The West Indies ought to be hailed on the altar of cricket for the entertainment they dished out to clinch world cricket’s biggest prize in the shortest form of the game at Colombo. Not many teams outplay Sri Lanka physically and mentally on their home turf and return home with the title. Darren Sammy’s team deserve their pot of gold.

For nearly two decades, the men from the Caribbean under-performed and failed to keep West Indies on top of the pile even though they had some highly-skilled players in the form of Brian Lara, Courtney Walsh, Curtly Ambrose, Richie Richardson and to an extent, Carl Hooper.