Zoom News : Nov 05, 2021, 07:40 AM
T20 World Cup | Dwayne Bravo, one of the finest all-rounders of the West Indies, has announced his retirement after the defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup on Thursday. He will play the last international match of his career against Australia on Saturday. This second victory in Sri Lanka's T20 World Cup in five matches also ended West Indies' true hopes of reaching the semi-finals. Australia and South Africa are now in the race for a place in the last four from Group One, while England have already secured a place in the semi-finals.On this occasion, Bravo said, "I think the time has come to retire. My career has been great. In representing the West Indies for 18 years, I have seen many ups and downs. I am very grateful to represent my team and the love that the Caribbean people have showered on me for so long is just wonderful. 20 World Cup in his name. He has played a total of 90 T20 matches for West Indies so far and has scored 1245 runs. Apart from this, he has also taken 78 wickets.In this match against Sri Lanka, Bravo could not show anything special with both the ball and the bat. Batting first, Sri Lanka made a strong score of 189 runs for three wickets in 20 overs. Here Bravo plundered 42 runs in his quota of four overs and he got only Pathun Nisanka's wicket during this period. After this, when it came to batting, this veteran West Indies player got clean bowled on the ball of Wanindu Hasranga after scoring 2 runs in 3 balls. Shimron Hetmyer played a blistering innings of 81 runs in 54 balls for the team. His innings was not enough to win and thus the two-time world champion West Indies was knocked out of the tournament.