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Thursday, July 17, 2025

TTCB salutes Dwayne Bravo's 500th T20 wicket

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1786 days ago
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Dwayne Bravo, centre, and Muhammad Ali Khan, right, of Trinbago Knight Riders walk onto the field during the Hero Caribbean Premier League match  between Trinbago Knight Riders and Guyana Amazon Warriors at Brian Lara Cricket Academy on August 18 in Tarouba, San Fernando. (Photo by Randy Brooks - CPL T20/CPL T20 via Getty Images)

Dwayne Bravo, centre, and Muhammad Ali Khan, right, of Trinbago Knight Riders walk onto the field during the Hero Caribbean Premier League match between Trinbago Knight Riders and Guyana Amazon Warriors at Brian Lara Cricket Academy on August 18 in Tarouba, San Fernando. (Photo by Randy Brooks - CPL T20/CPL T20 via Getty Images)

Randy Brooks - CPL T20

The T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) has con­grat­u­lat­ed Dwayne Bra­vo on his mo­men­tous achieve­ment of be­com­ing the first-ever crick­eter to take 500 wick­ets in T20 crick­et.

The 36-year-old all­rounder, who plays with the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR), wrote his name in­to the crick­et his­to­ry books on Wednes­day in the 13th match of the cur­rent Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) be­ing played in T&T.

Bra­vo had Rakheem Corn­wall caught by Col­in Munro for 18 to claim the feat on his home ground at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain as the Knight Rid­ers kept their un­beat­en record in the 2020 tour­na­ment in­tact with a con­vinc­ing win against the St Lu­cia Zouks by the Duck­worth-Lewis Method in a rain-af­fect­ed en­counter.

How­ev­er, his mo­ment of glo­ry could not be marked by the cus­tom­ary spon­ta­neous erup­tion of joy and cel­e­brat­ed by home fans as the tour­na­ment is be­ing played in emp­ty sta­di­ums in ad­her­ence to strict COVID-19 pan­dem­ic reg­u­la­tions.

Pres­i­dent of TTCB, Az­im Bas­sarath said that the en­tire crick­et fra­ter­ni­ty will nonethe­less be cel­e­brat­ing with Bra­vo since he has be­come the most recog­nis­able face of the short­est for­mat of the game wher­ev­er the game is played.

There was dou­ble cel­e­bra­tion for Bra­vo as he al­so be­came the first bowler to reach 100 wick­ets in CPL, hav­ing played all his match­es in the re­gion­al fran­chise tour­na­ment for his na­tive Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers.

He not­ed that Bra­vo has not dis­ap­point­ed those who placed their faith in his re­mark­able abil­i­ty as a crick­eter and in­spi­ra­tional leader since an­nounc­ing his en­try in­to the T20 game play­ing for T&T in the Stan­ford T20 tour­na­ment in An­tigua, which was a pre­cur­sor to the fran­chise which has cap­tured the imag­i­na­tion of crick­et lovers.

Bra­vo is al­so a dou­ble ICC World Cup T20 win­ner (2012 and 2016) with the West In­dies and has cap­tained the re­gion­al team in all for­mats of the game. He con­tin­ues to be a huge draw­ing card for T20 fans around the world and has been the tal­is­man in the TKR team's dom­i­nance in the Hero CPL since its in­cep­tion.

"Bra­vo de­serves all the salu­ta­tions and com­men­da­tions for this out­stand­ing achieve­ment, the lat­est in a star-stud­ded ca­reer, which stands tes­ti­mo­ny to his re­silience, com­mit­ment, and ded­i­ca­tion to the game of crick­et. He is a true ex­em­plar and role mod­el for all young peo­ple who as­pire to re­alise their fullest po­ten­tial. Dwayne has made all of T&T proud," said Bas­sarath.


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