West Indies 183-4 (18.1) beat England 182-6 by six wicketsChris Gayle smashes 47-ball centuryOur match report from Mumbai 5.56pm GMT Related: Chris Gayle hammers England with century for West Indies at World T20 5.42pm GMT182 looked to be a competitive total but England’s batting was shown up there by Gayle and,to a lesser extent, Samuels and Russell. They were probably 15-20 runs short in the close and, or on reflection,didn’t hit enough boundaries especially given Gayle slowed up when near his hundred. The bowling too, showed up its now-familiar deficiencies: 10 wides is far too many to concede and really does construct life easy for someone like Gayle.
What a batting performance that was from the big man though. Eleven sixes is a fresh World T2o record, and beating his own 10. He’s also the first player to hit two hundreds in the competition. The amazing thing is how unsurprising such a performance is from him: like the very best sportsmen,the extraordinary has become the norm and you’d contain been disappointed if he hadn’t done something this special in the torurnament. Related: Chris Gayle didn’t just batter Zimbabwe – his Twitter critics were routed too | Dileep Premachandran Continue reading...
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