India, July 1 -- In a world where Test specialist batting is being consigned to a bygone era, time has admirably preserved an exception named Kraigg Brathwaite. Poised to play his 100th Test for West Indies on Wednesday, the 32-year-old has never played a professional T20 game, not even at domestic level. And just 10 ODIs.

Even Cheteshwar Pujara has featured in 70 T20s, including 29 IPL matches. Not Brathwaite, which is odd considering the times, more so because he is from a region that has witnessed most of its brightest talent give up on Test cricket for the riches of T20.

Exactly why Brathwaite never played T20 was never clear, but so rapid was his rise through the ranks that it was probably deemed a question best left unanswered. Fi...