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A Test Match First

LincsaddickLincsaddick
in Other Football and Sports
Remarkably, after hundreds and hundreds of test matches (2,051 according to the BBC), today, for the very first time, the first ball of a test match was hit for six.
Unsurprisingly Chris Gayle was the batsman, equally unsurprisingly the bowler was a debutant, Sohag Gazi bowling his first ever ball for ... yes ... Bangladesh

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    kentaddickkentaddick
    Chris Gayle is world class, such a shame he's been the only world class player in the west indies team pretty much all his international career.
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    carly burncarly burn
    Gayle probably had a monkey on it.
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    carly burncarly burn
    and the bangly deshees.
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    HugoZHackenbushHugoZHackenbush
    Back in July I happened to be in Antigua at the time of the test and was just able to squeeze in the first day. Unfortunately NZ won the toss and batted rather boringly all day but I did catch a single glimpse of Chris Gayle as he unsuccesfully chased a ball to the boundary near me, carried on up the terracing and high fived a NZ fan as he passed.
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    Covered EndCovered End
    carly burn said:

    Gayle probably had a monkey on it.

    Hey, if Clattenberg can't say it ........... :-)
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    Red_RaverRed_Raver
    Quick question; why did Bangladesh open the bowling with a spinner? I've just seen the clip on youtube and it seems to make no sense doing this, especially when Gayle is opening the batting.
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    LincsaddickLincsaddick
    edited November 2012
    I had waited for a long time to see Windies play at Kent's Beckenham ground a few years ago, in a friendly one dayer. Their coach had taken a wrong turn and the game was 2 hours late getting started. I was so looking forward to seeing Gayle bat ,, Martin Saggers sent his off stump cartwheeling first ball and then Lara scratched around for ages for not very many. One of those days.
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    LincsaddickLincsaddick
    Red_Raver said:

    Quick question; why did Bangladesh open the bowling with a spinner? I've just seen the clip on youtube and it seems to make no sense doing this, especially when Gayle is opening the batting.

    mmmm .. a conspiracy theorist might conjecture ........................
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    MCSMCS
    Love watching Gayle Bat, absolute beast. Was so pleased when they won that 20/20 WC. Gayle is an Awesome player.
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