A man to watch out for in IPL-6

                   

                                 

		After yet another Gayle storm in Bangalore, Virat Kohli, the Bangalore captain said that his team does not mind being seen as too dependent on Chris Gayle. The feisty all-rounder gave Bangalore the edge to clinch a last ball thriller against Mumbai by 2 runs in their opening match on Thursday.                    Looking back to IPL-5 Chris Gayle was the fate changer for RCB and the most impacted batsman of  IPL-5. He ended up as the leading run-scorer in the round-robin stages of the IPL scoring 733 runs with a decent average of  61.08 and a fearsome strike rate of 160.74. Gayle scored 31% of his team's total bat runs during the tournament - Royal Challengers Bangalore scored the second-highest number of runs in their league games, with 2351. Gayle's stats in wins was especially awesome: his scores in the seven matches that Royal Challengers won were 81, 87, 4, 26, 82*, 57 and 128* - 465 runs at an average of 93, and a strike rate of 162.58. In defeats, he scored 268 runs in seven innings at an average of 38.28 and a strike rate of 157.64, which are pretty exceptional numbers by themselves. Gayle has also struck 59 of his team's 117 sixes, which is marginally more than 50%.

Player	Mat	Inn	NO	runs	HS	Avg	SR	100	50	6s	4s
CH Gayle	15	14	2	733	128*	61.08	160.74	1	7	59	46
G Gambhir	17	17	1	590	93	36.87	143.55	0	6	17	64
S Dhawan	15	15	1	569	84	40.64	129.61	0	5	18	58
AM Rahane	16	16	2	560	103*	40.00	129.33	1	3	10	73
V Sehwag	16	16	1	495	87*	33.00	161.23	0	5	19	57

                       
                         Above sats clearly suggests that Gayle was above the league in IPL2012 and its time to see how much the westIndian can entertain us and take the game forward. All the best Christopher Henry Gayle.
               

ICC introduces new no ball rule

 

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has introduced a new playing condition for Tests, One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20s) that instructs the umpires to call 'No ball' whenever a bowler breaks the non-striker's wicket during the act of delivery. 

 

This playing condition will come into effect on 30 April, and the first international match to be played under the new regulation will be the first ODI between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in Bulawayo on Friday 3 May.

The MCC had previously addressed the issue after England fast bowler, Steven Finn, did it repeatedly in Test matches. South African skipper, Graeme Smith, had told the umpires that it was a source of distraction and it was subsequently called a dead ball. The ICC have taken a cue from the MCC now to introduce the rule in International cricket. The ICC Chief Executives Committee approved this recommendation at its March meeting in Dubai.

ICC's General Manager - Cricket, Geoff Allardice, said: "The recent interpretation used in international matches to call 'Dead ball' when a bowler breaks the wicket during a delivery has not adequately dealt with this situation."

"The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) recently decided to address this issue by introducing a new 'No ball' Law from 1 October 2013. The ICC Cricket Committee noted the MCC's decision, and recommended that an ICC playing condition, mirroring the new No ball Law, be introduced to international cricket as early as possible."

Mr Allardice added: "The ICC has decided to introduce this playing condition five months prior to the MCC changing the 'No ball' Law because there is a lot of important cricket to be played before 1 October, including the ICC Champions Trophy in June."