The win by the West Indies mens team completes an exciting period for West Indian cricket, which has seen victories for the boys World Under 19 in the 50 overs, and the ladies senior team in the World-T20.
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West Indies captain Darren Sammy kisses the trophy and poses for the photographers.
The West Indies are next in action when they host South Africa and Australia in an ODI tri-series in June. Afterall they chased 192 against India.
It is the second time in four years that England have had victory snatched away from them in a global final when they looked favourites.
Brathwaite hit Stokes for four consecutive sixes when West Indies needed 19 from the final over.
Sammy said after the match that his team felt “disrespected by our board”, referring to the lengthy pay dispute that had put their participation in the tournament in jeopardy.
“We started this journey… we all know we had [issues]”. Yes, she was the player-of-the-tournament as well. To beat a good side like India gave us a lot of momentum. Mark Nicholas called us players with no brain. “It was tremendous. I want to thank the coaching team, Phil Simmons”, Sammy had said. He’s been through a lot. This time around, too, he has endorsed the points made by skipper Sammy saying the Twenty20 win may have come despite the WICB, rather than because of it. “As for the WICB, I think Sammy said it all or, in fact, just endorsed what everyone has been saying for some time now”.
Stokes and West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels, who have history, were involved in an angry exchange during the final over, for which the latter was charged 30 per cent of his match fee.
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. He came here. We had a camp in Dubai. We had no uniforms, no printing. It was about letting ourselves go out and play with the freedom today that we have trusted ourselves with the tour.
With bat and ball, they were his career best figures in the game’s shortest form in just his eighth game.
The story did not end here.
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The International Cricket Council said afterwards that Samuels had been fined 30 percent of his match fee for using “abusive and offensive language” at Stokes. “I am not one of those who subscribe to the theory that that’s where (Twenty20) cricket is heading and Test cricket is dead”.
