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Kumar Sangakkara hailed Lendl Simmons match-winning innings for West Indies in the World T20 semi-final - despite the West Indies batsman earning THREE reprieves from India.Simmons, called into West Indies squad as a late replacement for hamstring-injury victim Andre Fletcher, cracked 82 not out from 51 balls to propel his side past Indias 192-2 with two balls to spare in Mumbai and into the showpiece game with England on Sunday, in Kolkata.The 31-year-old was twice caught off front-foot no-balls , when he was on 18 and 50, while he was also handed a lifeline late in his innings when Ravindra Jadejas foot was adjudged to be on the boundary rope as he flicked the ball back for Virat Kohli to take a catch. MS Dhoni must have felt like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day! Simmons comes in, scores runs, and you get him out - he scores runs and you get him out again, he scores runs and you get him out again! Kumar Sangakkara Coming in to a team as a replacement is not always easy but Simmons looked very focussed and I think he understood the conditions very well, Sangakkara said of the right-hander, who was playing at the home ground of his IPL franchise, Mumbai Indians.The way he started was very similar to a normal innings - hitting the loose ball and getting off strike - but he committed to every shot he played and wanted to bat through the innings, which he did.MS Dhoni, though, must have felt like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day! Simmons smashed 82 off 51 balls to send West Indies into Sundays final with England Simmons comes in, scores runs, and you get him out - he scores runs and you get him out again, he scores runs and you get him out again!It was high-drama, a beautiful chase and great to watch but cardinal mistakes cost India the game - it is hard to come back from those, even as professional players, and that catch [Jadejas] was the last straw.West Indies lost Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels cheaply at Wankhede Stadium, slipping to 19-2 when the former was bowled by Jasprit Bumrah for five and the latter chipped Ashish Nehra to cover for eight.However, Simmons and Johnson Charles (52 from 36) smashed 97 in 10.1 overs before Andre Russell (43 off 20) and Simmons took West Indies home with an unbroken stand of 80 in 6.3 overs, Russell walloping a match-sealing six off Virat Kohlis medium pace. James Anderson, Kumar Sangakkara and Michael Atherton react to the West Indies win over India in the World T20 semi-final Im not sure one great day in Mumbai cancels out the bad days they have had in recent times but its a good little period for them, Michael Atherton added of West Indies, whose womens side will play three-time champions Australia in Sundays final.Their Under 19s have won the World Cup and their men and women are through to the final here.They are a different team in the shorter format - they often look a pale imitation in Test cricket but get them together in Twenty20 and they are a hard team to beat.They have got many more match-winners than one [Gayle].Can West Indies win both World T20 titles? Watch their men play England at 2pm on Sunday on Sky Sports 2 - immediately after their women play Australia (9.30am on the same channel).Also See:Windies to play England in finalWI v Ind: As it happenedEngland are like AustraliaLive cricket on SkyCheap Air Max Plus China . 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Spiller left Week 3s 27-20 loss to the New York Jets with a thigh injury, but fully practiced with the team all week and expects to be ready to go on Sunday.LAKEWOOD RANCH, Fla.?-- Mason Cox made a name for himself in the AFL this season, and hes aiming for bigger and better results in 2017.The 25-year-old Collingwood big man acquitted himself well in his rookie AFL campaign, kicking 17 goals in 11 games for the Magpies. Cox ranks among the first Americans to play in the AFL, and at a height of 211 cm, hes the tallest player in the league history, just ahead of Fremantles Aaron Sandilands.Cox impressed in his debut at the annual Anzac Day clash against Essendon, kicking the first goal of the match in front of more than 85,000 fans. The former college basketball player from Oklahoma State also booted four goals in a later game against Brisbane.ESPN Australia caught up with Cox for a Q&A session this past weekend at the USAFL national tournament in Florida. Heres what transpired:How do you assess your debut AFL season? It was pretty good. In general, I think it was probably better than most people would expect. Im pretty hard on myself, [but] I try to take the ups and downs together and just make the best from it. Im definitely looking forward to next year and having a bit more of an impact and being a bit more consistent as far as games go. Toward the end of the season, I had a few injuries that split me out of the squad for a bit. Hopefully Ill be healthy the whole year and be able to give all I can to the team.You battled some injuries during the season. How is your health? My health is pretty good. I had hip surgery at the end of the year, pretty much the day after we were done. I cant really do a ton of running on it for another five or six weeks. So Ive been doing upper body [work]. For a guy who likes to go run and clear my mind, its a bit frustrating. Its a bit sore at times, but Ive just got to rest it until it heals completely. ... I [also] had shoulder surgery last year, and thats all healed up and feeling good, so hopefully by the time the season starts Ill be 100 percent again.What have you been advised to work on this offseason? Really just stay in shape. Obviously kick the footy around as much I can, although I cant do a ton of it with the hip. Just get more volume into it at this point to be able to get through a whole game and not be tired and [show up] to preseason well. We have skinnies, where we have to be under a certain fat percentage on the body. So just keep in shape and make sure thats low, so that when we start training and going at it Im ahead of the game.Do you think you will play forward next year or more time in the ruck? Dont really know. Wherever the coaches want to put me, Ill do it. Brodie Grundy had a fantastic year. Hes going to be a tough guy to knock out of the spot. I think Ill play both forward and ruck -- wherever the position is available and wherever they need me, Ill be more than happy to fill that role.What do you think about Collingwood bringing in free agents Chris Mayne and Daniel Wells? Im traveling and stuff, so you dont really even hear about it being in the States. Obviously, Ill meet them when I get back. But Im kind of removed from it all being overseas. I dont really deal with that kind of stuff. I dont really know all the details or all the stats. Ill leave that to the guys who make the big bucks behind the scenes. Im sure theyre making the right decisions.Do you think Collingwood can play finals next year? Yeah, of course. Theres no reason we wouldnt. At this point, its just getting wins and not getting a downfall to our season. Like, weve had a few games where we just kind of lostt it.dddddddddddd. Its frustrating to see, and its frustrating to be a part of when youre losing games. But at the end of the day, were a team that beat some of the best teams in the league. Weve got the talent. Weve got the ability. Its just getting it all together and showing our best every game. ... Weve shown plenty of promise this year. Weve played some of the best teams and come out with wins, so if they can make it to finals and make the Grand Final, why not us?What brings you to the USAFL nationals? I came over here at the last second. I found out my brother was playing here. I didnt tell anyone. I was going to surprise him, so I just kind of kept it under the rug. There are a lot of guys here who ran the combine when I first came into AFL, and it was great to see them again. Those guys had a big impact on where Im at now, and its great to catch up with them. Without those guys, I wouldnt be in the position Im in.Whats your impression of the level of play here? Its pretty good. A lot of these guys had never heard of AFL or ever played it in their lives [until recently]. A lot of the teams are run by Australians who come over here and play the sport they love and try to start their own clubs. Theyre just passionate about their sport. ... They get a group of guys together and teach them the game and just kind of get this community together. These guys go out and train every week and teach them all the skills of this game thats absolutely unheard of to them. Then to have something like the nationals, where everyone gets together and enjoys the game, is cool.Do you think footy has growth potential abroad? I think its going to get a bit more international now. There are a lot more [foreign] players, Americans, Irishmen and Sudanese guys are coming over and playing AFL. So I think the more international people that come through, then it gets a bit more media, and it proves that people can do it. I think the more people that go over there and give it a crack and do well, the more media gets behind it, and you never know where it will go. I think the more opportunities that come up and the more people that do it, the bigger the sport will become overseas and in Australia.Have any U.S. athletes approached you and asked about pursuing an AFL career? Ive talked to a few through the AFL and just kind of talked to them about where Ive been and what Ive gone through, what Ive learned, how tough it was, what to expect and things of that nature. Whenever the AFL gets in contact with them, Im always happy to help, walk them through it and give them an idea of what to expect. Ive been in the same position -- just trying to get your head around all of it. Its one big whirlwind.How do you like living in Australia? Are you picking up the accent? Im definitely picking up the accent. Its one of those things where if you talk with an American accent in Australia, everyone kind of asks you twice what you said. And you kind of get sick of repeating yourself, so you eventually just merge into it and give in. I love it over there. Melbourne is just crazy about footy, and its tough to describe it until you get there with the whole experience. ... Im actually trying to apply for citizenship there now and try to be a dual citizen of America and Australia. [If that goes through], whatever happens down the line, Ill have the option of staying there or coming back to the States. ' ' '