West Indies muscle defies tricky pitch
On a slow surface not far removed from the pitch that produced a dogfight in the first semi-final, Chris Gayle led a West Indies onslaught that floored Australia and set up a total beyond the West Indies’ wildest imagination. The ball often kept low, stuck in the surface and took vicious turn, but anyone who had watched West Indies maul Xavier Doherty and David Hussey might have thought it a batsman’s paradise.
Gayle’s method of overcoming a difficult pitch was completely different from the response a similar surface drew from Mahela Jayawardene in Sri Lanka’s match against Pakistan. While…
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