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Christopher Henry Gayle!
Devanshi Singh 25 Apr 2013
We sat down in front of the TV, just in time to see which team Rudra was going to play for that year. And it was Royal Challengers Bangalore. I looked at him waiting for a reaction. All he said was ‘Chalo, Gayle se toh bach gaya’ and he went off for his daily run.
It wasn’t until yesterday that these words became real for me. Muttiah Muralitharanwas happy that he was on this side of the camp. Mahendra Singh Dhoni was happy that he is a wicketkeeper and not a bowler. It was only last year against Pune Warriors in Pune, the “Gayle Storm” had hit and Dilly signaled from the field to his wife to take his daughter to shelter before a ball hit her. All the wise-cracks that the best of the best players of this game have for Gayle are much more than just happy praises. He proved that yesterday. Not that he ever had a point to prove. Being there to witness the carnage was something else, and might require a whole new chapter to describe the feeling.
Still recovering from the unbelievable innings, we (RCB squad) reached the hotel as usual sometime before the team. But today no one wanted to go up back to their room. Exhausted as we were, everyone still wanted to stay and welcome the champion back home. The team was in as best spirits as one could expect, maybe even much more. Gayle’s heroics had rubbed off on everyone it seemed. Today everyone was a winner, some because they had scored and taken wickets, but all of them because they witnessed THIS from arguably one of the best seats in the house.
Jim, our beloved photographer, was busy revealing the dressing room celebrations that he had captured after the game to everyone who wanted to see what the players had to say. But today it wasn’t our blue-eyed boy Virat Kohli’s words that the crowd was waiting for. Everyone wanted to know what the big man from Jamaica had to say. After all he was the one who had experienced this like no other.
Christopher Henry Gayle!
Devanshi Singh 25 Apr 2013
We sat down in front of the TV, just in time to see which team Rudra was going to play for that year. And it was Royal Challengers Bangalore. I looked at him waiting for a reaction. All he said was ‘Chalo, Gayle se toh bach gaya’ and he went off for his daily run.It wasn’t until yesterday that these words became real for me. Muttiah Muralitharanwas happy that he was on this side of the camp. Mahendra Singh Dhoni was happy that he is a wicketkeeper and not a bowler. It was only last year against Pune Warriors in Pune, the “Gayle Storm” had hit and Dilly signaled from the field to his wife to take his daughter to shelter before a ball hit her. All the wise-cracks that the best of the best players of this game have for Gayle are much more than just happy praises. He proved that yesterday. Not that he ever had a point to prove. Being there to witness the carnage was something else, and might require a whole new chapter to describe the feeling.
Still recovering from the unbelievable innings, we (RCB squad) reached the hotel as usual sometime before the team. But today no one wanted to go up back to their room. Exhausted as we were, everyone still wanted to stay and welcome the champion back home. The team was in as best spirits as one could expect, maybe even much more. Gayle’s heroics had rubbed off on everyone it seemed. Today everyone was a winner, some because they had scored and taken wickets, but all of them because they witnessed THIS from arguably one of the best seats in the house.
Jim, our beloved photographer, was busy revealing the dressing room celebrations that he had captured after the game to everyone who wanted to see what the players had to say. But today it wasn’t our blue-eyed boy Virat Kohli’s words that the crowd was waiting for. Everyone wanted to know what the big man from Jamaica had to say. After all he was the one who had experienced this like no other.
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