BRAITHWAITE BREAKS ENGLISH HEARTS

Brathwaite breaks English hearts: West Indies claim World T20 title as FOUR huge successive sixes in final over leaves Stokes in tears

AT EDEN GARDENS, KOLKATA: England were denied the title of Twenty20 champions of the world by four late hammer blows into the Kolkata night sky as Carlos Brathwaite propelled himself into folklore and Ben Stokes into despair. West Indies needed an imposing 19 off Stokes's final over, and England looked set for a victory that would have capped off a remarkable year for Eoin Morgan's white-ball revolution. Instead, with Stokes's old nemesis Marlon Samuels watching gleefully from the non-striker's end, the giant Brathwaite - 6ft 8in of Barbadian muscle - cleared the ropes four times from the first four balls.