Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Chris Gayle Shatters Century Records In Cricket

((HT: IPL))

For those not familiar, the most base comparison is to make cricket like either batting practice or Home Run Derby...

For Chris Gayle today, it was the both...

Gayle, in Twenty20 play today, scored the fastest "century" (or 100-point total) in league history- only needing 30 at-bats to pull the feat off. Gayle took four balls less than Kent's Andrew Symonds in a Twenty20 game against Middlesex in 2004.

Gayle told ITV4 afterwards: "I'm lost for words. It was just one of those days. It's a good wicket and I started well. I got a good total. I can't say it's a decent total - it's a good total."

Here's the highlights...


Purists call the IPL "cartoon cricket" because of all the different rules changes that promote scoring... and, a lot of the purists shook their heads over what happened today...

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