WHILE some PEOPLE A worry bout who a show gayle

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Chris Gayle got to a century off 46 balls




Chris Gayle celebrates his second ton of IPL 2011, Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kings XI Punjab, IPL

[Sickko]

Good for him but it seems Gayle is motivated by some thing else other than patriotism

[Muadib]

Great !

Suh wi can call him for 20/20 ?

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Punjab succumb to merciless Gayle

Once every two years, Bangalore hosts Aero India, the country's biggest air show held on the outskirts of the city. On Friday night, Chris Gayle took it upon himself to deliver a similar spectacle to the home crowd, who went ballistic watching a flogging of a lifetime inflicted on the Kings XI Punjab bowlers. As the deflated attack desperately sought mercy, Gayle celebrated his domination with a triumphant smile, propelling his team to a thumping fourth straight win with an unforgettable century that made a backyard out of the Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Adam Gilchrist, cheery as ever, decided to field on a pitch that promised some assistance to his four-pronged pace attack. While he met Gayle's onslaught with a look of awe and admiration, his bowlers were what they looked - stunned into submission. The early movement and a spate of hits and misses in the first couple of overs were the few signs of encouragement in an otherwise dispiriting innings.

Gayle targeted the straight boundary, rarely attempted any cross-bat heaves or slogs, and relied on brute strength, partly a consequence of what is known to be a fitness regime that's ever the aspiration of the healthier than normal. Ryan Harris was the first recipient of Gayle's treatment, as he clobbered two consecutive sixes over long-on in the fourth over.

The Punjab bowlers erred in length, often doling out length deliveries, but most would have been unsettled by Gayle's ruthless approach. His initial movement was to make room and then, depending on the line, have a free swing in the same direction. Praveen Kumar's skills with variations in pace were conspicuous by their absence as he dished out a series of length deliveries that Gayle was only happy to dig into. After launching him for two straight sixes, he cashed in on some misdirection to pick up two fours in an over that yielded 22.

Gilchrist had to turn to spin and he found the expensive Piyush Chawla, whose figures this season took further beating with two monstrous sixes over midwicket off long hops. Virat Kohli, in a fortunate yet largely mature innings, was only too happy to cede floor to his partner, who then directed his attention to Love Ablish, whose pain of rejection was felt in three consecutive boundaries, one of which was a streaky edge past the diving Gilchrist.

A half-tracker from Abhishek Nayar disappeared over square leg, and the returning Ryan McLaren, who had delivered Punjab their first breakthrough with the wicket of Tillakaratne Dilshan, was to bear first sight of Gayle's celebration upon reaching his century. He was hammered over long-on, followed by a disdainful punch through mid-off that brought up the landmark, Gayle's second this season.

Relief came when Gayle holed out to deep midwicket off Chawla and Kohli was bowled two balls later, but AB de Villiers kept the innings on track with a typically aggressive cameo to leave Punjab with a daunting task.

The signs were there when Gilchrist was brilliantly run out first ball by Asad Pathan while attempting a quick single, and as is the case in games decided by individuals, it wasn't long before Gayle stepped in. He cast aside his usually calm, sober self and reveled, like a mischevious child, at every Punjab misfortune wrought by his offspin. Paul Valthaty spooned one to square leg, Dinesh Karthik was trapped in front and Chawla yorked. As Punjab limped towards a fourth defeat in a row, Gayle stood out amid the celebrations, fluttering curls, locomotive moves and all.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-p...ry/514073.html

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O No Man Of The Match Again

Brilliant Bangalore demolish Kochi
Royal Challengers Bangalore 128 for 1 (Dilshan 52*, Gayle 44) beat Kochi Tuskers Kerala 125 for 9 (Aravind 2-20, Vettori 2-24) by nine wickets






If you aren't a fan of the Royal Challengers Bangalore, there's good news and bad news. The good news first: Tillakaratne Dilshan has found form late, and will not unleash any more violence in the IPL, since he is headed to England. The bad news is that Chris Gayle is in such form that you probably wouldn't notice Dilshan's absence. And then there is worse news - Bangalore are fielding like a team possessed. The hapless Kochi Tuskers Kerala ran into each of these facets of Bangalore's brilliance, and were brushed away by nine wickets, with 6.5 overs to spare.

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KTK
Bangalore begin poorly: Kochi capitalise against the new ball, and march to 64 for 1 in eight overs

RCB
The beginning of a field day: de Villiers and Zaheer sizzle in the field, to dismiss Parthiv and Hodge. Kochi never recover, and stumble to 125

RCB
Dilshan back in form: Powar bowls the second over of the chase and Dilshan pummels 20 runs. Things are about to get worse for Kochi …

RCB
Thirty-seven: Gayle plunders 37 off Prasanth Parameswaran's first over, third of the innings. The crowd's evening is about to end very early
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On a day when their franchise went green, Gayle and Dilshan did more than their bit for the environment, setting up a finish before the floodlights took full effect. Gayle began the mayhem by depositing RP Singh into the second tier behind long-off in the first over. Dilshan responded by looting 20 runs off Ramesh Powar in the second over. What followed was not for children and the faint-hearted.

At the start of Prasanth Parameswaran's over, if you had stopped him and said he was going to do worse than concede six sixes, he would have laughed it off. After all, he was a man who had stared Virender Sehwag in the face and nailed him in his first IPL over. Today was a different day, though.

Parameswaran chugged in and delivered a length ball first up, and Gayle carved it over point for a six. Parameswaran did not flinch; Sehwag had done likewise the other day before perishing. Today, Parameswaran's second ball was a slower ball. Bad idea. Worse, it was a no-ball. Gayle slashed him for six more. The free-hit was thumped through midwicket. The next ball was thundered through the covers. By now, Parameswaran was clearly rattled, and he ran in robotically to delivery two more length balls. Six over cover, followed by a shimmy down the track and a 91 metre six over long-off. The last ball was a high full toss, and Gayle inside-edged for four more. The over had gone for 37, and Parameswaran had a story his grandchildren would ask him to relate years from now. Kochi, meanwhile were looking for an early flight out. Dilshan ensured they would have enough time to beat the Bangalore traffic and make it to the airport in time.

Incredibly, Bangalore were just as clinical on the field. Daniel Vettori made masterly bowling changes on a sluggish track. He came on after his fast bowlers had allowed Kochi to get off to a good start, and stalled them with two huge wickets. His fielders - from the usually nimble AB de Villiers, to the rarely agile Zaheer Khan - responded with brilliance, and Kochi lurched from 64 for 1 in eight overs to 89 for 5 in 14, before finishing on 125 for 9.

Kochi's problems began with Brendon McCullum's inability to adapt to the slowness of the strip, though Michael Klinger's smart footwork got them early boundaries. Vettori switched to Plan B after four overs, bringing Gayle and himself on. McCullum charged Gayle for two fours, but Vettori lulled him into an awry swipe with a smart variation in length.

Parthiv Patel kept looking for boundaries, and Kochi had managed at least one in each of the first eight overs. The party was about to end though: Bangalore struck in each of the next three overs. Klinger yorked himself by charging out to Gayle, before Vettori cracked the game open by getting Mahela Jayawardene to edge behind. Bangalore's fielding then took centre-stage.

Brad Hodge nudged his first ball behind point and took off for a non-existent single. Parthiv responded before pulling out of the run, and was soon running alongside Hodge towards the bowler's end. AB de Villiers pouched the wide throw on the dive with his left glove and, not knowing that both batsmen were stranded close to the other end, threw down the stumps in one smooth, graceful motion as he tumbled.


Three overs later, Zaheer bettered the effort: Hodge whipped S Aravind off the hips and the ball was hurtling towards the boundary when Zaheer jumped up full length and intercepted with one hand at short fine leg. Kochi were visibly stunned, and never looked like recovering. Bangalore's fielding kept bettering itself right up to the last over, when Mohammad Kaif took a brilliant catch running forward, and de Villiers slung-shot another run-out. What followed after the break was just plain cartoonish violence.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-p...ry/514252.html

[Muadib]

maybe WI dont have di right currency fi Gayle...

Gayle probably seh "It takes cash to care !"

lol !

[Willi]

LoL

WICB bruk and bankrupt fi true.

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Gayle's extraordinary display, and other numbers

Twenty numbers from the IPL so far
Madhusudhan Ramakrishnan
May 9, 2011
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Since his entry into this year's IPL, Chris Gayle has had a tremendous impact on Bangalore's fortunes. They have won all five matches that he has played, and in those five games, he scored 328 runs at an average of 82 and strike-rate of 205.00. In contrast, he scored 292 runs in nine innings in the last season and just 171 in seven innings in IPL 2009. In a week dominated by Gayle's hitting, Virender Sehwag also played an outstanding knock against Deccan and led Delhi's successful chase of 175 after they were 25 for 3 at one stage. A look at some of the key numbers from the IPL so far.


Chris Gayle: 26 sixes in just five innings in IPL 2011 © AFP
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*All stats are updated till the end of the 51st match, between Pune and Punjab, on May 8.

56 - The number of boundary runs per innings that Gayle has scored in IPL 2011. Shaun Marsh is second (33.6) and Sehwag is third (31.2). (minimum qualification: 150 runs scored in boundaries)

66 - The most runs scored in the first three overs of an innings in the IPL, by Bangalore against Kochi. Punjab are second, with 52 runs in their first three overs against Rajasthan.

5 - The number of centuries scored in IPL 2011, with 23 matches to go. In comparison, six centuries were scored in IPL 2008 and four in IPL 2010. Only two centuries were scored in IPL 2009.

275 - Gayle's strike-rate in his innings of 44 against Kochi, the highest for an innings of over 40 in IPL 2011 and the fourth-highest overall. Kieron Pollard's strike-rate of 346.15 in his 45 off 13 balls in IPL 2010 is the highest for a 40-plus score.

26 - The most sixes by a batsman in IPL 2011. Gayle holds the record, and is followed by Sehwag (18) and Paul Valthaty (14). Sanath Jayasuriya holds the record for the most sixes in a single IPL season with 31 in 14 innings. Gayle's 26 sixes in IPL 2011 have come in just five innings.

4 - The number of bowlers who have conceded ten runs or fewer in a four-over spell in IPL 2011 so far. Rahul Sharma picked up 2 for 7 in his four overs and is the only spinner - the others are Brett Lee, Sreesanth and Lasith Malinga. Lee is the only bowler to achieve the feat twice across the four seasons.

41 - The number of deliveries remaining after Bangalore's nine-wicket win over Kochi, and Pune's seven-wicket win over Punjab - it's the most after a 100-plus target has been chased in IPL 2011. The record in all IPL matches is 48, when Deccan chased Mumbai's score of 154 in 2008 with eight overs to spare.

16.6 - The number of extras per match in IPL 2011, the lowest among all seasons. The highest was in 2008 - 19.4.

4.66 - The difference in Bangalore's run-rate in the first six overs this year after Gayle's entry (10.20) and before (5.54). Their average has also gone up from 13.30 to 102.00.

28 - The most catches taken by a fielder, by Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma. Jacques Kallis is next, with 23 catches. Sehwag has taken the most catches in IPL 2011 (9) followed by S Anirudha and Kallis (8).

37 - The most runs scored in an over across all seasons of the IPL, by Bangalore against Kochi on May 8, 2011. Kolkata are second, with 33 runs off one over against Punjab in 2010.

29.92 - The runs per wicket in Bangalore, the highest among all venues. Hyderabad and Mohali are next, with an average of 28.43 and 27.48 runs per wicket.

1.27 - The win-loss ratio of chasing teams in IPL 2011, the second-highest across all seasons. The ratio is highest for IPL 2008 (1.63) and lowest for IPL 2010 (0.90).

32.60 - The average balls per innings faced by Marsh, the highest among all batsmen who have faced at least 750 balls across the four seasons of the IPL. Tendulkar is next, with a corresponding figure of 28.2.

54.70 - Michael Hussey's average in the IPL (all seasons), which is the highest among batsmen with at least 500 runs. Marsh is next, with an average of 52.20.

7 - The number of bowlers with 50 or more wickets in the IPL. RP Singh leads the list with 58 wickets in 53 innings. Lasith Malinga is second, with 57 wickets in 36 innings.

50 - The number of fifty-plus scores for Chennai, the highest among all teams. Delhi are next with 46 fifty-plus scores.

94- The number of runs in fours and sixes scored by Gayle for Bangalore against Punjab. This is the highest runs in boundaries in an innings in IPL 2011 followed by Valthaty and Sehwag (88). The record is 118, by Brendon McCullum, for Kolkata versus Bangalore in IPL 2008.

6- The number of players to score over 400 runs and pick up 25 or more wickets in the IPL. Among these players, Kallis has scored the most runs (1473) while Irfan Pathan has the most wickets (54).

14- The most fifty-plus stands for a team in IPL 2011. Chennai hold the record, while Mumbai are next with 11. Across all seasons, Chennai are by far on top with 62 fifty-plus stands, followed by Rajasthan with 48.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-p...ry/514402.html

[Muadib]

Why yuh suh adamant on condemning di man... ?

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who condemning who???

[Muadib]

nuh you ah show seh di man respond to a particular motivation.. and it have nutting fi duh wid country..

Gayle ah one dutty labourite..

"It takes cash to care"

[Skeng DX]

d man did want fi represent but the board dash him weh. u neva hear him KLAS fm interview

[Muadib]

yuh have represent and yuh have REPRESENT... di man ah REPRESENT right now !

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yuh have represent and yuh have REPRESENT... di man ah REPRESENT right now !

SO couldnt be that he is in a better side ie his IPL team

just like how sum of the english premier league players them like drogba in chelsea

hence lifting his game

wah u think???

unlike d WI team where him adi only good player or one of

[Muadib]

yuh logic weak...

What bettah side haffi duh wid one man batting exploits..

unless yuh arguing dat him need to bat even better fi WI since dem weakah dan him IPL side..

Bettah yuh stap digging...