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WCL 2024, Chris Gayle: The evening of July 7 was a special evening on the pitch for the World Championship of Legends. This is because Chris Gayle played an explosive innings in it. Gayle, who has retired from international cricket, is playing for the West Indies in WCL 2024. In such a situation, he wreaked havoc in the match against the South African champions on Sunday evening. On the Birmingham ground, he batted explosively and did not achieve a big target from the South African champions in just 40 balls.
Batting first, the South African champions scored 174 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. South Africa scored these runs thanks to the unbeaten innings of 46 and 44 runs by Ashwell Prince and Dane Vilas. Apart from these two, Richard Lewis scored 20 runs and JP Duminy scored 23 runs. Jason Mohammed was the most successful bowler from West Indies and he took 2 wickets.
Even the big goal started to look small
Now the West Indies champions had a huge target of 175 runs. Chasing this, the opening pair of Chris Gayle and Dwayne Smith added 65 runs in 8.3 overs for the first wicket. Smith was out after scoring 22 runs but Gayle continued playing. He created a storm against the bowlers of the South African champion team. Due to Gayle's explosive batting, the West Indies champion team missed the target of 175 runs and won the match with 5 balls remaining.
What did Gayle do in his 40-ball innings?
Chris Gayle scored 70 runs in 40 balls in this match. Gayle hit 6 sixes and 4 fours in this innings played at a strike rate of 175. By the time Gayle got out, he had done his job. West Indies did not need to score many runs and it had 8 wickets and 7 overs left. The result was that the West Indies champion won this match by 6 wickets. It achieved the target of 175 runs in 19.1 overs at the loss of 4 wickets.
Gayle became the hero of victory
Chris Gayle was named Man of the Match for his explosive innings which led the West Indies champions to victory.