Christopher Henry Gayle, well known as Cris Gayle, is a Jamaican cricketer who plays a humongous role as a top-order batsman in the West Indies cricket team. He was one of the top 10 senior and most experienced batsmen in the world right when he retired. Here are 7 untold things you may not know about Universe Boss.
The first player to score a century in T20 cricket.
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Although the T20 format was introduced to the world in 2003, it has been competing under the ICC since 2005. Not only a year but even two years later, no player could score a century in this format. This is because the Twenty20 format has a limited number of overs, and players wouldn't be able to do so if the player can not maintain a high strike rate. But 2 years, 6 months, and 25 days later, one Jamaican player was able to score a hundred in T20's. Chris Gayle managed to score the first t20 century scored by any player. At that moment, it was 1 year, and 6 months and 26 days after Chris Gayle entered the Twenty20 format, and his century included 10 sixes and 7 fours.
Chris Gayle was the highest run-scorer at the 1998 U19 World Cup.
The West Indies team, led by Sylvester Joseph, was unable to win the world cup but managed to retain the player who scored the most runs in the tournament. Gayle scored 364 runs in the tournament and was the highest run-scorer in U19 Cricket World Cup 1998. There were two leading wicket-takers in the 1998 U19 world cup, and they were Ramnaresh Sarwan and Zimbabwe's Mluleki Nkala. Along with his teammate Ramnaresh, the highest wicket-taker in the tournament, Chris Gayle helped show their prowess to the world by being the highest run-scorer.
Chris Gayle started his cricket with Lucas Cricket Club in Jamaica.
Lucas Cricket Club is a club that introduced great players such as George Headley, Frank Worrell to cricket. Chris Gayle entered cricket through the Lucas Cricket Club. He says he doesn't know where he will if there wasn't Lucas Cricket Club. He remained in the club with great enthusiasm, dedication, and training, and after the club made him one of the greatest players in the world, he did not forget to give his contribution to the club through the Chris Gayle Foundation and his academy.
Gayle played his first match against India.
Chris Gayle made his debut match in the first match of a three-match ODI series against India on 11 September 1999. He had some top-class cricketers as his teammates, such as Courtney Walsh, Brian Lara, and Shivnarine Chanderpaul. The first match on the series was played in Toronto in Canada. In that match, Gayle only scored 1 run off 8 balls. However, the West Indies team had lost that match. Gayle, who was playing his first match, could not score enough score in the series. His rest scores were 15 for 22 in the first game and 7 for 22 in the second. However, West Indies were only able to win the second match in Gayl's debut series, and the series was won by India.
Chris Gayle had become the 8th youngest player to score a Test triple century.
He was 25 when he scored his maiden test triple century against South Africa at the Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's on 29 April 2005. It was the fourth match of the series, and South Africa was scored 588 for their first inning. Chris Gayle scored 317 off 483 in West Indies's first-inning, which consisted of 37 fours and 3 sixes. However, the match was drawn but was the match the 20th test triple century scorer scored.
Chris Gayle was the 18th player to score a Test triple century.
5 years, 6 months, 17 after scoring his first century, he scored his second century on 15 November 2010. After scoring his second Test tri-century in South Asia, he became the third-youngest player to score more than one triple century. This valuable triple century was recorded against Sri Lanka at the Galle Stadium, Sri Lanka. It was the last time a player celebrated his second test triple century. Few players have recorded two triple centuries in cricket. At the time of writing, 4 players have scored 2 triple centuries who are Don Bradman, Brian Lara, Virender Sehwag, and Chris Gayle. West Indies batted first, and Chris Gayle scored 333 off 437, which consisted of 34 fours and 9 sixes, which was also his highest test run scored in a single inning. However, the match was drawn but was the match the 4th match a player celebrated his second triple century.
Chris Gayle is the first player to hit 1000 sixes in T20.
It was the 50th match of the Dream11 IPL in 2020, which was Kings XI Punjab vs Rajasthan Royals. Chris Gayle entered that match one down with the most sixes hit batsmen in the T20s. At the time, he had 993 sixes scored in t20 cricket and required only 7 sixes to achieve the 1000-sixes milestone. What is mindblowing is that Pollard, his teammate at the moment, was second on the list with 690 hits where Gayle. Gayle was 303 sixes away than Pollard. However, in that match, Gayle scored a half-century in 33 balls with four sixes, and he then required only 3 sixes. Fortunately, he was able to hit his 1000th six in T20's in the 18.4 over for a bouncer and became the first player to reach that milestone. The total number of sixes Gayle hit in that match was 8, but sadly, he couldn't score the hundred because he was out for 99. Gayle threw his bat away after he was out in 99 and shaken hands with Archer, then walked towards the audience, which made the whole cricket fans sad.
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