The Royal Challengers Bangalore were handed their second consecutive defeat as the Gayle-storm failed to breach Fortress Jaipur with the Rajasthan Royals winning an entertaining encounter with a ball to spare.

Sent in to bat by Rahul Dravid, the Royal Challengers Bangalore posted a competitive 171-6 in their 20 overs. Chris Gayle got his team off to a typical flier, racing to 34 from 16 balls before becoming the first of Shane Watson's three victims.

The table topping Royal Challengers Bangalore were routed by 58 runs by the Mumbai Indians in a one sided contest at the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday night. Batting first on a flat track, the Indians amassed an imposing 194-7 in their 20 overs, with Dwayne Smith top scoring with 50, and most of the big guns contributing some quick runs. For Bangalore, their big guns failed to fire as Dhawal Kulkarni ran through the top order, while Harbhajan Singh netted the big fish, Chris Gayle, to steer their side to an easy win.

Mumbai skipper Rohit Sharma, standing in once again for Ricky Ponting, won the toss and elected to bat first. Mumbai made one change from their last game against the Kolkata Knight Riders, bringing in pace bowler Dhawal Kulkarni in place of spinner Yuzvendra Chahal. Skipper Rohit Sharma hoped to put up a good total on board and make good use of the conditions at the Wankhede.

IPL 2013 has been a slow burner for batsmen, but came to life on Sunday afternoon when Virender Sehwag smashed an unbeaten 95 against the Mumbai Indians. Shane Watson followed that up with the first century of this season of the IPL with an excellent 101 from 60 balls on Monday against the Chennai Super Kings. One man was feeling a little left out of this run feast, and the big Jamaican came to party in style at the expense of the Pune Warriors on Tuesday afternoon.

A 30 minute delay in the game due to rain in the middle of the 2nd over failed to dampen spirits in Bangalore as the fans were awakened from their slumber by Chris Gayle in the 5th over as the former West Indian captain smashed Mitchell Marsh for 28 runs in an over. While Tillakaratne Dilshan struggled to score at a run a ball from the other end, Gayle exploded by hitting Pune skipper Aaron Finch for 29 in his only over, and powered his way to the fastest T20 century of all time, getting to his landmark in just 30 balls with the help of 11 sixes.

Chris Gayle shares a symbiotic relationship with the M.Chinnaswamy stadium like rhythm and flamenco, sixes and Mexican waves. The T20 bulwark blitzed another special to fire Bangalore to the top of the points table(6 points from 3 games) in front of a vociferous home crowd.His 50 ball 85 was embellished with 9 sixes and 4 fours. In the absence of Zaheer Khan, Vinay Kumar and RP Singh, led the RCB bowling (once again), striking 4 times at the fag end of Knight Riders' innings.

After adhering to circumspection in the initial stages of the chase, Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli revved up the machinery with jaw dropping hits. The awesome twosome beheading Ryan McLaren (who replaced Kolkata's bowling spearhead cum mentor, Brett Lee) walloped 22, moments before the fielding restrictions were lifted. A similar fate was cursed upon Pradeep Sangwan too. They carried on their merry way until the wily Laksmipathy Balaji netted Kohli's scalp, thereby ending the resplendent 63 run association.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul was made to work hard for his 28th Test century but was quite satisfied with his performance against Zimbabwe on the second day of the second Test match at Windsor Park.

Chanderpaul scored 108 – his third century in four matches – following 150 not out against Bangladesh in Dhaka and 203 not out against Bangladesh in Khulna last December. It was also his second century at Windsor Park. Back in 2011 he made 116 not out against India and last year followed up with 68 and 69 against Australia.

Chris Gayle followed up more destructive bowling from Shane Shillingford with a crisp, unbeaten half-century to put West Indies in charge of the second Test against Zimbabwe on Wednesday here. Off-spinner Shillingford, playing before an adoring home crowd, captured 5-59 from 21.5 overs, as Zimbabwe, put in to bat, were bowled out for 175 in their first innings about 20 minutes after tea on the rain-affected opening day at Windsor Park.

Gayle then gave tell-tale signs that he may be returning to his fluent best, striking 10 fours and one six in 61 not out, anchoring the Windies to 114 for two at the close on a day which started half-hour later than scheduled.

The West Indies Cricket Board’s Selection Panel has named the 13-man squad for the upcoming two-match T20 International Series as the World Champions take on Zimbabwe. The matches will be played on Saturday and Sunday at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua. First ball is 2 pm (1 pm Jamaica Time).

The team will be led by Darren Sammy, who was at the helm when the West Indies won the ICC World T20 title in Sri Lanka last year. There is a first-time call-up in this format for fast bowler Shannon Gabriel and a recall for allrounder Christopher Barnwell – who were along the leading performers during last month’s Caribbean T20 tournament.