Sportskeeda Cricket Awards 2016: T20I All-rounder of the Year

#2 Dwayne Bravo (West Indies)

Dwayne Bravo has bamboozled batsmen all over the world with his deceptive slower balls

151 runs and 12 wickets from 11 matches might not match the standards that Dwayne Bravo might have set for himself, but they were enough to help the West Indies resurrect their lost pride to some extent by winning the World T20 2016 and establishing their superiority in one format of the game.

Consecutive hauls of 2/20 against Sri Lanka and South Africa during the league stages of the world tournament helped the Caribbeans to continue their winning run – after Chris Gayle had lit up their tournament opener – while his 3/37 in the final of the tournament against England helped seal the fate of the team to a large extent.

The wickets of Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali and Liam Plunkett, just when the English were trying to press for a bigger total than the 155 which they eventually got, put the brakes on the run-scoring, and Bravo's slower balls had a major role to play in that. With the bat, Bravo scored 25 crucial runs and shared a 75-run stand with Marlon Samuels that helped the Caribbeans inch closer towards the target.

Apart from this performance, and the ‘Champion’ dance that he has popularised all over the globe, Bravo's miraculous last over against India at Lauderhill, USA wherein he prevented MS Dhoni – one of the better finishers of the game – from scoring 8 runs off the last over by dismissing him with a slower one off the last ball of the match thereby enabling the West Indies win the game by 1 run, was another one of is milestones.

These key performances have been a large contributing factor towards the 36% votes that he has received.