It was used for their not-so-sophisticated style of celebration after every victory throughout the tournament.
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Some hours later Carlos Brathwaite calmly belted four astonishing sixes off the first four deliveries of the final over to catapult West Indies to extraordinary four-wicket victory over England.
“I want to thank the heads of CARICOM”.
We aren’t likely to witness again any time soon the kind of scenes that unfolded at Eden Gardens, Kolkata as the West Indies downed England in the final of the World Twenty20 after a pulsating finish.
Samuels was adjudged as the Player of the Match, while India’s star batsman Virat Kohli was awarded the Player of the Series for scoring a staggering 273 runs in his five games.
Referring to a lengthy and bitter pay dispute that had put their World Twenty20 participation in doubt, the all-rounder said his team felt “disrespected by our board”.
The success of the tournament will convince many that the brevity and action-packed nature of Twenty20 make it the only feasible cricket format able to break new ground and gatecrash multi-sports events such as the Olympics. “I wish I could say that this will lead to better days for us in the longer formats but as Ipointed out we won in 2012 butwhere has our cricket gone?” We had no uniforms, no printing.
“Thankfully…it was my night and I brought it home for the team”.
“The first thing is to loudly applaud West Indies cricket on a golden day”, Nicholas wrote in his ESPNcricinfo column.
“As a whole I’m very proud of my players”, said Morgan.
Hitting back over Sammy’s comments, WICB president Whycliffe Dave Cameron said that he wanted to apologise to the millions of fans for the captain’s remarks and also vowed to enquire the reason behind such statements, Sport24 reported. Starting from captain Darren Sammy to Dwayne Bravo to the man of the match Marlon Samuels, their emotional speeches won everyone’s hearts.
Asked if he would try an curb the way Stokes handles himself on the field, Bayliss pointed out that the allrounder needs it to fuel his game. We are all in this together and the pain will be shared.
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Samuels struck an unbeaten 85 for West Indies and then watched from the other end as Carlos Brathwaite blasted Stokes to the boundary four times to leave England heartbroken.
