Within recent years there have been several finishers who have named themselves as FINISHER. All finishers are batsmen but not all batsmen are finishers. That means not every player has the nerves of steel to deal with critical increasing run rate conditions. This batting style asks smashing 4s and 6s at will and a team needs a reliable player as such. Here we go with “Top 10 best game finishers from West Indies”.
1. Viv Richards
Richards was known for his biggest hits and distinctive batting style; he is portrayed as a threat to the opponents’ team as a Test cricketer; he could change the results of any game which makes him GOAT. His records themselves speak how finest batsman he was; his highest score was 322 in first-class cricket, with 114 centuries, he has scored more than 36000 runs.
2. Andre Russell
In any form Andre Russell is a dreadful sight for any bowler; he is known for his ruthless batting for any bowling attack. Russell Muscle’s with the ball will pull absolute power in death overs too. He has scored 740 runs at the death. KKR has often relied on him to get through good scores. His best innings was 80 runs in 40 balls against Mumbai Indians in 2019.
3. Keiron Pollard
With the captaincy cap, this incredible player is the all-rounder, best fieldman, excellent catcher has the strength to clear the boundary with ease off the field. He takes the game deep and finishes off with the best strokes in the end. His best score of 87* from 34 balls was not just his highest score, but also one of the best game finish in IPL ever for Mumbai Indians.
4. Chris Gayle
Chris Gayle stands tall, as one of the ferocious hitters, Even at the ripe young age of 42 years, few batters in world cricket send shivers down the spine of the bowlers as Gayle does. The Universal Boss has left its mark in every form of world cricket with his explosive batting. T2O scores speak on his behalf, with 14000+ runs in 446 matches at the strike rate of 148.87.
5. Dwayne Bravo
As a batsman, he was underrated but continued to chip in whenever needed; his multidimensional skills dragged the attention of many. There are hardly such players who have been celebrated in the way Dwayne Bravo has been. He has the capability to smash the ball to all parts of the ground with his hit sixes and boundaries.
6. Nicholas Pooran
West Indies’ new batting sensation Nicholas Pooran lit up the atmosphere in the T10 league with a blistering 26 ball of 89, filled with 12 sixes. He also played the role of a game-changer in Kings XI Punjab by shading 53 from 28 balls in a partnership with Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell.
7. Shimron Hetmyer
West Indies could be tempted to take Shimron Hetmyer on board as a finisher at T20 World Cup after he revealed his game as a finisher for Delhi Capitals by scoring 45 knocks with 24 balls. He executes his pull shots with great perfection; he has mentioned, “….it is very important for me to finish games, Ricky Ponting is helping me become a better finisher”.
8. Brian Lara
The next batsman on the list is undoubtedly one of the greatest ever left-hand batsmen to have ever played the game of cricket, Brian Lara. The West Indies remained unbeaten on 11 occasions when his team successfully chased down the target and on 4 of the occasions the match was knocked with a six.
9. Carlos Brathwaite
An underrated finisher, Braithwaite can demolish any opposition in a matter of overs with the bat. Brathwaite brought hopes, and paved the way to the trophy in ICC T20 World Cup with 34* off ten balls with a strike rate of 340, he has amassed four consecutive sixes to lift the trophy.
10.Marlon Samuels
There are many shades of Samuels, the stonewalled six hitters, who were the only man to be a player of the match in two ICC global finals, hitting 85 not out off 66 balls to steer west indies to a four-wicket win against England in Kolkata. Across all the formats, he made 11134 runs, including 17 centuries.
