darren bravo Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
darren bravo is a cricketer(sportsman) from West Indies. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Darren Michael Bravo
Born
February 06, 1989, Trinidad
Age
34 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Fielding Position
Occasional Wicketkeeper
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 56 | 122 | 26 | 1 |
Inn | 102 | 117 | 22 | 1 |
Runs | 3538 | 3109 | 405 | 6 |
Avg | 36.1 | 29.61 | 21.32 | 0.0 |
SR | 44.86 | 70.12 | 106.86 | 120.0 |
HS | 218 | 124 | 43 | 6 |
NO | 4 | 12 | 3 | 1 |
100s | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 17 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
4s | 405 | 252 | 32 | 1 |
6s | 41 | 75 | 14 | 0 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 56 | 122 | 26 | 1 |
Inn | 1 | - | - | - |
Balls | 6 | - | - | - |
Runs | 2 | - | - | - |
Wkt | 0 | - | - | - |
BBI | 2 / 0 | - | - | - |
BBM | 2 / 0 | - | - | - |
Eco | 2.0 | - | - | - |
Avg | 0.0 | - | - | - |
5W | 0 | - | - | - |
10W | 0 | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- DJ Bravo
- West Indies
- Bengal Tigers
- Comilla Victorians
- Deccan Chargers
- Kolkata Knight Riders
- Multan Sultans
- Nottinghamshire
- St Kitts and Nevis Patriots
- Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Toronto Nationals
- Trinbago Knight Riders
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Trinidad & Tobago Under-19s
- Trinidad & Tobago XI
- UWI Vice Chancellor's Celebrity XI
- West Indies A
- West Indies Board President's XI
- West Indies Select XI
- West Indies Under-19s
- West Indies XI
- Winnipeg Hawks
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
It seems to come naturally to the Trinidadian and is almost in the blood too. Lara's mother and Darren's mother are first cousins. Imitations often tend to lose their charm after a while. It is usually the first sight that draws attention and it seemed to be the same with Darren too for a while, as he failed to impress in his initial outings in International cricket. He managed just one fifty (against Canada) in his first 12 ODI appearances and looked to be an unfinished product. He got a chance in Tests more than a year and half after his ODI debut against India in 2009. The longer format seemed to be to the youngster's liking and he made a good start against Sri Lanka with fifties in his first two Test innings.
Four more fifties followed in his next seven Tests, but doubts still lingered over his ability as he couldn't convert starts into a big score. It eventually came in his 10th Test, against Bangladesh in Dhaka in 2011. Bravo seemed determined to join a select few batsmen, who had managed to convert their first Test ton into a double. He came agonisingly close, but fell five short of the mark. Nevertheless, this innings seemed to clear the doubts in his mind and his critics' too about his temperament in the longest format.
His next assignment was an even tougher one. India is one of the toughest places to tour, but Darren took an immediate liking to the challenge in front of him and ended up as the highest-scorer on either side in the three-match series. He also managed to do what his idol, Lara, had failed to do - score a Test ton in India. Darren had two at the end of his first tour of India. He joined Jimmy Adams as the only two West Indian batsmen to aggregate more than 400 runs in a three-match series against India. Adding to the already growing comparison with Lara, Bravo had the exact number of runs as Lara had after his first 12 Tests.
Bravo was bought by Hyderabad for $100,000 at the 2012 Indian Premier League auction, but missed the competition because it clashed with Australia's tour of the West Indies in March and April.
After scoring just 48 runs in the five-match ODI series, Bravo was dropped for the T20Is against the same opponent, so he could return to domestic cricket to find form ahead of the Test series. With 184 runs in three Tests, Bravo was West Indies' second-highest run-scorer in the series behind Shivnarine Chanderpaul and sixth overall. The selectors gave him a good run and he did not disappoint them. He then, compiled a sensational double-hundred against New Zealand under extreme pressure which helped West Indies draw the Dunedin Test in a dramatic manner.
He scored his first ODI century against Zimbabwe in 2013. He did fairly well and cemented his place in the side. During the tour of India, he hit a hat-trick of fifties in the three-match ODI series, but his form dipped soon after and could not manage any significant contributions.
The junior Bravo was allegedly involved in a controversial Twitter message on his personal account where he described the then President of WICB Dave Cameron as a \"Big Idiot\". Bravo later challenged the WICB to prove the allegations which further led decline in central contracts for the period 2016-17.
The issue was put to rest with mutual apology between Bravo and the WICB. And on 14 July 2017, Cameron revealed that the doors are open for Bravo to make a comeback into the side.
By Ganesh Chandrasekaran
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Darren Bravo is living proof that imitation is the best form of flattery and learning. Growing up, he followed cricket only to watch Brian Lara, his cousin. As soon as Lara got out, Bravo would switch off the TV and go out to bat.
The player he eventually became was not quite the Prince, but a talented left-hand batter with the same walk, the same backlift, the same flourish, the same footwork, the same mannerisms, and incredibly, for a while, the same stats as well - their runs and batting average were identical after their first 12 Tests.
But Bravo's career hasn't been as prolific thereafter, partly due to disagreements with the West Indies board (not that Lara didn't have his fair share of those).
For all his talent, Bravo, who is the half-brother of West Indies' legendary allrounder Dwayne Bravo, took a while to get to his first international hundred. But once he got going, two years after his debut, he reeled off three Test centuries in the space of a month, starting with 195 in Mirpur, followed by 136 in Kolkata and 166 in Mumbai in 2011.
He scored his first ODI hundred against Zimbabwe in 2013. Later that year, he made a Test double in Dunedin, batting for over nine and a half hours to save the Test after West Indies were forced to follow on.
But when he pulled out of part of the white-ball leg of the New Zealand series, a tour of South Africa in 2014, and later, the 2016 T20 World Cup, it looked unlikely that he would succeed Shivnarine Chanderpaul as West Indies' batting mainstay.
In 2016, he was sent home from an ODI tri-series in Zimbabwe after he referred to board chairman Dave Cameron as a "big idiot" for suggesting that Bravo was offered a grade C contract due to his slipping batting average. Bravo's contract was revoked, and in response, he launched a damages claim against the WICB. He returned to international cricket in 2018, and scored a Test half-century in a ten-wicket win over England in Antigua early the following year.