June 7, 2009
Hurricane Gayle devastates Australia
West Indies came on top of their game with excellent exhibition of both bowling and bating. West Indies surely came with a plan and the same was executed with precision. The Aussie camp again looked short of ideas, especially when it came to bowling to Chris Gayle and Andre Fletcher. Australia lost the game by seven wickets with 25 balls to spare.
West Indies captain Chris Gayle was hitting Aussie bowlers with ease and in the course of the match hit the longest six in the tournament when he sent to ball 105 meters out of the stadium on to the adjacent road. During the match Gayle hit three sixes of the bowling of Brett Lee, two of the bowling of David Hussy and one of the bowling of Michael Clarke. He also hit six boundaries in his innings, scoring 88 of just 50 deliveries.
He was well supported by his opening partner Andre Fletcher who scored 53 of just 32 deliveries. One can judge the devastation by just looking at the economy rate of the Aussie Leading bowler, Lee ended the match with 1/56 in his four over’s and at an economy rate of 14.
Australia is placed in the ‘group of death’ which has Sri Lanka apart from West Indies. If the Ponting’s men have to keep their dream alive of capturing the ICC world twenty20 Trophy which is the only championship that has eluded them, then they have to beat the Lankans in there next game on Monday.
To make maters worst, Ponting himself got out on a duck apart from Shane Watson who started the Aussie bating with a duck. The other worry for the Punter is his deputy Michael Clarke who got out after just scoring 2 runs. Ponting with face a formidably challenge when they go out against Sri Lanka, the team which has Jaysuriya…
Chris Gayle was declared Man-of-the-Match for his vicious knock of 88 runs of 50 balls.
Match Summary (West Indies Won by 7 Wickets)
Australia – 169/7 in 20 Overs
D.Warner- 63 M.Hussey –28*
J.Taylor– 4-0-33-2 D.Bravo- 4-0-31-2
West Indies – 172/3 in 15.5 Overs
C.Gayle- 88 A. Fletcher –53
M.Johnson – 3.5-0-36-2 Brett Lee- 4-0-56-1
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