Colombo, Oct 7: West Indies are the new champions of ICC World Twenty20. They defeated Sri Lanka by 36 in the final at R Premadasa Stadium on Sunday night.
Here are the highlights of the final
# West Indies won their first World title since winning the Champions Trophy in 2004
# Sri Lanka have won lost four successive World Cup finals. They were beaten in 2007 (50-over World Cup), 2009 (World T20) and 2011 (50 overs)
# West Indies were successful in defending a modest total of 137
# Marlon Samuels was named Man-of-the-match
# Shane Watson of Australia won the Man-of-the-tournament award
# Watson scored 249 runs and took 11 wickets. He had four Man-of-the-match honours
# Sri Lanka were bowled out for 101 in 18.4 overs
# Sunil Narine took 3/9 in 3.4 overs
# Mahela Jayawardene was the top scorer for the hosts with 33
# Sri Lanka could manage only one six, from Nuwan Kulasekara
# Samuels hit the biggest six of tournament, which travelled 108 metres
# Tillakaratne Dilshan was out for a 3-ball duck today. Incidentally he was out for zero in five balls in WT20 final in 2009 against Pakistan at Lord's
# Johnson Charles was dismissed for a five-ball duck in the first over of the match
# Angelo Mathews started the final with a wicket maiden
# West Indies first run came off a wide after nine dot balls
# West Indies first run off the bat came after 16 balls
# Chris Gayle had a quiet start, taking nine balls to get off the mark
# He struggled and was trapped LBW by Ajantha Mendis for 3 off 16 balls
# West Indies could manage only 14/2 in first six overs of powerplay
# This was the lowest powerplay for West Indies in T20 Internationals
# 14/2 is the fourth lowest powerplay score in T20I history. Other three, Canada 10/3, Ireland 13/2 and Zimbabwe 13/4
# West Indies' first six came in the 12th over
# West Indies managed only one four in the first 10 overs
# Ajantha Mendis finished with 4/12 in four overs
# He is the leading wicket-taker in the tournament with 15
# Ajantha Mendis took two wickets in two balls, dismissing Kieron Pollard and Andre Russell
# From 32/2 in 10 overs, West Indies recovered to score 105/4 in the next 10
# Marlon Samuels was brilliant with the bat, scoring 78 off 56 balls with three fours and six sixes
# Samuels hit Lasith Malinga for 39 runs off 11 balls with one four and five sixes. Samuels strike rate versus Malinga was a whopping 354.54
# It was a forgettable night for Malinga as he went for 0/54 in four overs at economy rate of 13.50
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