Dwayne Bravo: Elegant Caribbean all-rounder
The West Indies’ http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dwayne-John-Bravo-c54833 is an energetic and elegant all-rounder that has the ability to win matches. His aggressive batting style and clever bowling has earned him the respect and adoration of many of the top players in the world. Bravo has plenty
of variations in his bowling and is capable of delivering an excellent slower one which is almost impossible to play by many batsmen. His dynamic fielding in the ground along with his skill of quick running between the wickets, has placed him in the category
of being one of the finest all-rounders in the world. Bravo has the capability to lift his team in crunch situations and perform on big occasions like the ICC World Cup 2011.
Bravo launched his domestic career for Trinidad and Tobago in 2002 and also represented his country in the ICC Under-19 World Cup in the same year. He scored a stunning first-class century and a month later, he was called for the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 A squad. In
early 2003 he made one more domestic hundred, but it was a spell of 6-11 which forced selectors to pick him for the national side. Bravo made his One Day International debut against the English side in 2004, where he picked up a couple of wickets in his very
first game.
The West Indians entry in the international circuit solved the team’s problem of not having a genuine all-rounder in the side. The right-handed cricketer has become one of the West Indies' most dependable and trustworthy players. He is fully competent of
playing big strokes, and with the ball he can contain batsmen with his yorkers, towards the end of the innings. His brother Darren Bravo is also a splendid international cricketer, playing in this World Cup.
Bravo played his first Test match in 2004 at Lord’s where he picked up 3 crucial wickets in the first innings with his medium-paced swingers. He showed his class in 5-day cricket, scoring plenty of runs in that striking series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013. Jeff Dujon,
former West Indies’ wicket-keeper, believes that Bravo can change the tide during any match, as his bowling and batting skills are superb.
His ankle injury in 2008 ruled him out of competitive cricket for 8 months. He later returned full of energy and completely focused. Bravo has also played for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 where he
got more wickets than anybody else in the competition. The player was West Indies’ highest wicket taker at the ICC World T20 in 2009, with 10 wickets, and also scored 154 runs at a strike-rate of 145.28.
Bravo has played 109 ODI’s in his career so far, in which he scored 1786 at an average of 24.46. He is more successful in the bowling department, where he has picked up 132 wickets averaging 28.82. His maiden century came in 2006 against England on an Indian
surface, while he has 4 for 19 as his best bowling figures. The 27-year-old all-rounder is one of 13 West Indies players to have taken 100 ODI wickets or more.
Bravo, nicknamed as ‘Johnny’, has been in good bowling form in the last two years. In 2009 and 2010, he has taken 31 wickets at an average of 22.83. He has made six fifty-plus scores in ODI’s coming into the 2011 World Cup.
He was a part of the Caribbean 2007 World Cup squad, though he had a poor tournament with the bat. In 9 World Cup games, he averaged only 21.50, but was better with the ball, picking up 13 wickets. Bravo has a significant role to play in World Cup and he
is expected to assist the West Indies as they attempt to write themselves into the history books, as they go for the gold.
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