ICC World T20 2016: Team of the tournament

Andre Russell

Russell's semi-final heroics sealed a final berth

It is not always easy to measure everything in terms of sheer numbers. Sometimes, you need to take a look beyond the numbers and look at what the player meant to the team and how crucial their performance or lack of it, adversely affects the team’s fortunes.

In that regard, Andre Russell has to be the tournament’s best all-rounder and one of the most important cogs in the Windies machine, even if he isn't talked about as much as Chris Gayle or Dwayne Bravo. Not only did Russell pick up 9 wickets, the most by a West Indian bowler, but the fact that bowled both with the new ball and at the death spoke for the confidence he had from the captain.

And when it mattered most, in the semi-final against India, who else but Russell, who stepped up, blitzed his way to a 43 and helped the Windies reach yet another World T20 final.