The Eden Garden was expected in the Caribbean storm. There is nothing to be happy about the expectations of Calcutta in Kolkata. The storm that has gone through them! Andre Russell, Chris Gayle, a former Calcutta player. Lokesh Rahul's silent 'storm' meant that Gayle did not understand that?
Being a technically-dependent batsman, Rahul's four-cheeky Gayle does not have brutality But there is a beauty. Chasing 191 runs for 7 wickets in Kolkata, they started to chase four in the first two of the innings. The result is the same with the first two of the next over. Gayle's start was 'Sleeping' than he was. In the first over, the ball was not played with 3 balls. At the end of the 3rd over, when the team score was 39, Rahul was then 8 for 25 and Gayle 10 balls 13!
In the next over, Andre Russell gave Gayle the chance to score 17 runs in the next over, but the rain was sitting in the rain. Punjab's score of 96 runs in 8 overs before rain fell from Eden. Even after the Mohali season, if there was no rain, the Gayle-storm would have been 'cyclone'.
The length of the match is reduced to rain. Punjab scored target of 125 runs in 13 overs for victory. That meant the team needed 29 runs from 28 balls. Gayle and Rahul have made this goal a big deal. When Rahul was out in the fourth over of the 10th over, Punjab was only 10 runs away from 19 for victory. Before that Gayle started exactly where he stopped when the rain came.
Gayle, who had hit sixes in the ninth over before falling to the rain, After the rain stopped, struck the six! The first match of the 12th over ended the match with a six. Punjab took 9 wickets in the D / L rule with 11 balls to win Gayle has scored 63, 104 * and 62 * in the three matches so far. In this, the last innings played 38, 6 sixes and 5 fours.
Rahul scored 60 runs in 27 balls. The innings has been compiled by two sixes and nine fours. The Gayle-Rahul pair took just under 10 runs in just over three overs in the first eight overs. The rest of the 5 odds are going on. The way Gayle was batting, there was nothing to be surprised if the previous match was also translated into Eden. But despite the rain pouring water, nobody could stop the top of the points table in Punjab.
If the toss cannot be reached by the tossing down of batting in Kolkata, then it may not be worth two hundred. After losing Sunil Narine in the second over, Robin Uthappa-Chris Lynn added a 72-run partnership for the second wicket with 41 runs. With captain Dinesh Karthik, Lynn added 36 from 34 balls for the fourth wicket. The Australian batsman scored 74 runs from 41 balls.
At the end of 15 overs, Kolkata's score was 146 on 3 wickets. But the team could only take 45 runs in the last 30. Andrew Tie and Barinder Sean took 2 wickets for Punjab. At the end of the bowl, they did not have two hundred in Kolkata.
However, before the rain came down, Gayle and Rahul were knocking down the scores of two knocks in the general category. The rain sinks their powder. But this time that Gayle was 'bragged' in the IPL when Mohali missed it in the Century, Eden also looked upset that the word could arise now - who said 'Sleeping' to wake Gayle!