Chris Gayle plays a shot against Pune Warriors during Tuesday’s IPL match in Bangalore in which the girl was hit in the stands. (PTI)

Bangalore, April 18: Chill, I’m fine, trilled little Tia from her hospital bed when Chris Gayle dropped by past midnight after one of his eight huge sixes had smashed her nose.

“Don’t be sad. Keep hitting them in the stands,” the delighted 11-year-old apparently told the Jamaican blaster as she lay awake at 1am on Wednesday, nose swathed in bandage.

Tia Bhatia had been watching the Royal Challengers take on the Pune Warriors from the stands above the Chinnaswamy stadium corporate box when she got hit. Bleeding heavily, she was led away, possibly by her parents, and admitted to a hospital.

Doctors said Tia, whose nose was operated upon during the day, was doing well. “Tia has come out of the surgery beautifully. She is absolutely alright,” medical superintendent Kanchan Sanyal told PTI.

Sources said Gayle drove to the hospital, just 3km from the ITC Gardenia Hotel where the team was staying, with team owner Siddharth Mallya soon after dinner. The hospital is owned by the Mallyas.

“It was a touching moment… I pray for her speedy recovery,” PTI quoted Gayle as saying after the visit.

Later, the cricketer tweeted: Visit Tia who got hit by 1 of my 6s, broken nose :(..her 1st word to me is to Chill, She's fine!xxx.

TV grab shows the girl after she was hit

Gayle, who was named man of the match, said at the post-match presentation last night that he was both “happy and sad” — happy his team had won but sad that he had broken a kid’s nose.

Nisha, a young cricket fan who had been sitting near Tia, said: “It was an accident. Once my friends saw her nose bleeding profusely, they rushed her to the hospital immediately.”

Sources said the girl’s family, believed to be affluent, had instructed hospital authorities not to allow anyone, include the media, access to the child or to them. They said she had been advised rest.

“We are not allowed to give any details of the girl or her family,” said an official from the hospital’s records section that maintains patient history.

Gayle today left with his team for Chandigarh for Friday’s match against Kings XI Punjab.