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23-year-old Barbados batter Kevin Wickham<\/a> scored a third century on the trot in the West Indies Championship on Tuesday (April 21).<\/p>\n Kevin Wickham scores third consecutive century in West Indies Championship <\/p>\n In the second round of the 2026 season, Jamaica faced off against Barbados at Sabina Park in Kingston; the hosts came into this game having won the opening round of the three-match series thanks to a superb opening stand between Jonathan Campbell and Kirk McKenzie<\/a>. <\/p>\n The pair put on over 200 runs again<\/a>, this time batting first on day one (April 19). Jamaica scored a stiff 457 on a good batting track, their innings lasting four sessions. Kraigg Brathwaite’s<\/a> half-century then helped Barbados to 125-1 by the end of day two.<\/p>\n On day three, at 182-2 in 42.1 overs, Kevin Wickham joined Brathwaite at the crease, replacing Jonathan Drakes. The two of them brought up a 50-run stand in 105 balls, and a 100-run partnership in 203 balls. Wickham brought up a half-century during the latter, as Brathwaite crossed three figures. The Barbados No.4 also got to a century later on day three, off 166 balls.<\/p>\n Also read: West Indies quick denied chance to take all ten by dangerous pitch abandonment after taking first seven wickets<\/a><\/p>\n He was dismissed soon after, caught by Abhijai Mansingh off Peat Salmon for 105 off 181. This is Wickham’s sixth first-class century \u2013 his first two came for West Indies Academy in 2023, in the Headley-Weekes Tri-Series and against an Ireland Emerging Players touring side. His first ton in the West Indies Championship came for Barbados in February 2024.<\/p>\n Read more: 293-7 to 491: Former West Indies spinner scores 82* from No.9, takes 4-20 in innings victory<\/a><\/p>\n Prior to the start of this season, Wickham had three centuries in 32 first-class innings, but has now scored three in a row. His twin tons (153 & 108*) in the previous round made him become the second-youngest after Brathwaite to do so in West Indies domestic cricket. The former is also his highest first-class score.<\/p>\n Wickham was West Indies’ top run-scorer at the 2022 U19 World Cup<\/a>, with 243 runs in four innings including a century against Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n Follow Wisden for all cricket updates, including live scores<\/a>, match stats, quizzes<\/a> and more. Stay up to date with the latest cricket news<\/a>, player updates, team standings,<\/a> match highlights, video analysis<\/a> and live match odds<\/a>. <\/p>\n Trending StoriesCover StoriesCover Stories UKCover Stories IndiaCover Stories Asia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"23-year-old Barbados batter Kevin Wickham scored a third century on the trot in the West Indies Championship on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-623343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}