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Monday, July 14, 2025

Brathwaite looking to carry on surreal journey ahead of 100th Test cap

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Former West Indies Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite ready for his 100th Test match.

Former West Indies Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite ready for his 100th Test match.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grena­da – For­mer West In­dies cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite will etch his name in­to crick­et his­to­ry yes­ter­day as he be­comes just the tenth West In­di­an to play 100 Test match­es.

The mile­stone, reached in Grena­da, ce­ments Brath­waite’s lega­cy as one of the re­gion’s most re­silient and ded­i­cat­ed crick­eters.

Re­flect­ing on the achieve­ment, an emo­tion­al Brath­waite ad­mit­ted that the jour­ney has been sur­re­al and he is look­ing to lap up all the emo­tions.

“It means every­thing. Words to de­scribe it would be pret­ty tough. You al­ways want­ed to play for the West In­dies as a young­ster, but to play 100 Tests was a dream.”

The 32-year-old open­er re­called a child­hood in­ter­view that fore­shad­owed his re­mark­able jour­ney from his days as a skin­ny lit­tle kid from Black Rock in St. Michael, Bar­ba­dos, who looked ma­ture be­yond his years every time he came out to bat.

“I’ll nev­er for­get when I was a teenag­er, just 14 years old, and I did an in­ter­view. They asked me what my goals were, and I re­mem­ber say­ing one of them was to play 100 Tests. To see that come true af­ter 14 years with the West In­dies is quite amaz­ing.”

Brath­waite, who av­er­aged over 77 in 2022 and earned a spot in the ICC Test Team of the Year, hopes his sto­ry will in­spire the next gen­er­a­tion.

“I just want to be a role mod­el, to hope­ful­ly in­spire even just one young­ster in the Caribbean to set their goals ear­ly. Whether it’s 100 Tests, 300 ODIs, or play­ing in fran­chis­es world­wide, the key is to set a tar­get and work re­lent­less­ly, through the highs and lows, to achieve it.”

De­spite re­cent chal­lenges where the runs have not been flow­ing as he would have liked, Brath­waite re­mains con­fi­dent in his abil­i­ty to con­tribute.

“I still have that be­lief. I feel ready and rar­ing to go. Test crick­et is a grind, es­pe­cial­ly as an open­er; it’s nev­er easy. You face ups and downs, but men­tal strength is what de­fines you. I know I still have more to give.”

His ad­vice for as­pir­ing crick­eters was sim­ple yet pow­er­ful: “Dream big first. Set your goals from a young age. Then, you’ve got to work hard, red-ball crick­et is a long jour­ney, but with de­ter­mi­na­tion, any­thing is pos­si­ble.”

(CMC)


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