Medvedeva, 16, wins Morgan sends world title with record Leicester seven free skate score points clear MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2016 16 19 Aldridge, Leonard lead Spurs to franchise record 64th win Page 18 KOLKATA: The West Indies men’s and women’s team pose for a group photo after winning their finals matches of the ICC World Twenty20 2016 cricket tournament at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India, yesterday. — AP Brathwaite leads Windies to World T20 title KOLKATA: Carlos Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes in catch to mid-wicket but the really big wicket came on the the last over as the West Indies stunned England to lift the third delivery when Chris Gayle 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 Ben Stokes 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 Lendl Simmons 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 Chris Jordan for E. Morgan c Gayle b Badree 5 C. Gayle c Stokes b Root 4 Sammy said afterwards. England captain Eoin Morgan three boundaries in the sixth and last over of the power- J. Buttler c Bravo b Brathwaite 36 M. Samuels not out 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. Jos Buttler grassed a caught behind, stitched a 75-run part- C. Jordan not out 12 A. Russell c Stokes b Willey 1 Marlon Samuels anchored the West Indies’ run chase of nership with Dwayne Bravo (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 wickets, 19.4 overs) 161 handedly kept the Caribbean 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) Bowling: 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 Samuel Badree and Andre Russell 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 batting 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 duck and also et before celebrating with his customary ‘Champions’ out to be the in-form batsman’s undoing. T20 twice. England’s batting hero Joe Root 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.