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| Samuels also settled a score Shane Warne with whom he had clashed during a Big Bash League game in 2012-13 (video below) |
April 4, 2016, NewsCrunch
West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels took on
Samuels had struck an unbeaten 85 to star in the Windies victory over
A bitter rivalry that erupted when Samuels gave a send-off salute to Stokes in a
Through the match, Samuels had exchanged words with Stokes and was fined 30 percent of his fee for abusing Stokes.
In the presser, Samuels said, "Well, he does not learn," stating it was Stokes who started the spat.
"I keep telling him whenever we play against each other 'do not speak to me because I'm going to perform'. "
"That's what I strive on. That's why I'm still around for so long, despite so much ups and downs," said Samuels.
He watched from the non-striker end as Carlos Brathwaite blasted four successive sixes in Ben Stokes' final over to help West Indies lift their second World Twenty20 title.
"Stokes is a nervous lad you know. What I told Brathwaite was... he's going to bowl a couple of full tosses as always and it worked in our favour and Brathwaite played a brilliant knock there," added Samuels.
He also settled a score Shane Warne with whom he had clashed during a Big Bash League game in 2012-13.
"Shane Warne has a problem with me. Don't know what. I've never disrespected him. Seems he has a lot of inside him that he needs to come out," Samuels said.