Careless cricket

Darren Bravo

By Tony Cozier
At the ICC World Cup
In DELHI

For an hour and half on Thursday afternoon, the young left-hander rapidly developing into the next in the long line of great West Indian batsmen lit up the overcast Feroz Shah Kotla stadium here with an array of strokes uncannily reminiscent of his immediate predecessor and, as it happens, blood relation.

Once Darren Bravo’s dazzling display was ended by Johan Botha, an off-spinner with an action stretching legality beyond even its relaxed limits, a familiar anti-climax followed for the West Indies.

The younger of the two Bravo’s main scoring shots in 73 off 82 balls were a dismissive, one-handed six over long-on from debutant leg-spinner Imran Tahir and seven fours