Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Chris Gayle destroys Kings XI Punjab: 1st Innings Report – Part 1
The Royal Challengers Bangalore played host to the Kings XI http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Gilchrist-c918
opted to send the Royal Challengers in to bat.
West Indies’ rebel, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/P-Kumar-c2143 in the first over as the match got underway. Showing his intentions early on, Gayle smashed a shot over midwicket for
the match’s first boundary with Dilshan joining in two deliveries later as the side from Bangalore got off to a flying start.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RJ-Harris-c2330 was handed the ball for the second over and bowled a blinder. The bowler had the batsman on the back foot for the entire six deliveries and ended the over giving away 3 runs. Kumar went for five runs in an improved third over before Gayle and
Dilshan made up for lost time in Harris’s second over when the Windies’ batsman clobbered him for two sixes before Dilshan added two fours to end the over with 21 runs.
Gayle continued the rout in the next over but had to watch Dilshan depart for 16 runs when he was caught by Kumar off McLaren’s bowling. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Kohli-c2737 was the next man in but Gayle seemed to be a man on a mission. After a quiet sixth and seventh over that
added only eight runs to the score, Gayle punished Kumar with two massive sixes and two sweetly timed boundaries, taking the Royal Challengers’ run rate to an impressive 9.62 runs per over.
It seemed that Gayle had some sort of personal vendetta against the fans sitting in the stands as he smashed three sixes in the next two overs as the Kings XI bowlers just could not find the right line or length to bowl to the batsmen.
By the end of the 10th over, Gayle had already raced away to a personal score of 70 runs from 34 deliveries and the Royal Challengers Bangalore were standing imposingly over the Kings XI Punjab at 103 runs for the loss of one wicket. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DL-Vettori-c1384
needed a wicket and was running out of both time and options as none of his bowlers could cope with the devastating Chris Gayle.
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