Dwayne Bravo brings his younger brother Darren Bravo into the chair for this one. Two Trinidad and Tobago cricketers, one road in Santa Cruz, and the stories neither of them tells in a press conference: a childhood nickname, cricket played with oranges instead of a ball, a Brian Lara family connection, and the prank that convinced their father the house had burned down.

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Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo are back with Jason Williams for episode three of Champions Corner. Bravo calls the IPL the life-changing tournament, and explains why: global reach first, financial stability second. Both of them landed in their peak years exactly as T20 took off in 2008 and 2009. Pollard says thank god for the inventors of the format, and thank god for Allan Stanford. Then it turns. Pollard describes the hardest walk he ever made off a ground, stumped against Sri Lanka at the Oval in 2009 with a crowd full of Caribbean people close enough to tell him he was not good enough. Both of them talk about what a loss actually does, and push back hard on the idea that West Indian players shake it off at the bar. Bravo is coaching now and his teammates still message him after a defeat to ask whether he has finished crying. Also in this episode: ninety thousand people in Kolkata, why Pollard is guaranteed runs in St Lucia, Bravo on Jamaica, the unbeaten CPL season, the 2012 World Cup, and eight months living out of a suitcase.

Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo are back with host Jason Williams for episode two of Champions Corner. Both born in Trinidad, both captains of other Caribbean franchises, and both have walked out at the Oval with the home crowd hoping they fail. One of them was booed there. The other never was, and he is happy to say which is which. Pollard revisits the six sixes in an over during the Covid season, hit in front of an empty ground, and whether a full crowd would have changed anything. Bravo picks the two catches he still goes back to on YouTube, and answers the people who called him lazy in the field. Also in this episode: what a batter is actually thinking after the third six, the million dollar game at Stanford, and why Pollard says Bravo set the template for every West Indies all-rounder who came after him.

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