West Indies won their first T20 World Cup title after they beat Sri Lanka by 36 runs and their skipper Darren Sammy believes that their team will become a powerful force in international cricket.<\/p>\n
West Indies bowled out the highly-favored Sri Lanka for a meager 101 after Marlon Samuels’ blazing 78 off 56 balls had lifted Sammy’s team to 137-6.<\/p>\n
A report in The Times of India<\/strong> was quoted Sammy as saying ,”We’re not trying just to compete any more, we believe we can win against good opposition,” Sammy said. “We showed signs of that in the last year or so, but we were not winning. Hopefully, this can be the start of something good for the West Indies team and the people.”<\/p>\n Meanwhile a report in The Hindu<\/strong> quoted Sammy as, \u201cI don\u2019t play for glory, I play for the Caribbean people. We always had the belief and we crossed all the hurdles. We had a tough time when we batted and they bowled really well, they fought but we got those runs towards the end and that momentum stayed with us when we bowled.<\/p>\n \u201cBefore we got back to the field, I asked Dwayne Bravo, it\u2019s his birthday today, to say a few words and he said: \u2018Let us go out there and give it our all.\u2019 We needed wickets and Ravi (Rampaul) did well.<\/p>\n \u201cThis trophy is for the Caribbean people and I will cherish this forever. From Jamaica to Guyana, there will be celebrations back home and I guess we will need a lot of bartenders.\u201d<\/p>\n While expressing his disappointment over the loss, Sri Lanka Mahela Jayawerdene said, \u201c\u201cWe were not ruthless enough. We gave away too many runs in the end, around 90 in the last eight overs and that hurt us. We lost our momentum then and when we batted we needed wickets in hand, our plan was to have 45 runs on the board after the Power Play but (Tillakaratne) Dilshan got out and then we had to consolidate. You got to give credit to Marlon (Samuels) and the way they bowled.<\/p>\n \u201cIt hurts a lot, this loss, hurts as a player, as a cricketer and as an individual. I really cannot say why we lost all these (four) finals and they were all different situations. We have to put this behind us and move on. Yes, it hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" West Indies won their first T20 World Cup title after they beat Sri Lanka by 36 runs and their skipper Darren Sammy believes that their team will become a powerful force in international cricket.<\/p>\n West Indies bowled out the highly-favored Sri Lanka for a meager 101 after Marlon Samuels’ blazing 78 off 56 balls had lifted Sammy’s team to 137-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-from-the-newspapers"],"yoast_head":"\n