For some time now I've been referring to West Indies as the Gayle Indies. It's true that Chris Gayle hadn't been performing well in One Day Cricket. However, today he shut the critics up. His last century being 19 matches ago, scoring only 274 runs at an average of 14.4 and only 1 half century.
Now let's take a look at why West Indies should be changed to Gayle Indies (just like how India should have been changed to Tendulkar years ago).
How Gayle broke records and led Gayle Indies to victory against Zimbabwe
:Passed his previous best of 153* against Zimbabwe
Scored the first double century of the World Cup (215 from 147 balls) to pass Gary Kirsten's 19 year old record of 188*
Scored the fastest double century from 138 deliveries passing Virender Sehwag's 140 deliveries
The first non-Indian to score a double century
The 5th cricketer to score a double century in ODI cricket and is 3rd on the list behind Sehwag (219) and Rohit Sharma (264)
The highest individual score in a World Cup
Contributed to the highest Gayle Indies score
Contributed to the highest World Cup score of 372-2
Together with Marlon Samuels (133*), they set a new ODI and List A partnership record of 372 runs for any wicket, breaking those set by Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid (331) and Morné van Wyk and Cameron Delport (367)
He equalled the record of most sixes with 16
On Friday Gayle Indies face South Africa. I hope they don't burn the Protea like they did Zimbabwe.
