IndianPremierLeague(Cricket)-PepsiIPL-Season6-Unparellel Onslaught from Chris Gayle,the Gale of Cricket

The game today the 23rd April2013 at Bangalore,the home venue of RCB,prompted me to write this Blog. RCB naturally with high hope of winning over PWI(They are yet to be beaten in Bangalore) did so majestically after not winning Toss today.Pune warriors were lucky to win toss but elected,perhaps ,wrongly to field. But it can't be helped as every team has tendency to bowl first when the Gale of Cricket Chris Gayle is in the opposition with the hope that they could chase better than by batting first. But alas!their hopes were shattered by the Gale of Cricket once again to the pleasure spectators at Chinnaswamy Stadium. The current IPL season 6 going on in different venues are full of Surprises. The defeat of KKR at the Hands of Kings Punjab by 4 runs& Defeat of Pune Warriors at the hands ofsunrisers Hyderabad inspire of a low score are two instances of surprises. The general trend indicates on a particular day any Team could defeat any team irrespective of the Strength of the Players in it. At the moment a close analysis of the performance so far in respect of the teams is a fair indication that the following 4Teams are likely to be in the last 4 teams going to make a final fight for final berths in the tournament. They are 1) Royal Challengers Bangalore 2) Rajastan Royals,Jaipur,. 3) Chennai Super Kings,chennai 4) Mumbai Indians ,Bombay( Mumbai) The Indian Premier League(IPL) was initiated in India in 2008 by Shri Lalit Modi as a premier tournament of limited cricket's shortest version called T20.both Indian & players were associated with the League at a proportionate ratio of participants .Foreign Players were restricted in the numbers. After the first Season in 2008 ,the League gathered momentum & popularity. Then a stage had come that the Test version & smaller version of one Dayers become less poular. The first season was won by Rajastan Royal,Jaipur under the captaincy of Shane Warne. The Second season of 2009 was won by the then Deccan Chargers ,a team later on become defunct due to some critical problem with the owners. Later on however,this team was replaced this season as Sunrisers Hyderabad by the SunTV. The third& Fourth season of 2010& 2011 were won by chennai Super kings,Chennai. The Fifth Season last year was won by Shahrukh Khan's Kolkotta Knight Riders captained by Gautam Gambhir. This season the 6th is under progress with tuff competitions & full of Surprises. Any Team of the 9 could win the crown .But the most likely teams are as mentioned above taking into consideration close look at their performance until now.But today's performance from Chris Gayle gives indications that if Gayle continues this way,then there is no need to think about a different Champions in this Season6. In today' match the biggest hitter began like a real Storm or is it a Whirlwind? First he made the fastest Century in the history of IPL from 30 balls breaking the record of Andrew Symmonds of Australia. 98 runs of his century came from 11Sixes& 8 Fours. One free hit he got from a "NoBall" was converted into a Six by sending the ball out of the Chinnaswamy Stadium. This reminded me the greatest Captain of West Indies Clive Llyod who had made a similar Six when the ball was sent out of the Braboure Stadium of Bombay & fell into the Arabian Sea.The ball was never traced& the Test match had to continue with a substitute ball. The final score of Chris Gayle,who remained Not Out,was 175 with 17 Sixes& 13 Fours.This unparelleel knock enabled himto surpass the record of B.McCullum in the IPL. The final score of RCB was a formidable 263 for 5 wickets. Naturally Pune Warriors had just to complete the formality to surrender which they eventually did with just 133 runs on Board.THE RCB WON WITH A MARGIN OF 130 runs.but this was just second high margin win in IPL though I was hoping it to be the highest Margin.but the Statiticians at the IPL thought differently& correctly. Any how,the match was a big treat for the Spectators & is likely to have more& more in the coming days. The winners ,though likely to be the RCB taking into account today's match ,only time could judge the real winners. All the Best to Chris Gayle in the coming games to entertain the tremendous & cheering Crowd of IPL season6. SreedharanMundanat 23rd April2013 20-50 hrs(IST)