"Badass" is a word regularly tossed around gently. Not for Marlon Samuels. Having won his second Man of the Match honor in World Twenty20 finals, Samuels sought his question and answer session still in his cushions. The England public interview was on when he arrived, and he sat and held up, tolerating congrats from those working in the media focus. Around five minutes had passed by when he at last lost persistence, and asked when the thing would begin. He had come without the West Indies media director and he was going to do things media chiefs lose their employments for.
At long last Eoin Morgan left the question and answer session room. They didn't take a gander at each other. Samuels strolled in. Sat sideways on the grounds that he was wearing cushions, and couldn't stick his legs under the table. The ICC agent, who was going to organize the question and answer session, attempted to disclose to him the cameras were in front. In a hurling room, however, Samuels had the crowd on side. Without moving his head, he took a gander at the cameras and asked, "Are you prepared for me?" No one protested. They'd be accursed in the event that they protested him.
And after that, just to make himself more agreeable, Samuels set his feet on the table, spikes what not. The ICC delegate attempted to talk him out of it. Samuels simply needed to be agreeable. He had played the absolute most beautiful straight drives under enormous weight minutes prior. Definitely no one personalities him not giving the cameras the ideal edge. The ICC records this question and answer session on a camera just to one side or the left of the player. All it is prone to have is the spikes talking. Also, the words stung more than his singing hits.
There is history between Shane Warne and Samuels. Amid a BBL match in January 2013, Samuels appeared to have gotten Warne's Melbourne Stars buddy David Hussey as he turned for a moment run. Warne enjoyed some shirt hauling when Samuels turned out to bat. At that point a Warne toss from short proximity zoomed by Samuels' face after which Samuels discarded his bat in indignation.
Warne the observer has likewise not been extremely complimentary of Samuels, who doesn't care for it. While tolerating his Man of the Match recompense, Samuels said he had just Warne at the forefront of his thoughts when he woke up, and – taking after feedback of his rejection against India in the semi-last – that he knew he would turn up for the last. At that point he showed his trophy to the cameras and said, "This is for Shane Warne."
At the public interview he laid into Warne some more. "Each group I play for, Shane Warne has an issue with me," Samuels said. "I don't comprehend what, I've never affronted him, it appears he has a considerable measure inside him that he needs to turn out with. I don't value the way that he keeps on discussing me, and the things he continues doing. I don't have a clue, possibly it is on the grounds that my face is genuine and his face is definitely not."
Ben Stokes, who likewise has some history with Samuels, came in for stick too, after their continuous tussle through the last. Samuels was sitting tight for the third umpire to control on a catch – in the end he was given not out – when he and Stokes had a word. Once the umpires affirmed Samuels was to return, he gave Stokes an irate word or three. After the match was won, Samuels uprooted his pullover and surged crosswise over to be before the England changing area to signal. He was later fined 30% of his match expense by the ICC for "oppressive and hostile dialect" coordinated at Stokes.
"Feeds is an anxious laddie," Samuels said when asked of his talk with Carlos Brathwaite before the last over, off which West Indies required 19 to win. Brathwaite hit four continuous sixes to win the match with two balls to save. "So what I advise Braithwaite is to simply hold his posture, and he's going to bowl a few full hurls, as usual, and it will work to support us. Also, he played a splendid thump toward the end there to offer me a little reprieve down at the flip side."
Stirs came in for further outrage. "All things considered, he doesn't learn," Samuels said. "They continue letting him know when he plays against me, don't address me since I'm going to perform. I didn't face a ball and he had such a great amount to say to me that I know I must be there in a jiffy toward the end, once more."
Samuels said that the needling kept him going. "That is the thing that I flourish with," Samuels said. "That is the reason I'm still around for so long, in spite of so much high points and low points. I've turned my life around in the most recent five years, and I awaken each day and offer gratitude to god and to my children, this is the thing that I am accomplishing for them."
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