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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Qureshi: More to Bravo than just taking wickets

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Vinode Mamchan
1825 days ago
20200827
Chairman of CCUSA Mahammad Qureshi, left, and Dwayne Bravo at the US Open.

Chairman of CCUSA Mahammad Qureshi, left, and Dwayne Bravo at the US Open.

Crick­et Coun­cil USA (CCUSA) has sent out con­grat­u­la­tions to West In­dies and Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) play­er Dwayne Bra­vo on his feat of be­com­ing the first play­er to take 500 wick­ets in T20 crick­et.

Bra­vo achieved the feat on Wednes­day when he took the wick­et of Rakheem Corn­wall in the TKR ver­sus Zouks HERO Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) match at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain.

How­ev­er, chair­man of CCUSA Ma­ham­mad Qureshi says there is so much more to Bra­vo that tak­ing wick­ets in crick­et match­es.

"Dwayne Bra­vo is a great hu­man be­ing. We at CCUSA are so hap­py for what he has achieved in terms of 500 wick­ets in T20 crick­et be­cause that is very dif­fi­cult. I think that it has dif­fer­en­ti­at­ed him amongst crick­eters and he will be re­mem­bered as a leg­end of the for­mat when he calls it a day, hope­ful­ly not soon.

"What I am more thrilled about when it comes to Bra­vo is his hu­man na­ture. What an in­di­vid­ual he is and he ex­tends his hand all the time to as­sist peo­ple. I met him a cou­ple of years ago when I in­vit­ed him and his broth­er Dar­ren to come to play at the US Open T20 Tour­na­ment for the US All Stars crick­et team.

"That was a sig­nif­i­cant mo­ment for US crick­et be­cause he came and what he did for Ali Khan has all Amer­i­can crick­eters be­liev­ing that they can make it big," said Qureshi al­so re­mem­ber­ing: "When Bra­vo came up he met with Ali Khan who was al­so a part of the US All Stars team. This was their first meet­ing and af­ter play­ing the tour­na­ment he want­ed to find out more about Ali be­cause he was hap­py with the young man's bowl­ing.

"Bra­vo then arranged to take him to Cana­da for the Glob­al T20 and then he as­sist­ed in hav­ing him on his team the TKR and look at the suc­cess Ali has be­come. He is now a star in Amer­i­can crick­et and be­cause of what Bra­vo did for him all the young crick­eters in Amer­i­ca think that a door is now open for them."

DWAYNE BRA­VO T20 STATS

First T20 wick­et - Scott Styris 2006

500th T20 wick­et - Rah­keem Corn­wall 2020

500* - Dwayne Bra­vo be­came the first bowler to take 500 wick­ets in T20 crick­et. And he is so far ahead of his com­pe­ti­tion. The next man on the list, La­sith Ma­lin­ga, has on­ly 390 wick­ets. Bra­vo was al­so the first bowler to reach the mile­stones of 300 wick­ets (in Au­gust 2014) and 400 wick­ets (De­cem­ber 2017). Bra­vo has al­so played the sec­ond most T20 match­es (458) be­hind Kieron Pol­lard (504). Dirk Nannes was the first to 100 and 200 wick­ets mile­stone in the for­mat.

87 - Wick­ets for Bra­vo in the year 2016, which was his most pro­lif­ic year in T20s. His tal­ly is the sec­ond-high­est for a bowler in a cal­en­dar year, be­hind Rashid Khan's 96 in 2018. Bra­vo was the top wick­et-tak­er in 2015 (69 wick­ets) and 2016 (87 wick­ets).

147 - Num­ber of wick­ets for Bra­vo in IPL, hist best in a par­tic­u­lar T20 league. He al­so com­plet­ed 100 wick­ets in the Caribbean Pre­mier League, the first to that. He al­so be­came the first bowler to take 100 wick­ets in two dif­fer­ent T20 leagues.

118 - Wick­ets were tak­en by Bra­vo for Chen­nai Su­per Kings, his most for a team. His next best is 100 for TKR (when he took the 500th wick­et), fol­lowed by 59 for West In­dies.

103 - Wick­ets for Bra­vo as cap­tain in T20s. He is one of on­ly three play­ers to have tak­en 100-plus wick­ets as cap­tain in the for­mat. Shak­ib Al Hasan (137) and Mashrafe Mor­taza (114) are the oth­ers. How­ev­er, the last time Bra­vo cap­tained in T20s was in the fi­nal of 2018 CPL.

5/23 - Bra­vo's fig­ures in the se­mi-fi­nal of 2015 CPL against Ja­maica Tallawahs. He had be­come the first cap­tain to take a five-wick­et haul in a knock­out game in T20 his­to­ry. On­ly one cap­tain has since em­u­lat­ed him: Farhad Reza, with 5 for 32 for Prime Dolesh­war Sport­ing Club against Prime Bank Crick­et Club in Dha­ka Pre­mier Di­vi­sion T20 league 2019. Bra­vo's 5 for 23 are al­so his best ca­reer fig­ures. He has an­oth­er five-for in T20s, 5 for 28 for Mel­bourne Rene­gades against Ho­bart Hur­ri­canes in 2017.


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