Chris Gayle fans were left stunned after Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) franchise rested him for today’s Indian Premier League (IPL) battle against Delhi Daredevils (DD) at the Ferozshah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi.
Chris Gayle, who took the IPL 2018 season by storm by scoring 229 runs so far in 3 outings, was replaced with South African batsman David Miller.
On the other hand, Delhi, who are playing their first home game, have brought in Dan Christian and Liam Plunkett, replacing Chris Morris and Jason Roy.
Soon after KXIP skipper R Ashwin announced their playing XI for the match during the toss, Twitter got filled with angry comments about Gayle being dropped for the game due to niggle in his back.
Gayle’s Performance In IPL So Far:
- 63 vs CSK
- 104 (not out) vs SRH
- 62 (not out) vs KKR
Here are some of the reactions:
#DDvKXIP.Feeling sad for CHRIS GAYLE for not playing match vs DELHI DERDEVILS
— Atharv (@atharvbhadange2) 23 April 2018
Without @henrygayle this match like Test Cricket
— Ranju Ghosh (@RanjuGhosh11) 23 April 2018
Big Fixing today ….Delhi paid huge money to Punjab for resting Gayle ….again proved IPL match controller is in Bangkok …controlling all the matches of IPL..again proved
— DANNY BANERJI (@Imbanerji) 23 April 2018
Chris Gayle rested. No Gaylestorm today. #DDvKXIP pic.twitter.com/Mou5UfNpD8
— Live (@CricketUrdu) 23 April 2018
Can Anyone Tell me Why Chris Gayle is Not in the team today? #DDvKXIP
— Sanket Shahane (@TheRoyalThug) 23 April 2018
On April 19, Chris Gayle became the first batsman to score the first century of the IPL season 2018.
@lionsdenkxip why didn’t u took @henrygayle in this match when he performed marvelously?? One of the foolish management I had ever seen
— alok mishra_ (@alokmishra22) 23 April 2018
punjab fans are very angry tonight
— Raja (@Mdraja04073012) 23 April 2018
2 min silence for those jinki dream11 team ka captain chris gayle tha aaj _ pic.twitter.com/G3EQwUpps8
— BahuRaani _ (@GujjuBong) 23 April 2018
Y not playing today pic.twitter.com/FxcGIwiHy7
— A. Santosh (@ASantos18104135) 23 April 2018
@IPL Kings XI Punjab Delhi Daredevils match was fixed because there is no reason for Chris Gayle, and this match seems to be 100% fixed. According to Fantasy league , fixing is still going on
— Prabhat vishnoi (@vishnoi_prabhat) 23 April 2018
Meanwhile, Delhi skipper Gambhir won the toss and invited Punjab to bat first.
Teams:
Delhi Daredevils: Gautam Gambhir (Captain), Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (WK), Glenn Maxwell, Daniel Christian, Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Liam Plunkett, Shahbaz Nadeem, Harshal Patel, Trent Boult.
Kings XI Punjab: Lokesh Rahul (WK), Aaron Finch, Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair, Yuvraj Singh, David Miller, Ravichandran Ashwin (Captain), Andrew Tye, Barinder Sran, Ankit Rajpoot, Mujeeb Ur Rahman.
