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mikesiva wrote:Brilliant from Gayle!
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Gayle's 135 included 12 sixes...129 balls.
Interesting.

Off the 117 deliveries that he was unable to hit for six, Gayle managed to score 63 runs.

Chris Gayle v Jason Roy: A tale of two hundreds (all stats at point of 100)

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mikesiva wrote:Brilliant from Gayle!
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Gayle's 135 included 12 sixes...129 balls.
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123 off 85 balls.

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An appalling bowling and fielding performance. How can you score 360-8 and still lose?
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Jason Roy 123
Joe Root 102

England win by six wicket with an over to spare, aided by about five dropped catches.

Holder 2-63
Thomas 1-72
Bishoo 1-78
Carlos 0-66
Nurse 0-69
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mikesiva wrote:An appalling bowling and fielding performance. How can you score 360-8 and still lose?
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Jason Roy 123
Joe Root 102
According to those involved in providing commentary, West Indies were possibly 30-40 runs short in their innings. One of those providing 'expert' analysis opined that despite its theatrical nature, Gayle's innings had possibly cost West Indies up to 50 runs on account of his well publicised current inability to run. Sometimes it really is worth either listening to, watching what is going on rather than just looking at the scoreboard.

"That said, West Indies will rue a raft of dropped catches including four off Roy, with Ashley Nurse so often the guilty party. They may also look back on a first innings that, for all the showmanship from Gayle, also included the 39-year-old eating up an abundance of deliveries before truly finding his rhythm. Roy, by contrast, brought up his seventh ODI century from 65 balls, with a solitary defensive shot."

Jason Roy and Joe Root sink West Indies after Chris Gayle flays England

"It was a measure of the firepower of the West Indies line-up that Gayle’s teammates actually comfortably scored quicker than him, adding 207 in 172 balls while he managed 135 in 129. As England breezed past what they had been set, it raised the question: had Gayle’s early caution actually hampered his side? His century, in even time, had taken 35 balls longer than Roy’s - and, for all their contrasting styles, four deliveries more than Root’s too ..."

Jason Roy and Joe Root centuries negate Chris Gayle's as England beat West Indies in first ODI

"The big Jamaican celebrated three figures by dropping to his haunches in the direction of the dressing-room and then placing his helmet on his bat handle and raising it above his head like a trophy.

The self-styled Universe Boss, whose bedroom at home features a dancing pole and mirrored ceiling, was having the time of his life.

But he scored just 21 runs from his first 50 balls and ultimately that probably cost the Windies."


Roy and Root tons power England to third biggest run chase ever in Barbados

"The package Gayle brings with him is not entirely positive, though. His lack of mobility in the field - really, it's a throwback to Victorian days - is a major problem, while his inability to run does not just reduce his own scoring opportunities. He is unable to take the second or third runs his partners may be capable of making and thus increases the pressure upon them. While he might argue he can compensate for that weakness, he will know the very best ODI players - and you have only to think of the speed of MS Dhoni between the wickets - can both hit sixes and scamper quick ones and twos ...

... There are huge issues inherent in Gayle's approach. If he fails having eaten up a dozen or so overs at the start of the innings, he puts his side at a significant disadvantage in having wasted Powerplay opportunities. Here he didn't hit a boundary until the 15th over of the innings. By the time he was out, he had faced 65 dot balls; the same number of deliveries Roy needed for his hundred. And even if he does come through that tough start, can anyone's acceleration justify the risk of failure or the difficulty in running between the wickets?"

Chris Gayle finds old spark but high-risk approach may cost West Indies

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123 off 85 balls.

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West Indies vs England 1st ODI (D/N), England tour of West Indies at Bridgetown, 20 Febuary 2019 - Highlights
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Cottrell in for Pooran.

I guess the selectors also think that the bowling is more of a problem than the batting.
8-)
Personally I think Carlos Braithwaite should be dropped. He should not play alongside Holder in the same team. Their bowling is too similar. Not much pace a bit of height but not really a wicket taker.
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West indies 289-6

Hetmyer 104 not out
Gayle 50 from 63
Hope 33
Bravo 25
Campbell 23
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"It is the question that haunts West Indies before Friday's second one-day international. Could Chris Gayle really have smashed 12 sixes yet still cost them victory against England in the first extraordinary run-laden match here?

Such is the modern game, and England's ability to chase just about any 50-over target, that the man who calls himself the 'Universe Boss' found himself at the centre of West Indies' inquest, even though he hit 135 in Wednesday's six-wicket defeat.

So expert are Eoin Morgan's England at chasing that West Indies were made to rue Gayle's slow, almost Geoff Boycott-like start, and the astonishing contrast that he used up 64 dot balls in his innings while smashing 12 deliveries for six ..."


England had Gayle under control during Barbados run-fest, claims Roy

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The replacement player, Cottrell, made a big difference to the bowling attack...West Indies win by 26 runs.

England 263 all out

Stokes 79
Root 70

Cottrell 5-46
Holder 3-53
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