cool dude

Everyone must have enjoyed the recent thriller of a match between West Indies and Sri Lanka, if not the entire match, at least the highlights (like i did). Shivnarine Chanderpaul rose to the occasion, and the guy who is known to sitck to the wicket till the end of the innings in a Test, proved that he could as well do it in an ODI and snatch victory.
However, there was one more player who amazed me equally, if not to a greater extent. And that was West Indian captain Chris Gayle displaying a sedate demeanour during the final moments of the match. Towards the end of WI innings, as the hosts were getting closer and closer to the target with wickets falling in rapid succession, the camera frequently pointed at Gayle, and someone unaware of the state of the match, might have thought that he has just woken up from slumber. He was not biting his nails sitting on the edge of the chair like Ganguly used to do; neither was he chewing a gum and getting restless like Ponting does. Slouched in his seat, he was watching the proceedings carried out at the wicket with cold eyes. Didn't he want WI to win the match? Of course, he wanted to! As an opener he had scored 52 and played his part very well.
Was he indifferent to the result of the game?
Well, i can not say with surety anything about that, but it looked like he very much followed what a great guy had instructed his student about one's efforts and its fruits, on a battlefield a few thousand years ago.