Now RCB are 74/0 ! Dilshan is giving him fantastic support and if KKR do not get a break, they are in for big trouble ! Such is the impact of impact players !
Gayle is now 43 off 24 balls and is going great guns. Gayle deflects one magnificently and it goes for four. He moves up to 47. He smashes another six and crosses 50.
Many feel that Gayle will turn around RCB's fortunes !
Dilshan is out and Kohli has just hit an exquisite four. The next ball Kohli lofts for six !
It is said that the presence of impact players like Gayle, Pollard, Pathan etc affect the confidence of the bowlers !
Gayle is on 92 off 47 balls, with seven sixes and eight fours. Dilshan was out for 32.
Has Gayle changed IPL ! He smashes the next ball for four and is now 96 ! Gayle takes a single and is now 97 no.
This sounds like great revenge. In the 2008 IPL first match, Brendon McCullum smashed 115, thus routing Bangalore. Now Bangalore through Gayle is taking revenge on KKR !
Three more runs separate Gayle from his hundred. Kohli is 20 not out. Kohli drives for four and moves on to 24. 8 runs needed to win and Gayle takes a single and moves on to 98. Kohli takes a single and gives the strike to Gayle. Bangalore are now 166/1.
Will he get 2 more runs ? K smashes the next ball for four.
Now only one run is needed. Gayle is facing and he need two runs for a hundred ! Gayle smashes the next ball for four, gets his hundred and Bangalore win handsomely ! He hit ten fours and seven sixes. A warning to WI selectors !
Gayle said his job is to entertain. So the WI Board dropped him. No problem, he said, and legged it to India. And he proved his genius by blasting a century on arrival ! That is the stuff pinch hitters or impact batsmen are made of. They move in a mysterious way their wonders to perform.
About Gayle, the Magnificent, Gibbsy said " Finally somebody lighting up the IPL. Chris 'cramps' Gayle u beauty ! Rub in their faces for not buying u ! "
It is said that the former WI skipper treated the KKR bowlers with disdain, as each of the towering sixes was a reply to the indifference shown to him during the auction back in January.
KKR was sorrowful in the sense, they let go of this formidable West Indian. If they had retained Gayle, they wouldnt have faced such carnage ! In fact, last year, the destructive opener blasted 88 off 42 balls against Punjab for KKR. But now he is a Royal Challenger and will he be the turnaround RCB is looking for ? Anyway Mallya is beaming. Also Anil Kumble !
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