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KOLKATA: The West Indies men’s and women’s team pose for a group photo after winning their finals matches of the ICC World 2016 tournament at in Kolkata, India, yesterday. — AP Brathwaite leads Windies to World T20 title

KOLKATA: hit four consecutive sixes in catch to mid- but the really big wicket came on the the last over as the West Indies stunned England to lift the third when departed. World Twenty20 title in Kolkata yesterday. Gayle tried an ambitious slog after hitting a first-ball SCOREBOARD The Windies went into the last over needing 19 to win boundary but could only find the fielder at long-on to trig- and with expert death bowler handed the ball, ger wild celebrations in the English camp. KOLKATA: Scoreboard from the World Twenty20 final between West Indies and England at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens stadium it looked like England would see out the win. But Willey then got semi-final star out leg yesterday: Brathwaite held his nerve to fire the Windies to an unlikely before wicket for nought to leave the Windies tottering at England Bravo 4-0-37-3, Brathwaite 4-0-23-3, Sammy 1-0-14-0 four-wicket win with two balls to spare, leaving Stokes dev- 11 for three. J. Roy b Badree 0 astated on the field. A. Hales c Badree b Russell 1 West Indies “To see Carlos play like that at his debut World Cup was SAMUELS UNBEATEN 85 J. Root c Benn b Brathwaite 54 J. Charles c Stokes b Root 1 just tremendous,” an emotional West Indies skipper Darren Samuels counter-attacked by hitting for E. Morgan c Gayle b Badree 5 C. Gayle c Stokes b Root 4 Sammy said afterwards. England Eoin Morgan three boundaries in the sixth and last over of the power- J. Buttler c Bravo b Brathwaite 36 M. Samuels 85 refused to blame Stokes. “It’s not his fault, we’re all in this play that cost England 16 runs. B. Stokes c Simmons b Bravo 13 L. Simmons lbw b Willey 0 together, we enjoy our wins, and the pain will be shared Samuels, who was given an early life after wicketkeeper M. Ali c Ramdin b Bravo 0 D. Bravo c Root b Rashid 25 tonight,” he said. grassed a caught behind, stitched a 75-run part- C. Jordan not out 12 A. Russell c Stokes b Willey 1 anchored the West Indies’ run chase of nership with (25) to help the Windies D. Willey c Charles b Brathwaite 21 D. Sammy c Hales b Willey 2 156 with an unbeaten 85, including nine boundaries and rebuild. L. Plunkett c Badree b Bravo 4 C. Brathwaite not out 34 two sixes, after England had posted 155-9 in their 20 overs. Willey turned up for his second spell with a double A. Rashid not out 4 Extras (lb 3, w 6) 9 After being reduced to 11 for three, Samuels single- strike to hurt Windies’ hopes of reviving their chase as the Extras (lb 4, w 1) 5 Total (for six , 19.4 overs) 161 handedly kept the team in the hunt with his 66- asking-rate kept growing, but new man Brathwaite had Total (for nine wickets, 20 overs) 155 Did not bat: D. Ramdin, S. Badree, S. Benn ball blitz. Brathwaite finished on 34 not out off just 10 balls other ideas. Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Roy), 2-8 (Hales), 3-23 (Morgan), 4-84 Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Charles), 2-5 (Gayle), 3-11 (Simmons), 4- as the 2012 champions completed a hat-trick of titles after Brathwaite managed an unbeaten 54-run stand with (Buttler), 5-110 (Stokes) 6-110 (Ali), 7-111 (Root), 8-136 86 (Bravo), 5-104 (Russell), 6-107 (Sammy) the women’s clinched their maiden trophy earlier on man-of-the-match Samuels to stun England. Earlier West (Willey), 9-142 (Plunkett) : Willey 4-0-20-3, Root 1-0-9-2, Jordan 4-0-36-0, Sunday. Indies’ bowlers justified captain Darren Sammy’s decision Bowling: Badree 4-1-16-2, Russell 4-0-21-1, Benn 3-0-40-0, Plunkett 4-0-29-0, Rashid 4-0-23-1, Stokes 2.4-0-41-0 The Under-19 team had already lifted the youth World to field first as and put Cup in February. “Everybody in the West Indies is a champi- England on the backfoot at only 23 for three in 4.4 overs. Medium-pacer Brathwaite got Buttler against the run England’s soon crumbled after Brathwaite got on,” beamed Sammy. Opening the attack for the Windies, leg-spinner Badree of play when Bravo took a good catch at deep mid-wick- dangerman Root trudging back as a scoop shot turned The Windies also became the first team to lift the World got Jason Roy clean out for a second ball and also et before celebrating with his customary ‘Champions’ out to be the in-form batsman’s undoing. T20 twice. England’s batting hero had hit Windies accounted for struggling English skipper Eoin Morgan (5) dance. Braithwaite and Bravo shared three wickets apiece to hard with a double strike when he shared the new ball in his third over. Sammy soon cashed in on Bravo’s catch to bring him hit England hard. David Willey’s late cameo of 21 was with David Willey to get the West Indies’ openers trudging Root (54), who struck his third half-century of the tour- on to bowl and the medium-pacer obliged with two studded with a boundary and two sixes and to give the back to the dug out. nament, and Buttler (36) then came up with a fine re-build- wickets in his second over. England total some respect. ( See Page 17) — AFP Root struck on his first ball as Johnson Charles skied a ing act to manage a 61-run fourth wicket partnership. Martial the match-winner Rosberg romps to fifth win in a row as United honour Charlton SAKHIR, Bahrain: Mercedes driver Nico Hamilton down to seventh at the end of the first Rosberg became the eighth man in Formula lap. Bottas was blamed by stewards and was the Belgian cutting into the penalty area past two One history to win five consecutive races with a forced to do a pit lane drive-through penalty. tackles without being able to have a clear shot victory at the Bahrain Grand Prix yesterday, and “Everyone seemed to go very tight inside and it before Matteo Darmian cleared the danger. Man United 1 will now aim to do what all the other seven did: was too late,” Bottas said. “I was trying to brake Everton continued to delight their travelling Go on to capture the championship title. as hard as I could. I got a penalty and I’m sure he contingent with their attacking style, and Leighton Baines saw one of his trademark free Rosberg made it back-to-back wins to start the lost some places because of that. It’s a shame.” kicks diverted for a corner as the first half new season, and five in a row dating to 2015, With his chief rivals out of the equation, Everton 0 approached the halfway mark. Lukaku finally with a comfortable victory, capitalizing on a Rosberg sailed away up front, and pushed his had a glimpse of a chance when England centre- first-corner collision involving teammate Lewis lead to 8.5 seconds after six laps and more than half Chris Smalling slipped but United goalkeeper Hamilton and an engine failure that prevented 14 by the first round of pit stops for the top David de Gea had anticipated the danger and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel from starting the race. cars, beginning on lap 12. The top three MANCHESTER: Anthony Martial scored the only He led throughout to win by 10.2 seconds at matched tire strategy except for Hamilton goal of the game as Manchester United beat won the race to hack clear. Daley Blind once more won a one-on-one the Sakhir circuit over Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, being put onto the hardest-available medium Everton 1-0 in the Premier League at Old Trafford with Hamilton recovering from the collision with compound for his middle stint while Rosberg yesterday to climb within a point of fourth-placed duel with Lukaku as the Belgian threatened to break away, while at the other end right back the Williams of Valtteri Bottas and finishing third. and Raikkonen were on softs. Despite that, local rivals Manchester City. “It was a really good getaway on the dirty side of Hamilton made his second stop before the pair Martial’s 54th-minute strike gave the French Seamus Coleman had to be precision-perfect with a challenge to deny the raiding Marcos Rojo the grid and that really made my race in the end,” in front of him. striker his 13th goal of the season and helped Rosberg said. “From then on the car was feeling Raikkonen has finished on the podium in United celebrate the fact that Old Trafford’s south in Everton’s penalty area. United’s measured build-up does not always great and just controlling the pace and playing it Bahrain eight times without winning, and stand had been renamed in honour of club great safe. “Two wins in a row now, good points, that’s acknowledged that Ferrari must get on top of Bobby Charlton in fine fashion. Victory kept alive please their fans, but a patient passing move almost resulted in the breakthrough only for where my focus is. Five wins, three wins in a row, SAKHIR: Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of its engine troubles if it’s to pose a threat to United boss Louis van Gaal’s hopes of qualifying doesn’t make a difference.” Mercedes this season. “I had a bad start and defender John Stones to halt Martial in the area. Germany holds the trophy on the podi- for the Champions League-the top four clubs in Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo was fourth and after a few laps we were one straight behind England get a spot-and thus satisfying the mini- Romain Grosjean fifth in another encouraging um after he won the Bahrain Formula Nico and it’s hard to recover from that,” mum demand on an Old Trafford manager. This DELIGHTFUL PASSING One Grand Prix yesterday. — AP Everton resumed after half-time in deter- performance by the new American-based Haas Raikkonen said. “We have some work to be was United’s fourth successive home win, a feat team. Toro Rosso teenager Max Verstappen was again got off to a poor start, like he did in done. It costs a lot of points for the drivers as they managed for the first time since a six-match mined mood, and Blind did well to block Lukaku’s sixth and Red Bull’s Daniil Kvyat seventh, ahead Melbourne, as he adjusts to the new rule well as the team.” streak in April last year. United have now won effort in the area when Baines threaded a pass of the Williams drivers Felipe Massa and Bottas, restricting drivers to a single clutch at the start. Hamilton carried damage on the right side four of their last five league games, including the through to the Belgian with his back to goal. with McLaren’s Stoffel Vandoorne in 10th to “Two separate incidents, but both equally as of the chassis throughout the race after the Manchester derby at the Etihad Stadium. However, it was Martial who broke the dead- take a point on his F1 debut. painful, perhaps this one today more painful,” first-corner collision. “I had so much damage on Everton, as befits a side with a better away lock when he got on the end of a delightful pass- There was drama on the warm-up lap as Hamilton said. “It was just not a good getaway the car I could not keep up with Kimi,” Hamilton record than at Goodison Park, began with clear ing move that started with Juan Mata, was smoke began pouring from the back of Vettel’s by myself and nothing technical.” said. “I lost a lot of performance on the car. attacking intent and the United defence had to enhanced by a neat backheel by Marcus Rashford Ferrari and he immediately parked the car. It The Briton was running behind Rosberg at Whoever was on the inside (in the collision) be on its toes to deal with Ross Barkley and and completed by the striker, who converted at was the second reliability failure for Ferrari the first corner when Bottas made an ambitious was in the blind spot; I couldn’t see them.” The Romelu Lukaku. the far post when Coleman failed to connect with already this season after trouble struck move on the inside, braked too late and collided next round of the championship is the Chinese Barkley was a lively influence and in the 12th an attempted clearance. It was Manchester Raikkonen in Australia. Pole-sitter Hamilton Grand Prix in Shanghai on April 17. — AP minute he found Gerard Deulofeu on the right, United’s 1,000th home goal in the Premier with the right side of the Mercedes, dropping League. — FP