ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 - 15th Match
(Pool B: West Indies vs Zimbabwe at Canberra)
Gayle, Samuels smash Zimbabwe and records
| West Indies | vs | Zimbabwe |
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| 372/2 (50) | 289/10 (44.3/48) | |
| West Indies won by 73 runs (D/L method) |
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An ODI double-hundred should feel monumental. This one felt inevitable. The fastest ODI double-hundred should feel exhilarating, like a rollercoaster ride. This felt like a quiet drive home from a suburban Tupperware party. That's what Chris Gayle does. He makes a double ton seem inevitable after going 19 months without an ODI century.
This was the fifth double-century in ODIs, and it came exactly five years after Sachin Tendulkar first reached the landmark. Once a year is too frequent a rate for the milestone to be special any more, and since it was Gayle, it answered the question of when rather than if. Interviewed right after his dismissal off the final ball of the innings, Gayle himself said a lot of people had expected it from him. "A lot of fans," he said, "have tweeted about it since Rohit Sharma scored two double-hundreds."
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