IPL 2019: Chris Gayle’s Blitz Helps Kings XI Punjab To 184, Twitter Reacts
Mar 25, 2019 at 9:46 PM
It has been a stunning display of batting performance from Chris Gayle, who helped Kings XI Punjab to put a competitive total on the board. The flamboyant batsman struck the ball to all corners of the park to show his charisma to the fans in the venue.
Initially, it was Rajasthan Royals, who won the toss and elected to bowl first. Justifying the toss decision, Dhawal Kulkarni delivered right in the first over of the game to send KL Rahul back to the hut. However, Chris Gayle played pretty much unlike him to settle the ship for Punjab.
He was accompanied by Mayank Agarwal, who scored less than a run to the ball. He was dismissed by Krishnappa Gowtham, who conceded six to him in the previous over. However, then came the steady partnership between Sarfaraz Khan and Chris Gayle, who changed the complexion of the game.
Chris Gayle, in particular, dismantled the bowling attack of Rajasthan by smashing them all over the park. In between, Sarfaraz Khan has shown his class to boost the total in middle overs.
After a stunning 79-run knock off 47 balls, Chris Gayle was dismissed by Ben Stokes when Rahul Tripathi hung on to a brilliant catch.
For Rajasthan Royals, Jofra Archer was pretty economical, who gave 17 in his 4-overs quota. Other than him, Dhawal Kulkarni was decent while Jaydev Unadkat was taken to the cleaners by Punjab batsmen.
Despite the initial blitz, the lack of firepower in the slog overs restricted Kings XI Punjab to 184 in the 20 overs. Sarfaraz Khan was the star performer for Kings XI Punjab at the end of the innings.
Here are a few tweets:
Kings XI will get to a big total thanks to a 84 off 42 partnership between Gayle & Sarfaraz. And that’s the long and the short of it 🤓
— Gaurav Kapur (@gauravkapur) March 25, 2019
What a striking by Universe Boss tonight, brilliant 79 by him. Massive respect!!
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) March 25, 2019
#KXIP have gone in with only 5 bowling options. Ouch. One of them is Sam Curran. Ouch again. Score in excess of 180, I’d say 🙏🤞 #RRvKXIP #IPL
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) March 25, 2019
Gayle’s SR against Unadkat is 243.
Jai Gayle Jai Gayle. 🙏☺️ #RRvKXIP #IPL— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) March 25, 2019
Jaydev Unadkat missed his well deserved half century.
You gonna feel sad for that guy.#RRvKXIP— Subham. (@subhsays) March 25, 2019
You gotta feel for UNADKAT 😅 #RRvKXIP
— Abhishek dwivedi (@abhishek_srkfan) March 25, 2019
#KXIP is a team of
Yuvi
Sehwag
Maxwell
Gayle
And BaileyThen what the F*** these Pooran and Sarfaraz thing doing in the middle 🤔#RRvKXIP
— Chetan Vashistth (@chetanhere) March 25, 2019
https://twitter.com/brainfadesmith2/status/1110210771445669888
Having said that, he's looking all right so far https://t.co/2XFhogzCpp
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) March 25, 2019
https://twitter.com/SAHIL09S/status/1110211747128836098
You can't play such shots in cricket, ridiculous! #IPL2019
— 𝗚𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗺 𝗦𝗼𝗱𝗵𝗶 (@GautamSodhi1) March 25, 2019
A Gayle storm and a Sarfaraz cameo helps #KXIP finish at 184/4!
Will this be enough? Watch #RR's chase LIVE on Star Sports 1/1HD/1 Hindi/1HD Hindi/1 Tamil/1 Telugu/1 Kannada/1 Bangla/Select 1/Select 1HD! #VIVOIPL #GameBanayegaName— Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) March 25, 2019
BALLE BALLE! 🕺🕺
Sarfaraz Khan bludgeons Stokes over mid-wicket to end the innings with a biggie. Class batting! 🔥🔥🔥
184/4 is what we have on the board! 💪#SaddaPunjab #KXIP #RRvKXIP #VIVOIPL
— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) March 25, 2019
@henrygayle No one can be like you in T20 Cricket , Take A bow MR.T20 #gayle Gayle #RRvKXIP
— Harshal Sonavane (@TweetsbyHarshal) March 25, 2019
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