Facebook agog with Gayle storm
They say `when lightning strikes, no one knows what happens until it's over'. Something very similar happened in the garden city when Chris Gayle ripped apart an already devastated Pune team. En route the world's fastest century, he smashed 17 sixers and made the crowd a part of the game.
The Pune players stood there as mere spectators while Gayle storm tore apart their bowling attack. Even the Pune supporters could not help, but appreciate the sheer power and elegance with which Gayle played. While Gayle was showering sixers in the stadium, celebs were showering praises on all kinds of media.
Pune faced an inevitable loss, but one thing is for sure, they had the best seats in the house. This innings by Gayle is going to be remembered in the history of cricket for a very long time! Even as the power play was on, social media was flooded with facebook memes within seconds after the thunderbolt struck Chinnaswamy stadium, Bengaluru.
'Breaking News: Three balls found on moon'. Closer home, Tollywood held sway as popular dialogues from films like Jalsa were retold to suit the Gayle magic, making for amusing reads that went viral within minutes.
'Magnificent, majestic, stunning, awesome just searched Google to find words for this amazing, breathtaking innings by the West Indian Gayle Anna.
West Indies in the past has also produced a batsman with brutal force Viv Richards. Gayle scored 175 off just 66 balls with 13 fours and 17 sixes and a strike rate of 265.15, I guess many of us couldn't score this much even in the computer games.
While watching this innings I got a feeling as that I was watching an innings highlights, goddamn I couldn't even take a loo break because of Gayle Anna,' shared Anish Raja, a student of University of Hyderabad.
FEW OF THEM WERE...S Enti rcb score antha vundi...kodutun nadamma.. prathi ball kodutun nadamma...S Asalu alanti kotudu na life lo chudaledu oka shivamani jazz kotinattu Zakir hus sain tabala vayinchi nattu shankar cinema ki rahman kotinatu oka mata lo chepalante kukka ni kotinatu kotadu ! S Nenu kodithe adola vuntadi ani allu eel llu cheppdame kani, naaki kooda ped daga teleedu, Ip pudu Pune vallaki telisindi.
News Posted: 24 April, 2013
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