Former West Indies leg-spinner Samuel Badree feels that the squad of West Indies is stuffed with match winners and one can change the sport single-handedly. West Indies will open their T20 World Cup marketing campaign in opposition to England in Dubai on Saturday. West Indies’ captain Kieron Pollard adjusts the sector throughout a warm-up cricket match in opposition to Afghanistan (Image Courtesy: AFP)HIGHLIGHTSWest Indies filled with match winners, says Samuel BadreeI believed we have been achieved and dusted, remembers on Samuel Badree on 2016 closingWest Indies will open their T20 World Cup marketing campaign in opposition to England in Dubai on SaturdayDefending champions West Indies might need misplaced each of their warm-up matches, however former spinner Samuel Badree feels that the Kieron Pollard-led group is full of match-winners.
Badree mentioned that any one of many West Indies squad might change the sport single-handedly.T20 World Cup: Full Coverage“Many people have pegged them as the favourites, and quite rightly so because of the match-winners in that line-up. Any one of their players can single-handedly win a game and the experience of Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo to name just a few, with their ability to stay calm under pressure, will count for a lot,” wrote Badree in his column for the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday.West Indies will open their T20 World Cup campaign against England in Dubai on Saturday.”The West Indies will be confident heading into their opening match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 against England, which is a mouth-watering clash. They’re the defending champions and, of course, they won that incredible final against England in 2016. They also beat England in the first match of the Super 10 that year when Chris Gayle scored a brilliant hundred, so when it comes to T20 World Cups, the West Indies have had the upper hand.”Badree on 2016 finalSamuel Badree recalled how he felt that they couldn’t get 19 runs of the final over as Marlon Samuels, then batting at 85 was at the non-striker’s end.“Honestly, I thought we were done and dusted and we were out. I didn’t think we could get 19 runs, especially given the fact Carlos was facing the first ball of the over and Marlon who was on 85 not out wasn’t able to get on strike,” recalled Badree.“It was Carlos’s first T20 World Cup, so he wasn’t an established player and although we all knew what he was capable of in the Caribbean, I thought a World Cup final might have got the better of him.“Credit to him, he was able to pull that off but it was only when I saw the first two sixes that I thought we had a chance. When he hit the third one, I knew we’d won and it was an amazing feeling.”Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.