped. Brathwaite, as many have indicated, has been picked as a bowling all-rounder, however, he is the best batsman in the team.
The selectors need to adjust how they view Brathwaite's role in the team and optimize obviously his batting talent. Sri Lanka did it with Angelo Mathews, a bowling all-rounder whose batting talent rose to prominence in 2014 when he topped Test batting averages for batsmen with 1000 plus runs. In a similar vein, Australia adjusted Steven Smith's role in the team from a legspinner who could bat a bit coming in at number eight in their lineup to their number three batsman and captain. Smith is now the number one batsman in the world averaging almost 60 in