Chris gayle
Christopher Henry Gayle, OD (born 21 September 1979) is a Jamaican cricketer and a former captain, who plays international cricket for the West Indies.[2] Gayle captained the West Indies' Test side from 2007 to 2010. Considered one of the greatest batsmen inlimited-overs cricket, Gayle has set and tumbled numerous records across all three formats of cricket. He is widely acknowledged as the most destructive and greatestTwenty20 batsman in the history of the game. He is well known for hitting sixes very often along Shahid Afridi; in 2012 he became the first player to hit a six off the first ball of a Test match.[3]
He is one of only four players who have scored two triple centuries at Test level: 317 against South Africa in 2005, and 333 againstSri Lanka in 2010. Gayle became the first batsman in World Cup history to score a double century when he reached 200 off 138 balls against Zimbabwe during the 2015 World Cup. He finished on 215 runs, which was the record for highest score in a World Cup until it was broken by Martin Guptillagainst Gayle's own team.[4] He is one of the five players to score a double century in ODIs. In March 2016, Gayle became only the second player (after Brendon McCullum) to hit twoTwenty20 International hundreds, scoring 100 not out against England.
He plays domestic cricket for Jamaica, and also represents the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, theKarachi Kings[5][6] in the Pakistan Super League, the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League and the Dhaka Gladiators in theBangladesh Premier League. He has also represented Worcestershire, the Western Warriors, Sydney Thunder, Barisal Burners,Kolkata Knight Riders and Somerset in his career. He was also selected for team Uva Next for the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League in 2012.[7]In 2017–18 Bangladesh Premier League season, Gayle performed forRangpur Riders and he came out as the player of the series as well as the highest run scorer by achieving some new world records.
Early career
Gayle started his cricket career with the famous Lucas Cricket Club in Kingston, Jamaica.[8] Gayle claimed "If it was not for Lucas I don't know where I would be today. Maybe on the streets."[8] Lucas Cricket Club's nursery has been named in honor of Gayle.[8]
International debut
Gayle played for the West Indies at youth international level prior to making his first-class debut aged 19 for Jamaica. He played his first One Day International eleven months later, and his first Test match six months after that. Gayle, who normally opens the innings when he plays for the West Indies, is a destructive batsman who is most effective playing square of the wicket. In July 2001, Gayle (175), together with Daren Ganga (89) established the record for opening partnerships at Queens Sports Club, Bulawayowhen they put on 214 together againstZimbabwe.
International rise
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Gayle in 2010.
An innings-by-innings breakdown of Gayle's Test match batting career, showing runs scored (red bars) and the average of the last ten innings (blue line).
Gayle had a slow start to his international career, but invigorated it in 2002, ending the year with three centuries against India in November and becoming the third West Indian to score over 1,000 runs in a calendar year, along with Vivian Richards and Brian Lara. He is one of only six players in One Day International history to have three or more scores of 150. In 2005, Gayle was dropped for the first Test against South Africa along with six other players following a dispute over sponsorship issues (see below). He returned for the second Test but had a poor series until the fourth Test, where he made a match-saving 317. It was the first-ever triple century against South Africa and up until Mahela Jayawardene made 374, it was the highest individual Test score against them. In another match of the series, Gayle had to leave the field after complaining of dizziness. During a subsequent series against Australia, Gayle again complained of dizziness and shortness of breath during his innings. He left the field for a time, and was after the match sent to hospital where he was diagnosed with acongenital heart defect causing a cardiac dysrhythmia. He underwent heart surgeryfollowing the series to correct the defect.[9][10]Gayle was only the fourth West Indian to carry his bat in a Test innings.[11]
In August 2005, Gayle joined Worcestershirefor the rest of the English season, playing eight matches. He made two half-centuries in three first-class matches and two half-centuries in five one-day matches, and won one Man of the Match award in the one-dayNational League. However, Worcestershire were relegated after Gayle made 1 in the final match against Lancashire.
Gayle was named Player of the 2006 Champions Trophy, where the West Indies nearly defended the title they won in 2004, being defeated in the final by Australia. Gayle scored three centuries and totalled 474 runs, 150 more than any other batsman, and also took eight wickets in as many matches. Gayle, in keeping with the rest of the West Indies team, had a poor World Cup in 2007. He recorded a series of low scores; the one exception being a blistering 79 off 58 balls against England in the West Indies' final match.
Gayle set the first record for the highest innings in a Twenty20 International, scoring 117 against South Africa in the first match of the 2007 World Twenty20.[12][13] The innings was the first century in international Twenty20 cricket and made him the first batsman to score a century in each of international cricket's three formats.[14] The record stood unmatched until 19 February 2012, when South Africa's Richard Levi scored 117n.o.against New Zealand; Cricinfo recognised Levi as having broken the record outright, because a not out innings is ranked above adismissal.[15]
In the semi-final match of the 2009 World Twenty20 against Sri Lanka, he became the first international player to carry his batthrough the entire innings in this format of the game as well. In April 2008, Gayle was auctioned by the franchise Kolkata Knight Riders of the Indian Premier League, but missed the opening games due to a Sri Lankatour to the Caribbean. When he finally joined the team, he missed out on the action due to a groin injury he picked up during that tour. Afterwards, he left to join the West Indiesteam for a home series against Australia, therefore not playing in the inaugural version of the IPL.
He played in the second IPL competition in early 2009, arriving for an away Test series against England very late, earning criticism about his commitment.[16] His Test series went poorly, and the West Indies went on to lose both the Test and ODI series. Gayle, however, went to on score a match winning 88 in the first official match of the 2009 Twenty20, in a surprise victory over Australia.[17]
On 17 December 2009 in the Australia v West Indies 3rd Test Chris Gayle scored the fifth-fastest century in Test match history. He reached the century in just 70 balls. However he was shortly after dismissed for 102 runs. This feat included a flurry of runs thanks to some big hitting sixes. On 16 November 2010, he became the fourth cricketer to score two triple centuries in Test cricket after Donald Bradman, Brian Lara and Virender Sehwag.[18]
On his return to Test cricket in July 2012, he scored 150 on the third day of the first Test against New Zealand.[19]
Gayle scored 75 runs from 41 balls, fuelling West Indies' total of 205, against Australia in the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 semifinal, which was the highest total of the tournament.[20][21]
In November 2012, during the First Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka, Gayle became the first player to hit a six off the first ball in the history of Test cricket.[22][23] In February 2015, he became the fourth cricketer to score a double century in ODIs when he made 215 against Zimbabwe.[24][25]
In this match against Zimbabwe in World Cup in Canberra, Gayle became the first player to hit a double century in World Cup history. His partnership with Marlon Samuels was the most productive wicket in Cricket World Cup history, producing 372 runs before Gayle was caught for an out on the final ball of the innings.[4] Coincidentally, he was almost adjudged out on the very first ball he faced as an LBW appeal was raised by Zimbabwe bowler, Tinashe Panyangara, however, the umpire turned down the appeal. Despite a review which showed that the ball would have clipped the top of the bails, the original decision was upheld.[4] Gayle thus became the only player in world cricket to hit a triple hundred in Tests, a double hundred in ODIs and a hundred in Twenty20 Internationals.
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