Rampant Gayle runs SA to the ground
Chris Gayle lit up the Sawai Mansingh Stadium with a quite spectacular display of power-hitting as West Indies stormed into their second successive Champions Trophy final
02/11Result
2nd Semi Final (D/N), ICC Champions Trophy at Jaipur, Nov 2 2006
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![South Africa]( "South Africa")
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![West Indies]( "West Indies")
262/4 (44/50 ov)
Player of the Match
02/11Result
2nd Semi Final (D/N), ICC Champions Trophy at Jaipur, Nov 2 2006
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![South Africa]( "South Africa")
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![West Indies]( "West Indies")
262/4 (44/50 ov)
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
CH Gayle
133(135) 17x4 - 3x6
Control %84%
- Productive Shot
- leg glance
- 39 runs
- 5x4 - 0x6
Best performances - Bowlers
DJ Bravo
- O7
- M0
- R41
- W2
- Eco5.85
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
MN Samuels
- O9
- M0
- R44
- W2
- Eco4.88
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
Match Details
Toss
South Africa , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
West Indies advanced
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
14.30 start, First Session 14.30-18.00 Interval 18.00-18.45, Second Session 18.45-22.15
Match days
2 November 2006 - day/night match (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Scorecard Summary
SOUTH AFRICA 258/8 (50 OVERS)
- AB de Villiers46 (57)
- Herschelle Gibbs77 (90)
- Dwayne Bravo2/41 (7)
- Marlon Samuels2/44 (9)
WEST INDIES 262/4 (44 OVERS)
- Shivnarine Chanderpaul*57 (70)
- Chris Gayle*133 (135)
- Robin Peterson1/36 (7)
- Graeme Smith1/43 (10)
END OF OVER:44 | 7 Runs | WI: 262/4 | RR: 5.95
- Chris Gayle133 (135b)
- Marlon Samuels5 (8b)
- Robin Peterson7-0-36-1
- Graeme Smith10-0-43-1
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The fireworks are exploding all around the ground, as West Indies, the defending champions, return to the final of the ICC Champions Trophy. They've had to do it the hard way, with pre-qualification, but now they face Australia, first-time finalists, in the final at Mumbai on Sunday.
Gayle, we presume, will be the runaway Man-of-the-Match, while South Africa return home with that tag of nearly-men once again proving too hard to shake off. They don't like semi-finals, do they?
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43.6
4
Peterson to Gayle, FOUR, brilliant. Full stride, and clobbered down the ground for the winning boundary
43.5
0
Peterson to Gayle, no run, driven, but straight to the man at mid-off
43.5
1w
Peterson to Gayle, 1 wide, oops, that's a bonus
Two needed from 38 ... I wonder ...
43.4
1
Peterson to Samuels, 1 run, tip-and-run cricket, and a scampered single ends with a direct hit from the covers, but the batsmen are home
43.3
0
Peterson to Samuels, no run, stretching forward and smothers the spin, not that there's a whole lot of it
43.2
1
Peterson to Gayle, 1 run, shorter, and bludgeoned down the ground. But the long-on sweeper tidies up
Match Coverage
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Lara commends team effort
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Heavyweight Beast
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