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It had been in the pipeline for a while now, but kept getting delayed due to his indifferent form and lack on patience on the part of the of the Royal Challengers Bangalore team management.
When IPL 10 began, Chris Gayle was just 67 runs short of becoming the first batsman to score 10,000 runs in T20 cricket. After he put together scores of 32, 6 and 22 in three out of the five games that the RCB played this season, the "Universe Boss" needed only three to reach the unique, unbelievable landmark, but the big Jamaican wasn't sure of a place in the XI when his team took on the Gujarat Lionsat the SCA Stadium here on Wednesday night.
History, however, is often built on mishaps. On the eve of the game, Bangalore suffered a big blow when AB de Villiers was ruled out due to a back injury. It meant Gayle had the chance to cross the rare milestone, which was now in his sniffing distance, and the ever-smiling Caribbean wasn't going to miss out.
He got to the 10,000-run mark in singles, and then celebrated the occasion in grand style. Exploding like only he can, the 37-year-old smoked seven huge sixes and five fours while blasting 77 of 38 balls to show how he's still the "biggest weapon of mass destruction" in this format.
Riding on his blazing return to form, RCB devoured the Lions in their own den and raced away to 213 for two, the highest score in IPL 2017 so far, after being put in. Fired by a brilliant, fighting 72 (7x6, 2x4) from Kiwi great Brendon McCullum, Gujarat were later provided a faint hope by talented youngster Ishan Kishan (39, 16b, 2x4, 4x6), who came up with some lusty blows towards the end, but the hosts eventually fell short by 21 runs to finish at 192 for seven in a high-scoring game.
The win ended RCB's unwanted sequence of three defeats on the trot and move up from the bottom of the table, while ironically pushing the Lions to the last spot.
Before he was finally out lbw to a Basil Thampi yorker, Gayle added 122 for the first wicket with skipper Virat Kohli, who seemed content to enjoy the 'Gayle storm' from the best seat in the house the nonstriker's end.
