Chris Gayle, leading the West Indies team in the second test match of the series against Australia has scored a tricky ton, while going against his arrogant batting temper. Australia knocked out three wickets before the tea time but Chris Gayle managed to stick on the crease and add hundred and three runs to his team's total.

Gayle had a best of 71 runs against Australia in the year 2003. Now this time leading the team as captain, Gayle steered the team into a strong position, from where they can smell the victory. Gayle hit 12 handy boundaries, all of them well timed drives along the ground through the leg side or straight back past the bowlers.

After the lunch Australia got only one wicket in the form of Shiv Naraine Chandrapaul, who got LBW out by Doug Bollinger. Brandon Nash's rash behavior on the pitch exposed Australia's frustration, for which Nash had to meet the match referee. Till the tea time both the batsmen carried the team's score to 183 at the fall of three wickets, getting a lead of 195 runs over Australia. During this session there were some showers on the ground but still the conditions were good to continue the match.

Ricky Ponting used his spinners Nathan Hauritz and Marcus North, very early in the session which helped West Indies to pull up the run rate. Gayle looked a little distracted while playing some deliveries but very soon regained his composure and scored 103 runs in 179 balls.

A caught-behind appeal was denied when Bollinger felt that Adrian Barath had edged the ball. But the replays indicated the bat had flicked Barath's pad and the umpire's decision stood, but Barath scored only three more runs before he got run out in unlucky fashion at
17 runs. Barath was caught out of his ground when a Gayle straight-drive crashed into the non-striker's stumps and the umpires decided that the bowler Hauritz has touched it.

West Indies' second wicket fell when Ramnaresh Sarwan nicked Johnson Dud's one delivery into keeper Haddin's gloves. He scored only seven runs. Johnson and Bollinger were carrying all the responsibility of the Australian bowling attack as the Fast bowler Peter Siddle was suffering from hamstring tightness, who was sent down after only four overs.