By Cosmo Hamilton
Let’s hear the chant folks…. Sammy! Sammy! Sammy! Sammy! Once more with feeling …. Sammy! Sammy! Sammy! The oft times maligned West Indies captain Darren Sammy blamed for everything from the poor showing of the region’s team among Test cricket’s elite teams, to the recent polar vortex weather pattern that dumped a record breaking amount of snow on the New York metropolitan area in what has been a miserable winter, is now well and truly emerging as a hero, and in my view a legend not only in his native St. Lucia but throughout the Caribbean.
The legend emerged in Bangladesh at the 2014 T20 World Cup on Friday as the long, lean, lithe, lethal Lucian skipper steered the good ship Windies loaded with a nervous crew of a certain ‘confident group’ out of murky Australian currents with power and panache blowing the Aussies out of the water with an explosive innings of 34 runs from 14 balls to overhaul the challenging 178 for 9 from 20 overs posted by the men from Downunder with two balls to spare – 179 for 4 in 19.4 overs.
Sammy came into the fray with his team needing 49 runs from 21 balls. And the captain was either hell bent or heaven sent – either way he would not be denied; determined to deliver under pressure as only a rare brand of performers do, wielding his weapon of choice loosely referred to as a bat, to pulverize the
