West Indies v Zimbabwe - #BendTheRules Moments
ESPNcricinfo staff
24-Feb-2015

Chris Gayle plundered 26 boundaries in his record-breaking innings • Getty Images
0.2 Panyangara to Smith, OUT, Panyangara is at it again! Gets this one to nip in from just outside off on a length, with Dwayne playing outside of the line of it as it burst through the gate. Panyangara walks a couple of steps before shaking his money maker, which he does ever so well
DR Smith b Panyangara 0 (1m 2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00
16.6 Sikandar Raza to Samuels, no run, dropped what an opportunity for the Zimbabweans! Samuels spoons away a glide straight to backward point, who gets forward before bobbling the chance after going for the dive. Raza goes down on his haunches, realising how crucial that was
35.1 Masakadza to Gayle, 1 run, and he gets himself to the mark with a forceful push off the back foot down to long on to get to his 22nd ODI hundred, and his first since June 2013!
44.4 Williams to Gayle, SIX, make that 15 as Gayle sends yet another out of the oval, this time clattering this flatter one from the bowler high over cow corner. Takes him to 189 now, which is the highest individual score ever by a player in a World Cup, overtaking Gary Kirsten's mark of 188* against the UAE in 1996
45.5 Chatara to Gayle, FOUR, and Gayle makes World Cup history to become the first non-Indian to score an ODI double hundred. His first 100 was workmanlike, his second 100 was calculated bludgeoning at its finest. Can he keep it going further?
47.1 Chatara to Samuels, FOUR, slanting down leg and Marlon gets himself to his 8th ODI hundred with a tickle down fine leg. Not sure how to classify this one, other than he was really, really, really determined to stay out there. That one was brought up after 143 balls...
47.5 Chatara to Samuels, 1 run, and they usurp the old record to establish a new mark for the highest partnership for any ODI wicket
27.5 Holder to Williams, OUT, banged in from Holder from round the wicket as Williams' stay at the crease comes to an end after he mistimes a pull through midwicket, with the blade turning in his hands. Ends up going up straight to midwicket who is able to take it comfortably. Ends another crucial hand from Williams, and one suspects that with that wicket, the chase may have slipped away out of Zimbabwe's hands..
SC Williams c Smith b Holder 76 (61b 9x4 0x6) SR: 124.59
33.4 Gayle to Ervine, OUT, you knew it was going to happen as Gayle strikes in his very first over itself. Ervine, looking to fetch this from outside of off, ends up playing all around as the ball turns in sharply to castle his off stump. The danger-man Ervine goes for 52, and Zimbabwe stare down the prospect of an inevitable defeat
CR Ervine b Gayle 52 (41b 7x4 1x6) SR: 126.82
#BendTheRules Moments from the Group B match between West Indies and Zimbabwe