{"id":5465,"date":"2016-04-06T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axanewz.com\/e-news\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2021-03-03T21:40:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T21:40:40","slug":"wipa-congratulates-the-icc-world-t20-champions-the-west-indies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axanewz.com\/e-news\/?p=5465","title":{"rendered":"WIPA Congratulates the ICC World T20 Champions the West Indies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-align: left;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">KINGSTON, Jamaica<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">&ndash; The executive and members of the West Indies Players&rsquo; Association would like to extend congratulations to the West Indies Mens Senior Team on their achievement as the Champions of the ICC World T20 2016 tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-align: left;\">The West Indies men took the title for the record second time since the tournament started in 2007. Captain Darren Sammy won the toss for the 6<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;time in the tournament and sent England into bat, who set a target of 156 runs. The West Indies successfully reached the target in the 20<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;over.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-align: left;\">WIPA President and CEO, Wavell Hinds in congratulating the team said, &ldquo;Congratulations to the team, the management and support staff for an outstanding performance during this tournament.&rdquo;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-align: left;\">He continued by saying, &ldquo;West Indies cricket looks to be in a good place after we have captured ICC Under 19 World Cup, Women and Mens World T20 titles Congratulations again to the West Indies Mens team and I am sure the entire Caribbean and the diaspora are feeling very proud of these achievements .&rdquo;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #222222; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, Jamaica&nbsp;&ndash; The executive and members of the West Indies Players&rsquo; Association would like to extend congratulations to the West Indies Mens Senior Team on their achievement as the Champions of the ICC World T20 2016 tournament. &nbsp; &nbsp; The West Indies men took the title for the record second time since the tournament started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axanewz.com\/e-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axanewz.com\/e-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axanewz.com\/e-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axanewz.com\/e-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axanewz.com\/e-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axanewz.com\/e-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9014,"href":"https:\/\/axanewz.com\/e-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions\/9014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axanewz.com\/e-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axanewz.com\/e-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axanewz.com\/e-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}