T20 World Cup – Former West Indies Cricketer turned into the commentator Ian Bishop was in the panel during the World Cup 2016 finals. West Indies team defeated England in the finals when Ian Bishop in the commentary box Chant “Carlos Braithwaite! Remember the name!”
In his recent interaction with Betway, the former Cricketer has addressed the reason behind those Chant during the World Cup 2016 finals. The equation had boiled down 19 runs required off 6 balls. As he was asked who was to look forward in the finals apart from Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo. Ian Bishop said to guy “With some good performances with bat and bowl in the tournament Carlos Braithwaite. Remember the name”.
The bowler was Ben Stokes, and the batsman was Carlos Braithwaite to rescue the side.
The speculations were with England to lift the trophy, but it was Carlos Braithwaite who had struck 4 sixes in 4 balls to help West Indies to became champions for the second time.
While recalling the famous incident Ian Bishop to the gentleman during the match chanted, “Carlos Braithwaite is a good cricketer, Remember the name”.
As the Carlos Braithwaite smashed the winning runs another commentator David Lloyd asked Ian Bishop to join him in the commentary box and that’s the time when those famous Chant came from the Ian Bishop.
Tournament tale of two teams
In the Tournament the two teams have entered the finals England and West Indies (2012 Winners). Surprising to see that teams like South Africa, Australia, India and New Zealand were out of the tournament who were the favorites before the tournament.
In the finals, England decided to bat first in the finals and has managed to score 155 runs in their allotted 20 overs. The major contributions were from Joe Root (54) and Jos Buttler (36) along with cameo from David Willey in the end 21 runs in just 14 balls to help England go cross 150 runs mark in the final. Carlos Braithwaite and Dwayne Bravo were leading wicket takers from West Indies who have shared 3-3 wickets each.
Dramatic End to the most sensational final between England and West
The Target of 156 runs was not big but chase was derailed by England bowlers when both the openers were back to the pavilion. Marlon Samuels has kept the one end while wickets regularly falling at the other end for West Indies team.
In the end, Marlon Samuels along with Carlos Braithwaite remained unbeaten and ended the finals in the most unexpected way with the 4 Sixes from Braithwaite.
T20 Cricket has changed the West Indies Cricket completely
There was 70s to 80s era when players like Andy Robert, Malcolm Marshall and Joel Garner were the dominating the cricket arena with their express pace. While towards the 90s there were the interesting characters like Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh who took up the charge and carried on the legacy of former greats and rebuild the team in transition phase. While towards the late 90s era there came up Brian Lara ‘an artist of different talent’ who destroyed the opposition with his flamboyance.
With more T20 leagues in the world these days players get more chances to represent the nation and to earn more money in the quick period of time.
As Ian Bishop has never got the chance to play T20 Cricket along with few other commenters still after the format is not very old.
Ian Bishop says, “Recently the Indian captain as a player you have to play all formats of the game apart from test cricket”.
“Maybe teams like New Zealand, India and Pakistan are the favorites to lift the T20 World Cup. But the experience West Indies have in the line up they are up for another T20 World Cup trophy”.
