Bridgetown, Barbados, August 10 - (
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) - Kraigg Brathwaite has now gone where no other batsman in the 40-year history of the island's top one-day competition has.
Again underlining his huge appetite for centuries, the champion Barbados first-class captain and West Indies Test opener set a new record in the BCA Sagicor General Super Cup championship with his sixth hundred and second in succession as CounterPoint Wanderers beat last year's finalists CGI Maple by 82 runs in a key Zone ''B match at Dayrells Road.
The 21-year-old Brathwaite scored 103 to lay the foundation for a total of 245 for eight off 50 overs after Wanderers lost the toss. He added 155 in 30.1 overs for the third wicket with Jonathan Drakes, who made 84.
Brathwaite faced 135 balls and struck ten fours while Drakes, like Brathwaite, a former Combermere School and West Indies Under-19 team player, also counted ten boundaries in his 95-ball knock.
Medium-pacers Khalid Springer and Kirk Brome each took four for 44 and 48 respectively.
Set a revised target of 244 in 47 overs following an interruption for rain, Maple were bowled out for 161 in 43.3 overs.
Seamers were again in the picture with Jerome Stuart grabbing three for 19, Diego Stuart three for 44 and former Barbados captain and West Indies player Ian Bradshaw, two for 27.
In the second series on July 6 and his first match of the 2014 tournament, Brathwaite scored an unbeaten 105 against Caribbean Alliance/Akobah Gardens Foundation at Church Hill.
He has now overtaken three batsmen in scoring the most centuries in the championship, which started in 1975. They are: Philo Wallace (Spartan), Romel Currency (UWI) and Dwayne Smith (YMPC).
While Wallace, Smith and Currency all hit their five centuries for their clubs, Brathwaite's first two hundreds were for Guardian General Barbados Youth and the other four for Wanderers.
