West Indies is a boundary-hitting team: Darren Sammy

West Indies skipper Darren Sammy a day before the big final of the World T20 2016 is boasting about his team’s hard-hitting abilities and said that their dressing room is full of power.

Answering the media in the pre-match press conference Sammy said, “I think since the inception of T20s, you have seen that West Indies is a boundary-hitting team, so that’s no surprise to me. We know the power we have in the dressing room,”

“People would say we don’t rotate the strike well, but we know we are a boundary-hitting team. First, you have to stop us from hitting boundaries, and it was just excellent to watch [Lendl] Simmons, [Andre] Russell and [Johnson] Charles display that type of batting, boundary-hitting against India.

He clearly wanted to emphasize on the term ‘hitting boundary’ and used it as many as four times in the first couple of answers.

“It’s about keeping our faith, our mind in the right direction. Like, I think, it was Dwayne Bravo who said: ‘the only thing that can beat us is ourselves’. And we believe in that. We could only defeat ourselves.

“Once we do what we know we could do, nobody will beat us. That’s the mentality we are taking forward against England,” Sammy added.

Like he had mentioned in the post-match presentation after a win over India in the semi-final Sammy said that the team had to go through a lot leading into the tournament and that the players were a united bunch and everyone else is against them.

“A lot happened before the tournament started. I always believe everything happens for a reason. I think the pre-tournament shenanigans brought us really closer together as a team. It feels like it’s us against everybody else.”

He didn’t lose focus on the moment and said that no doubt England had done well after the two teams met in the opening match of the Super-10 league stage but they have their plans ready.

“We will focus on England, but we will focus more on us. We can take nothing away from England. They have improved with every game since that defeat to us [in their opening Super-10 game]. They have their strengths. It’s up to us to come up with a better plan than [what] they execute,” he continued.

“We have studied England, we have looked at their players. They have a lot of match-winners as well. We are not going to take them for granted. But after we had done that, we shifted our focus back on us. The good things we could do.

“It’s going to be a match-up of skill vs skill, manpower vs manpower.”

The skipper also added that they believe in themselves and are confident of lifting the trophy at the end of the final.

“We have that belief in the dressing room that our brand will make us victorious come Sunday. We believe if we do what West Indies can do, we will always be winning in this format.” Darren Sammy said.

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