ICC World T20 2016: 5 dreams that were realized at the World T20

5. West Indies overcome all odds to lift second WT20 title

West Indies players celebrate after winning the ICC World T20 2016

If the ladies had laid the prelude to the ‘Champion’ treble, the men’s team pulled it off in a tremendous manner, as Carlos Brathwaite’s game-changing consecutive sixes and Marlon Samuels’ masterclass yet again in a World T20 final to led the Caribbeans to their second World t20 title.

Set 156 to win, England looked in command of the match right from the 2nd over when they got Chris Gayle and Johnson Charles off the part-time leg spin of Joe Root until the 19th over, when despite Marlon Samuels heroics, WI were left to score 19 off the final 6 balls.

It was then, that a certain Carlos Brathwaite, relatively unknown in the international circuit compelled Ian Bishop, who was on air doing commentary, to ask everyone to ‘remember the name’ as he smashed 4 sixes off consecutive balls bowled by Ben Stokes to break the English dream and lead WI to glory.

The emotions that were vented out after the match showed just how important this victory was for the team that had overcome insurmountable odds to play in the tournament and eventually win it.

Darren Sammy and Marlon Samuels gave emotionally charged up speeches wherein they openly brought to light the dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board and the adversities through which the team had to go through.

Samuels also criticized his own critic, the legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne, saying that he’d answered whatever the leg-spinner had spoken about him with his bat.

Winning the World Cup has always been the dream of every team that plays the sport, but this victory, with all that the cricketers had coped up in the past couple of years, was worth pure gold.