KOLKATA–The West In­dies team was de­ter­mined to win a sec­ond World T20 ti­tle af­ter crit­i­cism by the me­dia and its own crick­et board ahead of the tour­na­ment, cap­tain Dar­ren Sam­my said yes­ter­day.Amid a lin­ger­ing pay dis­pute, the West In­dies Crick­et Board had said it was con­sid­er­ing send­ing a sec­ond-string team if the play­ers did not agree to its terms.

"All that hap­pened be­fore the tour­na­ment, the dis­re­spect from jour­nal­ists, from our own crick­et board, that was out of or­der," Sam­my said af­ter West In­dies beat Eng­land by six wick­ets in the fi­nal at Eden Gar­dens.

"The on­ly way we could make a state­ment was by win­ning this tour­na­ment. The hunger for suc­cess and vic­to­ry was there in all of us."

Sam­my al­so blast­ed a me­dia re­port which claimed his play­ers did not have enough "brains" to win at the top lev­el.

"The so-called ex­perts, com­men­ta­tors, jour­nal­ists did not give us a chance. One said we play with no brains. That re­al­ly brought us to­geth­er with the con­tract is­sues," Sam­my said.

"At one point, we were won­der­ing if we would be part of this tour­na­ment. A lot of things were hap­pen­ing. To come out and play this sort of crick­et in front of pas­sion­ate fans was amaz­ing."

West In­dies be­came the first team to clinch the World Twen­ty20 ti­tle twice, hav­ing al­so won it in 2012.Mar­lon Samuels struck an un­beat­en 85 and Car­los Brath­waite 34 not out, in­clud­ing four straight six­es in the last over to seal vic­to­ry with two balls to spare.Sam­my said his team had tak­en in­spi­ra­tion from the suc­cess of oth­er West In­dies teams.

"This means a lot not on­ly for us as a team but for our fans all over the world. We start­ed the tour­na­ment by say­ing we were in­spired by our un­der-19 boys (win­ning the World Cup) in Bangladesh (in Feb­ru­ary) and this af­ter­noon the way our women played to win the (WT20) cup, we had to go out and win it," he said.

Sam­my hoped the T20 suc­cess would trig­ger bet­ter per­for­mances in test crick­et as well.

"We get a lot of stick be­cause of the way we play test crick­et. T20 is a to­tal­ly dif­fer­ent for­mat. We are very good in T20 crick­et," he said.

"We don't play the brand of crick­et that can win us tests but I hope this win can in­spire our test play­ers to do bet­ter."

Car­los Brath­waite struck four straight six­es in the last over to seal the dra­mat­ic four-wick­et win for West In­dies. West In­dies need­ed 19 runs in the 20th over, which Brath­waite (34 not out) pro­vid­ed in style by smash­ing Ben Stokes for six­es off the first four balls.

Speak­ing about the win, Sam­my said, "It's some­thing we'll cher­ish for a long time. Every game some­body stepped up. It was good to see Car­los play like that in his de­but World Cup. It shows the T20 depth we have in the Caribbean."

World T20 Hall of Fame

2007: In­dia def. Pak­istan by 5 runs, Jo­han­nes­burg

2009: Pak­istan def. Sri Lan­ka by 8 wick­ets, Lon­don

2010: Eng­land def. Aus­tralia by 7 wick­ets, Bridgetown

2012: West In­dies def. Sri Lan­ka by 36 runs, Colom­bo

2014: Sri Lan­ka def. In­dia by 6 wick­ets, Dha­ka

2016: West In­dies def. Eng­land by 4 wick­ets, Kolkata