Co-hosts from the Caribbean aiming to defy history and win a third Twenty20 World Cup title
West Indies to two Twenty20 World Cup titles as a captain, Daren Sammy has to defy history to win again as a head coach.
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No host has won the tournament on home soil in the first eight editions, a trend Sammy is hoping to break with the 2024 T20 World Cup being staged in the United States and the Caribbean.
Sri Lanka went the closest by reaching the final in 2012 before losing to West Indies in Colombo. That win is widely remembered for the 'Gangnam Style' celebrations of the Caribbean players after Sri Lanka was bowled out for 101 in pursuit of a 138-run target.
Four years later, a fearless brand of West Indies cricket set the Eden Gardens alight in India, where Carlos Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes against Ben Stokes in the final over to steer the Caribbean team a second T20 World Cup title.
Sammy was appointed head coach of the West Indies limited-overs squads last year. His past teammates Johnson Charles and Andre Russell, T20's most accomplished allrounder, are the only two-time champions still in the squad.
«We know how to select winning teams,» Sammy said in a news conference with Caribbean media to announce the squad. «We've done it before and I think, as a selection group, we're really excited about it.»
«It's an exciting time, and this preparation did not start now. It started from the last World Cup in Australia,» Sammy was quoted as saying by CNC3. «What we've been able to do throughout the last year as a T20 group, the players
