​ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Fol­low­ing his se­lec­tion to the 2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Team of the Tour­na­ment, vet­er­an all-rounder Ja­son Hold­er has de­scribed the achieve­ment as a "proud mo­ment" where his game and the team’s needs per­fect­ly con­verged. De­spite be­ing a two-time world cham­pi­on, the 34-year-old Bar­ba­di­an not­ed the unique na­ture of this year's cam­paign in his per­son­al jour­ney.

​“This is a proud mo­ment and achieve­ment in what was re­al­ly my first full T20 World Cup, as sur­pris­ing as it may sound,” Hold­er said. “I just felt like every­thing for me was in align­ment. My game is in a good place, I kept things sim­ple, lived in the mo­ment and con­tributed when­ev­er the team need­ed me.”

​Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), via a re­lease, ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Hold­er, a mem­ber of the West In­dies’ 2016 ti­tle-win­ning group, who earned his place among this year’s elite fol­low­ing stand­out per­for­mances through­out the month-long com­pe­ti­tion. The Team of the Tour­na­ment was se­lect­ed by a pan­el of re­spect­ed for­mer play­ers and com­men­ta­tors who cov­ered the glob­al show­piece.

​Hold­er de­liv­ered a su­perb all-round cam­paign for the Men in Ma­roon, claim­ing 10 wick­ets while con­tribut­ing 141 ex­plo­sive runs at a re­mark­able strike rate of 174.07 and an av­er­age of 35.25. One of his defin­ing mo­ments came with a pow­er­ful 33 from 17 balls, an in­nings that pro­pelled West In­dies to a com­pet­i­tive 196 for 6 against Eng­land. Those runs proved de­ci­sive as the Caribbean side de­fend­ed the to­tal to se­cure a 30-run vic­to­ry.

​The for­mer West In­dies cap­tain al­so etched his name in the tour­na­ment’s record books, shar­ing in a world-record 8th-wick­et part­ner­ship of 89 runs with Ro­mario Shep­herd against South Africa in the Su­per Eights in Ahmed­abad. Hold­er’s 49 from 31 balls helped res­cue the in­nings af­ter the West In­dies had slipped to 83 for 7. He al­so pro­duced an­oth­er late flour­ish against even­tu­al cham­pi­ons In­dia, strik­ing 37 from 22 balls to lift West In­dies to a com­pet­i­tive 195 for 4 in a vir­tu­al knock­out en­counter. With the ball, the tow­er­ing 6’7” all-rounder used bounce and dis­ci­pline to trou­bling ef­fect, high­light­ed by a su­perb 4 for 27 against Nepal at the Wankhede Sta­di­um, set­ting up a dom­i­nant nine-wick­et vic­to­ry.

​CWI’s Di­rec­tor of Crick­et, Miles Bas­combe, praised Hold­er’s im­pact and pro­fes­sion­al­ism, not­ing that his se­lec­tion is rich­ly de­served and re­flects the qual­i­ty, ex­pe­ri­ence, and com­po­sure he con­tin­ues to bring to West In­dies crick­et. Bas­combe added that Hold­er's abil­i­ty to in­flu­ence games with both bat and ball, par­tic­u­lar­ly in key mo­ments, speaks to his val­ue and lead­er­ship.

​Hold­er’s achieve­ment al­so re­flect­ed the spir­it­ed per­for­mances of the West In­dies team through­out the tour­na­ment. Ex­plo­sive left-han­der Shim­ron Het­my­er pro­duced a mem­o­rable cam­paign, scor­ing 248 runs in sev­en in­nings, the most by a West In­di­an in a sin­gle T20 World Cup, at an av­er­age of 41.33 and an elec­tri­fy­ing strike rate of 186.46. Mean­while, Sher­fane Ruther­ford de­liv­ered one of the tour­na­ment’s most thrilling in­nings with a ca­reer-best 76 not out from 42 balls against Eng­land, as West In­dies thrilled fans with an as­ton­ish­ing 76 six­es across the com­pe­ti­tion.

​Hold­er cred­it­ed the team’s uni­ty and de­ter­mi­na­tion for the mem­o­rable cam­paign. “Every­one want­ed the same re­sult and the same suc­cess. We buck­led down as a team and worked hard to bring a proud feel­ing to the peo­ple of the Caribbean.”

CWI con­clud­ed by com­mend­ing the en­tire se­nior men’s team and sup­port staff for a cam­paign that ig­nit­ed pride and ex­cite­ment through­out the re­gion.