Carlos Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes off Ben Stokes to help the West Indies sealed a thrilling victory by four wicket against England in the World T20 Final. Marlon Samuels was the best player of the tournament with a 66-ball 85 *.
West Indies won the world title for the second time T20 after beating England by four wickets.
Kolkata: Carlos Brathwaite hit
four consecutive sixes in the last over the West Indies stunned England to lift
the Twenty20 world title in Kolkata on Sunday. Marlon Samuels was the top
scorer for West Indies with 66-ball 85 *.
The Windies went into the last
over 19 need to win and the expert bowler death of Ben Stokes gave the ball
seemed that England would see victory.
But Brathwaite kept his cool to
fire the Windies to an unlikely victory four wicket with two balls to spare,
leaving devastated Stokes in the field.
Samuels anchored the West Indies'
run chase of 156 with an unbeaten 85, including nine boundaries and two sixes,
after England had posted 155-9 in their 20 overs.
Windies recover after early crash
After being reduced to 11 for
three, Samuels alone kept the Caribbean team in the game with his 66-ball
blitz.
Brathwaite ended on 34 not out of
10 balls just as the champions of 2012 completed a hat-trick of titles after
women secured their maiden trophy early Sunday.
The Under-19 team had already
raised the youth World Cup in February.
England batting hero Joe Root had
hit hard Windies with a brace when he shared the new ball with David Willey for
the West Indies openers walking back to the dug.
Root hit his first ball as
Charles Johnson skied a catch to mid-stop but the big wicket came in the third
installment when Chris Gayle departed.
Gayle tried an ambitious hard
work after reaching a limit first ball, but could only find the gardener in
long to shoot wild celebrations in the English countryside.
Willey star then Lendl Simmons
semifinal was out leg before wicket for naught to leave the Windies tottering
at 11 for three.
Samuels’ Unbeaten 85
Samuels counterattacked by Chris
Jordan hit for three boundaries in the sixth and final power play over that
cost 16 runs England.
Samuels, who was given a life
shortly after wicketkeeper Jos Buttler grassed one caught behind, sews a
partnership of 75 runs with Dwayne Bravo (25) to help Windies reconstruction.
Willey presented for its second
stage with a double to hurt the hope of reviving their pursuit as selling rate
grew Windies', but the new man Brathwaite had other ideas.
Bowlers restrict England to 155/9
Earlier the West Indies bowlers'
justified the decision of captain Darren Sammy field for the first time as
Samuel Badree and Andre Russell put England on the backfoot to just 23 for
three in 4.4 overs.
Opening the Windies attack,
leg-spinner Jason Roy Badree got clean for a second ball duck and also
represented struggling English pattern Eoin Morgan (5) in his third over.
Root (54), which marked his third
half century of the tournament, and Buttler (36) and then came up with a fine
act re-construction of administering a fourth wicket partnership 61 runs.
Middle-pacemaker Brathwaite got
Buttler against the run of play when Bravo had a good game in the deep
mid-window before celebrating with his usual dance Champions League.
Sammy soon took advantage of
catching Bravo to bring him bowling and medium-pacemaker bound with two wickets
in his second time.
England batting collapsed soon
after Brathwaite got dangerman Root walking backwards as a shot proved to be
the ruin scoop the batter into shape.
Braithwaite and Bravo shared
three wickets each to swat England.
David Willey late cameo of 21 was
studded with two sixes and a boundary and to give full England some respect.
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