" Gayle leads West Indies in record chase "
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" Gayle and Samoules Screw's South African's " |
West Indies 236 for 6 (Gayle 90, Wiese 3-43) beat South Africa 231
for 7
(Du Plessis 119, Bravo 2-32) by four wickets "
Faf
du Plessis' maiden T20 hundred was not enough to prevent a rampant West Indies
winning the series
The
Wanderers is home to what it calls the greatest ODI of all time - the 438 game
- and now it is also home to what could become known as the most thrilling T20:
the 236 game. West Indies pulled off the highest successful run-chase in the
shortest format, propelled by Chris Gayle's 90 off 41 balls, held together by
Marlon Samuels' seventh T20 half-century and finished by Darren Sammy, who led
his side to a series win with a game to spare.
South
Africa could be forgiven for being shell-shocked. They would have thought their
chances of squaring the series were strong after Faf du Plessis became the
second South African to score a T20 hundred, helping them post their
second-highest score in the format and with the knowledge they had never lost a
T20 defending a 180-plus score before.
There was
one man who could change that and change it he did. Gayle scored his only
international T20 century at the Wanderers - against South Africa in 2007 - and
seemed set to bring up his second with a bruising batting performance. He could
not quite repeat the feat but his team-mates ensured his efforts did not go to
waste.
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