With the next men’s World Twenty20 not until 2020, Sammy cast doubt on the long-term future of this West Indies side.
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In reply, West Indies openers Hayley Matthews and Stafanie Taylor figured in a record partnership to help the West Indies defeat Australia by eight wickets and clinch their maiden title at the women’s World Twenty20. This is the fact that allows us to win. “The hunger for success and victory was there in all of us”. Mark Nicholas (former England player) called us “players with no brain”. We have 15 match-winners, but nobody gave us a chance.
Strongly supporting his pacer, Bayliss said, “No one is blaming Stokes for anything”. England’s batting soon crumbled after Brathwaite got dangerman Root trudging back as a scoop shot turned out to be the in-form batsman’s undoing.
“At one point, we were wondering if we would be part of this tournament”. The Windies also became the first team to lift the World T20 twice.
Making West Indies totter at 11 for three while defending their total of 155, England saw a neat rearguard action from Marlon Samuels who stroked an unbeaten 85 before Brathwaite took the match away with his 34-run blitz.
With bat and ball, they were his career best figures in the game’s shortest form in just his eighth game.
“If we look at the calender, we don’t have anymore T20 matches this year”. It is saving cricket and can galvanise Test cricket as well. “We are very good in T20 cricket”, he said. “He did it in 2012 and I knew as long as he was there at the end that he would bring us home again in 2016”. But I will tell him the exact same things. We are a praying team.
The partnership rescued England after they had slumped to 23-3 with Jason Roy (0), Alex Hales (1) and Eoin Morgan (5) all dismissed cheaply after the Windies had won the toss and elected to field first.
I think this has been a great year or so for cricket. He took responsibility and played a fantastic knock. To see Carlos [Brathwaite] play like that in his debut World Cup, it’s just tremendous. Yes, she was the player-of-the-tournament as well. All the other coaching staff, who have done their part. Root (54), who struck his third half-century of the tournament, and Buttler (36) then came up with a fine re-building act to manage a 61-run fourth wicket partnership.
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The men’s win at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai was extraordinary. To me that particular comment really set it off for us. Once we knew it was manageable we knew we could do it.
