The West Indies cricket team has created history in the Twenty20 match played against Sri Lanka last night at Colombo’s Premadasa Stadium.
The West Indian team beats Sri Lankan team by 36 runs and wins the ICC World Twenty20 World Cup for the first time. However, Sri Lanka once again lost in the finals
Sri Lankan captain was the highest scorer for his team, made 33 runs. Earlier, West Indies captain won the toss and elected to bat first.
West Indies lost two quick wickets, pitch hitter Chris Gayle also failed to perform against Sri Lanka, and at one stage it looked hard for West Indies to cross 100 runs mark.
But, Marlon Samuels played superb knock of 78 runs from just 56 balls with six sixes and three fours. And West Indies made 137 runs in 20-overs.
The score was not so big in T20 matches, but Sri Lanka failed to achieve the target. Narine bowled superb spell and took three important wickets for just 9 runs in 3.4 overs.
Marlon Samuels of West Indies was named as the Man-Of-The-Match for his superb knock of 78 runs.
Shane Watson of Australia was named as the Man-Of-The-Series for making highest runs in the ICC World Twenty20. he made 249 runs in 11 match in the series, talking to media, Shane Watson said, “Thrilled for the frst four matches, unfortunately the West Indie were too good in the semi-final. They were deserved winners. Sad for Sri Lanka not to win at home … I’ll never compare myself against Jacques [Kallis]. He’s my idol, he’s the ultimate ..”
West Indies captain Darren Sammy said, “This moment we’re going to live forever. The team has been through a lot in the last two years, for the last ten years. the mission was to win the t20 World cup, the belief we left the Carribean with has pulled us through. today we were down and out but our never say die attitude came out.”
Sammy on Samuels: “The two years he missed … two years of international runs. He’s scored so much since he’s been back.”
Sri Lanka captain said, “I think the first ten overs were fantastic, they knew they had to go for it. A couple of mistakes on the field an three four bad overs shifted the momentum. It was ough for us to get into it. The boys tried well. We’re disappointed, a full house. A couple of overs they went after us, against our best bowlers. Marlon batted very well. I backed my No. 1 bowler to deliver but Marlon batted very well.”
Man-of-the-Match winner, Marlo Samuels said, “Put in a lot of hard work. To Jamaica, to the West Indies. Can’t explain how much it means to me. Thanks to Sri Lanka, I had some good food. They beat us twice, I tell Chris we can’t lose thrice. The wicket was a bit slow, today was a different mindset, I decided to attack Malinga their best bowler and it paid off. We are working together as a unit. Futurewise I think West Indies are going to do well, even in Test cricket. Test cricket is the best cricket..”
