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West Indies Champions win WCL 2026 [Source: worldchampionshipoflegends/Instagram]
West Indies Champions thrashed their England counterparts in the final of the WCL 2026 season in Sharjah. The outcome granted the West Indies Champions team its first-ever WCL title in three editions of the tournament.
Here is a look at exactly how the final of the WCL 2026 season panned out at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah on October 18.
Moeen Ali fires England to 159 despite Dwayne Bravo’s three-fer
Batting first, England Champions lost both openers, Jason Roy and Dawid Malan inside the powerplay overs to Shelton Cottrell and Fidel Edwards respectively. Captain Ravi Bopara also listed 16 runs from his end off 17 balls with a solitary boundary before becoming Dwayne Bravo’s first victim of the evening.
Moeen Ali at number four resurrected the tottering England Champions innings with an insurgent 60 off 39 balls. The legendary all-rounder and hard-hitting middle-order batter clattered four fours and four huge sixes in his knock, and shared a counterattacking partnership with Owais Shah to lift his side from 61-5 to 115-6.
While Raymon Reifer got the better of Ali, Dwayne Bravo dismissed Joe Denly and Samit Patel in quick succession to bag sensational figures of 3-21 from his four overs.
Owais chipped in with a fighting 38* off 28 balls to steer England Champions to a competitive total of 159-7. For West Indies, Shelton Cottrell and Fidel Edwards as well as Raymon Reifer and Carlos Brathwaite all assisted Dwayne Bravo by picking up a wicket each.
Lendl Simmons, Chadwick Walton finish off in style
Chasing 160 runs to win, West Indies Champions lost captain and legendary opener Chris Gayle for 21 off 14 balls with a boundary and two huge sixes in the final over of the powerplay.
His partner Lendl Simmons, however, went berserk in his scorching half-century. The former West Indies cricketer blasted 77* runs off just 53 balls with eight boundaries and three huge sixes.
Simmons also shared an unbroken 119-run partnership for the second wicket with fellow half-centurion Chadwick Walton. The latter of the two himself composed 58* off 35 balls as the West Indies Champions soared past the Englishmen with three overs and nine wickets to spare.
With the win, the West Indies Champions has now lifted its first-ever WCL title after losing the 2024 and 2025 editions of the tournament in the last two years.
