Joe Root consoles team mate Ben Stokes as England react to their final over loss to the West Indies in the Twenty20 World Cup title match.

There are fears England's Kiwi allrounder Ben Stokes could be significantly scarred by his final over mauling in the Twenty20 World Cup final.

Stokes was handed the ball with the Windies needing 19 runs off the last over in Kolkata.

Carlos Brathwaite promptly heaved the first four balls delivered by Stokes over the boundary for consecutive sixes to get the job done in style.

Just where that leaves the mental state of the super-confident Stokes remains to be seen.

Former England captain Michael Vaughan certainly has worries for him.

"Ben Stokes will be hurting for a long time," Vaughan wrote in his column for Britain's Telegraph newspaper, summing up the final.

"Some will say he is a tough lad and will get over it. Yes, he is strong but he is human too and it is going to be a while before he recovers from what happened in the final over."

Vaughan said the circumstances will be harder because England "were so close to picking up a trophy" and some of the team would have been thinking about "winning and standing on the podium".

That's when the Windies stood up to shatter those illusions.

"Now England just need to let the dust settle then sit down with Ben to assess mentally what went wrong. Only he knows the answer. He has to be open and honest with himself and admit 'this is what I was thinking' and just try to learn from the experience," Vaughan wrote in the Telegraph.

"As a captain you try to talk from the heart to someone in Stokes' position and put an arm around the shoulder. You tell them they will be back stronger for the experience.

"But Stokes is not the sort of lad to take that kind of stuff. He will be spewing for a long while so you have to allow him time to hurt. I am afraid that is high-level sport.

"He will lose sleep for days going over it in his mind, asking: Why didn't I do something different?

"I have respect for anyone who bowls the last over in a final. It takes real guts. The good thing is that Stokes is young and has experienced highs and lows in his career already so he will be able to handle this in time."

Vaughan said that Stokes needn't have been put in that position had the England batsmen down better than their total of 155.

Batting had been their "stronger suit" at the tournament but they ahd come up short in the final, leaving them vulnerable to the West Indies big-hitting lineup.

"If England had made 190 then Stokes's final over would have been irrelevant."

Stokes, meanwhile, received an outpouring of support from past and present players plus some supporters via social media.

To all idiots tweeting 'Ben Chokes', there's no prouder warrior in an England shirt than @benstokes38. So shut it. pic.twitter.com/3P7kJB9mv9 — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 3, 2016

The Christchurch-born 24-year-old appreciated the gestures, tweeting: