IT’S BEEN ALMOST 18 years since two Barbadians scored a century in the same Test innings. Kraigg Brathwaite and Shai Hope did it yesterday to give West Indies the advantage over England after the second day of the second Test at Headingley, Leeds.
Brathwaite, 24, scored 134 to complete his sixth Test hundred and third away from home, while Hope, 23, made an unbeaten 147 – his first Test century as the Caribbean side closed the day on 329 for five in response to England’s 258.
It was the first time that two Barbadians passed three digits in the same Test innings since December 1999 when Sherwin Campbell and Adrian Griffith featured in an opening stand of 276 against New Zealand at Seddon Park in Hamilton. (BARBADOS NATION)