Thomas Sebastiaan Braat (born 14 November 1992) is a Dutch international

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er who made his debut for the Dutch national side in July 2012. He is a right-arm pace bowler. The younger brother of Marloes Braat, who played for the Dutch women's team, Braat was born in

Vlaardingen Vlaardingen () is a city in South Holland in the Netherlands. It is located on the north bank of the Nieuwe Maas river at the confluence with the Oude Maas. The municipality administers an area of , of which is land, with residents in . Geogr ...

South Holland South Holland ( nl, Zuid-Holland ) is a province of the Netherlands with a population of over 3.7 million as of October 2021 and a population density of about , making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely ...

. He represented the Dutch under-19s at the 2009 and 2010 editions of the

ICC Europe Under-19 Championships ICC U19 Cricket World Cup Europe Qualifier (formerly ICC Europe Under-19 Championships) are a series of regular cricket tournaments organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as the European qualifier for the Under-19 Cricket World Cup ...

, and also at the 2009 Under-19 World Cup Qualifier. Braat made his senior debut for the Netherlands in July 2012, in an Intercontinental Cup fixture against the

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...

(which held first-class status). He played a second Intercontinental Cup game the following year, against

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

. In July 2019, he was named in the Dutch squad for the

Twenty20 International A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), in which each team faces a maximum of twenty overs. The matches have top-class status and are the ...

(T20I) series against the United Arab Emirates. He made his T20I debut for the Netherlands against the

on 5 August 2019. In April 2020, he was one of seventeen Dutch-based cricketers to be named in the team's senior squad.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Braat, Sebastiaan 1992 births Living people Dutch cricketers People from Vlaardingen Netherlands Twenty20 International cricketers Sportspeople from South Holland