
Veteran opening batsman Gayle took the wicket for a lone wicket, with left-arm wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav bowled him after scoring just four leaving his short of 9 runs to surpass former batsman and captain Brian Lara’s 10,405 for West Indies in ODIs.
Gayle, who was reversing his decision to retire from the 50-over format of the game after the World Cup, took 31 balls before being dismissed.
In contrast to Gayle’s pedestrian innings, Evin Lewis was unbeaten on 40 off 36 balls (three sixes, two fours) when the match was stopped.
“It’s probably the worst thing in cricket – a stop-start game,” observed Virat Kohli, who eventually won the battle that day.
“You have more stops, you have to be careful on the field