“I was surprised when Chris (Gayle) was not playing, but Virat (Kohli) is a guy who always thinks positively for the team. The other guy, (Rilee) Rossouw, has played many good knocks for South Africa. But still I would say they didn’t start well in the first six overs. The credit for that goes to Ashish Nehra, he bowled in good areas.”
That was Suresh Raina, speaking immediately after he had played the starring hand in Chennai Super Kings swatting Royal Challengers Bangalore aside for a 27-run victory at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Wednesday (April 22).
Raina had made 62 off 32, Nehra had taken 4 for 10 in four overs and Bangalore had slumped to a third straight loss to be at the bottom of Pepsi IPL 2015. But none of that was quite as puzzling as the absence of Chris Gayle from the playing XI.
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