Official ICC 2015 CWC thread

[AirWolf]

Probably going to be rained out.

 

[MickeyD]

WI 131/1 (28 ov)

Gayle 79 (78)

 

[AirWolf]

Gayle gets his century.

50 runs in 10 boundaries. 50 runs from 95 other deliveries.

 

[Agent_Smith]

Wonderful! Zim bowling Gayle back into form right before the Windies play us. Thanks Zim...

 

[Agent_Smith]

First double century of CWC'15 on the cards?

 

[Creag]

Gayle is making Samuels look pedestrian. Nice to see Gayle back in the runs... no thanks to Zim

 

[Creag]

42.4 Williams to Gayle, 2 runs, looking to target midwicket with a swat, but is stopped in the deep by the man from cow corner as he brings up his 150. Is not too far away from his personal best in ODIs, with that mark at 153*

Can he get a double?

 

[Creag]

This stand, going on 259*, is the highest by the West Indies for any partnership in ODI history

Nice way to get in form and rejuvenate confidence.

 

[Creag]

Top CWC partnerships:

R Dravid, SC Ganguly India 318 v Sri Lanka 26 May 1999
TM Dilshan, WU Tharanga SL 282 v Zimbabwe 10 Mar 2011
CH Gayle, MN Samuels WI 292* v Zimbabwe 24 Feb 2015
JP Duminy, DA Miller SA 256* v Zimbabwe 15 Feb 2015
SC Ganguly, SR Tendulkar India 244 v Namibia 23 Feb 2003

 

[Agent_Smith]

Top CWC partnerships:

R Dravid, SC Ganguly India 318 v Sri Lanka 26 May 1999
TM Dilshan, WU Tharanga SL 282 v Zimbabwe 10 Mar 2011
CH Gayle, MN Samuels WI 292* v Zimbabwe 24 Feb 2015
JP Duminy, DA Miller SA 256* v Zimbabwe 15 Feb 2015
SC Ganguly, SR Tendulkar India 244 v Namibia 23 Feb 2003

Not been a good World Cup has it...

 

[Creag]

Breaking all sorts of records thanks to inept bowling by Zim:

Williams to Gayle, SIX, make that 15 as Gayle sends yet another out of the oval, this time clattering this flatter one from the bowler high over cow corner. Takes him to 189 now, which is the highest individual score ever by a player in a World Cup, overtaking Gary Kirsten's mark of 188* against the UAE in 1996

Equals the most number of sixes in ODIs:

Chatara to Gayle, SIX, gets to 196 with a powerful swat high over midwicket, with this sailing ever so easily over the rope. Just a boundary away now

 

[SlowInternet]

Chris Gayle equels world record for most sixes in innings (16)

 

[SlowInternet]

Chris Gayle 201* (138 balls)

 

[SlowInternet]

Zimbabwe fielders not even trying to field anymore.

 

[Creag]

200 up:

Chatara to Gayle, FOUR, and Gayle makes World Cup history to become the first non-Indian to score an ODI double hundred. His first 100 was workmanlike, his second 100 was calculated bludgeoning at its finest. Can he keep it going further?

 

[Wall]

Playing Fantasy cricket and I put Gayle. Man am I smiling today

 

[Creag]

Chatara to Samuels, FOUR, slanting down leg and Marlon gets himself to his 8th ODI hundred with a tickle down fine leg. Not sure how to classify this one, other than he was really, really, really determined to stay out there. That one was brought up after 143 balls...

 

[SlowInternet]

Highest partnership in ODI's by Gayle and Samuels. 331 (for any wicket)

 

[Creag]

Another record:

Chatara to Samuels, 1 run, and they usurp the old record to establish a new mark for the highest partnership for any ODI wicket

344*

 

[Creag]

Chatara to Gayle, (no ball) 1 run, another full toss which is clubbed away straight to cow corner, and this one is also over waist height, as Chatara has been pulled off by the umpire for bowling two beamers in the over

Trying to KO the batsman!