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          Match Day: Gayle's spectacular display (2:13)

          West Indies batsman Chris Gayle smashed 100 not out to become the only batsman with two World T20 centuries (2:13)

          • David Hopps, General editor, ESPNcricinfoMar 16, 2016, 12:28 PM
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              David Hopps joined ESPNcricinfo as UK editor early in 2012. For the previous 20 years he was a senior cricket writer for the Guardian and covered England extensively during that time in all Test-playing nations. He also covered four Olympic Games and has written several cricket books, including collections of cricket quotations. He has been an avid amateur cricketer since he was 12, and so knows the pain of repeated failure only too well. The pile of untouched novels he plans to read, but rarely gets around to, is now almost touching the ceiling. He divides his time between the ESPNcricinfo office in Hammersmith and his beloved Yorkshire.
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          The variety
          Dwayne Bravo had the audacity to begin with an over of slower balls, the last of them full and loopy outside off stump which Alex Hales mistimed into the covers

          The fielder
          There are few more electrifying fielders in the world than Andre Russell. One of several boundary saves came when Joe Root clipped Jerome Taylor to long-on and, even though he didn't quite time it, must have imagined a boundary was on the cards. Russell's sprint, dive over the boundary, and dash back to return the ball restricted him to two.

          The impetus
          England were beginning to stall at 106 for 2 midway through the 14th over when Jos Buttler slapped Samuel Badree over long-on for six, giving the first sign of the steely wrists that have been valued so highly this season in IPL on the ground where he will star for Mumbai Indians.

          The captain's intervention
          There was much work to do when Eoin Morgan came to the crease. Russell spat a bouncer at him, second ball, and Morgan was up to the challenge, depositing it into the second tier.

          Remember me
          Chris Gayle was staved off the strike in the early overs while Marlon Samuels set about England. He announced himself with a 98m straight six into the top tier off Adil Rashid and, for good measure, repeated it against the next delivery.

          The break
          It is a rare sight to see a Super Sopper at work midway through an innings, but that was the decision midway through West Indies' innings. At 85 for 2, West Indies were well in control and, having won the toss, would have been happy with as much dew on the outfield as they could get.

          The boss
          Successive sixes off Ben Stokes took Gayle past Brendon McCullum as the leading six-hitter in T20 internationals. Just for once, he did not connect perfectly, but his pull cleared the leaping Root on the square-leg boundary

          The triple decker
          Three successive sixes by Gayle off Moeen Ali settled the contest. Moeen had conceded 20 from his first 3.3 overs, but another 18 came from his last three balls, the last blow - a full toss, unceremoniously dragged over long-on - leaving England with nowhere to go.