Carlos Ricardo Brathwaite (born 18 July 1988) is a

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er from

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and a former captain of the West Indies

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(T20I) team. He was a key member of the West Indies team that won the 2016 T20 World Cup, and his most notable innings was when he helped the team to win the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 Final with an innings of 34 not-out off 10 balls. Brathwaite hit the winning six to help the West Indies clinch their second T20 world title.

International career

Brathwaite made his T20I debut for the West Indies against

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on 11 October 2011. He made his

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debut seven days later in the same series. He made his

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debut for the West Indies in the Second Test against Australia at the

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on 26 December 2015. Needing 19 to win in the last over of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 final against England, Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes in the first four balls of the over to enable the West Indies to win their second World Twenty20 title. This was his debut World Cup. He was the first player for the West Indies to hit four consecutive sixes in a T20I match. In August 2016, Brathwaite was named the captain of the

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team for their

matches against India in

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later that month. On 8 March 2018, during the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier match against

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at the Old Hararians in

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, Brathwaite took his first

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in ODIs. In April 2019, he was named in the West Indies' squad for the

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. On 22 June 2019, in the match against

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, Brathwaite scored his first century in ODIs. He was caught on the boundary for what would have been a match-winning six.

Domestic and T20 franchise career

In April 2016, he made his

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(IPL) debut for Delhi Daredevils. He spent a number of years playing domestic cricket in Ireland, with Dublin-based Leinster Cricket Club, and in 2009 he won the Bob Kerr Irish Senior Cup, defeating Donemena CC in the final. In January 2018, he was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2018 IPL auction and in May was signed by

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to play in the 2018 Vitality Blast tournament in England. In October 2018,

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(CWI) awarded him a white-ball contract for the 2018–19 season. Later the same month, he was named in the squad for Khulna Titans following the draft for the

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and in October captained Combined Campuses and Colleges to their first Regional Super 50 title. In December 2018, he was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for the

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. In October 2019, Brathwaite was again named as captain of Combined Campuses for the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament. In July 2020, he was named in the Jamaica Tallawahs squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League and in October was drafted by the Dambulla Viiking for the inaugural edition of the

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. Brathwaite signed for Birmingham Bears for the 2021 T20 Blast and in July 2022 was signed by the Kandy Falcons for the 2022 Lanka Premier League.

Personal life

Carlos Brathwaite married his longtime girlfriend Jessica Felix in June 2018. The couple have a daughter.

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