Cricket: Chris Gayle goes on a warpath “down under”

Posted by Yardie Luke on January 9, 2011 under Famous Jamaicans | Comments are off for this article

Jamaican and West Indian batsman Chris Gayle “smashed NSW medium-pacer Scott Coyte for 32 runs in the seventh over of Western Australia’s innings, belting four sixes and two fours to blast with ease past the half-century mark.”

Here is how it went down:

1st ball: Chris Gayle whacks his first six of the match off the first ball of the seventh over, bowled by Scott Coyte, sending the ball careering over midwicket.

2nd: Another six, this time an enormous hit almost into the top tier of the stand at long-on. He could hardly have hit it any sweeter.

3rd: And there’s the treble – Gayle clears the boundary again, flat and very hard over mid-on. Just sneaks over the rope but counts all the same.

4th: Coyte puts it in the slot again. Gayle flogs another one over midwicket, this time falling just short with ball taking one bounce to the boundary. Four.

5th: Coyte around the wicket. No use. Gayle belts ball from outside off over point. Four more.

6th: Gayle slams another full delivery to long-off for yet another six to complete the damage. A whopping 32 for the over.

SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald