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[caption id="attachment_19651" align="alignnone" width="580"] West Indies T20 captain Darren Sammy has been sacked by the selectors.[/caption] Debasis Sen, St Lucia: Darren Sammy has been fired as captain of the West Indies Twenty20 team. Sammy, who four months ago led the West Indies side to their second International Cricket Council Twenty20 title, upstaged any official announcement from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), by taking to social media to reveal that he had been dismissed by the selectors. Sammy, who has retired from Test cricket but is still available in the two shorter forms of the game, posted a video on his Facebook account today where he said he would not be West Indies T20 captain anymore. Sammy said the chairman of selectors Courtney Browne had informed him via a 30-second phone call that the selectors had “reviewed the captaincy of T20” and he did not merit a place in the West Indies squad. “I got a call yesterday morning, it was probably 30 seconds, from the chairman of selectors telling me that they’ve reviewed the captaincy of T20 and I won’t be captain anymore of the T20 team, [and] my performances have not merited selection in the squad,” Sammy said in the video. “But that’s okay, I’ve always believed West Indies cricket is not about Darren Sammy. They are looking to the future and I want to wish the new captain – I don’t know if it’s out yet so I won’t call any names – all the best as he looks to lead West Indies cricket and take it forward. A visibly emotional Sammy started by talking about the CPL campaign of his team St Lucia Zouks, that lost the eliminator to Trinbago Knight Riders last night, before talking about losing his West Indies captaincy and his exclusion from the T20 squad. The limited-overs team is scheduled to play two T20Is against India in Florida at the end of the month. Sammy also led the West Indies to victory in the 2012 Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka. However, in this year’s tournament the affable St Lucian was hardly a factor with either bat or ball. He faced 13 balls in his three innings, scored eight runs, and bowled three overs, taking one wicket. He has played 66 Twenty20 Internationals, scored 534 runs at an average of 15.70, a strike rate of 148.74 and 42 his highest score. He has also taken 44 wickets at an average of 24.27 and an economy rate of 7.28.