“WE VS THEM” has never felt this good.
Eight million Caribbean people have never felt so together.
The West Indies are on top of the cricket world once more – at least in the game’s shortest form.
The dancing could last all week. So could the refrain of David Rudder’s famous anthem, Rally Round The West Indies.
The women started the celebration, and the men in maroon provided the finishing touches at a capacity-filled Eden Gardens Park in Kolkata, India, yesterday, as the West Indies completed a rare double to earn the ICC’s T20 women’s and men’s titles under a fireworks-lit sky.
Big Barbadian Carlos Brathwaite’s blast of four consecutive sixes at the death earned Darren Sammy’s men a crazy victory in a see-saw championship match that left England seamer Ben Stokes on his knees and in tears as the Windies saved their best for last to earn an unlikely four-wicket victory.
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