The West Indies wins the championship of 2012 International Cricket Council (ICC) Twenty20, latest fast-pace version of cricket, defeating hosts Sri Lanka here on Sunday.
West Indies became winners against the first Asian hosts of ICC T20 World Cup, Sri Lanka who also lost its second chance of winning the championship after making to the finals. After bitter defeat to Pakistan in the finals at the 2009 championship in London, Sri Lanka made all efforts to keep the cup home, but could not match to Caribbeans who defeated them with 36 runs.
Batting first West Indies was struggling with a poor start. Its first wicket of Johnson Charles fell without a run and dangerous Chris Gayle fell as the second wicket with just 3 runs but Marlon Samuels' 78 runs with 6 huge sixes and 3 fours West Indies was able to reach a winnable total of 137.
sri Lankan baller Ajantha Mendis known as mystery spinner made the biggest damage to West Indians taking most crucial wickets including Gayle. West Indies looking for a first ever World Championship title to adorn their trophy cabinet in almost three decades made a decent total of 137 runs for six wickets.
Chasing 137 runs Sri Lanka's first wicket former captain Tilakaratne Dilshan fell as the scoreboard just clicked 6 runs. The most experienced duo in Sri Lankan side, present captain Mahela Jayawardena together with Kumara Sangakkara made a brisk 42- run stand for second-wicket but wicket fell in quick succession after Sangakkara was out for 22.
Five wickets continued to fall until Nuwan Kulasekara in a final attempt trying to save Sri Lanka making 26 runs with just 13 deliveries but the host was all out for just 101 runs.
Designed as a crowd-pleasing, fast-paced version of the game completed in around three hours, T20 cricket format was introduced to popularize the game worldwide. Twelve cricket playing nations competed for the fourth T20 World Cup from September 27 to October 7 in Sri Lanka.
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