Chris Gayle, name is enough to create fear in competitor’s
bowling line up. He is the only person at present in this universe that is
capable of scoring double century in T20. I know you will say that I am crazy.
Yea I am crazy. I was at office when he played an immortal inns of 175* against
pune warriors in Bangalore for RCB. I watched that inns 1000 times. It was just
amazing memories that is back to 2013.
Now, we must talk about today, do we remember the date? 24th
February. Do you think cricket lovers will forget today’s date ever specially
in India when in back 2010 The God of cricket Sachin Tendulkar scored 200*
against South Africa. That was an impossible journey before. We can say an
unbelievable dream that got complete on that. Same after 5 years, first time in
World cup history Christopher Henry Gayle scored 215 off 147 balls. Do you know
that he completes his 50 in 54 balls, next
50 in 51 balls & rest 115 (including the ball, he got out) in 42
balls. It’s an insane inns against poor Zimbabwe. They did really very well until
40th over, when WI was 220+ only. But last 10 overs went for 150+
runs. You have to understand one thing that pitch was full of runs but not an
even wicket. Especially the way Smith got bowled in 2nd ball of the
day and Samuels’ peaceful century. Gayle
completes 200 in 138 balls & his partner on other end scored century on 143
balls. It was the brutality of Gayle on Zimbabwe then an easy pitch.
It might be the anger on WICB’s head Cameroon, who RT a
tweet knowingly, which mentioned that Gayle must not be in team for his past
performance. However, after lots of criticism he tweets sorry about his last
RT. But you must ask Zimbabwe, who got hurt more than anyone from that
incident. I think that incident woke up the giant devil inside a sleepy &
slow Gayle.
Ok. Let me ask one
Question, which portion of the world is happier to see Gayle storm most. If you
think its Jamaica, which is the place Gayle belongs to. Then you are wrong. It’s
Namma Bengalooru. Who are more than
happy to see Gayle is scoring heavily and ruthlessly.
However Gayle belongs to few people in this earth, for whom
this earth is a global village. He represents approx each & every T20
tournament one can imagine except New Zealand. He is a local layer of
Australia, India then WI.
Don’t surprise guys, if you can listen/hear that he scored
200 in T20, because IPL 8 is going to start in less than 45 days.
Till then let’s hope the Gayle storm will not hit Team India’s
caravan during their clash on 6th March 2015. Amen J
