‘Andre Russell now is our Chris Gayle, our Brian Lara’
Andre Russell is one of the most worthwhile players in T20 cricket, and now his West Indies workforce-mate Dwayne Bravo has likened the Jamaican to “our Chris Gayle, our Brian Lara” in T20Is. Bravo’s praise arrived in the wake of Russell’s impactful return for the duration of the two-match T20I collection in Sri Lanka, which was also the initially series he played for West Indies considering the fact that staying dominated out of the 2019 Entire world Cup thanks to an harm.
West Indies gained the collection 2- with Russell actively playing a massive hand, scoring 35 off 14 balls in the very first T20I and 40 off 14 in the second. The latter was, in distinct, a whirlwind knock as Russell packed six sixes to insert to the four he strike in the 1st match, ample to fetch the Player-of-the-Sequence award.
“He’s the very best in the planet,” Bravo, who was element of the West Indies side, said in praise of Russell in a chat with Trinidad-primarily based radio station I955 FM on Friday. “It’s the exact I utilised to say of Chris Gayle when Chris Gayle was in his key – we are content to have him symbolizing us, we did not have to appear up and bowl towards him in an intercontinental match. It is really the similar with Andre Russell. Andre Russell now is our Chris Gayle, is our Brian Lara, in the T20 format. He is the celebrity.”
