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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Bravo to make about turn

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He re­tired from Test crick­et last year and many thought it was too soon but Dwayne Bra­vo is like­ly to make an about turn and make him­self avail­able for Test crick­et again.

Sources close to the all-rounder said he is show­ing an in­ter­est in­to com­ing back in­to Test crick­et un­der the new coach Phil Sim­mons. "Dwayne made a call on his Test ca­reer at a dif­fi­cult time but has since re­alised that there is still a place in Test crick­et for him and un­der the new coach, he is like­ly to make a turn and make him­self avail­able."

The source added that this call from Bra­vo is like­ly to come soon, as he looks to get back in­to "whites" where he has a de­cent record as an all-rounder.

"Peo­ple are say­ing that the West In­dies team needs a fifth bowler and that by hav­ing Ja­son Hold­er on the team, the bal­ance is not right. How­ev­er, hav­ing Ja­son Hold­er there, opens the team for a re­turn for Bra­vo be­cause you can now sac­ri­fice a bats­man and bring in Bra­vo who to­geth­er with Hold­er will give you runs and be able to take wick­ets."

Bra­vo has played 40 Test match­es, scored 2,200 runs at an av­er­age of 31.42 with three cen­turies, 13 half cen­turies and a best score of 113. In the bowl­ing de­part­ment he has tak­en 86 wick­ets at 39.93 with a best of 6/55. Bra­vo was re­cent­ly re­moved as cap­tain of the West In­dies ODI team and re­placed by Hold­er. This came af­ter he led a walk­out of the tour of In­dia last year, af­ter a pay­ment struc­ture dis­pute with the WICB and the West In­dies Play­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (WIPA) reared its head.

He was, how­ev­er, cho­sen for the West In­dies T20 team for their tour of South Africa in Jan­u­ary and is cur­rent­ly per­form­ing well for the Chen­nai Su­per Kings in the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) in In­dia.

When he re­turns he will start prepa­ra­tions to lead the T&T Red Steel in the up­com­ing third edi­tion of the Caribbean Pre­mier League T20 tour­na­ment.


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