6666: Carlos Brathwaite walks into cricket history
Brathwaite chose the right game to come good for his country and his team. Brathwaite stunned all and sundry with his superhuman efforts, tonking Ben Stokes’ 20th over for four consecutive sixes to win a memorable World T20 crown for West Indies. This was West Indies second World T20 title in four years.
Coming into the final, he had taken just 2 wickets in 7 games. But he outshone his previous performances in T20Is, by taking a match haul of 3 wickets for 23 runs in four overs in the final against England. He took the prize wickets of Joe Root, Jos Butler and DJ Wiley, the top three scorers in England innings. If it was not for these scalps, West Indies would be probably chasing a difficult and higher target.
And then coming into bat at 107/6 with West Indies needing 49 runs off 27 balls, Brathwaite was supposed to play second fiddle to Marlon Samuels and give all the strike to the senior batsman to take West Indies home. But Brathwaite had other plans.
Even when he faced the first ball in the 20th over, he was expected to give the strike back to Samuels. But with 19 runs to get, it was probably the time to throw caution to the winds and go bang, bang as Samuels was tiring out in the end of his marathon innings.
Backing his instinct, Brathwaite played the innings of his life, cracking four continuous huge sixes off Ben Stokes that brought the England bowler to tears even as West Indies players rushed out of the dug-out to embrace the unlikely hero of World T20 final. Well played, Brathwaite. You will be forever remembered for your 6666!
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