A Man of the Match performance from Marlon Samuels helped West Indies become the first team to win the World T20 twice, as they beat England at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. After winning the toss and electing to field, they got off to a good start but England still posted 155.
Chasing 156, West Indies lost both openers early and looked in deep trouble. But Samuels’ unbeaten 85 helped them stay in contention and needing 19 runs off the last over, Carlos Brathwaite hit four successive sixes to seal the treble for West Indies,
Samuels’ message for Warne
Marlon Samuels is named Man of the Match for his unbeaten 85. He said: “I know about finals, when I come to finals, I turn up for the team. All respect to the England players, we want to move from strength to strength - this is for the Caribbean.
“If we get a good start, then I can step on it, we lose wickets early so it's different. I didn't say much other than swing and swing hard. This is for Shane Warne."
Carlos Brathwaite: "Want to give God thanks, that was an amazing knock from Marlon. He took responsibility and played a fantastic knock. Can't really express how much of a top knock that was. The U-19s did it, the girls did it, and now us."
West Indies captain Darren Sammy had a long speech prepared when he was called at the end. He said: "Firstly I want to thank the almighty. We have a pastor in the team in Andre Fletcher, we keep on praying. Really happy for this win, it's something we'll cherish for a long time. We have a few match winners, nobody gave us a chance, every game somebody stepped up - good to see Carlos play like that in his debut World Cup. Shows the T20 depth we have in the Caribbean, hopefully, we will continue to improve.
“People were wondering we would plays this tournament, we had issues with the board, Mark Nicholas called us players with no brain. But all of us came together, these 15 men put adversity aside, play this type of cricket in front of such passionate fans. It was tremendous. I want to thank the coaching team, Phil Simmons. We had a new manager in this tournament.
“Got to give credit to the entire team here. This is for all the fans in the Caribbean. I don't know when I'm going to be playing for West Indies again, I want to thank my team, thanks my coaching staff. This is for the CHAMPIONS!"
England captain Eoin Morgan: "I did, congratulations to the West Indies, they were better, Huge highs and lows for us. Never sure going into the final over. We were certainly in the game, put ourselves in a position to win the game. We didn't have enough runs on the board, it was a really good batting surface, maybe 180-90 was part.
“(On Ben Stokes) He's a fantastic bowler, he got two early wicket, the rebuilding allowed us to put something on the board and the bowlers got us close. We showed an immense amount of character in the tournament, not quite done enough to win it. I truly believe this is only the start of something special.
“It's not his fault, we're all in this together, we enjoy our wins - and the pain will be shared tonight."
Here are the reactions from the cricket fraternity:
AB de Villiers:
Sachin Tendulkar:
Virat Kohli:
Rohit Sharma:
Courtney Walsh:
Tom Moody:
Shane Warne:
Kumar Sangakkara:
Glenn McGrath:
Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie:
Tim Bresnan:
Shane Watson:
Russel Arnold:
Corey Anderson:
Derek Pringle:
Glenn Maxwell was thinking out loud:
Simon Hughes was made to eat his words:
There was plenty of praise for the way in which West Indies clawed their way back:
Shane Warne:
Brian Lara:
Anil Kumble:
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