{"id":81696,"date":"2016-04-04T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/west-indies-phenomenal-victory-overshadowed-by-the-internal-rift\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T06:18:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T06:18:11","slug":"west-indies-phenomenal-victory-overshadowed-by-the-internal-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/west-indies-phenomenal-victory-overshadowed-by-the-internal-rift\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indies\u2019 phenomenal victory overshadowed by the internal rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"471\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/4 April\/4  Apr\/Cricket West indies  (1).jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KOLKATA (SW): The mighty West Indies&rsquo; phenomenal victory over pioneers of cricket England was overshadowed by the internal differences of winning side.<\/p>\n<p>WI beat England by four wickets after Carlos Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes in the final over, to become the first two-time winners of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>West Indies&#39; build-up to the tournament was overshadowed by a pay dispute with their board, which was almost forced to send a second-string squad to India. In addition they were riled by a pre-tournament Cricinfo column written by broadcaster Mark Nicholas, in which he described the Windies as &quot;short of brains&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>In a reference to the lengthy and bitter pay dispute that had put their World Twenty20 participation in doubt, the all-rounder said his team felt &quot;disrespected by our board&quot;, BBC reported. Sami also lashed at Nicholas for undermining the potential of the WI players.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/4 April\/4  Apr\/Cricket West indies  (4).JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The West Indies board publicly reprimanded Captain Darren Sammy just hours after his team&#39;s stunning victory in the World T20 final over England. In a post-match interview, Sammy gave vent to months &mdash; possibly years &mdash; of frustration with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA (SW): The mighty West Indies\u2019 phenomenal victory over pioneers of cricket England was overshadowed by the internal differences of winning side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}