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After guiding Royal Challengers Bangalore to a severe victory, Chris Gayle exposed that he found it hard to get going during the early part of his knock.
Gayle scored 86 off 46 balls, his 14th fifty in Twenty20.
"I am very happy with my presentation. It was a key game for us. It wasn't the most excellent of starts as it was a bit hard to bat on originally. In the end, I got shut to playing 20 overs which was good for me," the big-bodied Jamaican said at the post-match appearance ceremony.
Gayle said that the general deliberations were concerning one of the top batsmen trying to bat as many overs as possible.
"No one got a 50 in the first two games. We had a conversation. So whosoever got in this game was asked to carry on. Hopefully, we can win the next one with a big margin as well."
RCB captain Daniel Vettori said that this win was accurately what the doctor ordered.
"It's what we wanted to do. We needed a big one to give ourselves a chance. Gayle showed what a good player he is during the IPL, and again in this one. We were still battling, however, with the way Somerset started," Vettori said.
Although he wasn't happy with his bowlers' presentation during the KKR game, he said that the win was "acceptable."
"I thought 185 were par-score on this track and we went further than that. We knew that chase this target would be tough."
Somerset captain Alfonso Thomas said that they could have gone with an off-spinner rather than leaving with three left-arm spinners whcih made their attack look unsurprising.
"We could have done away with an off-spinner, but attractive nothing away from Chris, he pace his innings nicely," he said.
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