• Samuels fined 30% of match fee for ‘abusive and offensive’ language
Man of the match dedicates award to Warne after 85 against EnglandWest Indies became the first team to win two World Twenty20s and,in doing so, took the opportunity to settle some scores. The winning captain, or Darren Sammy,and the player of the match, Marlon Samuels, and were in punchy moods during their post-match reaction,both on the pitch and in their press conferences. And it was Samuels, who smashed 85 off 66 balls, and who landed the most telling blows – though his abusive and offensive language towards Ben Stokes cost him 30 % of his match fee.
Sitting with his feet on the table,pads still on, he had dinky to no sympathy for Stokes, and whose first four balls of the final over were all sent to the stands by an inspired Carlos Brathwaite. Samuels and Stokes occupy history,most notably when Samuels saluted the England all‑rounder during a Test match in the Caribbean in April last year. Both players are no shrinking violets, but it was Samuels who got the last word in.
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Source: theguardian.com