Carlos Brathwaite of the West Indies celebrates dismissing Joe Root GETTY IMAGES
West Indies demolish Ben Stokes in last over
As Ben Stokes sank to the floor, he just knew. England had the World Twenty20 crown in their grasp. Then, after four thunderous blows from Carlos Brathwaite’s bat, suddenly they did not.
The West Indies had needed 19 to win from the final over, a position that just needed Stokes’ death bowling expertise to seal England’s second ICC crown in 41 years.
His radar went awry first ball, a wayward delivery down leg that Brathwaite flicked over square leg for an emphatic six. Thereafter Stokes did not quite locate his yorker, but nor was he far away from doing so. A millimeter too short here; a millimeter too wide there. It was enough for Brathwaite to plunder three violent strokes, each more imperious than the last. Stokes’ second ball was smoked over long on, and his third thundered over long off.
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