Chris Gayle

Christopher Henry "Chris" Gayle is a prominent cricketer of West Indies who was born on 21st September 1979. He is well-known for his powerful batting predominantly in limited-overs cricket.

Here are some of his greatest achievements:-

• Gayle is one amongst those four players who have scored triple centuries two times, in 2005 and 2010 respectively.
• He holds the record for scoring highest individual runs (175 being not out) in a T20 match of league cricket and a record for scoring fastest 100 in IPL.
• In 2012, Gayle emerged out to be the first batsman to hit a six on the first ball in a Test match.
• In 2015, he became the first batsman to score more than 200 runs against Zimbabwe in the World Cup.
• Chris Gayle is the pre-eminent batsman to score centuries in all formats of cricket.
• He is the highest run scorer for the West Indies in ODIs.
• Gayle is the second West Indies player after Brian Lara to pass 10,000 runs in ODIs.
• He is the first batsman to score a ton in all three formats of the game; and the first and so far the only batsman to score a triple century in Test cricket, a double century in ODI cricket and a century in T20I.
• He is also the highest six-hitter for the West Indies in all formats.
• Gayle is the first batsman to score a T20I century, at the 2007 World T20.
• He is the only cricketer to score centuries at the ICC U19 World Cup, ICC World Twenty20, ICC Champions Trophy, ICC Cricket World Cup and ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier.
• He has the fastest ODI fifty for West Indies where he scored 50 runs in 19 balls.
• Gayle smashed the most sixes (534) in International cricket and second most sixes (105) in T20I.
• As of April 2020, He is the leading run scorer in all forms of T20s with 13,296 runs.
• Chris Gayle scored most centuries (6) in IPL; he is the fastest batsman to score 4000 runs in IPL and the first and only batsman to hit 300 sixes in the IPL.