Carlos Ricardo Brathwaite (born 18 July 1988) is a cricketer from Barbados and a former captain of the West Indies Twenty20 International (T20I) team.

[5] In August 2016, Brathwaite was named the captain of the West Indies team for their Twenty20 International matches against India in Florida later that month.

[6] On 8 March 2018, during the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier match against Papua New Guinea at the Old Hararians in Harare, Brathwaite took his first five-wicket haul in ODIs.

[14] In January 2018, he was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2018 IPL auction[15] and in May was signed by Kent County Cricket Club to play in the 2018 Vitality Blast tournament in England.

[17][18] Later the same month, he was named in the squad for Khulna Titans following the draft for the 2018–19 Bangladesh Premier League[19] and in October captained Combined Campuses and Colleges to their first Regional Super 50 title.