Canberra, Feb 24: The powerful hitting West Indies batsmen, Chris Gayle smashed the record by becoming the first player to score a double ton in the World Cup history as the West Indies batsman hit record-equalling 16 sixes to notch up an imposing 372 for two against Zimbabwe here today.
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Here's how the Twitter world reacted to Gayle's massacre.
It looked like an T20 match rather than an ODI....#Gayle #WIvZIM
— Chinmay Thakar (@thakarchinmay) February 24, 2015
absolutely ruthless from @henrygayle !!! made a mockery of the bowling #CWC2015 #gayle #WIvZIM
— Himanshu Arora (@hac817) February 24, 2015
Gud fielding by canberra audience... http://t.co/zNWCPQ7Xoo #Gayle #WIvZIM
— Prakash R (@prakashr_) February 24, 2015
#Zimbabwe could have planned for bad weather ... but today there was #Gayle #WIvZIM @mediacrooks @StarSportsIndia
— The Devil (@Numberr_17) February 24, 2015
#Zimbabwe bowlers torn to shreds by #gayle
— Kwanele K-cee Ncube (@kcee36) February 24, 2015
Zimbabwe's Bowlers must be seeing Cricketing BAT as Cricketing AK47 in #Gayle 's hand! What a brilliant inning, wow! #WIvZIM
— Tejas Barot (@imTejasBarot) February 24, 2015
#Gayle has only one batting philosophy. EAT SLEEP SMASH REPEAT. #WIvZIM
— Dhaval Mehta (@dhaval_km) February 24, 2015
Global Warning for World Cup 2015... #Gayle Storm ahead!!!
— Jayant UnKill (@jayantgajria) February 24, 2015
Only two types of people score Double ton in ODIs. Indians and West Indians :P #Gayle
— Atul Kumar (@king_atul) February 24, 2015
24 February should be declared as "hit double tons in ODI's day" first #Sachin and now #Gayle #CWC15 #WIvZIM
— Gaurav Varmani (@gauravvarmani) February 24, 2015
#Gayle storm blew Zimbabwe away....merciless hitting by the big man #cwc15
— Deepak Kumar (@knowthine) February 24, 2015
Warning !! #Gayle Storm in Canberra ...#WIvZIM
— Utkarsh Shenvi (@Utkarsh111995) February 24, 2015
westindies coach to the players: c'mon guys this is not world cup this is the preparation for #ipl #Gayle
— retard joker (@retard_joker) February 24, 2015
#westindies lose wickets in the first & last balls of the innings. In between 372 runs plundered. #CWC15 #gayle #ZIMvWI
— Arijit Mukherji (@ArijitMusic) February 24, 2015
weather forecast just changed from sunny to #gayle storm. #WIvZIM #ICCWorldCup2015
— Arpit Bhatt (@Engg_Arpit) February 24, 2015
New Name Of Strom #Gayle
— Arafat Faisal (@Iamarafatfaisal) February 24, 2015
Today #Gayle is on absolute form....so...he is gonna make the spectators.as..fielders...and fielders..as...spectators..;)
— Khizar Hayat (@Khzr_Hayat) February 24, 2015
I think Zimbabwe might argue that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.... #Christopher #Henry #Gayle
— Matthew Watts (@theDiablo_96) February 24, 2015
That, my dear friends, is what defines destructive batting! What a day for #Gayle to return to form!! #CWC15 #WIvZIM
— Amit Banerjee (@akb287) February 24, 2015
300 in tests,200 in ODI,100 n 150 in T20 #Gayle 👏👏👏👏👏
— Prasanna Venkatesh (@_IamPrasanna) February 24, 2015
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