"Ian David Russell Bradshaw" is a Barbados/Barbadian cricketer who played for West Indies cricket team/West Indies as a left-arm fast bowling/medium-fast bowler and a left-handed batsman. He captained the West Indian U-19 cricket team/West Indies U-19 team, but his senior debut came two months before his 30th birthday, when he was selected to play in the last three One Day Internationals of the seven-match series against English cricket team/England. After taking five wickets in the three matches, he became a permanent fixture. In September 2004, Bradshaw won the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy/2004 Champions Trophy with West Indies cricket team/West Indies, his only one-day title to date, and Bradshaw was named Man of the Match in the final. He made his Test debut in March 2006, taking three wickets in each innings against New Zealand cricket team/New Zealand, and played five matches before being dropped in June.

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Obviously New Zealand has been playing better cricket than us but we back ourselves, if we perform well, to be very competitive against them.

I'm delighted about playing in my first Test even though it has been some time in the making.

I have played with Brian as captain before so this is nothing new. He's a good leader and has the respect of all his peers.

Coming out of the first class season back home a lot of the guys have some runs under their belt so they are just hoping to get back into the groove of things.

I thought that we should have restricted them for less, we allowed the run rate to get away in the middle period when I believe we were trying too hard to make things happen and our consistency suffered because of that.

It's time to play cricket. That's what we're here for. We have had our challenges in the past and this is another challenge. I'm excited about the possibilities.