West Indies
Full name Christopher Henry Gayle
Conceived September 21, 1979, Kingston, Jamaica
Current age 36 years 190 days
Real groups West Indies, Barisal Burners, Dhaka Gladiators, ICC World XI, Jamaica, Jamaica Tallawahs, Kolkata Knight Riders, Lahore Qalandars, Matabeleland Tuskers, Melbourne Renegades, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Somerset, Stanford Superstars, Sydney Thunder, Western Australia, Worcestershire
Assuming part Allrounder
Batting style Left-hand bat
Knocking down some pins style Right-arm offbreak
Christopher Henry Gayle
Batting and handling midpoints
Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Tests 103 182 11 7214 333 42.18 11970 60.26 15 37 1046 98 96 0
ODIs 269 264 17 9221 215 37.33 10834 85.11 22 47 1038 238 114 0
T20Is 48 45 4 1510 117 36.82 1036 145.75 2 13 128 98 13 0
Top of the line 180 321 26 13226 333 44.83 32 64 158 0
List A 336 330 24 11694 215 38.21 25 63 140 0
Twenty20 242 237 34 8830 175* 43.49 5880 150.17 17 55 682 637 59 0
Knocking down some pins midpoints
Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Tests 103 104 7109 3120 73 5/34 6/81 42.73 2.63 97.3 2 0
ODIs 269 190 7222 5739 163 5/46 5/46 35.20 4.76 44.3 3 1 0
T20Is 48 23 319 377 17 2/15 2/15 22.17 7.09 18.7 0
Top of the line 180 12511 5194 132 5/34 39.34 2.49 94.7 2 0
List A 336 9366 7112 222 5/46 5/46 32.03 4.55 42.1 4 1 0
Twenty20 242 120 1800 2272 74 4/22 4/22 30.70 7.57 24.3 2 0
Vocation insights
Test debut West Indies v Zimbabwe at Port of Spain, Mar 16-20, 2000 scorecard
Last Test West Indies v Bangladesh at Kingstown, Sep 5-9, 2014 scorecard
Test measurements
ODI debut India v West Indies at Toronto, Sep 11, 1999 scorecard
Last ODI New Zealand v West Indies at Wellington, Mar 21, 2015 scorecard
ODI insights
T20I debut New Zealand v West Indies at Auckland, Feb 16, 2006 scorecard
Last T20I South Africa v West Indies at Nagpur, Mar 25, 2016 scorecard
T20I insights
Five star presentation 1998/99
Last First-class West Indies v Bangladesh at Kingstown, Sep 5-9, 2014 scorecard
List An introduction 1998/99
Last List A New Zealand v West Indies at Wellington, Mar 21, 2015 scorecard
Twenty20 introduction Chilaw Marians Cricket Club v PCA Masters XI at Leicester, Sep 15, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20 South Africa v West Indies at Nagpur, Mar 25, 2016 scorecard
Late matches
Bat and Bowl Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
2/17, 4 West Indies v South Africa Nagpur 25 Mar 2016 T20I # 549
- West Indies v Sri Lanka Bangalore 20 Mar 2016 T20I # 543
100* West Indies v England Mumbai 16 Mar 2016 T20I # 537
- West Indies v Australia Kolkata 13 Mar 2016 Other T20
20 West Indies v India Kolkata 10 Mar 2016 Other T20
60 Qalandars v Quetta Glad Dubai (DSC) 16 Feb 2016 T20
0 Qalandars v Zalmi Sharjah 13 Feb 2016 T20
37 Qalandars v Karachi Kngs Sharjah 12 Feb 2016 T20
0, 0/5 Qalandars v Zalmi Dubai (DSC) 6 Feb 2016 T20
6 Qalandars v Karachi Kngs Dubai (DSC) 5 Feb 2016 T20
Profile
A pushing Jamaican left-hander, Gayle earned himself a dark imprint on his first senior visit - to England in 2000 - where the new young men were felt to be inadequately aware of their older folks. In any case, an absence of admiration, for resistance bowlers at any rate, has served Gayle well from that point forward. Tall and forcing at the wrinkle, he adores to cut through the spreads off either foot, and can annihilate the figures of even the thriftiest of opening bowlers. What's more, in this time of Twenty20 cricket, Gayle is the batsman who has flourished like no other.
Among his numerous qualities, maybe the greatest one is his extraordinary dexterity, which permits Gayle to consistently hit even great length conveyances for limits. Method and footwork aren't his most prominent resources, however regularly he remunerates with different aptitudes. No batsman has taken to the 20-over arrangement like he has. He hinted at early his smashing so as to love for that organization the primary century in Twenty20 internationals - a 57-ball 117 against South Africa in the World Twenty20 in 2007 - and when Twenty20 alliances mushroomed the world over and looked for global stars, Gayle was the greatest recipient.
More than two seasons - 2011 and 2012 - of the IPL, he turned out to be effectively the most dreaded batsman of the alliance, crushing a bigger number of hundreds and sixes than some other batsman, by a long shot. When he trucked Pune Warriors everywhere throughout the ground to score an unbeaten 175 in IPL 2013, it felt right that he ought to at long last claim the record for most astounding individual score, quickest century, and most sixes in a Twenty20 innings, in light of the fact that no batsman has commanded Twenty20 cricket like he has.
Gayle's free-stroking, forceful style is clearly most appropriate for restricted overs cricket, yet that doesn't mean he hasn't cut it as a Test batsman. When he has turned up for West Indies, his combative methodology has turned into an assaulting weapon in its own privilege, in what's been an incline period for West Indian cricket. His 79-ball century at Cape Town in January 2004, on the back of a South African first innings of 532, was ordinary of his down to business approach. Be that as it may, Gayle has additionally demonstrated the capacity to bat long stretches and the craving to make huge scores. In 2009 against Australia, Gayle batted right around seven-and-a-half hours in scoring an unbeaten 165 to spare the Test in Adelaide; in the exact next amusement, however, he crushed the fifth-speediest Test century - off 70 balls - to demonstrate that fast scoring remained his favored strategy. One year from now he batted just about ten hours and scored 333 against Sri Lanka and Muralitharan in Galle, turning out to be just the fourth batsman to score two triples in Tests, along these lines demonstrating again his capacity to bat long stretches.
And afterward there is additionally his energetic non-turning offspin, with which he has transformed himself into a bona fide allrounder in constrained overs cricket. His propensity to stay standoffish on the field here and there proposes he isn't occupied with the procedures, however his casual drew closer was useful for the group at whatever point he drove West Indies. Nonetheless, West Indies have missed his administrations very frequently due his disparities with their board. Amid his outcast, he was a Twenty20 general in different classes the world over, enlivening group in Australia, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. After a long illuminate from global cricket he returned unequivocally in 2012 on the voyage through England and thusly at home against New Zealand.
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Cover up
Course of events
September 1999
An unflattering begin
July 20, 2000
Ice-cool Gayle
February 19, 2001
Fourfold century stand
