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Chris Gayle is the only batter the world wh 10 T20 hundreds or more — List of players wh the most centuri the shortt format.

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Fd out the plete reer history of Chris Gayle cludg hight sr, centuri, half centuri, wickets and more * chris gayle centuries *

23010181*CH Gayle2007-201020342152819747. A thstg Jamain left-hanr, Gayle earned himself a black mark on his first senr tour - to England 2000 - where the new boys were felt to be sufficiently rpectful of their elrs.

But a lack of rpect, for opposn bowlers at least, has served Gayle well sce then. And this era of Twenty20 cricket, Gayle is the batsman who has thrived like no his many strengths, perhaps the biggt one is his outstandg hand-eye ordatn, which allows Gayle to regularly h even good-length liveri for boundari. He showed early signs of his likg for that format by smashg the first century Twenty20 ternatnals - a 57-ball 117 agast South Ai the World Twenty20 2007 - and when Twenty20 leagu mhroomed the world over and sought ternatnal stars, Gayle was the biggt beneficiary.

CHRIS GAYLE

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Gayle's ee-strokg, aggrsive style is obvly bt sued for limed-overs cricket, but that don't mean he hasn't cut as a Tt batsman. However, Gayle has also shown the abily to bat long perds and the hunger to make big sr. In 2009 agast Atralia, Gayle batted almost seven-and-a-half hours srg an unbeaten 165 to save the Tt Alai; the very next game, though, he smashed the fifth-fastt Tt century - off 70 balls - to dite that quick-srg remaed his preferred method.

Twenty20 cricket seemgly picked Chris Gayle as s ambassador, for he sred the very first hundred the format and now unnttedly owns almost every rerd there is, cludg that profileTwenty20 cricket seemgly picked Chris Gayle as s ambassador, for he sred the very first hundred the format and now unnttedly owns almost every rerd there is, cludg that of the most ns (now 10, 000+), most hundreds, fastt hundred, and most fours and six.

Chris Gayle might stand tall at over six feet and wield his bat to make or break T20 leagu, but make no mistake about his affy for Tt cricket.

CHRIS GAYLE

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His absenteeism om Tts later his reer may seem to suggt otherwise but Gayle has racked up 15 Tt hundreds and over 7, 000 ns across 103 match so far, and equently turns up for his many T20 anchis jerseys numbered 333 - his hight First Class sre, which he ma agast Sri Lanka at Galle, to bee only the fourth batsman after Don Bradman, Brian Lara and Virenr Sehwag wh two Tt tripl a lifetime. - Gayle dismissed footwork to a famo cricketg rndancy of his time, and along wh other ntemporary openg batsmen Tillakaratne Dilshan, Virenr Sehwag, and Brendon McCullum later, fashned a battg era characterized by an unreal pennce on hand-eye ordatn and breakneck n-srg across formats. Beg the first cricketer wh hundreds all three formats, Gayle servedly personifi the weight stggle between var cricket formats that stood tensified wh the lnch of IPL 2008.

LIST OF CHRIS GAYLE'S 15 CENTURI T20 CRICKET

Chris Gayle holds the rerd for the fastt century T20 cricket. David Miller, Roh Sharma and S Wickramasekara hold the jot rerd ternatnal T20s. * chris gayle centuries *

So 2009, Chris Gayle arrived England after playg seven IPL gam to pta Wt Indi a Tt match at Lord's, a game that his si lost heavily amidst sthg cricism om media and fans alike.

FASTT CENTURY T20 CRICKET: 'UNIVERSE BOSS' CHRIS GAYLE TOPS LIST

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Be bee of his growg T20 appete, his never-endg nflicts wh the Wt Indi Cricket Board, or his gradg fns level, Gayle's ternatnal appearanc have gone om few and far between to very ltle off late, wh his foc now on beg a T20 eelancer, not sgularly an era where retirement-age dangeroly seems to hover around thirty-two.

ON THIS DAY: CHRIS GAYLE SLAMS FIRST-EVER DOUBLE CENTURY AT ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP

Chris Gayle is a famo Wt Indi cricketer who holds the rerd of srg the most number of T20 six. This article has all of his . * chris gayle centuries *

Debutg for Wt Indi as a 20-year-old the year 2000, Gayle went on to pta the natnal si, takg over om Ramnarh Sarwan.

He didn't start as an openg batsman, but soon graduated to one, but spe well-timed performanc and a good rerd, doubts over Gayle's technique agast seam and swg have remaed. Come to the more batsman-iendly limed-overs format, and Gayle seems more at home.

PLAYERS WH MOST CENTURI T20 CRICKET: FROM CHRIS GAYLE TO ROH SHARMA

Gayle smashed 215 off 147 liveri, which clud 10 boundari and 16 glor six. Wh his remarkable feat, Gayle also beme the fifth cricketer to have achieved a double-ton a 50-overs match. * chris gayle centuries *

If not that, teams have religly relied on short-pched liveri, aimed at his ribs, which Gayle eher top-edg or more often buri ep to the square leg stands. Gayle's aversn to nng on and twos - more nspicuo later his reer - shouldn't startle you as much as his reliance on them, rotatg the strike early his ngs before unleashg a theatril, sometim unstoppable barrage of kg-sized six all around. Even as he belted rerds all over the place, Gayle'e mountg jury wo meant his stts wh the Wt Indi natnal si have bee rarer.

Come to the Banglash Premier League, Gayle played for Rangpur Rirs the 2017-18 season and won the Player of the Seri award for notchg up the hight number of ns. Durg Wdi' tour of England 2017, Gayle was relled to the ODI si after a hiat of more than 2.

However, wh Wt Indi generally tourg durg this perd, and Gayle not que htg his groove, his biggt news-makg headle the first three seasons me when he extend his IPL stay to land at Lord's jt a day before he was set to lead his si a Tt. Gayle has always livered this format.

CHRIS GAYLE

In 12 years of T20 cricket, there has been none like Chris Gayle.

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